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• Living in [affirmative] ruins. Lagunas de Rabassa. (last edited: 2019) author(s): Raúl Díaz, Rafael Muñoz Cervantes This exposition is in progress.
  PR08-Living in affirmative ruins.‘Anthropo-exodermis Rabassa’ es un proyecto concebido, originalmente, como una aproximación teórico-experimental al “contexto natural” que se da en torno a una fuente pseudo-natural de recursos, en primera instancia hidrológicos. Sin embargo, a medida que se toma conciencia durante el proyecto sobre lo que en realidad rodea a la laguna, se hace evidente la importancia que tiene la naturaleza; ésta entendida como un ente vivo, efímero y transformador, hasta tal punto que su significado conceptual queda difuso. Debemos entender el proyecto dentro del contexto de lo Posnatural; la era del cambio climático, el Anthropocene, y las ecologías alteradas. Nos encontramos en una época en la que la tecnociencia ha pasado a dominar gran parte del desarrollo de ésta. Las proezas de la tecnociencia han sido tales que, desde hace relativamente poco tiempo, hemos empezado a cuestionar elementos o certezas que se tenían por incuestionables: vida y naturaleza.
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  Artistic research in breeding : The Bifrost Eucalyptus project (last edited: 2019) author(s): Jens Staal This exposition is in progress.
  Genetic signs of domestication of plants and animals date as far back as the oldest known evidence for other artistic expressions like painting, music and sculpture. Breeding is often seen as a science or a craft and is rarely considered art. The Bifrost art project aims to combine the spectacular bark and growth rate of the rainbow gum Eucalyptus deglupta with the cold hardiness of the cider gum Eucalyptus gunnii and possibly other cold-hardy species. The cold hardiness introgression should make it possible to grow amazing rainbow-colored trees in a European or North American climate. The project has been initiated and is expected to continue for decades or centuries in a distributed, participatory, manner.
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  OTHER ONLINE PUBLICATIONS  (last edited: 2019) author(s): Annette Arlander This exposition is in progress.
  This "exposition" consists of a list with links to articles and texts written by Annette Arlander in online publications available on the web. For a full list of publications a pdf is attached.
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  Hans Schleif (2019) author(s): Julian Klein published in: Research Catalogue
  Among the members of the Archaeological Institute of the German Reich, the architectural historian Hans Schleif was notable for the extent of his involvement with the crimes of the National Socialist regime. His achievements in scientific research, for instance as director of excavations at Olympia, are overshadowed by his career in the SS. He was director of the Excavation Department of the »Ahnenerbe« (ancestral heritage) of the SS. After the German invasion of Poland he was briefly appointed Custodian of German Cultural Assets based in Posnan. In 1943, he joined the SS Head Office for Economic and Administrative Affairs and rose to the position of deputy to C Group (Construction) director, Dr. Hans Kammler, whose permanent representative in the Jäger- und Rüstungsstab task force he became. In this role, Schleif was responsible above all for moving key arms production facilities underground, where fighter planes and the »reprisal weapons« V1 and V2 were built – hence for the largely subterranean concentration and slave labour camps of the Sonderstab Kammler. His grand- son, the actor Matthias Neukirch, created a theatre production about Schleif in collaboration with stage director Julian Klein at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. This text is a result of the research undertaken for the production, and reports on selected stages in Schleif’s biography.
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  they didn't bring enough water (2019) author(s): William Smart, Lindsey french published in: Research Catalogue
  In early 2016, Lindsey french and Willy Smart gleaned water samples during a series of anomalous rainstorms in the Southern Californian desert. Later, these samples were ‘released’ publicly via personal humidifiers. Combining photographic documentation of humidity, the affected certainty of diagrams, and an associative written text that slips between theoretical and personal registers, the research exposition, “they didn’t bring enough water,” catalogs this process of reception and release. The project floats on our attempt to follow a logic of water in our research — from the start then there is no pretense toward rigid methodology. We collected samples erratically, in line as much with our moods as with the sites we’d marked out in advance of the trip as potential intrigues. In other words, the bonds we seek out here aren’t those of solidarity, but liquidarity. Water is not then the tested object of our actions, but rather an active agent in our research. Crucially, the release was staged publically: the humidifiers fogged up the windows, our breaths mixed. Release here is meant in the sense of a record release — of circulation — rather than in the sense of a caged animal set free. The materials collected in this research exposition include photographs of each water sample at the moment of its release, diagrams of forms taken by the released water vapor, and a written text. The text folds (but does not tie — liquidarity reigns here too) historic information on sample sites with personal associations and theoretical conversations initiated during the days of collection: during long drives, before sleep, and at the sites themselves. The text thus is loose — it slips between pronouns and landscapes and concepts — there’s not quite enough present perhaps for total coherence, like the sign we encountered at a trailhead at the beginning of the research trip — “THEY DIDN’T BRING ENOUGH WATER.” This apparent warning, with its seductive vagueness, would crystallize in the following days into an aphoristic methodology that is carried over into the presentation of materials here. What we didn’t bring perhaps we (perhaps you) will find here.
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• Concepts of Embodiment in Interdisciplinary Work Within a Musical Context (2019) author(s): Sarah Albu published in: KC Research Portal
  Integrated musical experiences have long existed, previous to and outside of the traditional concert music setting. Interdisciplinary approaches to performance creation are becoming more accepted and more common in academic music contexts. This research asks the question "How does the concept of embodiment serve the creation of interdisciplinary work within a musical context?", examined through the lens of definitions of embodiment, spinning, technology, community, and inter/multidisciplinary vs. intermediality and expanded through case studies of two of the author's recent performance works.
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Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
Norway

Raissa Fahlman
Canada, Netherlands (residence), Canada (citizenship)

Giuditta Isoldi
Italy (residence)

Maria Huhmarniemi

Francesco Collavino

sten sandell

Chrysa Parkinson
Sweden (residence), United States (citizenship)

Otso Tapio Lähdeoja
Finland

Christina Stadlbauer
Finland (residence), Austria (citizenship)