About the Journal
Scope
LANDING is an international platform that facilitates critical and creative artistic inquiry, with a special focus on research methods and an ethos of research. LANDING was established in 2024 by Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy, Sophie Durand, and Povilas Marozas, with the tireless support of Ieva Butkutė and Adomas Žudys.
Objectives
LANDING is focused on how practice-based research is done on the ground, in the studio, in the world, with and through materials and other forms of life. Rather than existing in the space of theory and speculation, LANDING is focused on the doing of research and its explicit or tacit methods. It wants to operate as a space of conversation and resource for fellow practitioners. LANDING wants to imbue encouragement and excitement about the trajectory of research done by artists, designers, architects; one’s own as well as the research of others.
While English is the working language of the journal, we acknowledge that it is not the only language in the field and definitely not the master language of artistic research. LANDING is designed to be multilingual - we accept submissions in all languages and will endeavor to support researchers with translations into English and Lithuanian.
Values
The journal is currently operated by a team of volunteers and two artistic research staff. The values that the editorial team aspires to are listed below:
- Turning towards, with an emphasis on care and generosity
- Accountability as care for relations on all levels: ourselves, peers, Doctoral Department of the host institution, forms of life involved.
- Collectivity. We value trust in our interactions, and we rely on actively developing roles.
- We are open to critical feedback in line with the values above in order to offer a quality process and product for artistic researchers in Lithuania and elsewhere
The infrastructure of the journal aims to support the needs of the doctoral candidates and post-doctoral researchers, locally and internationally. The journal remains flexible and adaptable to the changing community and their unique needs. This creates a delicate balance between support for the community of candidates locally and ensuring that there are ethical processes of peer review in place. Currently candidates from VDA move directly to the Peer Review rounds. Moderation prior to that is done through members of the editorial board for each given issue. All peer reviewers are handled externally. The final decision to proceed with publishing is at the discretion of the external reviewers. This may undergo refinements as the identity and form of LANDING develops.
