Replace the word research with art and scientist  and researcher with artist.
“Art creates knowledge and builds on its own achievements. Â Any active artist must have access to other researchers’ results, no matter how dated these results may be.”
This makes me think of some conversations I have had with other choreographers.
Some don’t go see work anymore because they don’t like anything they see. Â Some don’t see certain kinds of work because they think it is dated. Â I would say that ways of looking at work, engaging with it become dated faster than the works themselves. Â Not seeing work removes one from the wider discourse.