ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the concept 'artistic research' in terms of its philosophical counterpart, 'aesthetic epistemology', on the grounds that it is the dialogue between aesthetics and epistemology that has the conceptual resources to rethink the relationship between art and knowledge. An aesthetic epistemology that focuses on concepts, therefore, points us directly towards aesthetic experience and the way in which it opens on to wider concerns. The epistemic credentials of artistic research lie in its capacity to stretch and flex the tentacles that constitute the connections between concepts. The concept of knowledge that results is one that asserts that the nature and status of knowledge are always in question. This is not a denial of the possibility of knowledge but a philosophical stance that calls attention to the constructed nature of knowledge.
