Understanding Practice: Art & Research of Precision

Aurea Klarskov & Markus Krajewski

Zentrum Fokus Forschung
Rustenschacherallee 2-4
1020 Wien

Impulse
11. May 2022, 18:00 – 19:30

Exchange & Discourse
12. May 2022, 09:30 – 12:30

At the intersection of art and science exactitude and chance meet.
– Aurea Klarskov

While exactitude is considered an epistemic virtue, pedantry occasionally turns out to be an epistemic vice.
– Markus Krajewski

What is the role of exactitude in artistic practices and the processes of knowledge formation? The aim of our Basel and Zurich based interdisciplinary research group „Media of Exactitude“ was to analyze practices of knowledge production in the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Based on our experience, we invite to reflect diverse practices and changing notions of “exactitude” at the intersection of the arts and sciences. We want to encourage artists to engage in a discussion of their work and the practices of exactitude it involves.

Photo: Marcel Duchamp, La Boîte Verte (1934)
Credits: 2016 Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Right Society (ARS), New York

Guests

Aurea Klarskov is a historian of art and is currently finishing her dissertation on the notion of exactitude in the work of Marcel Duchamp.
Markus Krajewski teaches history and theory of media at the University of Basel.