"From this point of view it could be said that in artistic research truth "happens" in a singular and interpretative mode instead of in a general and exact mode. To put it rather crudely: mathematics is exact, general, and non-experimental. Theoretical physics is exact, general and experimental. Textual/hermeneutical research in the humanities is interpretative, particular and non-experimental. Could artistic research, then, not be thought of as interpretative, singular and experimental?
Thus, artistic research might preliminarily be understood as a kind of experimental hermeneutics. The point is not that this scheme should be written down as a definition, criterion or "metanarrative" for artistic research. I am merely trying to situate it, sketch its original possibilities, mark out artistic research as something which denotes something particular (specific) and meaningful. [...] Maybe artistic research constitutes a-knowledge - where the "a" can be freely seen either as an article or as a privative particle, or both."

Tuomas Nevanlinna, " Is Artistic Research a Meaningful Concept?", in: ", Artistic Research, Annette W. Balkema and Henk Slager (eds.). Lier en Boog. Series on Philosophy of Art and Theory. Volume 18 (2004)

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