International Forum on Artistic Research
17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)
Day 1 Tue, 23 June Day 2 Wed, 24 June Day 3 Thu, 25 June Day 4 Fri, 26 June Day 1-3 All days
12:00am
⏱️ 7199 min

Climate Inspirations Festival 2026

Galway City Council
Side Programme📍 Other
9:30am
⏱️ 40 min

Rethinking technical objects: Hands-on creative practices with historical media

Camila Mangueira, Fabrício Fava
Project presentation📍 HBB-B001
⏱️ 40 min

The Prompter: Discord, Care, and Cues for Survival

Richie Lux Kramár
Other format📍 O'Donoghue Studio 1
⏱️ 60 min

Strengthening Conceptual Worlds: Artistic Research and Minoritised Languages

Karoline Schneider / Krawc, Joachim Ben Yakoub, Jozef Eduard Masarik, Darshana Devarajan, Triona Ni Shiochain
Roundtable📍 Bailey Allen Hall
⏱️ 40 min

Shaping a Speculative Glossary of Hybrid Sea Creatures in the West Philippine Sea

Josephine Turalba, Ari Turalba
Other format📍 The View
⏱️ 120 min

The Unhearable Market: Electromagnetic Soundwalks as Artistic Research

Gerard Ryan, Mireia Valverde
Workshop📍 O'Donoghue Seminar
⏱️ 120 min

Who Gets to Speak about Climate Risk & Resilience?: Artistic Practice as Epistemic Intervention

Lydia Cumiskey, Dr Sara Walmsley, Natascha Ng
Workshop📍 HBB-G001
⏱️ 40 min

Endangered Sonic Bodies: Situated Knowledge in Performer-Led Intermedial Electroacoustic Practice

Iracema De Andrade Almeida
Project presentation📍 Bank of Ireland Theatre
10:10am
⏱️ 60 min

Embodied Methods in Artistic Research

Elena Cologni, Nikolay Barzakov, Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf, Adelaide Swanston, Róisín O'Gorman, Erin Hill, Nina Vroemen
Roundtable📍 HBB-B001
⏱️ 40 min

Small Stories: Engaging Cultural Memory with Contemporary Language

Paul Green
Project presentation📍 O'Donoghue Theatre
⏱️ 40 min

Cosmologies of Worldbuilding

Clareese Hill, Monica Storss, Angelique
Experimental format📍 O'Donoghue Studio 1
⏱️ 40 min

The Mystery of the Excluded Middle

Zar Mohseni
Experimental format📍 O'Donoghue Studio 2
⏱️ 40 min

Erosion

Francesca Placanica, EL Putnam
Project presentation📍 HBB-G019
⏱️ 40 min

Social Prepper: Forking Survival Epistemologies as an Artistic Research Laboratory

Sarah J. M. Wenzinger
Experimental format📍 The View
⏱️ 60 min

Artistic Research in Jazz and Popular Music: Relevance, Potential and Challenges

Roundtable📍 O'Donoghue Studio 1
10:50am
⏱️ 40 min

Working in Languages Spoken by Fewer: An Aesthetics of Non-Alignment

Rita Júlia Sebestyén
Project presentation📍 Bailey Allen Hall
⏱️ 40 min

The Bratto Cradle: Can a Vernacular Object Reconnect a Dispersed Community?

Anna Eleonora Fabrizi
Experimental format📍 The View
⏱️ 40 min

BLOCK LETTERS and Cursive Mountains: State-Writing, Sonic Mimesis, and the Virtual Topographies of the Dengbêj

Savas Boyraz
Project presentation📍 O'Donoghue Studio 1
12:10pm
⏱️ 60 min

Building Conceptual Worlds Through Creative Practice

Martin Potter, Papattaranan Kunphunsup, Katrina Maguire, Kathy D'Arcy, Matt Parker, Janet Mazenier
Roundtable📍 O'Donoghue Seminar
⏱️ 60 min

Articulating Artistic Research: Language and Poetics

Janaina Carrer, Sára Gottsteinová, Joseph Steele, Vannie Aurin Pavelski da Gama, Alessandro De Francesco
Roundtable📍 O'Donoghue Studio 2
⏱️ 40 min

Between Song and Speech: The Mother Tongue as Musical and Epistemic Practice

Miriana Faieta
Experimental format📍 HBB-G001
⏱️ 40 min

Workshop Diaries: Three seasons in Sápmi

Nancy Couling
Project presentation📍 HBB-B001
⏱️ 40 min

City Is the Thing Bodies, Languages and Time Move Through: Concrete Structures of In-Betweenness

