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Earlier this year, coinciding with the start of the 56th Venice Biennial, the University of the Arts Helsinki organized a Research Pavilion: the first pavilion in the history of the biennale solely dedicated to artistic research. Through the theme of Experimentality, the pavilion explored the dynamic between artistic rese- arch and contemporary art.
One could see this initiative as the tentative highlight of the experimental turn the visual arts are facing the past ten years – but is experimenting really such a new phenomenon? Another issue is the intentional cha- racter of the act of …