Эпистемологическая полезность художественных резиденций и шелуха повторений

Abstract

In the article, artist residencies are considered as an object of research. The stereotypes associated with the role of artist residency in the artistic process are examined: for example, the idea of site-specificity and of the artist in residency as a person necessarily endowed with fresh optics and destined to make the place her own. The article notes that in the world of artist residencies, the mode of work for the result, or the creation of a work, and the mode of research are separated. Currently, there is a tilt towards research residencies. Further, the article discusses the specifics of artistic research and its role in the artistic process. Jean-François Lyotard’s approach to exhibitions as philosophical statements is mentioned and Nelson Goodman’s concept of the creation of worlds is analyzed. Strategies of work in the artist residency are described through specific ways of creating worlds, research in the residency is analyzed as an opportunity to construct a correct, that is, epistemologically productive version of the world. Through the expansion of some points of Goodman’s analytical aesthetics, the emphasis is placed on artist residency as a unique, laboratory, space/condition/ context for the creation of new symbolic systems — worlds — through the presentation of referential chains in their formation and deciphering. In the situation of artist residency, new worlds are being created literally before our eyes, and, taken as a subject of research, artist residencies provide conditions for the decomposition of the artistic process into its components. Artist residencies are spaces where connections between worlds unfold.