The Research Catalogue (RC) is a non-commercial, collaboration and publishing platform for artistic research provided by the
Society for Artistic Research. The RC is free to use for artists and
researchers. It
serves also as a backbone for teaching purposes, student assessment, peer review workflows and research funding administration. It strives to be
an open space for experimentation and exchange.
recent activities
Improv_Loops: Ambient Music as Everyday Practice
(2025)
Juho Aaro Aapeli Tuomainen
Improvised ambient music making is a multi-dimensional process where the musical and the artistical skills are implemented into a dance between the mind of the performer and the creative use of technology. Both the mind and the machine together create a symbiotic relationship which over a course of a longer improvisational process produces a calming effect on the body and the mind, a sensation which in this artistic research is referred to as ”the slow buzz”. Over an 18-month period from June 2023 to December 2024 I practiced the creation of improvised ambient music by keeping a routine which included mechanical guitar warm ups, a meditation session and a recording session for an improvised ambient music track. This routine laid a solid foundation for my artistic work, generating all in all 360 improvised ambient tracks, which were all listened and analysed along the way. All the know-how and the musical style that emerged from this routine eventually led to the creation of a continuous, flowing form of improvisational live-ambient music. I then rehearsed, filmed, and analysed the resulting ambient music 40 times during the autumn of 2024 in order to gain insight into the mindstates that are affiliated with the creation of improvised ambient music. The final outcome of this artistic research process was then to be presented in the form of a solo concert during the Global Spring Festival, on the 15th of May 2025.
Writing Senses
(2025)
Delphine Chapuis Schmitz
What senses arise from sensing? How does sensing affect the processes of sense-making? How can the density of senses be navigated through writing?
This exposition retraces a specific sequence of thinking-in-the-making designed to address such questions in a collective workshop setting, where writing and sensing alternate in an iterative process.
writing (in) resonances
(2025)
Delphine Chapuis Schmitz
This exposition presents a format designed for experiencing writing as a relational process in a workshop setting.
It is based on implementations that have taken place in different contexts in the fields of higher education and research in the arts, and is intended as an invitation to further adopt and adapt the format in transversal settings.
recent publications
reconstruction i-v (2015-2023) - a series of works on industry and music
(2025)
Lene Grenager
reconstruction i-v is a series of works I have been working on for almost a decade. The works take about 2 hours and 40 minutes to perform and explore the dismantling of industry, machines as part of people's intimate lives, and the musical potential of industrial machines and industrial sounds. I use embroidered scores, video and audio files as well as sewing machines and conventional acoustic instruments.
In this exposition I present the works and the process of making them. reconstruction i-v was performed in full by Alpaca Ensemble during ARW in Trondheim 2024.
As long as the Sun lasts
(2025)
Erica Bardi
As Long as the Sun lasts was published in 2025 in form of artist book in collaboration with Chippendale Studio. It is a research about comets' behaviour and their capacity of switching on and off in relation to their proximity to the Sun, transforming themselves from cold asteroids into luminous objects with their comas and tails. So I started looking for comets in my daily reality, investigating a connection between me and them, building a narrative on several temporal and physical levels. I began by observing comets as cold, rocky objects until their transformation into luminous bodies, recreating them with objects from my everyday life, trying to identify with them during their journey towards the Sun.
Monochrome
(2025)
Julija Matic
Occupying a space whilst being one ourselves.
The materiality of the body coming in a state of symbiosis with the places it chooses to position itself and the objects it chooses to surround itself with.
Deconstruct and reconstruct. Remove parts of yourself, shed skin, cut your hair, change your weight, add others, change.
The transfiguration of one’s materic flesh, in the progressive becoming one with the environment that surrounds it.
The research begins from the consideration of the body taken as material, as a space, a meeting point between exteriority and interiority. The body that shares its own materiality with the places it finds itself in; they influence eachother.