Anna Carolina Jensen
Project presentation📍 Bank of Ireland Theatre
⏱️ 60 min

Translation and Endangered Languages: A Transdiciplinary Conversation

Avishek Ganguly, Raluca Tanasescu, Michael Schwab, Cristian Tanasescu
Roundtable📍 Bailey Allen Hall
⏱️ 40 min

first person plural

Imani Rameses, Mali Moha
Performance📍 O'Donoghue Theatre
⏱️ 40 min

Sensing poetic sense-making. Exploring Catalan contemporary poetry through an artistic research dispositive

Alex Arteaga
Experimental format📍 The View
⏱️ 40 min

Epistemologies in a Minor Key: Theorizing Creative Artefacts as Knowledge Entities

Fiona Woods
Project presentation📍 O'Donoghue Studio 1
12:50pm
⏱️ 40 min

Discussique: Metaphor and Re-learning Listening for New Performance Practices in Transcultural Music

Jeremy Woodruff
Project presentation📍 HBB-B001
⏱️ 40 min

CANTO - onda - ONDA - canto

Breogán Torres Gutiérrez
Performance📍 The View
⏱️ 40 min

Art-Shaped Analysis: Visual and Improvisational Practices as Sites of Inquiry

Cathy Paton
Experimental format📍 The Cube
⏱️ 40 min

Augmented Vocality: Reimagining Old Irish Poetry for Contemporary Classical Music

Edmund Hunt
Project presentation📍 Bank of Ireland Theatre
⏱️ 40 min

Found/Fabric Lab

Ora Ferdman
Experimental format📍 O'Donoghue Studio 1
⏱️ 40 min

In the Space Between: Curating Dispersal, Holding Difference

Nina Liebenberg
Project presentation📍 HBB-G019
3:10pm
⏱️ 40 min

Unidentified Rehearsals

Gwen Welliver
Project presentation📍 Bailey Allen Hall
⏱️ 80 min

Mutable Data: Artistic Apophatic Research

Merel Visse, Ryan Woodring
Workshop📍 O'Donoghue Studio 1
3:50pm
⏱️ 40 min

Gaeltacht Epistemologies: Exploring the Knowing of Dance at the Intersection of Embodiment and Endangered Language Practice

Nada Ní Chuirrín
Project presentation📍 Bailey Allen Hall
⏱️ 40 min

Artistic Research and Spatial Pedagogies in an era of Large Language models

Glenn Loughran
Project presentation📍 HBB-G001
⏱️ 40 min

From the Earth I Have Come – Duodji Art Textile, Decolonisation and Language Revitalisation

Maarit Magga
Project presentation📍 HBB-G019
⏱️ 40 min

IKKE NI (Sit Down, Stand Up)

Sara Vermeylen
Performance📍 The View
4:30pm
⏱️ 40 min

AdBlock, but for your ears

Rada Leu
Experimental format📍 HBB-G001
⏱️ 60 min

Doors to the Future: Imagining more humane migration futures

Carolyn Defrin
Workshop📍 O'Donoghue Studio 1
⏱️ 60 min

Rooted in the River: An Eco-Dance Theatre Exploration of the Corrib

Jessamyn Fairfield, Deidre Cavazzi
Performance📍 O'Donoghue Theatre
⏱️ 40 min

The Semiotics of Synthetic Spaces: Embodied Knowledge and Multilingual Narratives in Digital Performance

Feilim O'hAolain, Cris Mollee, Niek Van Oosterweyk, Pol Eggermont
Experimental format📍 The Cube
⏱️ 40 min

Weirding Language - A Glossary of the Strange and Unexpected

Bettina Schwalm, Julia W. Szagdaj
Experimental format📍 The View
⏱️ 40 min

Towards Circular Communities

Falk Hübner
Experimental format📍 HBB-G019
5:10pm
⏱️ 80 min

Poster session

Mbali Dlhamini, Kinga Bartniak-Król, Sarah Kordecki, Benjamin Sprick, Annett Busch, Katherine Butcher, Lorenzo Pusterla, Catherine Hehir, Shona Stark, Barbora Lungova, Elide Sulsenti, Julia Hölzl, Simon Schultz, Lynne Heller, Pietro Pancella, Papattaranan Kunphunsup, John Manton, Julius Voigt, Vincent Thornhill, Din Heagney, El Brush, Jacopo Petrucci, Martina Raponi, Martin Potter, Angela Fragkou, Ann Burns, Eglė Počiuipaitė, Oguzhan Baran
Poster session📍 O'Donoghue Centre Foyer & - Human Biology Building Atrium
⏱️ 80 min

Centre for Creative Technologies Exhibition

Centre for Creative Technologies
Other format📍 O'Donoghue Centre Foyer & - Human Biology Building Atrium
7:30pm
⏱️ 240 min

Official Networking Dinner

Other format📍 Galway Bay Hotel