Manifest der Künstlerischen Forschung

Since its beginnings in the 1990s, "artistic research" has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to experimental formats to contemporary music, literature, dance or performance art. But from its beginnings—under labels like "art and science" or "scienceart" or "artscience" that mention both disciplines in one breath—it has been in competition with academic research, without its own concept of research having been adequately clarified. This manifesto attempts to resolve the problem and to defend the term and the radical potentials of a researching art against those who toy all too carefully with university formats, wishing to ally them with scientific principles. Its aim is to emphasize the autonomy and particular intellectuality of artistic research, without seeking to justify its legitimacy or adopt alien standards.

Dieter Mersch war bis zu seiner Emeritierung Professor für Ästhetik an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste und ist Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ästhetik. Studium der Mathematik und Philosophie in Köln, Bochum und Darmstadt. Mitherausgeber des Internationalen Jahrbuchs für Medienphilosophie. Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Philosophische Ästhetik, Kunsttheorie, Medienphilosophie, Bildtheorie, Musikphilosophie und kontinentale Philosophie des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts.

5 - 6 False Competition11 - 13 Three Problems17 - 19 Four Misunderstandings23 - 27 Theory And Practice31 - 35 Aesthetic Knowledge39 - 42 Practices of Aesthetic Thinking47 - 54 Aesthetic Doing59 - 62 For an Intellectuality of the Aesthetic