Running as Connective Practice?
(2024)
author(s): Falk Hubner, Heleen de Hoon
published in: Fontys Academy of the Arts
In this exposition, Falk Hübner and Heleen de Hoon share the process and reflections of their collaborative research project "Running Tilburg". In this project, Falk aimed to connect to an urban surrounding by means of long distance running.
In September 2021, Falk Hübner started his work as professor of Artistic Connective Practices at Fontys Academy of the Arts in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Together with dramaturge Heleen de Hoon, he decided to get to know and connect to the city and the new surroundings by running it, and explore running as a connective practice - literally through spending time with feet on the ground.
Heleen and Falk asked a group of colleagues, all living in the city, to share places to run by, and related stories to these places. Guided by these stories Falk and Heleen created a map and a script for a 53K run, documented by video, photos and field notes. Rather than presenting conclusive findings and final reflections, the purpose of this exposition is to share the documentation of the process and the experience. Thus, we understand the project and this exposition quite literally as a first step to lead to potentially next and new steps.
LESSONS in the SHADOWS of DEATH
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Laasonen Belgrano, Price, Hjälm, Carlsson Redell, Ideström
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The research project 'Lessons in the Shadows of Death' explores and exposes an almost lost tradition of public mourning - the Art of Lamentation. The project follows the structure of the 17th century musical genre 'Leçons de Ténèbres' – traditionally composed as vocal ‘lessons’ performed during Easter week contemplating the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC and based on the Biblical Lamentations.
The overall purpose is to create and promote an intra-active 'grief-entangled' music practice in relation to public mourning and wounds of loss. Previous artistic research on vocal mad scenes, lamentations and Nothingness (Laasonen Belgrano 2011) and performance philosophical explorations of apophenia and autopoesis (Price 2017) has since 2019 merged and developed into a growing archive investigating ‘ornamentation-as methodology’.
The primary aim of this project is to transform the ornamented music and words of Michel Lambert’s nine Leçons de Tenebres from 1661 into nine video-essays. Together with an international network of artists and scholars we will bring the 17th century musical mourning to a contemporary Jerusalem – a city which lives as a symbol of any falling, wounded and embodied space-time. The project reconfigures the Art of Lamentation as a living practice for a wounded world in need of re-learning how to attend to existential consciousness and communal grief.The research project 'Lessons in the Shadows of Death' explores and exposes an almost lost tradition of public mourning - the Art of Lamentation. The project follows the structure of the 17th century musical genre 'Leçons de Ténèbres' – traditionally composed as vocal ‘lessons’ performed during Easter week contemplating the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC and based on the Biblical Lamentations.
The overall purpose is to create and promote an intra-active 'grief-entangled' music practice in relation to public mourning and wounds of loss. Previous artistic research on vocal mad scenes, lamentations and Nothingness (Laasonen Belgrano 2011) and performance philosophical explorations of apophenia and autopoesis (Price 2017) has since 2019 merged and developed into a growing archive investigating ‘ornamentation-as methodology’.
The primary aim of this project is to transform the ornamented music and words of Michel Lambert’s nine Leçons de Tenebres from 1661 into nine video-essays. Together with an international network of artists and scholars we will bring the 17th century musical mourning to a contemporary Jerusalem – a city which lives as a symbol of any falling, wounded and embodied space-time.
The project reconfigures the Art of Lamentation as a living practice for a wounded world in need of re-learning how to attend to existential consciousness and communal grief.
Participação cidadã na construção e representação de cidades: contributos de uma etnografia da produção informal do espaço urbano
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Ana Miriam Rebelo
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Suporte da comunicação feita no 1º encontro de Projeto e Ciências Sociais - FAUL - Lisboa
Resumo
Esta comunicação enquadra-se no âmbito de um projeto de investigação que pretende contribuir para a promoção da participação cidadã na construção das cidades e das suas representações, cada vez mais determinantes para os processos de desenvolvimento urbano. A partir do reconhecimento e da análise das interligações entre a cidade e a sua imagem, a investigação incide sobre práticas e estéticas da construção informal na cidade do Porto, abordando a questão da participação em ambas as vertentes: produção de espaço urbano e produção de representações de cidade.
Partindo do pressuposto de que qualquer representação de cidade é necessariamente fragmentária e que deve por isso coexistir, dialogar e confrontar-se com outras representações, procura-se contribuir para um cenário imagético diversificado, observando e expondo dimensões informais dos processos de produção do espaço urbano, frequentemente deslegitimadas, senão proibidas, mas por vezes também alvo de estratégias de comodificação.
A comunicação centra-se no trabalho de pesquisa etnográfica em curso, defendendo a importância desta metodologia para a produção de representações de cidade que possam refletir a complexidade, a diversidade e as contradições que caracterizam a urbanidade. Faz-se uma análise dos dados recolhidos até ao momento e da abordagem que temos vindo a empregar, essencialmente baseada na fotografia - enquanto ferramenta de documentação e enquanto instrumento discursivo - e na recolha de testemunhos junto de habitantes, recorrendo a diferentes metodologias.
Pretende-se partilhar o processo e a reflexão metodológica que o acompanha, assim como discutir as perspetivas de aplicação do material recolhido, no âmbito do nosso projeto assim como no de projetos em diferentes áreas da investigação e da prática da arte, do design, da arquitetura ou do ativismo.