On SAR 10's Productive Gaps, Enhanced Dissemination Formats & Inspiring Failures

Abstract

As with all things interesting and engrossing, time is the enemy. It stutters and stops, withholds, races, stretches— until a three-day conference feels like a monumental hill traversed on a single-speed bike, as well as a mere blip in time. The 2019 10th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, with its 252 attendees, 31 panels, and 3 keynote speakers, was held in Zurich, Switzerland, hosted by the Zurich University of the Arts, and aptly called “Productive Gaps, Enhanced Dissemination Formats, Inspiring Failures”.