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  Digital Anarchive: Being in Contact - Encountering a Bare Body (last edited: 2018) author(s): Mariella Greil-Moebius This exposition is in progress.
  This digital anarchive was developed in reference to my doctoral research undertaken at the University of Roehampton, London. This practice-as-research project explores the concept of bare bodies and how to encounter them in contemporary choreography. My thesis draws on philosophical, bio-political and ethical discourse relevant to my discussion of the emergence of bare bodies in choreographic work, and creates a critical framework for a self-reflexive movement. Narrations of bare bodies emerge in both the written component of a choreographed book, and in the creative component consisting of the live event of a lecture performance inhabiting an anarchive. This anarchive operates as research repository created and accumulated in the course of my PhD project and documented here in digital form. Throughout I argue for acknowledging acts of baring and concealing as culturally situated, anchoring my thesis in reflections on performative encounters, unearthing their methodological weight and nanopolitical significance. I explore non-subjective performativity, implying a fluid conception of identity. Furthermore, I introduce the ideations of an-archic responsibility and choreo-ethics for reassessing contact and relation as an ethico-aesthetic project of current choreographic performances. These propositions get probed alongside a shift from spectator to wit(h)ness. I differentiate and untangle the tones and shades of the triplet naked, nude, and bare, each term referring differently to body and performativity. All in all, the choreographic is conceptualised as a complex field of revelatory experiences built on ecologies of aesthetic perception and realising ethico-political agency.
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  Performing with Plants - Att uppträda/ samarbeta med växter (last edited: 2018) author(s): Annette Arlander This exposition is in progress.
  EN This exposition documents and archives the artistic research project performing with plants. SVE Denna exposition dokumenterar och arkiverar det konstnärliga forskningsprojektet att uppträda/samarbeta med växter.
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  Choreo-graphic Figures: Scoring Aesthetic Encounters (last edited: 2018) author(s): Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil-Moebius, Koch Simona This exposition is in review.
  This research exposition aims at ‘scoring an aesthetic encounter’ with the multimodal — visual, textual, sonic, performative — findings from the artistic research project Choreo-graphic Figures. Choreo-graphic Figures stages a beyond-disciplinary encounter between the lines of choreography, drawing and writing, for exploring those forms of knowing-thinking-feeling produced in the slippage and deviation when different modes of practice enter into dialogue, overlap and collide. We model the exposition on the experimental score system developed within our research project, approached as a ‘research tool’ for testing how different ‘practices’ (of Attention, Notation, Conversation, Wit(h)nessing) can be activated for sharpening, focusing or redirecting attention towards the event of figuring (those small yet transformative energies, emergences and experiential shifts within artistic process that are often hard to discern but which ultimately steer the evolving action) and the emergence of figures (the point at which ‘something happening’ [figuring] coalesces into recognisable form). We ask: Can we create a digital archive capable of reflecting the durational and relational aspects of the research process, the energies and intensities of collaborative live exploration? Beyond the limitations of the static two-dimensional page, how can an enhanced digital format enable a non-linear, rhizomatic encounter with artistic research, where findings are activated and navigated, interacted or even played with as a choreo-graphic event? There are two routes through the exposition: The reader is invited to ‘dive in’ by navigating their own route through the research exposition through using the score (→ Play the Score), with the → Find Out More section operating with a contextualising function.
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  Performing the 'Group of the Six' (2018) author(s): Federico Forla published in: KC Research Portal
  Name: Federico Forla Main Subject: Oboe Research supervisor: Wouter Verschuren Title of Research: Performing the 'Group of the Six' Research Question: Which are the common aesthetic aspects found in the Group of the Six? How can one exemplify it in the performance? Summary of Results: A new French style starts to develop at the beginning of twentieth-century. This style will flourish and develop trough all the century. We can find in the 'Group of the Six' a first controversial example of this new aesthetic. In my research I used historical sources, writings of the composers and writers of the time, together with detailed analysis of representative compositions. Merging all this information, I was able to create a clearer picture of the new French aesthetic of the 'Group of the Six'. Performance practice is a central aspect: specific examples of the aesthetic's reflection in the scores are intended as a suggestion for the execution. A case-study at the end of the research shows a practical example of how the collected information can be used and related within a specific piece. Biography: Since the beginning of my musical studies I got really interested in chamber music. It was for me the most direct, simple and democratic way to make music together. In the following years this interest persisted, giving me the urge to explore and experiment new repertoire. My initial period at the Royal Conservatoire was characterized by my first serious approach to French chamber music of twentieth-century. My research was inspired by the issues, doubts and reflections of that period.
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  Ecorchées (2018) author(s): Lisa Salamandra published in: Research Catalogue
  A theoretical linking of my "Raw Women", female figures from the series "Raw Meat" which feature a skinned, cut-up, recomposed body, with the "living dead" figure portrayed in the anatomical charts of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries. I examine how our two images seek the representation of "truths" concerning the human body and its functionning as well as a common truth about the fate of the human flesh, and that of our human condition.
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  PERFORMED REALNESS: On Participatory Art and its Ethics (2018) author(s): Johanna Lecklin published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
  In my study, Performed Realness: On participatory Art and its Ethics, I address questions stemming from my artistic practice and concerning participatory art, the split between documentary and fiction, performed realness, the ethics of the abovementioned, and authorship. I discuss these topics in dialogue with other artists’ artworks and with theories. Nevertheless, my intent is not to execute a comprehensive study on works, that have the same traits as mine. Works with moving image, my own and other artists’, which leave me to wonder and perplex me were a starting point of my research. – Is this true? Are these people performing or are they just being themselves in front of the camera? Can one be in front of the camera without performing?
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Pamela Salen

Pasi Lyytikäinen
Finland (residence)

Enno Voorhorst
Netherlands (residence)

Kirsten Reese

Gretchen Andrew
United Kingdom, United States (residence), United States (citizenship)

Klaske de Haan

Jean-Marie Clarke

M. Maria Khatchadourian
Netherlands (residence), Lebanon (citizenship)

Hao Wang
China