But this, in some circles, is still a heretical point of view. In artistic research, the empathic communication of information and experience – and not merely the ‘verbally empathic’ – is a sign of research transferability, a marker for research content. To do this, they must embrace daring and risk-taking, finding ways of communicating that flow against the current norms.
In this brutal environment where ‘information’ is uncoupled from reality and validated only by how loudly and often it is voiced, the artist researcher has a responsibility that goes beyond the confines of our discipline to articulate the truth-content of his or her artistic practice. This is to be welcomed, because it keeps alive ideas of plurality and complexity at a particular time in history when the gross oversimplifications and obfuscations of political discourses are compromising the nature of language itself, leading to what several commentators have already called ‘a post-truth’ world.
As artistic research work in various disciplines and national contexts continues to develop, the diversity of approaches to the field becomes ever more apparent.
