International Forum on Artistic Research
17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)
Bailey Allen Hall

The University's multi-purpose venue is located at the heart of the campus and within a five-minute walk of the city centre. During the 2026 Forum it accommodates plenary sessions.

Other format 🗓️ Tuesday, 23 June — 1:00pm - 2:30pm

lunch

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Opening 🗓️ Tuesday, 23 June — 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Opening of the 2026 International Forum on Artistic Research

Presented by: David Burn, Rebecca Braun , Triona Ni Shiochain, Tomás Ó Síocháin
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Opening 🗓️ Tuesday, 23 June — 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Award Ceremony of the Best Exposition in the Research Catalogue 2026

Presented by: Jan Schacher, Linnea Langfjord Kristensen
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Opening 🗓️ Tuesday, 23 June — 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Creativity and Research

Presented by: Florian Schneider, Sharon Flynn, Jessamyn Fairfield, Doris Sommer, Johanna Leissner, Annie Fletcher, Dermot Casey, Vincent Mc Carthy, Tomás Ó Síocháin
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Opening 🗓️ Tuesday, 23 June — 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Welcome Reception

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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 9:30am - 10:30am

Qivittoq: Subjugated Knowledge in Colonialist Contexts

Presented by: Jozef Eduard Masarik
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Roundtable 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 9:30am - 10:30am

Strengthening Conceptual Worlds: Artistic Research and Minoritised Languages

Presented by: Karoline Schneider / Krawc, Joachim Ben Yakoub, Jozef Eduard Masarik, Darshana Devarajan, Triona Ni Shiochain
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 9:30am - 10:30am

ryć/rěč

Presented by: Karoline Schneider / Krawc
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 9:30am - 10:30am

(Re)Searching Rupture and Repair: An Artistic Inquiry on Decolonial Education

Presented by: Darshana Devarajan
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 9:30am - 10:30am

Finding Ceremony. Dancing nearby the Guardians of San Words and Worlds

Presented by: Joachim Ben Yakoub
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Project presentation 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 10:50am - 11:30am

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

Presented by: Rita Júlia Sebestyén
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 12:10pm - 1:10pm

Translation and Endangered Languages: A Transdiciplinary Conversation

Presented by: Michael Schwab
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 12:10pm - 1:10pm

Translation and Endangered Languages: A Transdiciplinary Conversation

Presented by: Raluca Tanasescu
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 12:10pm - 1:10pm

Translation and Endangered Languages: A Transdiciplinary Conversation

Presented by: Cristian Tanasescu
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Project presentation 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 3:10pm - 3:50pm

Unidentified Rehearsals

Presented by: Gwen Welliver
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Project presentation 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 3:50pm - 4:30pm

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

Presented by: Nada Ní Chuirrín
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Other format 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 9:30am - 10:10am

Artistic Research and the Lingering Gaze of Thought

Presented by: Henk Borgdorff
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 10:10am - 11:10am

On Parasiting: Tactical Artistic Research as Resilience under Cultural Capture

Presented by: Jakob Margit Wirth
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 10:10am - 11:10am

Artistic Intelligence and Infrastructural AI: Reframing Urban Perception in Automated Environments

Presented by: Synne Tollerud Bull
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 10:10am - 11:10am

Study in Grey

Presented by: Janine Davidson
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Roundtable 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 10:10am - 11:10am

Shaping the Future of Artistic Research

Presented by: Synne Tollerud Bull, Jakob Margit Wirth, Gwen Rakotovao, Sarah Kordecki, Merel Visse, Ryan Woodring, Janine Davidson
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 10:10am - 11:10am

A not-quite round table: apophatic artistic research at risk

Presented by: Merel Visse, Ryan Woodring
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 10:10am - 11:10am

Potentials of artistic research and its integration in the German higher education system

Presented by: Sarah Kordecki
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 10:10am - 11:10am

Methods in multiplicity: Embodied and contemporary ancestral knowledge in times of transition

Presented by: Gwen Rakotovao
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Roundtable 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 12:10pm - 1:10pm

Advancing Artistic Research Policy

Presented by: Florian Schneider, Irene Garofalo, Simona De Rosa, Stella Diakou, Mari Sanden, Helen Phelan, Paulo Luís Almeida
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 12:10pm - 1:10pm

Strengthening Artistic Research and Supporting Linguistic and Cultural Diversity

Presented by: Mari Sanden
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Other format 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 1:30pm - 2:10pm

IMBAS Presentation and Launch

Presented by: Triona Ni Shiochain
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 3:10pm - 4:10pm

Critical Poetics and Ecology

Presented by: Penn Newell
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Roundtable 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 3:10pm - 4:10pm

Materialising Change: Artistic Research and the Climate Transition

Presented by: Penn Newell, Costanza Julia Bani, Mari Sanden
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 3:10pm - 4:10pm

Measuring a Nation / Unstable Grounds

Presented by: Costanza Julia Bani
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Roundtable contribution 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 3:10pm - 4:10pm

Who's afraid of instrumentalisation?

Presented by: Mari Sanden
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Closing event 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Multilingual aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education

Presented by: Doris Sommer
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