Qiyun Zheng

Through reading the three texts, I now have a basic knowledge of what “artistic research” means: it is quite a new territory of research; it puts the artist’s practice in the center, which suits more for passing down knowledge produced in the artwork making, not so much as to repeat a way of doing artwork, but helps to understand the artwork; it redefines “thinking”, and the way we think of the scope of art.

In Artistic Research and scientific method: two cultures, the author mentioned that artistic research begins with the answer, and goes back to questions. This led me to reflect upon when I made reaction performances to censorship and patriarchal incidents, where I started with the answer of making performances and then tried to complete them. I engaged with questions about how the performance would reflect on the ironies and inequalities of those real-life events during writing the storyboard. 

When I wrote the research proposal I tried to use the mode I used for my Bachelor’s Paper proposal, but after reading the articles I now come to realize the differences between different research modes. Artistic research has its own culture and context, which asks a different questions and goes with different steps, although it shares some common grounds with other research types.