Fractured Photography
(2023)
author(s): Hilde Hovland Honerud, Jon Hovland Honerud
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
Is it possible to communicate through photography about people in distress? Through this exposition we approach such issues as media imagery and image fatigue, photography of ‘the other’, the privileged position, significant encounters, and reciprocity. We also show how commitment to social issues may relate to such an artistic process as both starting point and outcome. Finally, as this process was a collaboration between art and social science, we explore the roles and processes of such a collaboration, and exhibit the outcomes of the artistic process both as art and as a form of data for academic inquiry.
On the Indeterminate Training Technologies of a Reconstructed Bauhaus Choreographer. A Research Practice Between Speculative Historiography, Architectural Invention, and Performative Co-enactment
(2023)
author(s): Thomas Pearce
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition proposes a method of artistic research that uses (and disobediently misuses) techniques of reconstruction as a mode of performative, artistic, and architectural invention. Our speculative notion of reconstruction challenges inherited disciplinary notions of historiography and simultaneously functions as a propositional and generative tool. The exposition revolves around the discussion of a research and performance project entitled Jakob K., which reconstructs the works of fictional Bauhaus choreographer and gymnastics teacher Jakob Klenke (1874–1941). This reconstruction was the product of a collaboration between performance artists and architectural researchers, involving field work, site-specific re-enactment, 3D scanning, animation, and digital fabrication, and culminated in a series of live performances at Kampnagel (Hamburg) and during the 2019 Bauhaus 100 centennial.
The exposition is structured around a series of multimedia sections, each of which departs from an element of the performance’s architectural and medial framing, describes aspects of the artistic research process, and uses these as a lens for theoretical reflection. In analogy to our working method, which created the project as an ongoing layering of spatial and choreographical ‘evidence’, this method of discussing the project consecutively adds layers and connections to the project-assemblage that is Jakob K. Throughout the exposition, a practice emerges that challenges notions of solely human-authored and human-centred design and performance; proposes a set of techno-speculative training practices while challenging historical discourses on body optimisation; and subverts disciplinary uses of technology, prescriptive logics of representation, and techniques of reconstruction, misusing them instead in disobedient ways and reinventing them as creative affordances that can challenge dominant techniques of power.
Story in motion: creative collaborations on Tłı̨chǫ lands
(2023)
author(s): Adolfo Ruiz, Tony Rabesca
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition describes a creative collaboration in the self-governed Tłı̨chǫ region of Canada’s Northwest Territories. As part of this collaboration, Indigenous research methods and participatory experiences facilitated a process by which regional oral history was visualised and translated into animation. As a long-term project, this research was based on relationships through which a non-Indigenous researcher was able to learn and exchange knowledge with elders and youth from the region. Community workshops facilitated image-making, storytelling sessions, and interaction between generations. The animated film that emerged through this research is an embodiment of cultural knowledge and cultural continuity.
The Migrating Image
(2023)
author(s): Jošt Franko
published in: University of Applied Arts Vienna
PhD project: The Migrating Image, Supervisor: Gerhild Steinbuch
Envelope is a publication of the PhD in Art programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Absence is a Space of Confinement
(2023)
author(s): Cristiana de Marchi
published in: University of Applied Arts Vienna
PhD project: Casting a shadow. On disappearance, emptiness and the haunting power of absence, Supervisor: Judith Eisler
Envelope is a publication of the PhD in Art programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Queer Ancestral Mythologies
(2023)
author(s): Corç George Demir
published in: University of Applied Arts Vienna
PhD project: Ancestral Junctures: on the expansion of ancestral mythologies, Supervisor: Hans Schabus
Envelope is a publication of the PhD in Art programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
