Practice as research实践作为研究

Artistic practice operates as a mode of research. Within it, artworks are both artistic forms and situations through which knowledge can emerge. Making, lending, handling, placement, duration and return allow the research to develop through material, bodily and relational encounters.艺术实践本身是一种研究方式。作品在其中既是艺术形式,也是知识得以生成的情境。制作、借出、触碰、放置、持续与归还,使研究通过材料、身体与关系中的相遇逐渐发展。

The method方法

01

Leave离开

A small artwork leaves the artist's possession.一件小型作品离开艺术家的持有。

02

Stay停留

It remains in a participant's everyday environment for approximately one week.它在参与者的日常环境中停留约一周。

03

Return返回

It returns through conversation, photographs, recollection, writing and gaps.它通过谈话、照片、回忆、书写和空缺返回。

During the loan借用期间

The loan creates a limited condition while leaving the form of the encounter open. Placement, touch, attention, protection, forgetting, care, temporary responsibility and return develop within the participant's own routine.借用建立一个有限条件,同时让相遇的形式保持开放。放置、触碰、注意、保护、遗忘、照料、暂时责任与归还,都在参与者自己的日常节奏中展开。

Participants参与者

The participants are young adults who relocated from the Global South to the Global North through study, work or other voluntary routes of mobility. The term migrant is used descriptively to locate this shared condition of relocation.参与者是通过学习、工作或其他自愿流动路径,从全球南方迁移至全球北方的年轻人。“迁移者”在此作为描述性用语,用于说明他们共同的迁移处境。

Key terms关键词

Relations that move through the loan在借用中移动的关系

Cultural agreement文化约定+

Implicit rules, habits, assumptions and everyday understandings that shape how people enter shared situations. The loan approaches these through permission, care, responsibility, attachment and return.塑造人们如何进入共同情境的一组隐含规则、习惯、预设与日常理解。借用通过许可、照料、责任、依附与归还接近这些关系。

Oscillation摆动+

Recurrent movement between attention and background, closeness and distance, possession and temporary holding, presence and absence.在注意与背景、亲近与距离、拥有与暂时持有、在场与缺席之间反复移动。

Encounter相遇+

A material and temporal relation that begins when the borrowed object enters another environment and continues through duration, return, conversation, documentation and writing.一种物质与时间性的关系:从借出物进入另一环境开始,并在停留、归还、谈话、记录与写作中继续。

Unreliable witnessing不可靠的见证+

Knowledge forms through situated and partial returns. Artist, participant, object, photograph, letter and memory each provide access from a limited position.知识通过处境化且局部的返回形成。艺术家、参与者、物件、照片、书信与记忆都从有限的位置提供接近相遇的途径。

What returns返回之物

What returns may include the object, a follow-up conversation, selected photographs, participant letters, researcher recollection and missing documentation. Together, these materials approach the encounter without recovering it as a complete event.返回的材料可能包括物件、后续谈话、参与者选择的照片、书信、研究者回忆以及缺失的记录。这些材料共同接近相遇,却无法把它恢复为一个完整事件。

Research contribution研究贡献

The research develops the haptic loan as a practice-based Fine Art method. It positions the artwork as an active part of the research process and extends encounter across exhibition, domestic space, temporary holding and return. Material, bodily and relational knowledge develops alongside partial knowledge and unreliable witnessing.本研究将触觉借用发展为一种实践型纯艺术方法,并使作品成为研究过程中的主动组成部分。作品的相遇被延展至展览、居住空间、暂时持有与归还之间,材料、身体与关系中的知识也与局部知识及不可靠的见证一同形成。

Selected presentations精选报告

2026Performance Studies international Conference 31 (PSi 31)国际表演研究大会第31届(PSi 31)Jakarta, Indonesia印度尼西亚雅加达
2026EAM10 Biennial Conference: Avant-Garde and MigrationEAM10双年会议:先锋艺术与迁移Stockholm University, Sweden瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学