DESIRE RESIDE – Rethinking the conditions for artistic research, from practice to policy

Artistic research opens spaces for experimentation, produces knowledge, and questions consolidated languages and categories. But its possibility of existing depends on material, cultural and institutional conditions that are never neutral. In a cultural system increasingly oriented towards production, the measurement of results and the demonstration of its impact, what space remains for open, non-linear processes whose value cannot be established in advance? And who really has the possibility to go through them? On 1 and 2 December DESIRE RESIDE returns to BASE Milano for its second edition, bringing together artists, curators, researchers, organisations and cultural institutions in a dialogue that crosses different levels of artistic research: from the practices that produce it to the knowledge that helps define it, up to the structures, resources and policies that make its development possible.