This working paper revisits a ResearchGate question posed in 2018 regarding whether conceptual art can generate knowledge. Through a dialogue with conceptual art, Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, hermeneutics and the notion of knowledge by connaturality, the paper argues that contemporary art constitutes a form of anthropological epistemology. Drawing on artistic practice, including projects such as FOREVER, Inquiry H₂O and the Non-Exhibition, it proposes that artistic creation generates symbolic, embodied and relational forms of understanding through which human beings investigate themselves and their ways of inhabiting the world.
José Alfonso Cosme Rodríguez (Thu,) studied this question.