In twenty conversations with leading artists and curators, Reclaiming Artistic Research explores the dynamic nature of artistic thinking, tracing how ideas and forms co-emerge through material, conceptual and embodied ways of working. Seeking to reclaim artistic research from academic definitions and institutionally focused debates, this book highlights its artistic significance. Foregrounding art’s engagement with diverse fields, it manifests how artists produce new paradigms and questions, rather than supplementing existing knowledge.

The book’s contributors include Samson Young, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Katayon Arian, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, SherDoruff, Em'kal Eyongakpa, Ryan Gander, Mario García Torres, Liam Gillick, Natasha Ginwala, Sky Hopinka, Manuela Infante, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Grada Kilomba, Sarat Maharaj, Emma Moore, Rabih Mroué, Christian Nyampeta, Yuri Pattison, Falke Pisano, Sarah Rifky and Katarina Zdjelar. The book is edited by Lucy Cotter and designed by Tomáš Celizna.

Lucy Cotter is an independent writer and curator. A regular contributor to journals such as Flash Art, Mousse, Frieze and Third Text, she is guest editor of Art&Education: Classroom in 2019. She was curator of the Dutch Pavilion 57thVenice Biennale 2017 with Cinema Olanda: Wendelien van Oldenborgh and is currently working towards an exhibition and performance series entitled The Unknown Artist, taking place at the Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland, USA in 2020.

Reclaiming Artistic Research (2019) is published by Hatje Cantz in conjunction with 17, Institute for Critical Studies, Mexico City with the support of the HKU, Utrecht and the LAPS Institute for Art and Public Space, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.

On the 29th of August 2019 the book was launched at Looiersgracht 60. More info here.