urban peripheries workshop Vol. 1 publication
(2019)
author(s): Maiju Loukola, Bea Tornberg, Una Auri, Virpi Nieminen
published in: Research Catalogue
The exposition is a visual and textual map of exploratory projects by 10 Aalto ARTS students and 12 Universität der Künste students in their collaboratory workshop URBAN PERIPHERIES Vol. 1 in Helsinki/Espoo, during 5-20 February 2019.
The exposition is composed by the Aalto ARTS students and their supervisor, and it reflects the interventional works realised by the ARTS + UdK students, and experimental texts realised by the ARTS students after the actual workshop.
The exposition similarly works as a basis for the second part of URBAN PERIPHERIES (Vol. 2) that will take place in UdK Berlin in December 2019. It thus also outlines possible scenarios to be explored on grounds of the first workshop.
Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device)
(2017)
author(s): Franz Thalmair, Michael Kargl
published in: University of Applied Arts Vienna
Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device) is an experimentally designed scenario in the draft stage, a think-tank and rehearsal for a future exhibition—but Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device) is also an exhibition in itself. Starting from the idea of the copy as a nowadays omnipresent yet more and more invisible artistic practice and form, seven Austrian and international participants discuss different strategies of appropriation. At the center of this public reflection on methodologies is the potential of the act of copying, its generative force and mimetic productivity. The purpose of this test setting is to collect current copying methods and to analyze their modes. By subjecting the copy to the act of copying again, new copying techniques will derive from this process, creating a research loop that is self-reflective and auto-generative at the same time.
OFICINAS COM BAIRRO DO CERCO
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author(s): Clara Sefair
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Ongoing process.
Workshops about public space developed with children and teenagers inhabitants of Bairro do Cerco, Porto, Portugal.
ALMAT @ BEK - Thresholds of the Algorithmic
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author(s): Hanns Holger Rutz, David Pirrò
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Exposition for the workshop-in-exposition taking place in Bergen, Norway, June 2018. This event is a collaboration between Almat and BEK Bergen for Electronic Art, and part of BEK and Notam’s ongoing series of workshops for advanced users. It is a hybrid format that places the workshop inside an exhibition context, where the exposed works and artefacts form the basis of the workshop’s activity. Instead of “closed works”, what is exposed to the general public are objects, sounds or installations that are open to engagement and reconfiguration during the workshop.
Theme: Thresholds are locations of transitions, points where one modality becomes another, where a qualitative change occurs. In physics the point where an aggregate state changes—the phase transition—is a distinguished transitional location where the properties of the adjacent states become evident. Similarly, in this workshop-in-exposition we want to study the properties of the algorithmic by putting ourselves in threshold positions and actively shape them. More than merely separating two sides, one can spend time on a threshold, move along a ridge, performing a tightrope walk while trying not to fall to either side.
The Many and the Form - reflection and reference materials
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author(s): Edit Kaldor
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Reflection text and reference materials of the research project The Many and the Form
by Edit Kaldor
An account and reflection of the processes, phases and outcomes of the research project The Many and the Form, which explored in different contexts how lived experiences can be articulated in and through live performance. The text brings together the various strands within the research and some of the underlying connections between the different components. It aims to communicate about practices and provide insights that can be useful for those who are interested in contemporary theatre making, participation and social imaginaries, as well as for those who have or are curious about immigrant experiences and knowledges.
Reference and documentation materials created as part of the research:
- Digital online archive Inventory of Powerlessness
To accesss, click on http://inventoryofpowerlessness.org/
Interactive digital online archive that was made as part of the research, processing the accounts of lived experiences of 300 participants in the long-term theatre work that preceded and prompted this research project. As part of the preparation for the workshops I wanted to gather and organize these stories in a sharable format which reflected the processes within the performance project. It was important for the current research because it gave me a chance to touch base with its core motivation for creating working methods that allow people to translate lived experiences into live performative situations. Revisiting and reworking the range of experiences that were articulated during the Inventory not only recalled the particular context and the sense of purpose that the research originated in, but also the kinds of procedures I was working with in the Inventory, some of which served as basis for the working methods I have been developing during this research, which were shared in a range of workshops.
I collaborated on the archive with dramaturg intern Joseph Anderson, theatre maker Jurrien van Rheenen and computer programmer Joris Favie. The work consisted of bringing together recorded materials, transcribing them, translating them from one of the five original languages (Dutch, German, Polish, Czech, Greek), making a single version that most closely reflected the different oral versions, and placing them into the digital archive with the connections and categories.
The online archive is an important reference for the research project, as it situates the research in terms of the kinds of lived knowledges that it aims to bring into performance-making.
- Edited video documentation of workshop Ghost in the Machine, December 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAxdAD4kEv4&t=1429s
The video gives an idea of the new strand of the research within the project after Covid made physical presence workshops impossible and the focus of my investigation shifted to exploring situations of digital intimacy and presence through moblie devices. This strand of the research led to the development of the site-specific interactive performance Parallel Life, one of the practical outcomes of The Many and the Form.
Although it’s a short, edited version of a longer series of workshops, the video gives a glimpse of the practice-oriented working processes typical for my workshops.
Figuring things out together: on the relationship between design and collective practice
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author(s): Anja Groten
connected to: Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
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This dissertation of Anja Groten explores matters of collectivity, drawing from the experience of working with the Amsterdam-based collective Hackers & Designers (H&D). The main thesis of this research is that conventional design vocabularies are not capable of sufficiently expressing and accounting for collectivities‘ resistance to fixation and stabilization. Collective design as it is discussed here challenges notions of individual authorship, differentiations between disciplines, between product and process or between the user and maker. While collectives shape particular affiliations and commitments, design approaches and aesthetics, they also require perspectives on working and designing together that resist linearity, and a progress-based understanding of a design process. By means of several case studies, it is argued that the fragmentation of social and work relations is as much a characteristic of collective practice as the effort to sustain long-term relationships.Thus, collective practice is not fully deliberate, at least not in the same way as for instance ‘teamwork’, ‘the commons’, or ‘cooperativism’, are purposeful organizational frameworks for living, working or being together. Collective Collective design processes take part in and are a result of particular (often fragile) socio-economic, socio-technical conditions that pervade and shape the ways collectives function.
Taller de Champeta
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Gigi
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A champetear fue un taller realizado durante el mes de agosto de manera virtual como manera de compartir mi aproximación personal de la champeta y la manera como la he investigado y vivido en la práctica.
Fue un taller para compartir la energía de esta danza durante épocas complejas, volviendo a esa raíz de las danzas afrocaribeñas de la resistencia y resiliencia.
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