Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition
Each year, SAR awards the prize for excellent Research Catalogue exposition. The winner is announced at the yearly SAR conference with an award of €500. Anyone is invited to submit, but the exposition must have been published on the RC platform and be in English.
About the prize
The Annual Prize aims to foster and encourage innovative, experimental new formats of publication and to give visibility to the qualities of artistic research artefacts.
Each year a new jury — consisting of a member of the SAR Executive Board, representatives from a Portal Partner, and a former prize winner — is appointed. Following an in-depth review, a shortlist is made public.
Past winners
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2024
2024 — Fragmente2
Kerstin Frödin and Åsa Unander-Scharin
Awarded for its integrity and expositionality, presenting a cleanly crafted exposition exploring the relationship between music and dance in artistic research.
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2023
2023 — On the Indeterminate Training Technologies of a Reconstructed Bauhaus Choreographer
Thomas Pearce
Multi-layered and complex exposition re-enacting performance-based events that reconstructs the life of a fictional Bauhaus choreographer.
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2022
2022 — In circles leading on
Andreas Berchtold
Highly appreciated for quality and compactness, with original graphic design and unconventional layout.
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2021
2021 — Minuting. Rethinking the Ordinary Through the Ritual of Transversal Listening
Jacek Smolicki
Impressed the jury with an intimate and coherent dialogue between images, text, hypertext and sound.
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2020
2020 — Untitled
Christoph Solstreif-Pirker
Beautifully minimalistic use of the Research Catalogue supporting the author's experiences.
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2019
2019 — Choreo-graphic Figures: Scoring Aesthetic Encounters
Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil
A non-linear rhizomatic encounter staging dialogue between choreography, drawing, sound and writing.
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2018
2018 — Between Agony and Ecstasy: Investigations into the Meaning of Pain
Barbara Macek
Systematic development through various layers exploring the meaning of pain with innovative visual territory.
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2017
2017 — Trigger Place – A Game of Sound and Architecture
Diogo Alves and Matilde Meireles
A convincing and playful exposition addressing building context and past musical performance.
Shortlist & finalists
2024
Finalist Danica Maier, Sarah Bennett, Andrew Bracey
Finalist for the 2024 SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition.
Finalist Leanna Moran
Finalist for the 2024 SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition.
2023
2nd place Emma Cocker et al.
2nd place at the 2023 SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition. The exposition explores relationships between place, language, performative reading, and collective agencies, using excellent navigation in clear design.
3rd place Søren Kjærgaard & Torben Snekkestad
3rd place at the 2023 SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition. "Traversing Sonic Territories (TST)" challenges the idea of sonic identity through practice-sharing of audio material and improvisation processes.
2022
2nd place Sheung Yiu
2nd place at the 2022 SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition.
3rd place Tobias Leibetseder, Thomas Grill, Almut Schilling, Till Bovermann
3rd place at the 2022 SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition.
2021
2nd place Alexandra Crouwers
2nd place at the 2021 SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition.
3rd place Timo Menke
3rd place at the 2021 SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition.
2020
Shortlist Christoph Solstreif-Pirker
Shortlisted at the 2020 SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition.
Shortlist Ernie Roby-Tomic
Shortlisted at the 2020 SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition.