Research-Based Art Making to Transgress: FeministDeviations

Autori

  • Elpida Karaba University of Thessaly
  • Valia Papastamou University of Thessaly

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17561/rtc.extra.12.10133

Parole chiave:

Research-Based Art, Undutifulness, Feminist Techno Aesthetic Practices, Pedagogy

Abstract

This article proposes research-based art as a paradigm of art
making grounded in undutifulness, through feminist theory, and
expanded critical pedagogies; an approach that resists the
institutional, epistemic, and market-driven frameworks that
increasingly shape contemporary artistic production. The
diverse methodologies developed within the Centre of New Media
and Feminist Public Practices, such as peer-to-peer workshops,
collective reading groups, feminist guided tours,
collaborative mapping, and speculative archival and digital
practices constitute both aesthetic materials and critical
agents. The article proposes art making not as mere
institutional critique but as instituent practice, as sites of
(ant)agonism towards institutional capture, capitalist
accelerations, and hierarchical knowledge production. It
further argues that the examined methodologies claim opacity,
and conflict as central to contemporary artistic practice.
Hence, care, agonism, and shared literacy form an intertwined
continuum.

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Biografia autore

  • Valia Papastamou, University of Thessaly

    Valia Papastamou is a researcher, artist, and architect, currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Thessaly’s School of Humanities & Social Sciences. Her dissertation, titled “Artistic-research performative practices in the contemporary transnational condition: Feminist transformative politics of knowledge,” examines the performative relation between research and art. The research is conducted in the operating framework of the University of Thessaly Innovation, Technology Transfer Unit and Entrepreneurship Center "One Planet Thessaly", under the “Scholarship Grants to University of Thessaly Doctoral Candidates” and was funded by the Special Account of Research Grants of the University of Thessaly. With an interdisciplinary background in architectural studies, cultural administration, and fine arts, Valia researches art theory, political philosophy, gender studies, postcolonial theory, and contemporary critical theory. Her artistic-research practice explores embodied language through written/vocal utterances and sculptural forms. She is a core team researcher in the Centre of New Media & Feminist Public Practices at the University of Thessaly, Greece.

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2026-10-01

Fascicolo

N. extra12: Monográfico extraordinario XII. Entre pliegues: pensar y hacer investigación artística y basada en las artes

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Karaba, E. and Papastamou, V. (2026) “Research-Based Art Making to Transgress: FeministDeviations”, Tercio Creciente, (extra12), pp. 63–81. doi:10.17561/rtc.extra.12.10133.