Multiplayer - Softenings and Inquiries into Matters of Toxoplasmatic Ectoplasm
(2024)
author(s): Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
published in: Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
This project investigates Western musical instruments as being critical and even dangerous sites, which should be approached with the greatest of caution.
Approached as liminal interfaces between the living and the dead, suspended between past(s) and present(s), turning these instruments into both paranormal and parasitic sites, which should be treated as such.
Instruments as pathological contaminated bodies of parasitic discourse ready to jump at you and embed themselves in you, sedimenting within you and, subsequently, playing you.
Instruments as haunted sites saturated with ghostlike matters of toxoplasmatic ectoplasm, fostering ghosts with the capacity to possess and inflict pain on to other bodies, active in the past as well in the present.
With an interest in the notion of instrumentalization and what instruments can mean, control, and do to bodies, instruments are approached from a safe(r) distance through different (group) interventions, raising questions on how best to emolliate and soften the instrumental body?
How to soften the big silent? How to soften the sedimented?
in the flesh
(2021)
author(s): Virpi Nieminen
published in: Research Catalogue
In this exposition I reflect on an artistic research project I conducted from fall 2020 through spring 2021, as a student of scenography in Aalto University.
The base for the artistic research project was the idea of corporality, touch, flesh, materiality and aesthetics as something excessive and peripheral in the context of the Aalto University campus. I explored bodily excesses by working with sculptural objects formed by bodycasting, a method that produces a surplus of bodyparts. I was also interested in the process of working with my hands, and working through touching and being with the sculptural objects and materials.
As the process evolved the questions came to circulate around the issues of knowledge and the unknown. What kind of knowledge can working with these objects and materials lead me toward? Can that knowledge be articulated into language? How to work with things that language doesn't reach?
The research project was executed aside the peripheries in parallax: BRAVE NEW PERIPHERIES -conference organised by the four-year “Floating Peripheries – mediating the sense of place” artistic research project.
Diffracting the Copenhagen Interpretation
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Søren Kjærgaard, Amilcar Lucien Packer Yessouroun, Carla Zaccagnini
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This KUV project intends to investigate, through theory and practical experiments, the possible implications that concepts such as spacetime, entanglement, uncertainty, non-locality, and diffraction, proposed by quantum physics, have on artistic practice and narratives.
As a collaboration among artists from different fields and different Educational Institutions, the research will nourish from this encounter as well as from the interaction with students and the contributions of specialists.
Between control and uncertainty
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Marta Wörner Sarabia
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
"Between control and uncertainty" is a practice-led research that combines the kinetic study of the body as a structure and the implementation of media and expanded choreography tools to de-pattern the conventional relationship between body and space in performative environments.
Moreover, on a meta-level, the investigation reflects on the tension between control and uncertainty in the act of research itself.
With the firm belief that the body has inherent philosophical and epistemological knowledge which can be activated by experiencing and observing movement, I embraced the challenge to name and contextualize that knowledge.
This inquiry started from my fascination for the kinetics of the body and its ability to reorganize itself in comparison with other micro and macro structures that do not move that way, such a, for example, the microstructures of materials like metal, rocks or the macrostructures built by the geography of the city and the Port of Rotterdam.
The interdisciplinary research addresses the dichotomy structure-destructure and its application and affections to the body. In this sense, the research proposes a tool for de-patterning the habitual relationship between the body of the performer and the external space and offers to the audience a door for de-patterning their relationship with performative spaces.
The research has been framed under the inspirational umbrella of the idea of performing the Deleuzian concept of “becoming”, (deriving from the Latin verb “devenire” which means “coming down, falling in, arriving to”).
The physical inquiry is focused on the action of “falling in”, "devenire". The exploration led to an articulated and defined set of physical and interdisciplinary exercises that are the core of the dance practice ‘falling in’.
In concordance with the practice, the findings of this research can be seen as ways of controlling and ways of facilitating, allowing, provoking uncertainty within the choreographic practice-led research frame.
This research artistically materialized in the performance Falling in. Notes on body space and matter premiered in 2019.
Morphogenesis as Superstructure, retrospective exhibition
(last edited: 2016)
author(s): Daniel Romero Nieto
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Morphogenesis; "The Origin of the shape" and Superstructure; "The multiscale process of creation and perception of the form." Was born as a particular need to communicate the experience to live science and art in parallel. Which tends to explore the potential of the transition states of mind and matter in the processes of perception and creation. With the goal of expanding our worldview of the universe, by combining the science and art methodologies trough the sense organs.
Unveiling that the Universe around us, this deep and aesthetically structured.
Morphogenesis; "The Origin of the shape" and Superstructure; "The multiscale process of creation and perception of the form." Was born as a particular need to communicate the experience to live science and art in parallel. Which tends to explore the potential of the transition states of mind and matter in the processes of perception and creation. With the goal of expanding our worldview of the universe, by combining the science and art methodologies trough the sense organs. Unveiling that the Universe around us, this deep and aesthetically structured.open exposition comments (0)