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Drawing Across x Along x Between x University Borders (2024) DRAWinU
CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF PORTO. October 16, 17, 18th, 2024 :: Drawing Across :: Along :: Between University Borders considers the epistemological and transformative potential of drawing research to connect divergent areas in the university today. The conference focuses on drawing-based collaborations between art, science and society to tackle artistic, educational and societal challenges. We invite artists, scientists, educators, students, university policymakers and persons interested in inter-transdisciplinary practices across academia, research, and society to contribute and join the discussion in three possible directions: ACROSS - In what ways are drawing practitioners challenging the disciplinary strictures that often constrain thinking and acting across divergent areas in the university? ALONG - How can drawing activities be an ally of STEM education in the university, and how can STEM practices be an ally of drawing education? BETWEEN - How can drawing-based practices and STEM disciplines collaborate to address the urgency of societal challenges?
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SIG 8: Facilitating (2024) Adelheid Mers, Marija Griniuk
The SIG Facilitating took shape at the 2023 SAR Conference in Trondheim, after observing over an extended time how frequently artists, artistic researchers and even policy makers refer to facilitation when describing interactions with audiences, communities and research partners. Finding ways to examine such facilitating processes is crucial to the work under way. We know that facilitating practices exist widely in interactive and community based art, and in theater and the performing arts, for example using games, props and improvisation. There are intersections with pedagogy and professional facilitation and coaching, with at least the latter understood as prizing outcomes over processes. The SIG Facilitating asks: What does it mean to facilitate as part of artistic research? Why is this focus emerging now? How are we drawing on a greater web? Organized by Marija Griniuk, Postdoctoral researcher at Vilnius Academy of Arts, and director at Sami Center for Contemporary Art in Norway; Janne-Camilla Lyster, Associate Professor, Oslo National Academy of the Arts; and Adelheid Mers, Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (coordinator). Contact: sigfacilitating@gmail.com
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A/R/Tography in Theory (2024) Guro Kristin Gjøsdal
Guro Kristin Gjøsdal, A/R/Tography in Theory and Practice in Higher Education (Stockholms konstnärliga högskola, Sweden, autumn 2023). The exposition ripples around an interview with Christine Yanco Helland (OsloMet), which is exploring and articulating how she carry out her entangled practice as artist/researcher/teacher. The presentation uses relevant literature to think with. Christine Yangco Helland is an educated drama teacher, director, and dramaturg, with a master’s degree in fine arts with specialisation in theatre from the University of Agder, Norway. Helland has a burning commitment to diversity and inclusion. In addition to working with professional productions, Helland is motivated by involving children and young people, non-professional, and marginalised groups. The exhibition and the interview uses rhizomatic thinking. And so does my own work and production within the methodology and thematics. The work is in progress and will be completed in spring 2024.
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JSS TOCs (2024) Journal of Sonic Studies
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Grenseland - i stemmen (2024) Berit Norbakken
Dette prosjektet er en kunstnerisk utforsking av stemmens klanglige egenskaper, med utgangspunkt i en klassisk utøverpraksis, og av spenningsfeltet som oppstår mellom tradisjon, teknikk, stil og sjanger når disse konfronteres med hverandre og hybridiseres. Dynamikken mellom elementene som veves sammen, utforskes gjennom begreper og konsepter hentet fra Karen Barad: diffraksjon, intra-aksjon, agentisk kutt, re-turning og entanglement. Jeg lanserer begrepet diffraktiv refleksjon som metode for å anse materialer på nytt gjennom intra-aksjon og sammenvevinger av spacetimematter. Fortiden åpnes opp for å anses på nytt, når tid /rom blir rekonfigurert, kuttet sammen-med/fra, og vevet sammen i nye relasjoner gjennom diffraktiv refleksjon. Alle delene i prosjektet, aktivitet og eksposisjon, er forbundet – entangled. Området undersøkelsene foregår i, defineres som Grenseland. Arbeidet viser hvordan en kan åpne opp – og utfordre – en etablert praksis ved å ta i bruk nye og uvante grep fra andre praksiser.
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(Back)ground Noise. A multimodal Ethnography of Loudspeakers in a Roma Neighbourhood (2024) Jonathan LARCHER
By combining text and three video essays, this contribution presents a multimodal ethnography of loudspeakers in the Roma neighborhood of a Romanian village. It is based on video recordings, which were left out of the analysis and editing of my documentary films because of sound distortion. Revisiting my fieldnotes and the “ethnographic rubbish,” here I establish a critical study of my initial position – for 15 years I wasn’t paying attention to loudspeakers as an object of study in their own right – and I argue how these sounds have become auditory markers of the neighborhood since, at least, the beginning of the 2000s. The article thereby contributes to the fields of both anthropology and sound studies. It shows how the use of loudspeakers is made up of rivalry, interference, fame, fraternity, and familism. Moreover, the analysis shows how the lines between public and private spaces, and between oblique listening and noise cancellation are continually reconfigured in a community obsessed with mutual acquaintance.
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