Kroppsliga iakttagelser
(2025)
author(s): Aleksandra Czarnecki Plaude
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
After a long-term effort with “the body as an instrument” with the spotlight and focus on acting I was interested in exploring how my experience and practical knowledge of the actors physical skills could be “borrowed” and “translated” in encounters with several artistic disciplines both within and outside the stage area. The body is present in all artistic activity that in some way relates to the story of man. But the thought of the body isn't necessarily the same as a bodily and embodied thought. This nuanced and problematized approach has resulted in the research project Bodily Observations - on the lookout for new physical skills that I conducted in 2013-2015.
Unmaking Abstractions
(2025)
author(s): Magnhild Nordahl Øen
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
This exposition contains documentation of the artistic result of Magnhild Øen Nordahls artistic research PhD project Unmaking Abstractions. The exposition also contains the artistic reflection for the same project. On the exposition's landing page the reader can access its different components by clicking different sides of the unfolded cube. The rotating cube in the upper right corner will bring the reader back to the landing page.
INTERDIMENSIONAL ARTISTIC REFLECTION: Speculative movements through Spatial, Digital and Narrative Media
(2025)
author(s): Sidsel Ditlev Christensen
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
PhD Candidate: Sidsel Christensen
Project title: INTERDIMENSIONAL ARTISTIC REFLECTION: Speculative movements through Spatial, Digital and Narrative Media
Period: 2020 - 2024
Host institution: The Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art, Faculty of Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
PhD supervisors: Brandon LaBelle, Frans Jacobi and Sher Doruff
How eyes can hear and ears can see: an exposition on experiential translation
(2025)
author(s): Ricarda Vidal, Madeleine Campbell
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition brings together the epistemologies of art-making and translation. It presents a series of artworks the curators commissioned for a travelling exhibition on ‘Experiential Translation’ (2022-2025). Many of the works were created under the auspices of the Experiential Translation Network, which facilitates collaboration and exchange between translators, writers, poets, artists and scholars from across the globe.
The concept of ‘experiential translation’ as elaborated by Campbell and Vidal (2019, 2024, 2025), highlights embodied, multimodal communication as a performative inquiry into meaning-making. Blending art and translation practices, experiential translation values materiality, participation, and co-creation. Rather than mere transfer of meaning, translation is seen as a process of discovery, research, and knowledge production, embracing the unknown and exploring that which escapes language.
Encouraging a rhizomatic viewing experience, the exposition is structured into three interconnected thematic 'rooms', Serial Metamorphosis, (Un)repetition and Ludic Translation, which can be visited in any order, or even simultaneously.
The exposition includes video art, performance, (interactive) installation, sound art, poetry, painting and photography.
This work was supported by the AHRC under Grant AH/V008234/1, awarded to Ricarda Vidal (PI) and Madeleine Campbell (Co-I) .
Ethical Clearance Reference Number (King’s College London): MRA-22/23-34543
Mi(my)crotonal Piano
(2025)
author(s): Sanae Yoshida
published in: Norwegian Academy of Music
I explain "microtones" as the sounds between the piano keys, making it universally understandable. This widespread understanding through "piano keys" demonstrates how the 12-tone equal temperament (12-TET) has become standardized as the dominant system.
When 12-TET was introduced, it created a hierarchy where diverse sounds were forced into a rigid system. Other sounds were marginalized and coded into one of the twelve tones, physically embedded in the piano's keyboard. As a result, pianists became subordinate to these physically embedded conditions of the piano.
In this project, I attempted to dismantle this organizational principle. By deterritorializing these fixed tones and liberating the peripheral sounds now called "microtones," I explored not just the piano's timbral possibilities, but also the interactions that emerge in these spaces - between sounds, between people, between cultures...
Through collaborations with over 30 composers, I discovered that microtones exist in the "ma" (space) between standardized tones, representing voices that don't fit into established systems. What began as an exploration of piano timbre evolved into an investigation of humanity itself, generating new meanings through ongoing dialogues and discoveries.
Abstracts of artistic projects by Michael Croft published in the Research Catalogue (2021 – 2025)
(2025)
author(s): Mike Croft
published in: Research Catalogue
A document of abstracts of artistic projects published by the author in the Research Catalogue between 2021 and 2025
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