Programme

Each year, the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) hosts a Joint Session for its PhD candidates. The aim of this Joint Session is to let PhDs from doctoral programmes docARTES and PhDArts, and PhDs who are not pursuing their research through a doctoral programme, come together and explore topics and shared challenges inherent to the field of artistic research.

In replying to a question about the 'crisis of the present', literary scholar Timothy Morton raised the point that even if you don’t believe in such a crisis, you cannot escape the fact that what constitutes the present is being questioned. Building and expanding on last year’s focus on archival practices, this session aims to tackle the role that a reconsideration of temporal logics and historical continuities has in defining what the present is. In last year’s session, archives were addressed as reserve, potentiality, and even as apparatuses that engage our experience and perception of time.