Reflections on walking and the disruptive experience
(2024)
author(s): Kenneth Russo
published in: HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
Our main interest is based on understanding spatial relationships from first-person experience, from our virtual and real body. Through the act of walking, movement in real time, we become cursors that dash across the interface of reality. A continuous process that brings us closer to the production of meanings, new relationships and representations, and also a dialogue with space and time, and the network. This article seeks to present a series of disruptive experiences, documented by the authors themselves, which constitute an exploratory framework of space to discover different symbolic interrelationships, and sketch out constructions of the common space in haptic, political, social and cultural mode. It offers a repository of unexpected, intersubjective encounters, from the empirical practice of walking, which arouses new perspectives to be able to interpret circumstantial spaces, to lose oneself in ‘non-places’, or reflect as to how to approach the landscape and/or the city by opening new imaginaries that add value to the ‘glocal’ place that we traverse and/or inhabit.
Fictioning Hamlet: Dialogues and Diffractions
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Mirko Guido
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Fictioning Hamlet: Dialogues and Diffractions is my ongoing research shared in room 402 at Linnégatan 87, the 15-16-17 May 2019, as a choreographed environment of situations and relationships. It includes participatory practices, texts, audio-video materials and live performance. These were articulated through a research process I embarked on in the spring of 2018: surprised by the sense of shame I felt when realising I did not know the story of Hamlet, I began dealing with questions about power dynamics between dominant narratives and individual imaginaries. Through the process, I increasingly applied participatory approaches, and staged situations based on strategies of ‘re-fictioning’ as a practice for the construction of alternate realities. My choreographic practice appears via the navigation of the many materials, methods and contexts involved in the process, and in the way they change, respond, and adjust in relation to each other. My idea of expanded choreography begins with thinking the work as a performance device, in which I build-in conditions where response is not only possible, it is what makes the work. My role as author is decentralised in favor of relational thinking. Ethical dimensions of responsivity, responsibility, and inter-subjective relationships lie at the core of this practice. I am committed to working responsively and confronted with and by the complexities each situation and context produce. For this presentation I aimed at making evident, explicit and present the dynamic process of intrasubjective and intersubjective relations that are at the core of this process.