Art Research is a critical seminar and creative workshop dedicated to investigating the relationship between research methods and artistic practice. We will study the work of visual and performing artists that engage in what are traditionally thought of as academic research modalities in order to collectively explore far-ranging questions about the political nature of both knowledge and art. How do artists acquire knowledge in order to critique inherited relationships between knowledge and power? How do artists research so as to think unthinkable thoughts? The class is organized around three units that are themselves organized around three different research methodologies: archives, interviews, and experiments. Each unit asks students to engage in both critical inquiry and creative projects in relation to specific research sites at The New School and within New York City more broadly.