Writing and instructing research video
(2025)
author(s): Sara Hulkkonen
published in: Aalto University
This video sequence is part of a practice-led research that explorest the social and material actors in glassblowing practices. In this video the designer of the glass vessel under making is learning how to write on the clear glass blank with a blue glass stringer. During this process the designer becomes an apprentice glassblower. She also works as a research assitant in this project. The practitioner-researcher works as the designers gaffer for the vessel, as well as a master who is instructing the apprentice in learning a new skill.
The four camera angles in the multiscreen video inform about different perspectives taken on the social and material actors in the study.
Decatastrophizing Failure Through Playfulness
(2025)
author(s): Nicholas Cornia, Arabella Pare
published in: Research Catalogue
This is an invitation to generate your own article about playfulness and its power to reconceive failure in artistic research, through a simple game of chance and knowledge. This text contextualises the game within the experiences of the authors, researchers at Orpheus Instituut, who have been engaged in creating explorative spaces for new types of collaboration, using the principles of playfulness. Through a combination of artistic and theoretical work and practical experience with iterative case studies in which game mechanics are tested, refined, and tested again, the authors are engaged in a process of discovery within a “magic circle”. Open-ended experimentation and collaboration are central areas of focus. Failure is re-conceived as a learning process and its catastrophic effects are integrated into the make-believe space of the game, while the insights and experiences drawn from these failures are retained once we step out of the magic circle.
Collaborative Filmmaking - Filmdevising
(2025)
author(s): Ylva Gustavsson
published in: Research Catalogue
This is the first part of the artistic research project Collaborative Filmmaking. It was made during a series of workshops in the period 2014-2016. The aim was to use devising, a way of working non-hierarchical in the performing arts, as a method for Filmmaking.
reconstruction i-v (2015-2023) - a series of works on industry and music
(2025)
author(s): Lene Grenager
published in: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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)
author(s): Erica Bardi
published in: Research Catalogue
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)
author(s): Julija Matic
published in: Research Catalogue
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.
