ArteActa 2022, 8:21-47 | DOI: 10.62804/aa.2022.012
This paper offers an insight into the lived practice of artistic research at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA), Brno University of Technology. Building on my own experience as a PhD student as well as on an archive of first-year doctoral student questionnaires about their motivations for studying an artistic doctorate-their expectations, their perceptions of the demands, and their intended strategies for meeting those demands-I explore the formative influence of the artistic doctorate on the students' practice. The archive of questionnaires has been developed as part of the course Research Through Artistic Practice, which I am involved in teaching. In this paper, I assess the rich body of responses that has accumulated over the five years of the course's existence as support for my argument that the institutional conditions of the fine arts doctorate at the FFA and the way it shapes the students' understanding of artistic research serve as a motivation to develop practices with a potential to be sustainable and enriching not only for themselves, but also for the cultural and academic environments in which their practices operate.
Published: December 15, 2022 Show citation
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