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Accompanying Public Amateurs and Ignorant Generalists

Propositions for Experimental Pedagogical Approaches to PhD in Art and Doctoral Artistic-Research Projects


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  • Abstract
    • Based on our experience conducting our own independent artistic-scientific and practice-based research projects and the experiences made over the last years leading the Doctoral Programme for Artistic Research at the University of Applied Arts and now working at ARC Artistic Research Center and their Doctor Artium programme, at mdw University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, we propose new and unconventional approaches to supervising and supporting doctoral artistic research work, whether their focus is more practice-based, theory-oriented or artistic-scientific. Design approaches, such as the pooling of supervision and strategically introducing moments of epistemic decompression, can support projects as well as candidates in a more sustainable and pluri-vocal manner, ultimately leading to the artist-researchers’ long-term independence, transcultural versatility and well-being. Reflexivity, methodology, and (somatic) learning theory are key points, as well as defining and conceptualising possibilities for supporting and supervising a line of work, which is directed into the unknown, unknowable, and uncertain, or located within limit-experiences. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.3265756
  • Date Issued 2025-12
  • Authors
    Anderwald, Ruth Maria | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
    Grond, Leonhard | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
  • DOI https://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.3265756
  • Language en
  • License CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
  • Subjects artistic research doctoral research experimental pedagogies somatic learning
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