Research (in) Creation

Art connects, engages and operates in a different time, space, terrain and sphere beyond the established system of knowledge. This discursive nature of art necessitates its own fusion of mixed disciplinary. In my talk, I will introduce my artistic research projects on the themes of the mobile digital network, measurement and ecology, based on the methodology of the curatorial. Curatorial practice embraces a capacity to process the world and process back words (backwards). The methodology enables us to fundamentally question the classical conceptualisation of ideas, the order of thinking and the ways of contextualising the world. Following this line of thought, I will make a proposition that at its best the curatorial is understood as “research (in) creation” – an artistic medium and a method of (re)searching, framing, creating and generating forms and discursive knowledge to make and shape our relation to the world. 

Who is Miya Yoshida?

I am a curator, lecturer and cultural practitioner living and working in Berlin. I am originally from Kyoto, Japan. Growing up in the place with rather conservative culture and also from my early age being introduced to ideologies of communism made me interested in contradictions and ambiguity from a feminist perspective. Art liberated me from the restrictive thinking. This continues until today. I still try to promote open ended questions and create imaginative spaces through art. 

I received my doctorate at Malmö Art Academy, Lund University in Sweden on the theme of new subjectivities in the era of the mobile telephone and later worked as a postdoc researcher at Leupehana University in Germany.