Academia and the arts are increasingly uniting to answer the profound questions and challenges of our times. Art, research, and art-research are, for example, used in the context of migration issues to bring to light questions and seek solutions. However, social scientific research and the arts have been approximated also in terms of increased precarity and economic scarcity, on local and global terrains. While traditional boundaries between research and art are being erased to produce artistic and scientific knowledge in synergy, there is also increasing pressure for these outcomes to align with global market pragmatic rationality.