News & Events April 2009

RAE 08 Success

The Wales Institute for Research in Art & Design (WIRAD) is pleased to announce that in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the Art & Design panel rated 95% of the research submission as international standard, with 70% rated as either Internationally Excellent or World Leading. Using Times Higher weightings this makes the submission 12th out of 70 in the UK and the best in Wales. This significant achievement by WIRAD's founding members, UWIC and Newport, demonstrates very clearly the international quality of WIRAD's research. It puts WIRAD in the best possible position to build on this achievement through our invitation to key research partners from across Wales to join in this success story.

The Inherently Interdisciplinary Nature of Visual Arts Research

Visual arts research is inherently interdisciplinary, argues Clive Cazeaux, Reader in Aesthetics at Cardiff School of Art and Design. In his article 'Inherently Interdisciplinary', just published in the Journal of Visual Arts Practice 7.2, Cazeaux reviews four book-length studies of art and design research: Carter (2004); Gray and Malins (2004); Hannula, Suoranta and Vadén (2005); and Sullivan (2005). Present in all four books, he finds, is the thesis that art is uniquely placed to generate research on account of the fact that it combines different subjects and methods. However, while all four books set out ideas relevant to this view, none provides a fully worked-out theory. To fill the gap, Cazeaux turns to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and to recent examples of fine art research at Cardiff, to show how intersecting perspectives at work in art can create occasions for reality to surprise us and for new knowledge claims to be made.

The abstract and journal details are available here.

Andre Stitt & Fritz Welch at The Lab Gallery, New York

7 - 24th April 2009
The Lab Gallery, Roger Smith Hotel, Lexington at 47th Street New York

SHIFTwork is the first collaboration by performance artist André Stitt and New York based sonic and visual artist Fritz Welch.

From the 9th - 16th April, an extended working week, the artists will collaborate on a series of ‘live' in-situ paintings. This activity takes the form of a series of work ‘shifts' that reflect labour patterns and ‘shiftwork' activity in New York City.

The work will be available to view through the windows of The Lab at Lexington Avenue and 47th St. The Lab will become a public studio for the exploration of the artist as common worker and an artistic activity that exposes the performance of painting as labour and cultural practice.

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