«Nobody knows what artistic research is» states Joseph Baan at the start of their article. Drawing on their experience as an artist and educator, Baan examines the conditions under which artistic research is practised in an academic setting and outlines a «radical pedagogy» necessary to bring the production of knowledge into genuine dialogue with the material conditions of its production.
The contribution is part of the blog post series produced in the run-up to the infoclio.ch 2026 conference, «New Humanities. The Humanities in the 21st Century». It showcases recent projects and reflexions in the fields of posthumanism, relational approaches and alliances between the arts and sciences.