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The publication Paths of artistic researchis a collection of interviews with artisticresearchers - Andrea Buršová, assistantprofessor at the Nika BrettschneiderováDramatic Acting Department, Faculty ofDrama, JAMU, Jiří Honzírek, director, managerof the Feste Theatre and PhD student atthe Theatre Faculty, JAMU, Barbora Klímová,head of the Studio of Environmental Designat the FFA BUT, Lenka Klodová, head ofthe Studio of Body Design at the FFA BUT,Lucia Repašská, researcher at the Cabinetfor Theatre and Drama Research, TheatreFaculty, JAMU, Hana Slavíková, head of theStudio of Radio and Television Dramaturgyand Scriptwriting, Theatre Faculty, JAMU,Pavel Sterec, artist and former head of theIntermedia Studio at the FFA, BUT, andLenka Veselá, researcher at the Departmentof Theory and History of Art at the FFA, BUTand PhD student at the FFA, BUT. Theseare artists who have been associated withart colleges in Brno, specifically with theFaculty of Fine Arts of the BUT and theTheatre Faculty of the JAMU. Throughinterviews with the artists, the reader willlearn under what circumstances they beganto engage in artistic research, how theyperceive it, what meanings they attributeto it and the purpose it serves for them.The selected group of artists is very diverseand their creative and research strategiesare different, as are the purposes for whichthey use artistic research. The publicationdoes not aim to provide an exhaustiveoverview of the methods used in artisticresearch, but it does aim to show that thereare many approaches to artistic researchand to present the paths that have broughtparticular artists to artistic research. keywords: artistic research; interviews; Faculty of Fine Arts BUT; Theatre Faculty of JAMU; approaches to artistic research