Tropicalities of artistic research

Abstract

The paper examines the tropicalities of artistic-research practices through queer/feminist, postcolonial critical perspectives, art theory, and theories of artistic research. It develops the performative interrelation between research and art through the performativity of knowledge. It further traces the expansions, the (re)turns, and the ways of instituting that shape the field on the grounds of interdisciplinarity. It refers more specifically to the genealogies of (para/anti) institutional formations and spaces of pedagogical performativity. Finally, it explores, through a double reading of theory and artwork, intersectional claims that expand the critical epistemologies of art.