On the role of editorial practices and small-scale presses in artistic research (2025-2027)

This ongoing strand of enquiry and experimentation engages with the innovative practices that emerge within the space of editorial and publishing work that are informed by and generated from artistic research. The short-term objective of this work is to establish a preliminary descriptive framework and typology of practices and operational concepts in artistic research publishing. The longer-term goal is to build a resource for artistic researchers and practitioners to help support and enable further experimentation.

The first stage of the research process has been to convene an ongoing series of workshops and seminar that address the role of editorial practices and small-scale presses as: (i) dimensions of artistic research; and (ii) as part of self-organisation / “artist-led” culture and the politics (small “p”) of infrastructure.  These events also intersect with another research strand looking at organisational imaginaries.

Seminar and workshops that have previously been realised:

• Open Editorial Meeting on The Handbook of Artistic Research Methods with Irina Gheorghe, Iris van der Tuin, Maria Topolčanská, Henk Slager, Mick Wilson and Vytautas Michelkevicius. (22/4/2026)

• Henk Slager: An Arc of Artistic Research Publishing: Workshop #3 (15/4/2026)

• Editorial Conversations with Carolina Rito, Cătălin Gheorghe, Khashayar Naderehvandi and Mick Wilson: Seminar (23-24/2/2026)

• Experiments in publishing practices in ‘live research processes’ with Janneke Adema and Nick Aikens: Workshop # 2  (2/12/2025)

• On the specificity of editorial practices and small-scale presses within artistic research with Florin Bobu, Livia Pancu and Khashayar Naderehvandi: Workshop #1 (30/9/2025)

Upcoming events will be listed on our Events page.