Na czym polegają badania artystyczne i dlaczego niekoniecznie na wytwarzaniu wiedzy? Uwagi o pozycji epistemicznej i instytucjonalnym usytuowaniu współczesnych badań artystycznych

The text discusses the need to strengthen the institutional legitimacy and structural suport for artistic research in Poland. This need was highlighted by, among others, the organisers of the Współmyślenia ( Co-thinkings) workshop held in Chęciny in 2024, which aimed to consolidate the communities of artistic research practitioners in Poland. A key challenge from their perspective is the lack of ongoing support from academic and cultural institutions, which tend to prioritise the production of artefacts rather than supporting long-term research processes. In this context, grassroots networks and collaborations play an important role in the development of artistic research in Poland and have become the basis for its survival. The author of the text joins the discussion on possible ways to institutionalise it, postulating that the desired support system should not be based solely on academic institutions, but should reflect the broad spectrum of social actors involved in contemporary artistic research. At the same time, the author calls for the move away from thinking about artistic research in terms of ‘knowledge production’. In the author’s view, the jargon borrowed from the creators of institutional initiatives in Western and Northern Europe at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries may prove to be a burden today – especially in view of the increasingly complex relationship between art and transdisciplinary practices within science and technoscience.