Scenography in The Age of Distraction : Re-sensitisation to the Present Moment Through the Audible
(2020)
author(s): Fiona Patten
published in: Research Catalogue
This is the Final Research Document written and arranged by Fiona Patten for the studies of MA Scenography at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht, class of 2020
Dancing Recurrences
(2020)
author(s): Brynjar Åbel Bandlien
published in: Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
Dancing Recurrences – a performative practice within the field of dance and dance making
by Brynjar Åbel Bandlien
My research project aims to articulate and develop a performative practice that I have been working on over the last fifteen years. This practice can be applied to artistic processes within the field of dance and dance making.
When a creative process is fully underway, certain situations, events, actions, movements, and states can be recognized as recurrent within the process. Recurrences, rather than being created or produced, manifest or emerge from the dancer´s practice. Once they have been recognized they can be understood and pursued as a forming aspect of artistic processes.
The artistic aim has been to follow, participate, co-create and navigate in artistic processes using recurrences. The performative practice of recurrences is articulated by the presentations of #dancingrecurrences and the reflection materials of my dissertation. My two research questions are:
How can the practice of recurrences become a way to understand artistic work as it develops?
How can working with recurrences become both a performative practice within artistic processes and an artistic work in and of itself?
I have been researching these questions from the position of a dancer, and I have asked these questions in different ways; through dance, through drawing and by interviewing other artists, dancers and dance makers. I have initiated my own research process; #dancingrecurrences, together with four other dancer researchers, starting from practice and from there moving on to reflection. I approach recurrences both as a practice and a reflection, with the assumption that within a dancer´s practice the mind and body are so deeply connected that they cannot be considered separately. Reflection is a physical process as well as a mental one, and practice is a conceptualization process as well as a physical activity.
At the same time as I have been researching these questions on my own, they have been explored following the artistic processes of the project Amphibious Trilogies by Amanda Steggell, professor of choreography at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). This makes the project an interesting collaboration both structurally and in content. However, in the final presentation of my work the focus will be on Dancing Recurrences and #dancingrecurrences.
The work has resulted in a final publication of my reflections based on the findings informed by the artistic processes. The performative practice has resulted in three public presentations.
The Dark Precursor
(last edited: 2015)
author(s): Paulo de Assis, Paolo Giudici
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The Dark Precursor: International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research (DARE 2015) explores possibilities, uses, and appropriations of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s philosophy in the field of Artistic Research. As references to Deleuze’s philosophy, alone or in collaboration with Guattari, have become frequent across the varied expressions of artistic research, the conference aims to identify, trace, and map concepts and practices that connect artistic research projects to their philosophy, both from the scholar’s and from the practitioner’s perspectives. DARE 2015 takes place from 9 to 11 November 2015 in three different venues: the Orpheus Institute, De Bijloke Muziekzentrum, and the Sphinx cinema, all in walkable distance from one another and within the city centre of Ghent (Belgium).
The conference is hosted by the Orpheus Institute, the leading European centre for artistic research in music, which is home to the docARTES doctoral programme, the Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM), and the MusicExperiment21 project funded by the European Research Council.