Research in the Arts, the Arts in Research

Wydział Filologiczny
Pomorska nr 171/173

Cultural Literacy in Europe, Zakład Literatury i Kultury Brytyjskiej, Zakład Mediów Niemieckojęzycznych i Kultury Austriackiej, Katedra Teorii Literatury,

prof. Joanna Jabłkowska, prof. Jarosław Płuciennik, mgr Joanna Kosmalska

dr Justyna Stępień, mgr Maja Dębska, mgr Angelika Siniarska-Tuszyńska
Artists study the reality they are surrounded by, people they live among, themselves, their instruments of work and how these areas are interconnected. Their work addresses complex issues, establishing dynamic relationships to a whole variety of other disciplines, from philosophy to new technologies. Their creative activity generates knowledge that could not be gained otherwise. Artistic knowledge is acquired through sensory and emotional perception and is practice-based, practice-driven, ‘felt’, ‘embodied’. It crosses the borders of different countries, languages, cultures, disciplines. Many artistic research projects are genuinely multicultural and interdisciplinary. Yet artists still often have to justify the idea that their practice is research.
Academic research too has become increasingly inter- and multidisciplinary. Cultural Literacy [CL] is the ability to think in literary ways about any topic or question, using the key concepts of textuality, fictionality, rhetoricity and historicity (see http://cleurope.eu/about/key-concepts/). How can the creative arts and CL come together to think about the contemporary world?
This Symposium is designed to generate active discussion, focusing on
thinking and talking rather than formal presentations. If your proposal is
accepted, it will be included in a ‘book of presentations’ that all
participants will be asked to read in advance of the Symposium. The
contributions will be grouped together into parallel break-out sessions of 90
minutes during which each presenter will briefly summarise their points and the
subsequent discussion will aim to explore the key theme of the panel.
