Sonic Acts 2019: Irit Rogoff – Becoming Research

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER

Irit Rogoff – Becoming Research – Introduction by Lucas van der Velden.

22 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

'Research' as we experience it now in both institutional and culturally active contexts has moved away from stable bodies of knowledge to be excavated as well as away from recognised subjects whose validity is universally recognised. ‘Research’ models emanating from practice have ceased to be the context or the preparation for work and have become the main event of activity. These have had significant impact on so many arenas of knowledge production across the humanities and the social sciences and have countered the bordering and continents of knowledge towards platforms of shared subjectivity. ‘Research’ is now the arena in which we negotiate knowledge that we have inherited with the conditions of our lives. Those conditions, whether economic, geographical or propelled by subjectivity, have become the drive (not the subject matter) of the work. Through immersion in conditions, ‘research’ transforms from an investigative impulse to the constitution of new realities. It is thus that we recognise that ‘research’ is not some elevated activity requiring a great deal of prior knowledge, nor is it simply the urge to ‘find things out’. It is in many ways the stuff of daily life. The forms of current research have equally shifted, as contemporary, multivalent ‘research’ moves between archival, documentary, conceptual and performative modes, and utilises everything from fictioning, docu-dramatising to mimicry the queer animation of archives and structural self-instituting to produce new realities of knowledge.

Irit Rogoff is a writer, teacher, theorist and curator. She is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, a department she founded in 2002. Rogoff works at the meeting ground between contemporary practices, politics and philosophy. Her current work is on new practices of knowledge production and their impact on modes of research, under the title of Becoming Research (forthcoming). As part of the collective freethought, Rogoff was one of the artistic directors of The Bergen Assembly, 2016 and editor of The Infrastructural Condition published in its wake. Rogoff is also co-founder of The European Forum for Advanced Practices in 2017. Her publications include Looking Away – Participating Singularities, Ontological Communities (2013), Visual Cultures as Seriousness (2013) (with Gavin Butt), Unbounded: Limits’ Possibilities (2012), Terra Infirma: Geography’s Visual Culture (2000).

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