project bachelor 2021 "The Helsinki Sound Promenade Project"
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): João Luís Matos Lopes
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The Helsinki sound promenade is an artistic research project that intends to explore and analyse and explore the relation between the soundscape, the musicians and the audience on a live performance setting. The live installation preformed by Colectivo Azul uses the urban environment of Helsinki as inspiration and stage for an happening where the audience is invited to walk and listen to the soundscape and musical interventions during the path. Musicians and audience are exposed to the sound and landscape of the city, interpreting its sonic complexity and exploring the dialog between the three parties. The composition is based on a theoretical framework around improvisation over the soundscape of the urban environment as well as exploring the interaction between the audience and the musical performance itself, giving the musicians the possibility to create a sound narrative that could, or not, compliment that soundscape. There will be three moments of composed music created by the author of this research, all directly inspired by three specific spaces. These melodies and harmonic progressions are the reflex of many hours spent doing deep listening and sound walk exercises. While raising the awareness to the soundscape of the city, this performance intends also to reduce the emotional distance between the performers and the audience, trying to dissolve the elitist stereotypes of contemporary performative arts by embedding the performance into the soundscape. On the other hand, the musicians part to this adventure with the idea that the the auditorium is part of the soundscape itself. The result of this research project is a 45 to 50 minutes live performance defined by a chart/script of composed and improvised music, soundscape and video.
PANDEMIA MUNDI: STAGES OF EPIDEMICS
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): vincent roumagnac, Simo Kellokumpu
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For the first research episode in the new artist-researcher-run space Pengerkatu 7 Työhuone in Helsinki, Vincent Roumagnac chose to address, with a sense of urgency, the viral issue, at a time when we have entered the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and in order to, collectively, try to understand more, from various perspectives, experiences, and sensitivities, what this virus is doing to our stage practices. Initially, we thought to organize a seminar in Helsinki, but the general situation in which we are does not allow it any longer. Hence, this proposal. But not as a Plan B. Rather an alternative form and attempt of making « sense » together. All the contributors work in relation to the « stage », through the lens of scenography, dramaturgy, choreography, directing, acting, performing, dancing, reflecting... They were invited to respond to the call with a short videographic object, in which they address the (notion of) virus in relation to their ongoing scenic practice. An online and open access collective publication is launched on Työhuone pages on the Research Catalogue (International database for artistic research) on December 11 2020. A celebrative display and live broadcast on SN will also takes place Pengerkatu 7 Työhuone on December 12 2020.
Contributors: Hanna Ahti, Ignacio De Antonio, Horacio Banega in collaboration with Eduardo Safigueroa, Mai Endo, Simo Kellokumpu, The Institute Of Interconnected Realities (Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Marie-Louise Stentebjerg & Jonathan Bonnici), Carl Lavery in collaboration with Simon Whitehead and Lee Hasball, Maiju Loukola, Elina Pirinen, Vincent Roumagnac, Charlotta Ruth, Stacey Sacks, Carolina E. Santo, and Marc Salicrú Julià
Performing Psychic: The Performance of Mentalism and Psychic Arts on Stage, Screen, and in Everyday Life
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Scotty McQueen (AKA Edward James Dean)
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Throughout post-industrial societies, consumers regularly buy tickets to watch mind readers and psychic mediums, tune in to the television and radio shows of such performers, dial psychic hotlines, and visit psychics, fortune-tellers, numerologists, astrologists, tarot card readers, and energy healers. Despite the popularity of such practices, this booming performance-based industry aimed at entertainment and self-improvement has yet to be analysed in any depth within the field of Performance Studies where such performances have either been omitted entirely or conflated with conjuring tricks or shamanism. This conflation is understandable given the secrecy, artifice, and misinformation which enshroud the shapeshifting performances of mentalists and psychics.
The aim of this practice-led research was to – through both embodied and theoretical knowledge – situate mentalism within theories of performance, performativity, and play, paying close attention to the ways in which these fictional performances purport to be “reality.” My intention was to reach a new understanding of the practice of mentalism while also offering insights for the benefit of practitioners and contributing to practice-led research as a methodological approach. This dissertation was developed reflexively in conjunction with my practical research, during which I spent three years immersed in the social role of psychic and created 13 original performances for the stage and screen. This combination of public and covert performance provided me with a means to look behind the curtain, so to speak, and to assess the performance practices and performative behaviours by which people “do psychic” and in so doing, create the very experiences and beliefs which those actions purport to be.
The Art of Befriending a Tree
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): RUUKKU Voices: Britta Olsson
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A portfolio documentation of a score based laboratory project focusing on human encounters with trees. The part of the project presented here was performed within the frame work of a master programme and a free standing course at Stockholm University of the Arts: Stockholm College of Dramatic Arts / Stockholm College of Dance and Circus.
Chris Dave: A Live Analysis (Dec. 2015)
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): James Wood
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Can you play in time and out of time?
What is the drummer's role in a band setting?
What are the philosophies of performance innate when sampling, when contrafacting, quoting or manipulating other people's work?
How is Chris Dave "the most dangerous drummer on the planet"?
The paper and performance attempt to answer these questions through a stylistic analysis and evaluation of a drum performance of Chris Dave, unpacking his innovative and conceptual reinvention of drum-set performance.
