Fragments in Time
(2022)
author(s): Tobias Leibetseder, Thomas Grill, almut schilling, Till Bovermann
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
The processual sculpture "Fragments" is in permanent development and consists of artefacts of the "Rottings Sounds" project of artistic research*. Waste, things collected, things stored and things put aside, texts, pictures, data, sounds etc. are the basis of the shape-changing work. It is located at the Auditorium of Rotting Sounds. For this exposition, media representations of physical fragments have been arranged, then subjected to multiple stages of erosion processes specific to digital data. Object or exhibition, museum or archive, collection or documentation are moments of intrinsic research and decomposition, accompanying the process and resting in the distant but immediate eye of the virtual observer.
*"Rotting Sounds – Embracing the temporal deterioration of digital audio" is a cooperation of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. It is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as project AR445-G24.
Het Urban Future-project
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Hans Scholten
connected to: Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Central to this research of Hans Scholten is the Urban Future-project, which consists of a large archive of artworks made from 2002 until now. The original question underpinning this project was: what influence do chaos, entropy and fragmentation have on the viability of the rapidly developing urbanizing world?
In the course of the research project, the (literature and field) explorations led to the assumption that there is a demonstrable and necessary link between the quality of life in the city and vital social cohesion on the one hand and chaos, entropy and fragmentation on the other. In the artistic part of the research focuses on the question: is it possible to make the supposed connection between quality of urban life and chaos, entropy and fragmentation visible in artwork and, if so, how? In the written dissertation, working methods and strategies are contextualized and analyzed. The visual part derives from an artist's position which uses non-verbal, sensorial strategies to reach new insights. It mainly focuses on the visual and aesthetic possibilities of aspects of fragmentation, chaos and entropy because Scholten considers these aspects, as productive forces, to be the core of the experience of urbanization.
Entropy in Muziektheater
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Wen Chin Fu
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Name: Wen Chin Fu
Main Subject: Entropy in Music Theatre
Research Supervisor: Paul Slangen and Paul Koek
Title of Research: The state of entropy in Muziektheater
Research Question: How do artists from different disciplines work together?
Summary of Results:
For the last 40 years, Music Theatre has been a unique field in performance art in Holland. It always full of surprise , inspiring ideas and fun in Muziektheater. How does artists from different disciplines work together? What is happening in the process of making art? What is the psychological and physical reaction of artists during the process of making? When I work with other artists, am I fully aware of my role in this collaboration? Am I satisfied with myself? Do we believe what we made is what we really want? Do we know our audiences? This are the question I have asked myself repeatedly last year. I was eager to find an answer to my questions. In the process I discovered the entropy theory. In this research, I'll try to analyze, explain , experiment and experience the idea of entropy in the process of making. Entropy happens when there is an energy trigger point(an action), it is not a result, it is a state of process.
Marcel Duchamp mentioned in his talk The Creative Act: “The creative act is not performed by artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
Biography:
Wen Chin Fu graduated in 2006 from the Classical Music Department of Shih Chien University, Taipei, and continued her studies at the ArtScience interfaculty of The Hague, where she graduated in 2010 and currently studies in the second year master in T.I.M.E. Her performances explore the relationship between physical movement, sound and the environment. She has been developing various instruments. All the instruments focus on the relation between the material and physical movement. A key element of her practice is concentration, which opens the senses for perceiving things through new perspectives.