Hacia una investigación artística sin concepto, ni método: o Sobre cómo acariciar una mesa

Abstract

This is a study committed to the methodological difficulty of the Artistic Research in the academic context and, in particular, at the doctoral level. This article presents a reconsideration of this field of study, its type of Outcome-research, its contribution to the academy and its interrelationship with the current artistic practice. From there, two movements are proposed: from hypothesis to intuition and from strategy to technique. Both displacements trigger the possibility of research without a key concept nor a method that, in its procedure, displays a continuous oscillation between the deliberate and the non-deliberate, between knowledge and emotion, between rigour and passion, etc. These fluctuations are structural for the artistic process and research and these could remember that science is not only a system to know a visible and tangible reality, but it is also an art that tries to access the real.