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• CASAGRAFIAS (last edited: 2019) author(s): Raul Saldarriaga This exposition is in progress.
  “Casagrafias” (this is the name of my research)is an exploratory journey in search of a definition of “choreography” close to me. After going through many houses, workshops, sounds, smells, flavors, hugs, that my words can not name because they are ephemeral, invisible and fleeting ideas, I have reached the beautiful conclusion of a dynamic definition that moves and changes from house to house. From day to day and word of mouth. For example … I found the definition of the kitchen as “center” in my mother’s house, where everything revolves around this space. Although the kitchen is not architecturally the center of the house, it seems to be located in the center of the universe where elements of many worlds coexist and is a necessary step of movements, people, events and actions.
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  Close Reading/Live Writing (last edited: 2019) author(s): Emma Cocker This exposition is in progress.
  This 'exposition' is very much a work-in-progress/working process which I will be developing over the next year or so. Close Reading: an ongoing series of investigations by Emma Cocker which applies close visual attention to language, looking at the materiality of words ‘close up’ through processes of visual magnification, microscopic observation. Under scrutiny, text can be pressured into its component parts (of ink and page), the sense or legibility of a word rendered nonsensical the closer it is attended to, as writing slips towards image, as meaning dissipates into pleats and folds. Here, the more language becomes scrutinized the less it becomes known. Live Writing: A not-yet language for reflecting on the not-quite-seen or captured, for remaining faithful to the experience of something glimpsed. In the flick and skim of both writing and reading, words themselves are not always distinguishable as discrete signifying units but instead appear liquid, their sense indeterminate, meaning blurred.
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• Mellan påminnelse och förnimmelse (last edited: 2019) author(s): Elisabeth Belgrano This exposition is in progress.
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  Algorithmic Thinking and Musical Performance (2019) author(s): Mieko Kanno published in: Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research
  This presentation examines instances of elementary algorithmic thinking and musical examples that bear the same principles. A particular focus is given to the function of algorithmic thinking as a performative skill in action. The presentation takes as its background that the application of the procedural logic of algorithm has a long history in music, and that examples can be found in many types of music-making as activities. While much of this application is already discussed in the discipline of musical composition, I observe that the significant presence of algorithmic thinking in performance is still to be articulated. In the three sections titled ‘affordance’, ‘combinatoriality’, and ‘sequence’, I examine each concept in algorithmic operations, and how the same principle can be observed in musical practices. These three sections provide reflection on the nature of the processes involved in music-making. They also simultaneously argue that contemporary musicians possess the capacity to process necessary information and tasks algorithmically, consciously or not.
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  Quest for a Breathing Performance (2019) author(s): Anu Vehviläinen published in: Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research
  In this exposition, I study the concept of ‘experimentation’ in artistic research. I describe how the interdisciplinary collaboration of the Silence Ensemble influenced a violin-piano recital through both conscious and unintentional experimentation. The focus of the experimentation is on the ‘now-moment’. A detailed explanation of the technical practicing process before the concert is also offered to introduce the experimental approach. To define my individual experimentation, I refer to experimentation studies in artistic research and especially to Bart Vanhecke’s concepts of experimentation ‘in’ and ‘through’ art.
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  Practices of Performing at Senegalese Sabar Dance Events (2019) author(s): Elina Seye published in: Ruukku Studies in Artistic Research
  In my PhD thesis Performing a Tradition in Music and Dance (2014), I analyzed sabar dance events as ‘places’ for (re)constructing social relationships, identities, and tradition. In these celebrations, the participants in a sense perform themselves and their relationships to others present, embodying communal conceptions of their social roles and the related norms and values, but sometimes also challenging them. These performances of self can thus primarily be identified as cultural performatives, following Butler, but they still happen in the frame of the dance event, which allows also expressions deviating from the performatives of everyday situations. Here, I will consider how the modes of performance in sabar dance events can be characterized in addition to the obvious repetition and variation of traditional dance genres. Additionally, I will reflect on the value of practical involvement in performance as a methodological tool in ethnographic fieldwork.
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Joa Hug
Finland, Germany (residence)

Pilvi Porkola
Finland (residence)

Paul Deneer

Emily Huurdeman
Netherlands (residence)

Alex Nowitz
Sweden (residence), Germany (citizenship)

Francesco Collavino

Doris Ingrisch
Austria

Carlo Diaz
United Kingdom (residence), Italy, United States (citizenship)

Tomi Herseta Bayu Sukma
Netherlands (residence), Indonesia (citizenship)