Reading circle: Methodologies in/for/of artistic research

Description

Learning outcomes: The reading circle is a reading seminar that arises from the doctoral researchers' own aims, starting points and self-set goals and interests. Participants propose and agree on a theme/topic, assemble a group of a minimum of 3 attendants, and agree with the responsible teachers. The extent of the study attainment will be agreed with the responsible teachers and the study planners will help with the space booking. Content: This reading circle is dedicated to exploring methodological approaches in, for, of, and surrounding artistic research. The circle will critically examine various aspects of the research process, including but not limited to formulation of research inquiries, generation and analysis of research materials (data), construction of knowledge within the research paradigm. The reading circle is text-based, some readings could be experimented with. Completion methods: Agreed meetings (for example 2-3 hours meeting once a month). Execution methods: Agreed among the participants. Learning material: Suggested readings: - Aavanranta, Otso, and Susanna Välimäki. 2025. Counterpoints of Art and Research: Concepts, Practices, and Demarcations from the Finnish Academia. Taideteoreettisia Kirjoituksia Kuvataideakatemiasta. Taideyliopiston Kuvataideakatemia. https://taju.uniarts.fi/handle/10024/8475. - Vásquez-Rosati A. (2017) Body awareness to recognize feelings: The exploration of a musical emotional experience. Constructivist Foundations 12(2): 219–226. http://constructivist.info/12/2/219 - Sparby, Terje, Friedrich Edelhäuser, ja Ulrich W. Weger. "The Sense of Certainty and the Reliability of First Person Reports: An Investigation Using Micro‐phenomenological Self‐inquiry." Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 61, no. 6 (2020-12): 775-783. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12671. - Kulmala, Meri, Satu Venäläinen, Outi Hietala, Karoliina Nikula, and Inka Koskivirta. 2024. ‘Lived Experience as the Basis of Collaborative Knowing. Inclusivity and Resistance to Stigma in Co-Research’. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 23 (January):16094069241236271. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241236271. - Roets, Griet, Rudi Roose, Lien Claes, Marijke Verstraeten, and Caroline Vandekinderen. 2009. ‘The Pointer Sisters: Creating Cartographies of the Present’. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 38 (6): 734–53. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241609341545. - Fox, Nick J., and Pam Alldred. 2022. ‘Doing New Materialist Data Analysis: A Spinozo-Deleuzian Ethological Toolkit’. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 25 (5): 625–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2021.1933070. - MacLure, Maggie. 2013. Researching without representation? Language and materiality in post-qualitative methodology, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 26:6, 658-667, DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2013.788755 - Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka, Teija Löytönen, and Marek Tesar. Disrupting Data in Qualitative Inquiry: Entanglements with the Post-critical and Post-anthropocentric. New York: Peter Lang, 2017. - O'Neal, Lauren. Assembling a Praxis: Choreographic Thinking and Curatorial Agency. [Helsinki]: University of the Arts Helsinki, 2023. - Annette Arlander, Bruce Barton, Melanie Dreyer-Lude, ja Ben Spatz. Performance as Research: Knowledge, Methods, Impact. First edition. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. Participants are invited to suggest further readings. The articles are chosen jointly in the first session. Evaluation scale: Pass - Fail Languages: English Person in charge: Maiju Loukola, Hanna Järvinen,