Society for Artistic Research
Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2025, Call for Submissions

The Executive Board of SAR announces the opportunity to nominate candidates for the Annual SAR Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2025. The prize aims to foster and encourage innovative, experimental new formats of publication and to give visibility to the qualities of artistic research artefacts. The Executive Board will appoint a jury to assess the submissions. The jury consists of one member of the SAR Executive Board, one representative from the Portal Partners and one former RC prize winner. 

Deadline: 31.01.2026
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Society for Artistic Research & University of Galway
Call for contributions – 2026 International Forum on Artistic Research | 17th SAR Conference
Endangered conceptual worlds

This year’s International Forum on Artistic Research explores how artistic research engages with endangered conceptual worlds and minoritised languages. It considers precarious forms of knowledge as epistemic resources and practical potentials; cultural sedimentations shared between generations and across contexts that provide unique ways of making and being in the world.

The 2026 International Forum on Artistic Research will explore and discuss artistic research in all its diverse forms as well as its untapped potentials within the dense social, cultural, and political contexts in which it operates. It provides an extraordinary opportunity to rethink the relationship between cultural heritage and creativity, while thoroughly investigating the impact of colonial and extractivist legacies on contemporary artistic practice.

Zeit und Ort: 23–26 June 2026, University of Galway, Ireland
Deadline for submissions: 01.03.2026
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Call for Papers: Philosophical Hermeneutics and Musical Interpretation

Interpreting music, whether historical or contemporary, is an eventful, existential act that invites multiple, often conflicting, meanings. Hermeneutics can be understood as a way of living with a listening attitude. It is poised to play a major role in music education institutions in the near future.
This dialogical openness, while enriching, also raises critical questions:
   • How do we navigate the tension between interpretative, creative freedom (often called ‘intuition’) and the risk of relativism?
   • What methodological tools can balance the performer’s imaginative flexibility with rigour to ensure meaningful and responsible musical interpretation?
   • How can music semiotics contribute to a renewed music hermeneutics, despite their radically different origins?

Deadline: 22.03.2026
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The European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM) 2026

EPARM is an initiative of the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), acting as a resource for artistic research in the specific context of Higher Music Education: sharing knowledge, insights and outputs; promoting and developing the discourse around artistic research; incubating new ideas and developments; and offering support and inspiration to AEC members.

Datum und Ort: April 9–11, 2026, Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (Norway)
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