Choreo-graphic Writing – Towards More-Than-One Means of Inscription
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author(s): Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Simona Koch
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This exposition forms part of a chapter entitled ‘Choreo-graphic Writing – Towards More-Than-One Means of Inscription’ by Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil, published in Leena Rouhiainen, Kirsi Heimonen, Rebecca Hilton and Chrysa Parkinson (eds.), Writing Choreography: Extending the Conventions of Dance (Routledge, 2023).
Abstract for the chapter: Choreo-graphic Figures - Deviations from the Line is an artistic research project by writer-artist Emma Cocker, artist-performer Nikolaus Gansterer and dancer-choreographer Mariella Greil, for exploring those modes of thinking-feeling-knowing emerging between the lines of choreography, drawing and writing. This research project involved the cultivation of various modes of “choreo-graphic writing” [more-than-one / means of inscription] at the interstice of choreography, drawing and writing, the evolution of experimental language practices as artistic research. Drawing on various “practices” and “figures” developed within Choreo-graphic Figures, Cocker, Gansterer and Greil explore how different performative, sensuous and experimental textual practices and bodily inscriptions emerge as immanent means of articulation for that which remains strictly beyond words: the embodied, relational, affective and material sensitivities and sensibilities of collaborative, co-emergent sense-making taking place in and through the interaction between bodies, between human and non-human agencies. The chapter comprises two parts: PART I — an “exposition” (encountered here) showing how Cocker, Gansterer and Greil performed choreography/writing beyond the page within the context of Choreo-graphic Figures presented online using the Research Catalogue (RC), an online platform for publishing artistic research; PART II — an “essay” (within the printed publication, Writing Choreography: Extending the Conventions of Dance (Routledge, 2023) for exploring the different resonances of and implications for these various approaches to choreo-graphic writing.
The exposition is designed in dialogue with Simona Koch.
TENDER DIALOGUES
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author(s): Emma Cocker, Lena Séraphin
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Tender Dialogues: Suspending Artistic Research Writing as Meaning-Making
Tender Dialogues was a 3-hour workshop which took place on 2 July 2022 activated within the frame of the 13th Society of Artistic Research Conference (Mend, Blend, Attend) held at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The workshop was initiated by Emma Cocker and Lena Séraphin. Participants: Annette Arlander, Emma Cocker, Cordula Daus, Lena Séraphin, Niina Turtola, Andy Weir, Natalia Castilllo Rincón and Hinnerk Utermann. This exposition presents some of the writing 'scores' activated during this workshop, alongside resulting written documents.
Swap Space
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author(s): Hanns Holger Rutz, David Pirrò, Nayari Castillo-Rutz, Shane Finan, Franziska Hederer, Jackie Karuti, Alisa Kobzar, Daniele Pozzi
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Swap Space is a pilot project at KUG Graz that focuses on novel forms of collaborative artistic research in which otherness, difference and distance between the participants are central and are brought into a cohesive form via the concept of the spatial. Selected questions and previously sketched procedures are an important part of Swap Space and will be tested for their validity and feasibility in a time-limited experiment among six artists-researchers as a proof-of-concept. Thus, on the one hand, the pilot project provides important data and preliminary results, sets the course and ensures that the future project design is viable. On the other hand, Swap Space takes up new decisive impulses for thought - such as the concept of contact - the elaboration of which aims to determine the form of a multi-year research project.
The Italic I (collaboration with Clare Thornton)
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author(s): Emma Cocker
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'Exposition' in progress.
The Italic I is an artistic research collaboration between writer-artist Emma Cocker and interdisciplinary artist Clare Thornton that explores the different states of potential activated by purposefully surrendering to the event of a repeated fall. Rather than an accidental occurrence encountered by chance, within our artistic investigation falling is apprehended consciously as a training exercise for mind and muscle, tested out in physical, cognitive, and even linguistic terms. Within The Italic I the act of falling is slowed and extended through the use of both lens and language, as a means for attending to its discrete phases or scenes. Within The Italic I, the live performance of falling is not shared with an audience: this enquiry explores specificity of experience communicable in the mediation of performance through its documents, both photographic and textual. Rather than view these technologies as somehow deficient or limiting— as incapable of reflecting the experiential, ephemeral nature of the live event — The Italic I reflects on the document itself as an ephemeral artwork, always evolving, always in transition. Less as an indexical record of ‘being there’, the performance document is approached as a malleable material that can be dislocated from its originary historical context, to be brought into new configurations through repeated staging and re-staging. The exposition presents a series of configurations and iterations of the documents generated through The Italic I within which we have explored three interwoven questions: How to present the experiential nature of falling as a force rather than simply representing its form? How to develop a mode of linguistic expression — an alternative poetic textual document — that embodies rather than describes the live experience that it seeks to articulate? What alternative modalities of performance and performativity — what emergent temporalities and subjectivities — arise through the restaging or reactivation of different performance documents? By reflecting on the evolution and performativity of the various ‘documents’ generated within The Italic I, our intent is to explore what is at stake at the threshold where live and lens meet, in the interval between live performance and lens-based mediation, between event and document.
The Yes of the No
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author(s): Emma Cocker
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Beginning with a meditation on the affirmative potential of no alongside the dissident capacity of yes-saying as a species of refusal, The Yes of the No advocates different models of daily practice through which to perform everyday life — the as is — in the subjunctive key of what if or even what might be. Existing in the space between imaginative proposition and a call to action, The Yes of the No is an assemblage of provocations, proposals and potential ways of operating — ranging from navigating the city and inhabiting the margins to errant acts of reading; from preparing for the unexpected to learning how to ‘not know’, from minor acts of singular sedition to collective expressions of an insurgent ‘we’.
The Yes of the No is the first collection by writer-artist Emma Cocker, which draws together selected fragments of writing produced in dialogue with, parallel to and as art practice (from between 2007–2016). Cocker’s writing often focuses on models of (art) practice and subjectivity that resist or refuse the pressure of a single, stable position by remaining wilfully unresolved. The Yes of the No takes the form of single-page prose paragraphs, which might be read in sequence or approached in the singular. Each page-paragraph is conceived as implicitly connected to others, yet with an identity (and name) of its own.
Contingent Agencies (Vienna 2021)
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author(s): Emma Cocker
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Contingent Agencies (Vienna 2021)
Tender Dialogues: Suspending Artistic Research Writing as Meaning-Making Tender Dialogues was a 3-hour workshop which took place on 2 July 2022 activated within the frame of the 13th Society of Artistic Research Conference (Mend, Blend, Attend) held at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The workshop was initiated by Emma Cocker and Lena Séraphin. Participants: Annette Arlander, Emma Cocker, Cordula Daus, Lena Séraphin, Niina Turtola, Andy Weir, Natalia Castilllo Rincón and Hinnerk Utermann. This exposition presents some of the writing 'scores' activated during this workshop, alongside resulting written documents.open exposition comments (0)