The Research Catalogue constitutes a vital infrastructure of artistic research, transforming the digital platform from a passive repository into an active environment for experimentation, publication, assessment, and scholarly exchange. Provided by the Society for Artistic Research, it operates as a non-commercial space in which artists, researchers, students, institutions, and journals can articulate practice as knowledge without subordinating it to conventional academic formats. Its intellectual force lies in the concept of the exposition: a multimodal form capable of hosting text, image, sound, video, documentation, process, and reflection as interdependent epistemic materials. Rather than treating art as an object to be explained from outside, the platform enables research to unfold through artistic procedures themselves. The recent project The Mesa Camilla as an Anarchive offers a precise case study. By reimagining the Andalusian domestic table as a feminist, oral, embodied, and sonic site of memory, it demonstrates how the Research Catalogue accommodates forms of knowledge that exceed institutional archival order. Similarly, projects on unrealised artworks, multispecies urban encounters, and bankrupt city performance reveal a platform attentive to contingency, ecology, loss, and situated practice. The Catalogue’s significance therefore resides not only in access, but in its redefinition of what counts as research. By supporting teaching, peer review, institutional portals, and funding administration while preserving openness to aesthetic risk, it establishes a knowledge commons where artistic practice becomes method, archive, argument, and public discourse. Research Catalogue (2026) Home. Available at: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/(Accessed: 29 April 2026).
