Henk Borgdorff

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Henk Borgdorff
Born
Hendrik Anne Borgdorff

(1954-08-18) 18 August 1954 (age 70)
The Hague
Known for artistic research & music theory

Henk Borgdorff (1954) is an Amsterdam-based academic, specialised in music theory and artistic research. He is emeritus professor for research in the arts at Leiden University and at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, University of the Arts The Hague (Netherlands).

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Education

Henk Borgdorff was born in The Hague (Netherlands). He studied music theory at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (1977-1983) and philosophy and sociology at Leiden University (1978-1982). He graduated in The Hague in 1983 with a thesis on the philosophy of music of Theodor W. Adorno and obtained his PhD at Leiden University in 2012.

Academic career

From 1983 to 2002 he taught music theory and aesthetics in Hilversum (1983-1994), The Hague (1990-1994) and Amsterdam (1994-2002), with a focus on Renaissance counterpoint and philosophy of music. Together with his wife, Barbara Bleij, he founded in 1996 the Dutch Journal of Music Theory (later: Music Theory and Analysis (MTA) - International Journal of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory), [1] [2] and acted as chair of the editorial board until 2008.

In 2002 Borgdorff was appointed professor ('lector') in Art Theory & Research at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (until 2010) where he led a research unit focussing on interdisciplinary research projects. His own research started form there on to focus on the theoretical and political rationale of research in the arts (artistic research; more on this below.) Together with Jeroen Boomgaard (Rietveld Academy) he founded the Artistic Research master programme at the University of Amsterdam, and together with Peter Dejans (Orpheus Institute, Ghent) and Frans de Ruiter (Royal Conservatory of The Hague) he established the doctoral programme in music, docARTES. [3]

In 2010 Borgdorff took a position as professor ('lector') Research in the Arts at the University of the Arts The Hague (until 2020) and a position as visiting professor in Aesthetics at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (until 2013). In 2016 he was appointed full professor in Theory of Research in the Arts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts] (ACPA), [4] Leiden University, and acted as academic director of ACPA until his retirement in December 2020.

Borgdorff was involved in the establishment of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) [5] and the associated Society for Artistic Research (SAR). He served as editor of JAR from 2010 to 2015, co-founded the Research Catalogue [6] in 2011, acted as president of SAR from 2015 to 2019.

Academic work

Borgdorff is best known for his contributions to the field of artistic research - a field also referred to as practice-based or practice-led research in the creative and performing arts (notably in the UK), [7] or research-creation/recherche-création (in Canada and France). [8] Some of Borgdorff’s work is collected in The Conflict of the Faculties. Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia. [9] [10] [11]

In his 2005 The Debate on Research in the Arts [12] Borgdorff introduces four perspectives on the relationship between theory and practice in the arts: the interpretative, instrumental, performative and immanent perspective. [13] These perspectives form the basis for a distinction between three forms of art research: research on the arts, research for the arts, and research in and through the arts (the latter synonymously with artistic research), thereby deviating from an earlier distinction made by Christopher Frayling. [14] [15]

In ‘The Production of Knowledge in Artistic Research’ (2011) [16] Borgdorff has worked out more in detail the specific epistemological and methodological features of artistic research, drawing on research on tacit knowledge and embodied knowledge. [17] [18] [19] By comparing artistic research with research in the humanities, the social and natural sciences Borgdorff subsequently develops an understanding of artistic research as an advanced form of academic research in its own right, marked by non-conceptual forms of knowing and understanding, [20] unconventional research methods and outcomes, [21] and enhanced forms of documentation and publication. [22]

The contribution of Borgdorff’s work to science policies [23] is most manifest in his Artistic Research within the Fields of Science (2009). Interpreting Gibbons’ Mode-2 knowledge production [24] and Stokes’ Quadrant model of scientific research, [25] he makes a case for including artistic research in the Frascati Manual's [26] classifications of research, science and technology; an appeal later taken up by the publication of the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research. [27]

In his later work Borgdorff has focused on the criteria for assessment of artistic research, [28] and on the relationship between artistic research and science and technology studies (STS). [29]

Criticism

Borgdorff’s work has been criticized by some as inimical to art practice and to facilitate an objectionable form of academization of art. [30]

