ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the implications of the death of art for artistic research, and suggests that, in the absence of a definition of art, the concept of research itself might be the source of an aesthetic. The consequence for artistic research is the proposal of a method that takes seriously the idea that anything can be art, and obliges the artist-researcher to recognize that all the elements that might become their practice are concepts that are ripe for transformation. The 'end of art' thesis has a number of origins. It is most readily identified with the introduction of the ready-made, an object taken from everyday life and 'baptized' as art. To put it concisely and technically, and in a way will clarify terminology: the postconceptual and the transcategorial lead to an epistemology of interconceptuality. The chapter explores the possibility of a relationship between transcategoriality and the theory of knowledge.
