Abstract

For JAR's contribution to the conference in Trondheim, a number of JAR editors prepared a set of interventions followed by a panel discussion, a recording of which can be found at the bottom of this page. This is introduction to my intervention: "Urgency, as the necessity felt to act soon to trigger or stop an event, vary depending on the importance given to the event, and the promptness of the action can also be relative, as well as the solutions envisaged to meet them. On another side, as new urgencies appear, they entwine with all kinds of emergencies that need immediate solutions, as well as with historical problems that are somehow obscured by the former. The list has no end: global warming, bird flu pandemic, wars, colonialism, imperialism, patriarchism, classism, racism, ethnocentrism, fundamentalism, capitalism, and the international rise of fascism, among many others. Artistic research helps to explore and address those urgencies, emergencies and dragging problems as they relay and overlay, but in parallel it also faces its own disturbances, some of which concerns our editorial work".