Art and Artistic Research

"Art and Artistic Research are not identical. They share the same means but not the same goals. - The validity of artistic research does not depend on the production os successful art objects. It might produce successful art objects, but then again, it might not. - the art market is no recipient for artistic research. - Art is centred on the desirable object, even if the object has vanished into concepts, performance, or distributions. - In the past, artistic research had to disguise itself as art, because there was no offer register in society. - Art is a weak solution to the question of research. - A negative outcome is acceptable. - If there is a failure, it lies in the wrong commitment to the process of research. - An artistic researcher has to trust his process more than his result. - A truly procedural art does not exist. - Artistic research should not be judged by artists and their like. - Artistic research offers the solution to the problem that is Art. - Artistic research is all that art is minus art's dependency on production. - Artworks and exhibitions have to be judged by their contribution to research and not to by their ability to please or be sold. - The artist is of no use, value, or interest."
Michael Schwab, RCA Summer Show 2007.