Programme
- Published on Tuesday, 21 March 2017 18:57
Preliminary programme:
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20
2-8 pm arrival snacks
6-8 pm intro to the course, venue and participants
8 pm welcome dinner by chefs
10 pm sauna*
MONDAY, AUGUST 21
9-10 am breakfast
10-11 am Dr Kęstas Kirtiklis Science as Vocation, Methodology as Destiny?
In the lecture “Science as Vocation” (1918) Max Weber posed some crucially important questions concerning the nature of scientific research in general and the so-called human sciences in particular: what is particular about scientific knowledge as opposed to other forms of knowledge? What is the aim of scientific / scholarly activities? What is the value of science / research? How do researchers choose between various methodological positions? Is there any place for value judgements in science? In my presentation I will discuss the main methodological currents in contemporary social sciences (naturalism, interpretivism and critical theory) as participating in an ongoing discussion and providing different answers to the Weberian questions.
11 am-noon post-presentation discussion
1-2 pm lunch
2-5 pm 3 students’ presentations**
5-8 pm individual consultations
8-10 pm dinner by participants
10 pm film screening*
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22
9-10 am breakfast
10-11 am Dr Marquard Smith Research: A Promising Subject for Research?
What is it to conduct research in the second decade of the 21st century? What is the nature (or what are the modalities) of the work that we, as researchers, do? What is research as a praxis? And how have recent shifts in paradigms of knowledge generation and distribution transformed profoundly what we as researchers do, how we do it, and in fact even our very capacity to do it?
Beginning from the figure of the researcher (you, me, us) as a locus for the discovery of knowledge by way of acts of searching, gathering, making/producing, decision-making, and dissemination, I’ll be engaging productively with these and any other questions in order to explore the idea of ‘research’ as a subject of research itself. As such, I’ll be considering some of the ways in which, as practitioners, curators and scholars, we might ‘do’ research. And, finally, I’ll be proposing how research might be ‘embodied in’ and ‘articulated by way of’ art and design projects.
To this end, I’ll be drawing on my activities as an academic (having published widely on arts education, artistic research, practice-led/based research, experimentality, the educational turn, and the archival impulse), a curator (in which curating is a generative practice-led activity), a programmer, a commissioner, and an editor who has supervised to successful completion PhDs by project (by fine art practice, design practice and curating) as well as PhDs by thesis and PhDs by publication, and as an external examiner for PhDs by practice across the UK.
11 am-noon post-presentation discussion
noon-1 pm 1 student presentation
1-2 pm lunch
2-6 pm individual consultations
6-8 pm 2 students’ presentations
8-10 pm dinner by chefs
10 pm sauna
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23
9-10 am breakfast
10-11 am Dr Joanne Morra Exposing Research
Research is often presented as a final polished product: whether it be an article, a book, an exhibition, or an artwork. Buffed and shined, it is not often that we see or hear about the ups and downs that are key to research as a practice.
In this session, we will expose research by asking: how do we begin a work of art or a piece of writing? How can we articulate the moment at which something takes shape, as our labour (our work) is transformed into an artwork or a piece of writing or an exhibition? How do we know (or decide) when something is finished, or when it is a failure? What happens next? And what are our experiential and subjective relationships with these practices and processes as practices and processes? What conscious and unconscious, real or imaginary, fears, memories, anxieties, desires and pleasures impact upon what we do, and what we hope and dream of doing?
11 am-noon post-presentation discussion
noon-1 pm individual consultations
1-2 pm lunch
2-5 pm 3 students’ presentations
5-8 pm individual consultations
8-10 pm dinner by participants
10 pm film screening
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24
9-10 am breakfast
10-11 pm 1 students presentation
11 am-noon Prof Dave Beech Critique of Methodology
Everybody uses methods. Putting on the kettle is method for making a cup of tea. Setting your alarm is a method for waking up in time to go to work. You can travel between London and Paris by several methods (train, car, flight and ferry).
At the same time, the most common methods used to conduct research (reading, speaking to people, making observations, making things) or delivering research (writing, speaking at conferences, exhibiting things) are not in themselves guarantees that any research has taken place.
This is why academics responsible for administrating or teaching research have given the emphasis to methodology rather than methods in their understanding of what constitutes research.
The difficulty is that there is no consensus on what a methodology is or how it differs from a method. In one argument, a methodology is a sequence of methods. If we can add that the sequence of methods must also add up to something - i.e. that the methods are arranged in a sequence that leads, for instance, from data collection to the organisation of evidence to the reflective understanding of the result - then it might appear that methodology, or certain kinds of methodology at least, constitute research.
noon-1 pm post-presentation discussion
1-2 pm lunch
2-6 pm individual consultations
6-8 pm 2 students’ presentations
8-10 pm dinner by chefs
10 pm sauna
FRIDAY, AUGUST 25
9-10 am breakfast
10-11 am Discussion on the use of different methods presented and debated during the week, moderated by Dr Sofia Pantouvaki
11 am-noon Prof Adrian Rifkin The Art of Building Ruins, or on Never Shedding one's Baggage; What Kind of Art is Practice Based Research in the Twilight of Methodologies?
noon-1 pm post-presentation discussion
1-2 pm lunch
2-5 pm 3 students’ presentations
5-8 pm individual consultations
8-9 pm dinner by participants
9-10 pm closing events of the Nida Art Colony summer exhibition When the Sea Looks Back (A Serpent’s Tale): guided tour with the exhibition curators The Many Headed Hydra (Emma Haugh, Suza Husse)
10-11.30 pm closing events of the Nida Art Colony summer exhibition When the Sea Looks Back (A Serpent’s Tale): Sea of Living Memories (2016) & POTOM (2016) by Ieva Epnere, film screening and conversation
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26
9-10 am breakfast
10-noon wrap up (results, findings, unanswered questions)
noon-1 pm individual consultations
1-2 pm lunch
2-4 pm individual consultations
5.30-8.30 pm closing event of the Nida Art Colony summer exhibition When the Sea Looks Back (A Serpent’s Tale): performance by Bryndis Björnsdóttir and radio magazine by Golden Diskó Ship and The Many Headed Hydra (live broadcast on Neringa FM)
8.30 pm dinner by chefs
10 pm sauna
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27
9-noon breakfast & departure
Open call for cooks: participants are welcome to cook dinner for NDS participants on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The organisers will provide the kitchen space, utensils, money and a van for shopping.
Film screenings and beach sauna any night upon request.
Sunrise 5.01 am (Sun, Aug 20) / Sunset 7.29 pm (Sat, Aug 26)
* Film screenings and beach sauna any night upon request
** 30 min presentation + 30 min Q&A