negotiating the space in between
(2021)
author(s): Jonas Frey
published in: Research Catalogue
This research was conducted to reveal a deeper understanding of my artistic practice that moves in between redefining my urban dance practice and an opening to ideas of contemporary choreography.
Based on studio sessions, interviews and reflections and using a variety of modalities for documentation, this practice-led research expands my artistic practice, bringing in sources of inspiration from dance, pedagogy, sociology and philosophy.
The main outcomes channeled into an emerging methodology that provides strategies to develop co-creative contemporary choreography.
This methodology can serve diverse creative contexts that foster the wish to collaborate and be imaginative.
Embedded in an upcoming artistic community of urban dance based choreographers this research seeks to define my space within the landscape of contemporary choreography.
Soundwalking Homes in Design Ethnography
(2021)
author(s): Stine S. Johansen and Peter Axel Nielsen
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
In this paper, we investigate the use of soundwalks in a design ethnographical study. For this study we introduced the concept of sound zones to participants from different households and used soundwalks to enable them to discuss the concept, which would, ideally, reveal design opportunities and constraints. Soundwalks have been used in urban planning to achieve insights regarding resident perceptions of the soundscape in a local environment. As an additional positive offshoot, interaction design studies has used the method to build awareness among people living in a particular environment. With this paper, we provide insights into what can be gained from using soundwalks to engage participants in an abductive process and discussion about the concept and idea of sound zone technology. We present three specific ways that recorded, self-guided soundwalks supported this process: Establishing design conditions, enabling unexpected sounds, and supporting embodied experiences. We relate this to the theoretical constructs of temporality and abduction and thereby extend the soundwalk method to support reflections about possible futures of implementing a design.
Words in Motion
(2021)
author(s): Valentina Vidal
published in: Research Catalogue
Abstract:
Words in Motion is a practice as research project that involves dance, choreography, and literature. The research will consist in three choreographic experimentations in which text will be approached as the starting point to create movement. Each experimentation will involve the creation of a solo piece utilising a different element of the selected text, Caged Bird (1983) by Maya Angelou, which will be unpacked from the perspective of semiotics. The aim of the project is to analyse and compare the experience of creating the three pieces as well as the choreographic results obtained in the three different experimentations.
Good Morning! Good Day! Good Afternoon! Good Evening! Good Night!
(2021)
author(s): Anna Nurmela
published in: Research Catalogue
Process of a workshop organized by Aalto ARTS, Experimental Scenography Workshop that explores the Peripheries in Parallax. This exposition is based on an artistic research that was done between 05.10.2020-10.04.2021.
Including process ideas, photos and final exhibition, Matter.
Work title:
Good Morning!
Good Day!
Good Afternoon!
Good Evening!
Good Night!
Peripheries in Parallax: BRAVE NEW PERIPHERIES is organised by the four-year “Floating Peripheries – mediating the sense of place” artistic research project funded by the Academy of Finland (2017–2021).
Read more on https://pinp2021.aalto.fi/
in the flesh
(2021)
author(s): Virpi Nieminen
published in: Research Catalogue
In this exposition I reflect on an artistic research project I conducted from fall 2020 through spring 2021, as a student of scenography in Aalto University.
The base for the artistic research project was the idea of corporality, touch, flesh, materiality and aesthetics as something excessive and peripheral in the context of the Aalto University campus. I explored bodily excesses by working with sculptural objects formed by bodycasting, a method that produces a surplus of bodyparts. I was also interested in the process of working with my hands, and working through touching and being with the sculptural objects and materials.
As the process evolved the questions came to circulate around the issues of knowledge and the unknown. What kind of knowledge can working with these objects and materials lead me toward? Can that knowledge be articulated into language? How to work with things that language doesn't reach?
The research project was executed aside the peripheries in parallax: BRAVE NEW PERIPHERIES -conference organised by the four-year “Floating Peripheries – mediating the sense of place” artistic research project.
Tanssia koronan aikaan
(2021)
author(s): Sanni Camilla Giordani
published in: Research Catalogue
Taiteellisen tutkimukseni kohteena on ollut kehollinen toisin toimiminen julkisissa tiloissa. Olen havainnoinut tanssin ja kosketuksen aiheuttamia muutoksia julkisissa tiloissa sekä tilan kokemuksen muovautumista tanssivassa kehossa.
Koronaepidemia on vaikuttanut olennaisesti tutkimuskysymyksiini sekä käyttämiini tutkimusmenetelmiin, sillä toisten kanssa fyysisesti kosketuksissa oleminen on tänä vuonna tuntunut äärimmäisen tärkeältä, mutta myös radikaalilta teolta.
