Abstract:
IF the artist is a researcher, how can the artist benefit from psychoanalysis when engaging in an art practice? This question, asked in the conversation between psychoanalysts Stijn Vanheule and Dany Nobus as part of the AHRC collaborative doctoral training programme entitled Rigorous Holes: Perspectives in Psychoanalytic Theory in Art and Performance Research, contains within it another question of whether the artist is a researcher? The first question asks to be addressed alongside the main focus of the enquiry as to how psychoanalysis can contribute to an artist’s practice and research.
