Method without discipline

Malik, Suhail. 2007. 'Method without discipline'. In: Inventing methodologies 2: an interdisciplinary workshop on postgraduate practice-based research. Goldsmiths, University of London February 2007. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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These brief introductory remarks address how the demand that contemporary art be a critical undertaking determines it to be a rigorous method of situated enquiry. Such a methodological operation however suffers several 'faults' with regard to conventions of subject-specific research, primarily that contemporary art has no defining boundary or object of analysis – especially not 'art'. While the absence of such definition or limit grants art its extra-ordinary license and 'promiscuous' interdisciplinarity, it also means that critical art as method proceeds without disciplinary authority, security or ambition.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)

Additional Information:

Organized by Research Unit for Contemporary Art Practice, Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths.

Keywords:

art; research

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Art

Dates:

DateEvent
2007Completed

Event Location:

Goldsmiths, University of London

Date range:

February 2007

Item ID:

201

Date Deposited:

19 May 2008 16:51

Last Modified:

16 Jun 2017 15:28

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/201

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