Since 2005, the violist Wei-Ya Lin (who has since also become an ethnomusicologist) and Johannes Kretz (a composer specialised in electronic sound production) have been paying regular visits to the Tao community.

A brief report on a three-month stay in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu sponsored by a grant from the Residency Programme for Artistic Research and Arts-based-Philosophy of baseCollective.

Back in 2018, the mdw began offering internal financial support for pilot projects in the field of artistic research.

Art and research may not be things that one would directly associate with each other at first blush.