choreo | graphy: artistic research project documentation
(2022)
author(s): Eleanor Bauer
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
This page contains a chronological overview of documented artistic research and expositions created within the doctoral research project "choreo | graphy," at Stockholm University of the Arts. This research project generated text publications (documented here in pdfs), live performances (documented here in videos), scores for those performances, interview podcasts, and works for video, all included herein.
A summary of the project is located at the top of the page, entitled "choreo | graphy: doctoral project summary." It explains the research questions and methodology, offering context and orientation for the expositions and documents on this page. Reading this document as a guide to the Research Catalogue contents will assist in understanding each item in relation to the overall research.
ABSTRACT
The research project "choreo | graphy" is an inquiry into the relationship between thinking through dance and thinking through written language, taking the notion of choreography literally as dancing-writing. Respecting that different media afford different thought processes, ideas, and concepts to be reached, this practice-based artistic research project has unfolded within artistic processes and experiments to explore and develop the relationship between dancing-thinking and writing-thinking. Investigating the media-specificity of thought in dancing together (khoreia) as it relates to the media-specificity of thought in language and specifically writing (graphia), the research strives for an adequate relation between the two, one that serves both art forms and respects their differences. The separation of the word choreography into "choreo | graphy" signals the project’s intention to open space for consideration and reinvention of the poetics of choreographic practice and discourse.
The Drawing Board #6
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Rhiannon Jones
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Traci Kelly and Rhiannon Jones
Writing as object.
Writing as materiality.
Writing through the body.
Writing the subject into being.
A laboured breath, a subversive gesture, a consideration of materiality and difference are the urgent concerns of Traci Kelly and Rhiannon Jones as they write through the body. Resisting narrative and authorship they seek the preform and fractured modes of writing that adhere to a multivalent feminine.
This entry is offered as a sharing of some of the documentation gathered from an emerging body of work-in-progress. There have been encounters with other artists and researchers during the two-month residency, including Terry Shave, who made Kick and Kiss in response to witnessing the collaboration.
The artists have utilised this collaboration to destabilise language and expose its underlying structures. This project offers a feminine approach to writing, which often has a male primacy. The artists are interested in preform, sounds that do not yet make words and the performative quality of the body as both a written language and as a site of inscription. The installation of their residency documentation explores place and plays with the shifting roles of the readerly and the writerly, whether through body or physical spaces the work inhabits.
The Drawing Board
The Drawing Board is a space for handwritten performances that aims to turn a corridor into a destination and to return the walls of an old school building in Nottingham to their former use as a place of display. Curated by Michael Pinchbeck, The Drawing Board explores how we write, how we perform writing and how writing performs.
All rights Kelly and Jones 2018