Art of Research Conference 2023 (exhibition and presentation)
Conference Presentation
Authors | Bartram, A. |
---|---|
Type | Conference Presentation |
Abstract | Unexpected, hidden, unspoken and sometimes uncomfortable aspects of our rational and well-meaning value structure often arise through the mediation of contemporary art through its associated dissemination. Ethics, morality and what is right and wrong are often the subject of extended debate through the opportunity that artistic research provides, in which the use and engagement of non-human animals in art arouses specific contested and unexpected ground. Art and artistic research have the capacity to raise questions and highlight phenomena that often stays hidden and unnoticed, including the debate of ethical consideration of, and to animals in art. In more recent historical contributions, artists like Damian Hirst, Oran Catts, David Shrigley and Hermann Nitsch have provocated the unethical for the animal through its (ab)use, slaughter and genetic modification for artistic spectacle and purpose. Could (and indeed, should) the use of animals for artistic statement through ritualized slaughter, taxidermy, and scientific manipulation, be made now without questions of the social ethics in art being brought to prominence? How do we regard animal suffering in comparison to that of the human, especially in art, and what is 'othering' between species? Could we apply the same measures to ourselves as we do to other living creatures? Should empathy be a prerequisite for working with any bodily subject, living or dead, and human or animal? The presentation was selected as one of seventy in the programme, from a submission of one hundred and seventy, through a process of peer review. The authors made a new collaborative artwork, On Living and Dying, specifically for the exhibition, to act as a continuing and supporting dialogue to this talk. This artwork was also selected by peer review. The exhibition was on site at Dipoli Gallery, Aalto University. The conference and exhibition were at Aalto University, 30 November-1 December 2023. |
Keywords | ethics; art and ethics; animal ethics; ethics in art |
Year | 2023 |
Conference | Art of Research 2023 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/art-of-research-2023-conference |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Open |
Funder | University of Derby |
File | License All rights reserved File Access Level Open |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 08 Dec 2023 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/q379z/art-of-research-conference-2023-exhibition-and-presentation
Download files
Publisher's version
Revisioning Positive Ethics AB JEH FINAL.doc | ||
License: All rights reserved | ||
File access level: Open |
File
75
total views85
total downloads1
views this month0
downloads this month