Research Pavilion #3 - A place for multimodal essays?

Abstract

The Research Pavilion, hosted by the University of the Arts Helsinki, is organized for the third time in 2019 in the context of the Venice Biennale. Six research cells have been selected to be presented in the pavilion as well as in The Research Catalogue. The digital Research Catalogue provides a platform for presenting research through text,  sound, still and moving image. In the Voices of the very first RUUKKU in 2013 Teemu Mäki noted that the expositions still lack smell and haptics. A slight problem due to the yet undeveloped digital form stated Mäki. He proposed the expositions to take form as multimodal essays in the future. In the same issue Esa Kirkkopelto wrote that artistic research may be reported like scientific research but that unlike other fields of research, artistic research is particularly dependent on its form of presentation. Thus research expositions can be one form of the research process itself welcoming the recipients experience as a part of the studied phenomena. Could there be a way to develop the present form of the exposition to include multimodal essays?