{"id":41,"date":"2019-06-05T07:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T07:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asi.events.unibz.it\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2020-05-05T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T14:38:33","slug":"description-and-objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asi.events.unibz.it\/?page_id=41","title":{"rendered":"Description and Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The workshop focuses primarily on contemporary art as a medium for social innovation, engaging both academics and artists on topics such as feminism, social integration, and the status of images in contemporary society. The other aim is to sketch a new paradigm for the social sciences by engaging the artists, who may help reframe the language social scientists use by providing a kind of \u2018architectonics\u2019 that may help connect different disciplines and discourses. Thus, the other aim is instrumental to the former, for social innovation is effected by a new discourse created by dialogue and cross-contamination of languages and practices with different sites of address (conference<\/em> room and exhibition<\/em> room). The idea (second aim) is to use contemporary art as a device to connect people with languages and mentalities that seem distant and aloof, and that by way of metaphors and visual parables could become open and accessible. Artists will engage with academics in an effort to push boundaries and redefine the terms of specialized discourses: artworks may help structure ideas and inspire policy initiatives (first aim) across the divide between disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop acknowledges the dwindling of\nspecialist art criticism and the emergence of a contested role: the curator; it\naims to connect art with specialist audiences, where social scientists,\nhistorians and anthropologists address socially sensitive issues by engaging\nwith contemporary art. The objective is to negotiate a new intellectual\ndimension, a liminal space that challenges the boundary between the conference<\/em> room and the exhibition<\/em> room (or the museum), a visual\ndiscourse in which conventional roles (notably \u2018the artist\u2019 and \u2018the scientist\u2019)\nare defied. Concepts such as \u201cvisual discourse analysis\u201d and \u201crethinking the social with\nthe image\u201d seem to define a new inter_ disciplinary field of enquiry, encompassed\nby such journals as Visual Communication<\/em>,\nDiscourse and Society<\/em>, and Qualitative Inquiry<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the aims of the\nworkshop is to show the extent to which other disciplines and discourses have dealt\nwith applied art-based research:\nscholars in business and management theory have created the field of \u201cartistic\ninterventions in organizations\u201d and the Journal\nof Business Research<\/em> has hosted papers on \u201cmeaningful work,\u201d \u201cvalue-creation processes,\u201d \u201carts for human resource\u201d, and \u201carts based\ninitiatives for creativity and innovation\u201d. It has been argued that \u201cthe idea\nof artists accepting managers\u2019 invitations to work in an organization outside\nthe art-world for hours, days, or even months appears antithetical because they\nhave such different values\u201d and this new field of inquiry aims at vindicating\nthe idea of mutual cooperation between artists and organizations. Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art interventions\nused aesthetics to affect social dynamics in a logic of mutual implication\nbetween art and political action: not only art was amenable to political uses,\nbut political activism per se<\/em> was\nconsidered as an art-form. Museums and curators had become, respectively, sites\nand agents of political activism, and similarly Occupy Wall Street was greeted\nas a major artistic achievement. Claire Bishop theorized a new form of socially engaged\nparticipatory aesthetic that places at the forefront the artist in arms, or\ndisruptive political acts as artworks. This is beyond the concerns of this\nworkshop, whose aim is to find new ways, and a new paradigm, to articulate\nissues. It\nhas been argued that \u201cthere is a growing\ninterest in the use of visual thinking techniques\nfor promoting conceptual thinking\u201d. This workshop expands this argument by using\nthe visual arts as a medium to access specialized discourses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants will convene on Thursday, June 20 in the Faculty of\nEconomics and Management of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (FUB). The\nautonomous province of Bozen-Bolzano was praised by the Journal Cities<\/em> for its commitment to innovation\nand cultural participation. The Province has adopted ad hoc<\/em> measures with the aim of supporting the creative economy and\ntransforming the region in an environment suitable to innovation at all levels\n(social, educational, and entrepreneurial). Furthermore, the Law of the\nProvince 9\/2015 acknowledges the \u201cright to cultural activity and participation\u201d\nand supports activities aiming at establishing publishing houses, film\nproductions, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Research Cluster on \u201cLaw, Economics, and Institutions\u201d of the\nFaculty of Economics and Management wishes to expand its role in South Tyrol with\ninitiatives that challenge the bounda_ ries between the different missions of\nthe FUB: we expect to contribute new research questions to debates on the role\nof contemporary art in society, engage students to work and study across\nboundaries, and collaborate with local institutions (such as the \u2018Consorzio\nLavoratori Studenti\u2019, the platform \u2018Voltaire \u2013 European Education Center\u2019 and\nthe \u2018Centro Trevi\u2019) in a spirit of mutual exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop is sponsored by the Fondazione\nPietro e Alberto Rossini<\/strong> (http:\/\/fpar.it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We expect to publish a book (with images) of conversations among\nartists, academics and practi_ tioners. This workshop will help contribute four\nmain chapters, respectively on feminism (and #MeToo), fiction and politics, social\nintegration, the role of images in contemporary society, and the uses of memory\nin politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The workshop focuses primarily on contemporary art as a medium for social innovation, engaging both academics and artists on topics such as feminism, social integration, and the status of images in contemporary society. The other aim is to sketch a new paradigm for the social sciences by engaging the artists, who may help reframe the … <\/p>\n

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