Rania Stephan, artist, filmmaker and Senior Fellow at Iméra, is taking part in the next session of NetIAS Debates, organised by the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), on Thursday, June 5th, 2025 about artistic research.
What do we mean by Artistic Research if we really mean it?
Six résidents travaillant sur des projets de recherche artistique et scientifique et venant de cinq instituts d’études avancées différents à travers l’Europe partagent les pensées et les idées de leur réflexion commune de trois jours à HIAS, l’institut d’études avancées de Hambourg :
Six fellows working on Arts & Sciences/ Artistic Research projects and coming from five different Institutes for Advanced Study all over Europe share the thoughts and insights of their three-day common reflexion at HIAS:
- Wulan Dirgantoro (HIAS, Hambourg)
- Clemens Krauss (ZiF, Bielefeld)
- Massimo Leone (HIAS, Hambourg)
- Alex South (IASH, Edimbourg)
- Rania Stephan (Iméra, Marseille)
- Jason Waite (HCAS, Helsinki)
The exchange revolves around some key questions like: Can arts and sciences be seen as two separate epistemologic domains? Does art oppose science/scholarship? What is the relationship between them: is it linear, circular, superimposed…? What kind of questions are asked by art, by sciences? What drives the curiosity that is at the origin of the desire to research in both spheres?
“[…] Artistic Research has the unique capacity to operate within ambiguity, to render nuances that resist the grammar of academic prose, and to give form to paradoxes that scholarship often struggles to name. Some twists of human reality—subtle tensions of identity, affect, embodiment—cannot be said, only shown; not explained, but staged, enacted, or refracted. It is here that art becomes a form of thinking, not after or beside science, but with it—at times, even ahead of it. […]“
Massimo Leone: Glimpses, Glitches, Glyphs. Hambuurg 2025.
The event takes place Thursday, June 5th at 5pm.
If you would like to participate online, please send an e-mail to: event@hias-hamburg.de.
About the NetIAS Debates
NetIAS Debates is a joint format of the member institutes of the European Network of Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS).
