About art as a knowledge discipline
Following a research trajectory about art practices connected to social contexts, some questions became the subject of discussion at various moments with different people. This conversation with art historian and author Sven Lütticken is one of those sustained in the last months around the topic of knowledge in art, about art practices and its contexts, and about the artists' engagement with the format of temporary schools.
The intention of publishing it as a podcast is to acknowledge the immediacy of a fluid dialogue that makes ideas intersect and reach out to more elaborate arguments. Hopefully, the questions and responses captured here animate reflections between artists when they talk about what their work is or does.
Sven Lütticken is also a senior lecturer at Leiden University’s Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, where he supervises PhD projects in the PhDArts programme, and he leads the research master's track Critical Studies in Art and Culture at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
He regularly publishes in journals, magazines, and catalogues and has organized exhibitions, screenings, performances, and lecture programmes. Sven is the editor of the reader Art and Autonomy (Afterall, 2022) and the author of Objections: Forms of Abstraction, Vol. 1 (Sternberg Press, 2022). https://svenlutticken.org
Cecilia Vallejos is a researcher, artist, and dramaturge with a long-standing interest in collaborative processes and stories. Her recent research connects theory and praxis with the transfer of knowledge in art education. https://sevalejos.com/
This talk was published in 2025.
