This expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research explores artistic research in
dialogue with 24 artists worldwide reclaiming it from academic associations of the term.
Embracing artists' dynamic engagement with other fields it foregrounds the material spatial
embodied organizational choreographic and technological ways of knowing and unknowing
specific to contemporary artistic inquiry. The second edition features a new text by the author
and four new artist dialogues to reflect on the changing stakes of artistic research in the
wake of the global pandemic a widespread reckoning with social justice the growing role of
artificial intelligence and the urgent reality of climate change. LUCY COTTER (*1973 Ireland)
is a writer curator and artist. She was Curator of the Dutch Pavilion 57th Venice Biennale
2017 and Curator in Residence at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art 2021-22. The inaugural
director of the Master Artistic Research Royal Academy of Art The Hague Cotter has lectured
internationally most recently at Portland State University.