Books authored or edited

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  1. ↑ MTA: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/leuven/mta
  2. ↑ Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory: https://www.dfsmt.net/index.html
  3. ↑ docARTES: http://www.docartes.be/en.
  4. ↑ ACPA: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/henk-borgdorff#tab-1
  5. ↑ JAR: https://www.jar-online.net
  6. ↑ Research Catalogue
  7. ↑ Candy, L. and E.A. Edmonds. (2018). Practice-Based Research in the Creative Arts: Foundations and Futures from the Front Line, Leonardo, Volume 51, Issue 1, February, pp 63-69.
  8. ↑ Bruneau, M. & A. Villnuve. (2007). Traiter de recherche creation en art: entre la quête d’un territoire et la singularité des parcourse Presses de l’Université du Québec.
  9. ↑ Leiden: Leiden University Press 2012.
  10. ↑ Macleod, K. (2013). "The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia, Henk Borgdorff (2012)". International Journal of Education Through Art (Book review). 9 (1): 143–144. doi:10.1386/eta.9.1.139_5.
  11. ↑ Solleveld, F. (2012). 'A Paradigm for What? Review of: Henk Borgdorff The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia'. Leiden: Leiden University Press, xvii, 277 pp. Krisis. Journal of Contemporary Philosophy 2012, Issue 2 https://archive.krisis.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/krisis-2012-2-12-solleveld.pdf
  12. ↑ (Sensuous Knowledge 02), Bergen, Bergen National Academy of the Arts (2006)
  13. ↑ Cf. Neil, K. (2017) 'Artistic Intensity: Redescribing Redundant Dualism'. Theory Art Practices. ArtEZ Academia, 14 (NUR651). ArtEZ Press, Amsterdam, pp. 102-123. ISBN   9789491444395
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  15. ↑ Mustaqim, K., R. Adiwijaya and F. Indrajaya. (2014) Research on the Study of Art and Design: A Study on the Paradigmatic Philosophical Framework towards the Field of Visual Arts and Design Research. Conference Proceeding: 1st International Conference on Creative Media, Design & Technology. REKA 2014
  16. ↑ Borgdorff, H. (2011). The Production of Knowledge in Artistic Research. Biggs M. and H. Karlsson. Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 44-63.
  17. ↑ Polanyi, M. (1958). Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
  18. ↑ Kiverstein, J. and A. Clark. (2009). ‘Introduction: Mind Embodied, Embedded, Enacted: One Church or Many?’, Topoi, 28: 1-7.
  19. ↑ Johnson, M. (2011) 'Embodied Knowing through Art'. Biggs M. and H. Karlsson. Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. London/New York: Routledge.
  20. ↑ Gunther, Y.H. (2003). Essays on Nonconceptual Content. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
  21. ↑ The Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts. (n.d.) 'Non-Traditional Research Outcomes': https://nitro.edu.au.
  22. ↑ Schwab, M. and H. Borgdorff. (2014) The Exposition of Artistic Research. Publishing Art in academia. Leiden: Leiden University Press
  23. ↑ Cf. Kälvemark, T. (2011). 'University Politics and Practice-based Research'. Biggs M. and H. Karlsson. Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. London/New York: Routledge.
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  25. ↑ Stokes, D.E. (1997). Pasteur’s Quadrant – Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  26. ↑ OECD. (2015) The Measurement of Scientific, Technological and Innovation Activities. Frascati Manual 2015.
  27. ↑ ELIA. (2020). The Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research. https://cdn.ymaws.com/elia-artschools.org/resource/resmgr/files/vienna-declaration-on-ar24-j.pdf
  28. ↑ Borgdorff H. and J. Haarberg (2013). 'Research Assessment and Qualification Frameworks'. SHARE Handbook for Artistic Research Education, edited by Wilson. M. and S. van Ruiten, ELIA, 230-38. Cf. Chapter 10 and 11 in Borgdorff 2012.
  29. ↑ Borgdorff, H., P. Peters and T. Pinch. (2020). Dialogues between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies. London/New York: Routledge. Cf. Nowotny, H. (2011) 'Foreword'. Biggs M. and H. Karlsson, Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. London/New York: Routledge. pp. xviii-xxvi
  30. ↑ Pültau, D. (2012) 'Alle macht aan de universiteiten. Over The Conflict of Faculties. Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia van Henk Borgdorff'. Witte Raaf. Editie 159 September-oktober 2012.
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