Literature review of multi-modal and multi-linear theories and practices, collected for research in the Making Public research group 'standalone publications'.
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This article examines how artistic research practices challenge and reconfigure institutional approaches toresearch ethics. Focusing on the case of Performing Working —a doctoral project in the arts that was the first toundergo ethical review at the University of the Arts Utrecht —it investigates how forms of consent, researcherroles, and institutional responsibility are negotiated when research is processual, embodied, and collaborativelydeveloped.The article draws on a collaborative autoethnographic reflection involving the artist-researcher, a researchparticipant, and members of the ethics committee. Care ethics is used as a conceptual lens to analyse the ethicaldimensions of the case, foregrounding relationality, vulnerability, and attention to power. Rather than treatingethical approval as a one-off procedural hurdle, the analysis highlights ethics as an ongoing, situated practicethat unfolds through dialogue, friction, and mutual attunement.Artistic research is presented here as a ‘hard case’ that reveals structural frictions in existing review systems.At the same time, it offers alternative imaginaries and practices for dealing with complexity, uncertainty, and co-responsibility in research. While grounded in an artistic context, the article speaks to broader concerns inqualitative research methodology, particularly in fields that engage with lived experience, reflexivity, and sharedauthority. Ethics is reframed not merely as compliance, but as integral to how research is shaped, shared, andheld accountable across diverse domains.
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Welcome to the fourth special issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine, Urgent Publishing Debris. In May 2019, the Making Public: Urgent Publishing Conference took place. Among others, it asked the following questions:-"How to realize sustainable, high-quality alternatives within this domain of post-digital publishing?"-"How can designers, developers, artists, writers and publishers intervene in the public debate and counter misinformation in a meaningful and relevant way?"-"What are new publishing strategies for our current media landscape?"-"How to design for urgency without succumbing to an accelerated hype cycle?"The presentations, debates and conversations have all been officially documented in blogposts on the Institute of Network Cultures website, videos and pictures. But what about the notes, the pictures, the recordings and the tweets of the conference's visitors? What do they have to tell us about how each person experienced the conference? This special issue aims to provide new readings of the event by creating remixes of the official archival sources with the 'unofficial' debris circulating around it.In order to facilitate the navigation between articles, making connections visible where they might have only been implicit, the editors have decided to define eleven overarching topics (Social/Community, Activism, Post-truth, New forms, Authorship/Makers, Speed, Positioning, Locality, Relationality, Authoritarianism, Parasite). Each of the topics was attributed a colour and the source material is highlighted accordingly.Furthermore, each remix has a dispersed editors' note, wherein each editor reflects in more detail on the program, how it connects to the conference's topic and how it might answer any of the aforementioned questions.
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