Research Catalogue

an international database for artistic research find out more

• 
  STAGING HAPTICA (last edited: 2020) author(s): Cheryl Akner Koler This exposition is in progress.
  Through touch and haptic engagement, we enter into relationships with the physical and felt embodied world. In this exposition, we demonstrate how we share experiences from our aesthetic disciplines filtered through the perspective of three professional arts: - sculpture - culinary arts and - performative arts. We work together to develop the field of haptics starting with defining 9 haptic attributes of the hand and then transposing these attributes so they suit the nose, mouth and the mediting body. The models and methods presented in this exposition aim to fuse theory and practice together as an aid to the practicing professional in design, restaurant and hotel world. By staging "aesthetic labortions" (A-labs) we araea able to generate....more>
  open exposition comments (0)
• 
  A practice based research:Musical and sonic narrativity in performance (last edited: 2020) author(s): scenic voice This exposition is in progress.
  My research focuses mainly on experimenting with different kinds of narration using music and sound as scenographic tools, in a performative context. My research is practice-based, which means that I’m discovering several ways of telling different stories in space(s) and building the dramaturgy of a performative situation, through the process of making.
  open exposition comments (0)
• 
  Through Segments — Durchlässige Segmente (last edited: 2020) author(s): Hanns Holger Rutz, David Pirrò, Ji Youn Kang, Daniele Pozzi This exposition is in progress.
  Through Segments is a sound installation in an unusual interstitial space—the staircase of the Kunsthaus’ Iron House that connects to the “Friendly Alien”. Four artists listen into the storeys using real-time computer algorithms, taking an acoustical image of the visitors’ movements, forming four individual reactions. It is a poetic attempt to think about the distributed, the fragmented, the parallel. During the development phase, the artists work independently, but at the same time they observe and interrogate each other, performing the gesture of a “simultaneous arrival” (Sara Ahmed). They enact a human algorithm, informed by reiteration and duplication but never being identical. The aim is not one “of all converging towards the same, but circulating, making common relaying, relaying back, being relayed” (Isabelle Stengers).
  open exposition comments (0)

• 
  Fists Up: Orchestrating Silence in Mexico City’s Post-Earthquake Rescuing Activities (2020) author(s): Elisa Corona Aguilar published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  On 9 September 2017, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale hit Mexico City, causing the collapse of more than fifty buildings and damaging many others. As the usual urban soundscape intensified with the general chaos, the collapsed buildings and their vicinities were filled with new, unusual loudness, but there was also silence, partial and momentary. It was a hope for survivors, a call to listen again and again when there were sounds of life among the ruins. Fists raised up in the air became the generalized call for silence, a way to communicate both attention and pause in the activity around a specific place. As the media spread images of the fists up and how this signal created silence, its layered meanings became present. Through a series of interviews with participants and witnesses of the rescue activities and a compilation of journalistic text and images, I will trace the brief history and transformation of the fists up gesture, and I will explore the implications of orchestrating silence in emergency circumstances.
  open exposition comments (0)
• 
  metamusic (2020) author(s): alien productions, Martin Breindl, Andrea Sodomka published in: Research Catalogue
  metamusic aims to develop interactive sound installations and electronic instruments for animals held in captivity. The project's target is to improve the animals’ quality of life, by designing an interactive musical environment that takes the specific needs and skills of the animals into consideration. metamusic, developed by the artists' group alien productions in collaboration with the zoologists and animal keepers of the ARGE Papageienschutz, centers its attention on grey parrots.
  open exposition comments (0)
• 
  1 Day Artwork (2020) author(s): Betty Nigianni published in: Research Catalogue
  Net art for unrealized site-specific performing arts installation, 2020 The exposition shows fragments of work prepared for an unrealized interactive site-specific public installation at Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, South London. The installation would include dance performance, video/photography and structures with objects. The work was produced at different times between the winter and summer of 2011. The installation was to be a collaboration with dance artist Susanna Recchia and photographer Rachel Cherry. Audiences would traverse or remain on site as long as they wished. The Critical Pathways workshop by choreographer and artist Rosemary Butcher served as the starting point. Walking journeys allowed for emerging themes, such as pilgrimage, walking-the-lifeline and potentiality. The concepts of the moving body and the plane tree, a variety imported into the city, became intertwined. The performers would enact processes related to journeying and nomadism. The installation would create a virtual landscape of remoteness: a place for reflection. Revisiting these works, I draw from Deleuze and Guattari's notion of becoming animal to suggest that we rethink the notion of animal via the concept of the plan(e)/plateau. Deleuze and Guattari's advancement of the notion of the plan(e), from a metaphoric articulation of processes of translation into a conceptual apparatus of intersection across forms, enables the co-existence of multi-dimensional multiplicities against their reduction to two dimensions. The plane is one of consistency that is sustained across multiplicities. If it is the plane of Nature in the Deleuzian sense of natural history, it allows for the infinite multiplicity of individuals. Entering the plan(e)/plateau, one becomes part of an individuated assemblage depending on their relations of movement. In memory of Rosemary.
  open exposition comments (0)

Bobby Mitchell
Germany (residence), United States (citizenship)

Michael Duch
Norway

Anders Lind

Katarina Eismann

Trifilo Gianluca
Switzerland (residence), Italy, Switzerland (citizenship)

Johannes Kretz
Austria

Susan Brind

Katharina / K.H. Hauke

Faten Alafifi