FROM ART TO ECONOMY AND BACK: Initial steps towards the understanding of resonance, affect and love in nomadic systems through the case study of Lisbon Drawing Club
(2024)
author(s): Lígia Fernandes
published in: Research Catalogue
This research builds on 20 years of combined experience in economics and art, exploring how economic and relational systems shape emotional landscapes. The study investigates the intersection of art and economy through the lens of love, using resonance and affect to understand their relational dynamics. With a focus on nomadic practices exemplified by the Lisbon Drawing Club, the research examines how community-oriented art fosters relational bonds and emotional responses, particularly through drawing sessions. Employing autoethnographic and desire-based approaches, the project integrates mapping, community engagement, and artistic experimentation to deepen insights into art-economy relationships.
Love of God - Group Exhibition: A Retrospective Virtual Gallery
(2022)
author(s): Jeffrey Cobbold
published in: Research Catalogue
Love of God - Group Exhibition
Curated by Jeffrey Cobbold
September 14 - October 19, 2019
Artworks Trenton, Trenton, New Jersey (U.S.A)
2019 Curatorial Statement:
“…I will find you. I will always find you……A loving heart is the truest wisdom……To believe and be satisfied with just the way things are……No one has ever seen God……Jesus……Love is a circle……And what comes around goes around…”
The words above come from Love of God (L.O.G) Audio Quotation Database, a DIY online database and digital humanities project I started in 2015 when I was working as an intern within the Love of God Retreat Program in Lawrenceville, NJ. In order to create the database I asked the program’s high school student participants to find quotes about love and God that would help them reflect on the meaning of these words within their retreat program. These quotes are now the heart and inspiration for Love of God – Group Exhibition, which presents works from a selection of artists exploring issues of love and God revealed through artistic practice.
The artists featured in this volume are:
Jessica Browne-White (sculpture)
Jeffrey Cobbold (sound, video, text)
Devonte Roach (film)
Marina de Bernado Sanchis (drawing)
Together they create multiple entry points for one to consider the character of love, God and the intersections of both in our ever changing world.
Love of God – Group Exhibition takes on the spirit of the Love of God Retreat Program in Lawrenceville, NJ with its necessity for inclusive understandings about love and God. While Jesus was a central topic of discussion within the retreat program, there was no mandated opinion one was expected to have about him. Rather, the unifying aspect of this program was an affinity for music and the arts within the expression of community. Their community was intersectional, dealing with the differences of varied socio-economic statuses, sexual identities and divergent relationships with the organized Christian church amongst so many other forms of diversity.
The retreat program no longer exists as it did in 2015 due the disbursement of its high school participants and changes in adult leadership. The online database is now a relic of the digital humanities project that occurred at that time. Yet, this exhibition is an initial step toward sharing a glimpse of the spirit of this retreat program with others. I sincerely hope that the spirit of this exhibition will connect with you as you search for love and God in your personal life and within the communities you serve everyday.
Love of God Community Conversation (Luke 1:5-45)
October 12, 2019
Artworks Trenton, Trenton, New Jersey (U.S.A)
Featured presentation:
"Love, God, and Community" by Simone Oliver
2019 Community Conversation Statement:
This community conversation seeks to provide a space for theological and artistic reflection within the Love of God – Group Exhibition. A team of presenters will offer their individual reflections on love, God and community through engagement with Luke 1:5-45. Presenters will also consider the works of contemporary art and case study materials within the Love of God – Group Exhibition to aide their presentations. A time for discussion will be had between presenters and the audience for better articulation and understanding of divergent pathways toward love, God and community that can be useful for work in Christian ministry and contemporary art & culture.
HONEYMOON IN POMPEII - work in progress
(2021)
author(s): Sven Vinge
published in: International Center for Knowledge in the Arts (Denmark)
“HONEYMOON IN POMPEII – work-in-progress” is an artistic research project conducted at the National Film School of Denmark. In it, I explore transmediality through the production of a prototype artwork spanning film, literary text, sculpture, and virtual reality all loosely inspired by the archeological technique used to cast the Pompeian victims of the Vesuvius eruption in 79 ad.
I describe my initial inspiration and how I changed my intentions of exploring a consistent storyworld to more abstract associations and themes and the different collaborative efforts in producing the four parts of the prototype (a test not meant for public exhibition). The prototype ended up consisting of:
1) A film representing a foot specialist helping a costumer try running shoes in a sports store but showing an obsessive interest in her feet and crossing her personal boundaries.
2) A literary text consisting of selected passages of Wilhelm Jensen’s short novel “Gradiva” (1902) translated to Danish in which we meet the young archeologist Norbert Hanold and notice his obsession with an ancient bas-relief portraying a young woman walking.
3) A sculpture consisting of four transparent plastic reliefs depicting a walking woman (copies of the bas-relief described in the novel) suspended in a 1x2x2 meter aluminum frame.
