Research for the sake of it.Artists are innovators, if a new piece of technology or a new medium, becomes available; artists want to try it, to experiment with it. Some artists take on the role of a scientist and some scientists equally take on the role of artist. By stepping outside the tyranny of the hypothesis we can go off at tangents, to get bogged down in aesthetics and be mavericks, in fact there is very little you can do to control us. As Einstein said "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
To get involved with the work, be kept informed about events or for permission to use images please contact me.To hire us to perform our experiments at your event, undertake various forms of unnecessary research or kind of freak you out please get in touch.See more details here www.unnecessaryresearch.orgThe Institute of Unnecessary Research was formed in 2005 and was a celebrated part of The Critical Incident Festival at Sussex University in May.Comments included:
• “ This could be a new paradigm!â€,
• “I couldn’t tell if they were joking or serious!†(Note: we were serious, which is quite funny in itself! – Anna Dumitriu)
• “The questioning of the epistemological nature of scientific research is integral to the workâ€
• “This is a half baked ideaâ€
• “The man with the crockery is on a personl journey of fruitlessness"
• “The strangest experience I’ve ever hadâ€
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