The concept of artistic research has raised many questions during the past decade accompanied by intense and heated debates. What form of research could the domain of visual art produce? Do the rhetorics of the concept of research include novel practices or does research rather exclude and/or marginalize certain practices? Could the dual pair of art versus not-art be substituted by the opposition research-based art versus non-research-based creating a novel mechanism of exclusion? Or does a research discourse and its vocabulary point to an already existing practice that could be accommodated in an academic architecture focused on knowledge production through a process of translation? And last but not least, what does the concept of artistic research mean for setting up a Graduate School for Fine Art?