4) An erotic virtual reality experience in which the perceiver’s bodily movements affects the virtual world. When moving, the represented scene freezes and vice versa.
We conducted a test of the joint transmedia artwork with a small group of respondents who answered a questionnaire reflecting on their experience. I reflect on the respondent’s answers and propose further questions and themes that may be interesting to explore through artistic research: How does one explore transmediality not necessarily in relation to a consistent storyworld but also relying on abstract characteristics? What are the limits (if any) between mixed media art, transmedia art, and installation art? How can transmediality be explored as either a goal in itself or as a development tool for artists working with particular media in mind? Could it be beneficial to explore transmediality through the metaphor of archeology and how?
On intimacy,
(2019)
author(s): Eugene A. Kim
published in: Research Catalogue
This poetics study seeks to answer a question like, "What is music?"; its conclusion would be something like, "It's sharing time with the Other." Investigations into how one shares time with the other, privately or publicly, leads the author to intersect personal observations within musicking and resonant concepts from various other domains, such as ethics and love. The result outlines a sparse poetics of being (loving) with the other—this principle inseparable from musical practice.
Practices for the future / an Artogrphic approach
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Sebastian Ruiz Bartilson
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Task submission for course Dokumentation, reflektion och kritisk granskning / Documentation, Reflection and Critical Review
Application of Artographic methods towards own and/ or others dance practice.
Project "Practices for the future"
LOVE LETTERS
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Joonas Lahtinen
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
LOVE LETTERS is an ongoing multimodal artistic research project exploring strategies and politics of participation, love letters as a form of communication, performativity of text and writing, intimacy and (imagined) boundaries between the "private" and the "public", forms of fandom, discourses on liveness, and the materiality and performativity of the LED ticker as an artistic medium.
PROJECT TIMELINE AND CONTRIBUTIONS
2024 // Lecture Performance "How to Facilitate Careful Listening and Non-Coercive Participation in Artistic Research? LED Tickers and Love Letter Writing as Research Tools", Forum Artistic Research // Symposium "Listen for Beginnings", Gustav Mahler Private University Klagenfurt
(Proceedings article forthcoming in 2025)
2023-2024 // Participatory installation at the Kunstzelle // WUK Vienna and Vienna Art Week 2023 festival
2020-2022 // Experiments within the frame of the artistic research project "TACTICS for a COLLECTIVE BODY" at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, PI's: Renata Epifanio Lamenza and Stef Assandri
2021 // video contributions LOVE LETTER TO JENNY HOLZER and WHEN? WHEN? WHEN? in the Facebook Lockdown Calendar of WUK performing arts Vienna
Gestaltande...
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano, Liv Kristin Holmberg, Mark Douglas Edmund Price, Cha Blasco, K Benedikte L Esperi
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Vad innebär det att gestalta Guds kärlek?
Denna inledande fråga upplöses i nya riktningar och förståelser: 'Gestalta är att leva'. 'Gestaltande är en människas idé om Guds kärlek'. 'Gestalta är att skapa skönhet' och ’fördjupad medvetenhet om små rörelser'. 'Gestalta innebär att inkludera'. 'Gestalta är att vara Kristi tjänare'. 'Gestalta är ett tillblivande'.
Ord har under våren 2020 'tagit gestalt' genom existentiella samtal mellan anställda och ideella i Carl Johans pastorat i Göteborg. Dessa ord och tankar formar grunden till en serie konstnärligt gestaltande (existentiella) laboratorier, som i sin tur får resultera i en performance installation med premiär under 'diakonins månad', september 2021.
This poetics study seeks to answer a question like, "What is music?"; its conclusion would be something like, "It's sharing time with the Other." Investigations into how one shares time with the other, privately or publicly, leads the author to intersect personal observations within musicking and resonant concepts from various other domains, such as ethics and love. The result outlines a sparse poetics of being (loving) with the other—this principle inseparable from musical practice.open exposition comments (0)
Task submission for course Dokumentation, reflektion och kritisk granskning / Documentation, Reflection and Critical Review Application of Artographic methods towards own and/ or others dance practice. Project "Practices for the future"open exposition comments (0)
Vad innebär det att gestalta Guds kärlek? Denna inledande fråga upplöses i nya riktningar och förståelser: 'Gestalta är att leva'. 'Gestaltande är en människas idé om Guds kärlek'. 'Gestalta är att skapa skönhet' och ’fördjupad medvetenhet om små rörelser'. 'Gestalta innebär att inkludera'. 'Gestalta är att vara Kristi tjänare'. 'Gestalta är ett tillblivande'. Ord har under våren 2020 'tagit gestalt' genom existentiella samtal mellan anställda och ideella i Carl Johans pastorat i Göteborg. Dessa ord och tankar formar grunden till en serie konstnärligt gestaltande (existentiella) laboratorier, som i sin tur får resultera i en performance installation med premiär under 'diakonins månad', september 2021.open exposition comments (0)