Existential Dread: Career pathways in artistic research
22 or 29th pril 2026 (date to be confirmed)13:00 - 16:00 CET
LUCA Campus (city center) and Live Agora (hybrid)
Alexianenplein 1, 9000 Ghent
How does a PhD in the arts make an artist? How do artists shape their academic future from or within academia’s margins? How to keep practice and research in balance?
To pursue an academic career in artistic research, scholars often encounter structural barriers. These barriers concern foremost an epistemological ambiguity that is operative between artistic presentation and academic publishing, or between valorisation of research outcomes and translation of the work into other research fields. Equally high demands of excellence in both the work, the research and the general sustainability of both can set off or discourage artist-researchers to plot their career pathways.
This session is set up to uncover and encourage a research climate in which the structural barriers are made porous and sustainable pathways can be crafted more consciously.
Topic/questions
- how can (doctoral) research support an artistic practice meaningfully?
- how to shape a post-doc or professorship trajectory that keeps artistic work at the centre?
- how to get artistic outcomes validated as research outputs
- how to get valued and published in art journals that support an ‘academic record’?
(registration link here)