The 2026 International Forum on Artistic Research will explore and discuss artistic research in all its diverse forms as well as its untapped potentials within the dense social, cultural, and political contexts in which it operates. It provides an extraordinary opportunity to rethink the relationship between cultural heritage and creativity, while thoroughly investigating the impact of colonial and extractivist legacies on contemporary artistic practice.
The 2026 International Forum on Artistic Research calls for contributions within and across the multiple modalities of artistic research.
Proposals are invited on the following themes:
• Making seeable and sayable: artistic research in the interplay of power and language
◦ Demonstrating the peculiar role of situated knowledges in artistic research
◦ Outlining the impact of arts-based insights from within minoritised language communities
◦ Discussing the capacities of endangered conceptual worlds to generate distinctive forms of innovation
• Exploring the ineffible: artistic research and endangered arts practice beyond the verbal
◦ Dance, movement, and gesture as minoritised or endangered embodied knowledges
◦ Minoritisation and endangerment in visual, sonic, and digital cultures
◦ Subjugated knowledges, coloniality, and unsayability
• Resilience, resistance, revival: artistic research strategies in relation to minoritised languages
◦ Investigating oral traditions and vernacular arts
◦ Exploring intersections between oralities and literacies
◦ Promoting experimental art practices and artistic research methodologies
• Artistic Intelligence: experimenting with collective agency and the production of newness and novelty
◦ Reflecting on artistic research in the face of synthetic and post-synthetic realities
◦ Revisiting digital arts practices against the current urgencies of epistemic sovereignty
◦ Building capacities to work with polylocal knowledge systems in independent digital infrastructures
Contributions to the 2026 Forum on Artistic Research can take different formats:
• Peer-reviewed project presentation (20 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A)
• Workshop or training session (between 90 minutes and 180 minutes)
• Laboratory or experimental format (flexible time slot)
• Roundtable discussion (60 minutes including Q&A)
• Performance (to be discussed)
• Poster presentation (no time limit)
• Other formats
The following information is requested when you submit your proposal:
• Title (max. 255 characters)
• Format (choose from the formats listed above)
• Abstract for the conference programme (max. 2,000 characters)
• Link to an accompanying exposition in the Research Catalogue (obligatory for project presentations). Please register on the RC as soon as possible to ensure that your registration can be processed in time. Creating a full RC account is free of charge but requires authentication: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/portal/register
• Short biographies of the presenter(s) (max. 600 characters)
• An image for the conference programme (300 dpi, 1920×1440 px)
• Additional information on the presentation format (max. 1,000 characters)
• Spatial and/or technical requirements (max. 500 characters)
• Potential risks or ethical concerns (max. 500 characters)
• Previous presentations or iterations of the research
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2026
Dates of Conference: 23-26 June 2026
For details, please see here: https://sar2026.ie/form/submit-contribution