Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity Out of the ‘Brackish Waters’ of Artistic Research

Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond

What is the artist-researcher doing, looking out the window of their studio? As artist-researchers, often working with a camera, we take its frame and montage technique as our starting point. What is visually reflected? How do we reflect on the convergence of sensory input, artistic processing and research work? This chapter attempts to look at what reflections become perceptible on the brackish waters of artistic research. How could we consider the circular relation of agency, perception and epistemic processing from and within this discipline? Exemplified by our own artistic research on states of dizziness, as a state of uncertainty, unpredictability and confusion, we look for the spaces that open up in the liminal boundaries between reflexivity and experience. Separating and reconnecting experience and reflection in the vestibule of their confluence, the vestibular spaces of in-between allow for a rethinking of the given and wont.

Anderwald, R., & Grond, L. (2025). "17: Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity Out of the ‘Brackish Waters’ of Artistic Research".  In Revisiting Reflexivity. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.

https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529244892.ch017

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