How the research component in current and historical practices in the fine arts could be engaged performatively and considered theoretically is the central question driving this project. Artists with a research-based practice and theorists with various links to the production of cultural events, exhibitions and actual artworks join in order to scrutinize and develop the practice known as research, its politics, ethics and cultural presumptions. The analysis of the discourses and institutional dynamics which have entailed and continue to entail the current boom of arts-based research in the international world of art education is complemented by specific artistic projects of practice-based research and by research into the history of research in the arts. Another distinguishing feature of the project is its focus on the performance of research and the research dimensions (both implicit and explicit) of performance arts.