Into the Known, a Pathway to Dramaturgy
(2024)
author(s): Picalogy
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
A breakdown of how and why dramaturgy became essential for my artistic work. I go through the development of my dramaturgical thinking starting from the year 2000 when digitalization of media was making its final breakthrough. In this study, I touch on the media field, performing arts, and an online storytelling tool designed to gather and share my practical knowledge of dramaturgy.
The protective hand_Dewen_Myrza_2023
(2023)
author(s): Dewen Myrza
published in: Research Catalogue
The protective hand: A research in progress examining the influence of cultural values on creative editing.
The impact of the audience on the actresses
(2023)
author(s): Dalida Shaheen
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
Welcome to Dalida Shaheen's exposition Master's candidate in acting program and actress. Firstly, in 2019, I played a role of a woman who got married to a married man, after the series aired to the public the role fired back on me. I observed audience's reaction exceeded everyone’s expectations. The audience is divided into two parts the first part is about the women who expressed their anger in a very aggressive and strong way, and the second part who was exciting to the character. The first part of the audience used several offensive, strong, and insulting words. The audience’s reaction was very emotional, and they used all the tools to express their feelings for example, they used social media platforms and verbal violence when they see me in the street. Hayat is the character I have created to explore my questions in my short fil.
The film is the method I used to explore my questions of what would happen when the audience can’t distinguish between the role and the actor’s real character, What is the impact of the audience on the actresses?
Find Me: Self-portraiture as a tool
(2022)
author(s): Silvia Diveky
published in: Research Catalogue
What kind of artistic research practices would enable us to reflect and respond effectively to the urgencies of our moment?
In my artistic research, I test my own limits as a documentary film-maker. Very often I feel unqualified to be the one to write about the documentary practices and so rather than write, I shoot. By creating a documentary self-portrat, I test the limits of my own capabilities to respond to the situations around me, to capture the essence of my own being as a human. I do not strive to capture "myself" but rather to explore the process itself. We tend to forget that although we consider ourselves "artists", we very often feel insecure, and this insecurity limits us from reaching beyond the safe margins of our abilities. But it is never to late to go further, never too early to find a new way of expression.
Exorcising Unhomely Street: Filmic Intuition and the Representation of Post-concussive Syndrome
(2017)
author(s): Susannah Gent
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
My interdisciplinary, practice-led research involves a diverse methodological approach, including experimental film production, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience. In this exposition, I review the role of intuition in creative practice, and the influential factors when the work of art ‘happens’.
The short, experimental film Unhomely Street represents the experience of post-concussive syndrome through a surrealist narrative with historical accounts of atrocity and anti-capitalist polemics. Having employed a new approach to filmmaking — a spontaneous method in which artistic decisions are informed by emotional tone rather than narrative concerns — I reflect upon this creative play. I draw on the work of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, specifically his view that emotion underpins consciousness, Freud’s theory of the unconscious, and Irving Massey’s understanding of metaphor as the original, pre-linguistic language of thought.
sin ∞ fin - The Movie | A performance-based art film project by VestAndPage (Andrea Pagnes & Verena Stenke)
(2016)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
Inspired by Peter Sloterdijk’s investigation dissecting Micro- and Macro- spherology in his trilogy Spheres, and by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, the moving image project sin ∞ fin – The Movie by VestAndPage is based on various stages of research to conjugate performance art with filmmaking. Its final result consists of an art film trilogy produced along the course of three years in the following artist-in-residence programs: CONFL!CTA Contemporary Art and Science Research (Punta Arenas, Chile, 2010); Sarai CSDS Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (New Delhi, India, 2011); Cultural Program of the DNA Dirección Nacional del Antártico (Antarctica / Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012), and based on performances conceived site-specific.
Lost (& found) in Translation
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Tamar Porcelijn
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This is a guide to the live exposition LOST & FOUND IN TRANSLATION, presented by Tamar Porcelijn on May 13th 2023 in Amsterdam.
This guide gives an overview of the artistic research into the question:
“How can I connect dance, music and story to communicate on a physical and intuitive level?
Looking at my choreography as a craft, through the lens of filmmaking. “
It exposes the research process and the events leading up to it and discusses the different dance styles and cultural fields in which the artist operates. It explains how the key insights, multi-modal communication and story structure, led the artist to approach her choreographic craft through what she came to call “the filmmakers’ mindset”, eventually leading to the creation of a choreography in which elements of flamenco and contemporary dance where combined.
It is important to note that this online exposition is an appendix to the live presentation, and is to be approached as such.
From Problem Solving to Improvisation in Filmmaking
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Jackel Chow
connected to: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This exposition provides the insight of indeterminacy during improvisation, as well as the reflection process of how I converted my problems-solving skills to planned improvisation during the adverse filming condition of my graduation feature film production.
I define Improvisation as a way to be adaptive and flexible in uncertainty, while problem-solving as a solution to overcome the obstacles faced.
I started from an ambitious goal by making a feature-length hybrid film for my graduation showcase in my two years of master study. Facing problems like lack of money, insufficient network to find talents and limited time to acquire local knowledge of the working styles in the country, I met a lot of challenges. When I solved the problems one by one within this filmmaking process, I gradually realized I relied quite a lot on improvisation. It does not only apply on the set when I worked with the actors, but also on scriptwriting, crew recruiting, locations scouting, shots creation, etc.
The turning point for me to change from coincidental (unplanned) improvisation (because it is needed with problem solving) to deliberate (planned) improvisation started from my second half of principal photography (or simply called production/filming) stage because more uncertainty emerged and I started to get used to such style.
At the end, I made two versions of the films with different levels of improvisational practice. I will reflect my whole filmmaking process and its connection with improvisation from my film products.
Kim Sangdon Project
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Duke Choi
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Kim Sangdon (b. 1901-1986) is a historical Korean activist and political figure. This is an archive that was constructed through independent artistic research and proposes as a long-term initiative to actualize methodologies to present to the public.
Institutionally, the history of his activities are either edited or nonexistent. Numerous applications to acknowledge this research have been widely denied by the South Korean government, largely due to the opposition nature toward former dictatorships and a restriction to fund anything political.
An outreach by a community organization known as the Korean Resource Center in Los Angeles recognized the preservation of this history as their own and invited the project to be presented. To be effective an 8-channel installation was implemented for a linear timeline while each channel is an own singular research narrative in order to better understand and spend time the in-depth material.
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What kind of artistic research practices would enable us to reflect and respond effectively to the urgencies of our moment? In my artistic research, I test my own limits as a documentary film-maker. Very often I feel unqualified to be the one to write about the documentary practices and so rather than write, I shoot. By creating a documentary self-portrat, I test the limits of my own capabilities to respond to the situations around me, to capture the essence of my own being as a human. I do not strive to capture "myself" but rather to explore the process itself. We tend to forget that although we consider ourselves "artists", we very often feel insecure, and this insecurity limits us from reaching beyond the safe margins of our abilities. But it is never to late to go further, never too early to find a new way of expression.open exposition comments (0)
Inspired by Peter Sloterdijk’s investigation dissecting Micro- and Macro- spherology in his trilogy Spheres, and by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, the moving image project sin ∞ fin – The Movie by VestAndPage is based on various stages of research to conjugate performance art with filmmaking. Its final result consists of an art film trilogy produced along the course of three years in the following artist-in-residence programs: CONFL!CTA Contemporary Art and Science Research (Punta Arenas, Chile, 2010); Sarai CSDS Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (New Delhi, India, 2011); Cultural Program of the DNA Dirección Nacional del Antártico (Antarctica / Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012), and based on performances conceived site-specific.open exposition comments (0)