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Published on 13.11.2025
Dialogue Table Method
An Active Art Approach: action research, field work practice, social engaged art, artist as educator
by Maria Drăghici
The Dialogue Table emerged from the need to invent working tools and methods for socially engaged art (SEA) in contexts where no inherited models or institutional frameworks were available. This method structures dialogue on two levels: the spectacular (a fictional framework from the ‘world-as-spectacle’ tradition) and the performative (direct involvement, where meaning is collectively re-created), thus operating as both assemblage-installation and participatory tool.
DOI: 10.1108/AX-11-2025-0142
Published on 27.11.2025
T-NET
by Alexandra Sofonea, Alexandru I. Berceanu
T-NET’s approach is built on elements from Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), Playback Theatre, and Improvisation, along with influences from Psychodrama, Dramatherapy and Forum Theatre. It is a hybrid method for emotional development and bullying prevention among high-school students.
Published on 27.11.2025
Mindful Photography & Cinema
Spital Prof. Dr. Angelescu București
by Mirona Radu
Mindful Photography & Cinema is a cultural intervention project that integrates photography and film into the recovery and healing process of patients in a hospital in Bucharest. For four months, 28 patients benefit from photography...
Published on 27.11.2025
T-NET
by Alexandra Sofonea, Alexandru I. Berceanu
T-NET’s approach is built on elements from Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), Playback Theatre, and Improvisation, along with influences from Psychodrama, Dramatherapy and Forum Theatre. It is a hybrid method for emotional development and bullying prevention among high-school students.
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Iterative Design
A cyclical process of prototyping, testing, and refining creative or research outcomes.
In artistic research, this concept emphasizes responsiveness and evolution rather than fixed results.
Relevant for 5 repository entries
Situated Knowledge
Acknowledges that all knowledge is produced from specific social, cultural, and material positions.
Common in feminist and posthumanist methodologies, it challenges claims to universal objectivity.
Relevant for 2 repository entries
Expanded Cinema
An approach to film and media that extends beyond the traditional screen or projection space.
Includes installations, live cinema, VR, or other hybrid audiovisual practices that explore spatial and performative dimensions of viewing.
Relevant for 1 repository entry
Intermediality
The interaction and overlap between different artistic media within a single work or process.
Used to describe hybrid practices—such as theatre using film projections or installations incorporating sound and text—that blur disciplinary boundaries.
Relevant for 12 repository entries
Phenomenology of Perception
A framework for understanding experience as it is lived through the body and senses, rather than abstract cognition.
Rooted in mid–20th-century philosophy, it remains a key influence in performance studies and scenographic research.
Relevant for 5 repository entries
Posthumanism
A philosophical and artistic perspective that questions the centrality of the human subject.
Posthumanist approaches explore the relationships between humans, technology, and the environment, proposing distributed forms of agency and authorship.
Relevant for 5 repository entries
Algorithmic Agency
The capacity of computational systems to influence, generate, or co-author creative outcomes.
In artistic contexts, this term addresses how algorithms shape aesthetics, decision-making, and authorship.
Unlinked to a specific entry
Embodied Mapping
A research and performance method where bodily movement is used to trace, translate, or interpret spatial or emotional landscapes.
Combines movement-based inquiry with cartographic or narrative frameworks to reveal situated knowledge.
Relevant for 1 repository entry
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