At Cross Purposes, reflections on constellations
(2024)
author(s): Janne Schipper
connected to: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
published in: Research Catalogue
When gazing at the night sky together with someone, it can be challenging to guide the other person’s attention to a specific star or cluster. To completely follow the alignment of the eyes and the tip of the index finger to the object in mind would require us to climb into the other, to see the world through their eyes. How do we know if we have the same star in mind as the person next to us? Are we talking at cross-purposes?
At Cross Purposes, reflections on constellations, comprises three texts by different authors on language, narrative, sign and signification, as well as poetry and anxiety in art.
Raising the Voice: Sculptural and Spoken Narratives from the Flat Sheet
(2021)
author(s): Hannah Clarkson
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition explores ideas of narrative and storytelling through sculptures and texts raised from a flat sheet, a kind of visual and spoken poetry which is both particular and multiple.
In this paper, the key area of investigation will be the relationship between sculptural and spoken narratives in my practice. This is engaged with in four main areas:
• The flat sheet and the fold as sites for storytelling
• Multiplicities inherent to storytelling
• Architecturality and the space between bodies and buildings
• Words, text and the voice, and their relationship to sculpture
I explore the role of the architectural in the space between sculptural and spoken narratives, both of which are forms that begin with a flat sheet. The research also looks at how one might write about art in order to expand understanding but not reduce it to one meaning, writing around or through objects so as to leave gaps for the imagination and other narratives. The importance of the voice in the telling of these narratives is investigated, as well as the relationship between bodies and buildings.
Self-portraiture: on photography’s reflexive surface
(2016)
author(s): Elisavet Kalpaxi
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition deals with narcissism, narrativity, self-portraiture, and photography. It illustrates a practice-based research project instigated in 2007 that aims to decode and recover narcissism as a useful sense-making scenario or system. This approach can help make sense of photography and self-portraiture in the present, and can be employed in the development of visual strategies in photographic self-portraiture.
Here I present the practical work that was produced and the theory that influenced my practice: namely, the revaluation of the relationship between self-portraiture and narcissism, and ideas from the semiotics of photography and narrative theory. The three main sections of the exposition illustrate the chronological development of my work, and each section is divided into two parts.
The first part of each section presents the practical work, whereas the second part illustrates the theoretical aspect of this project, which stems from a wish to reflect on my own art practice and increase my understanding of self-portraiture, while also interrogating narrative codes and devices in photography, such as the double, mise en abyme, and mirroring structures, and their association with narcissism. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, semiotics, and narratology, I argue that narcissism in self-portraiture can simultaneously represent an imaginary withdrawal of the artist, a structure within the work, and a vehicle for narrativity. By eluding structured language systems, narcissism provides a vocabulary for narrativising procedures, as well as meeting the artist’s/viewer’s modes of engagement.
These ideas informed the practical component of the research project and provided the basis for a number of visual strategies employed in the development of the photographic self-portraits that are presented in the second part of each section. In these sections, I also explain the different strategies adopted in producing my images: the role of codes, narrative devices, layering, and reframing for understanding the density of an image and its inherent narcissism. In the process I propose that narcissism should receive a much more central role in the consideration of images and the way they communicate with a contemporary audience.
HALL09 - Vilnius
(last edited: 2022)
author(s): Breg Horemans, Siebren Nachtergaele, Gert-Jan Stam
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This page is part of TAAT's Live Archive. It's an attempt to structure the archival material of the project HALL33. We focus on scripting a specific workshop-performance that took place Match 10-11th in Vilnius, Lithuania. For this workshop-performance embedded researcher Siebren Nachtergaele (UGent/HOGent) was part of the team as an inside/outside eye in co-assembling of this script/archive page. This page functions as a residu of an embodied and reflective proces, visually meandering between action and extraction. TAAT is founded in 2012 by Gert-Jan Stam and Breg Horemans.
When gazing at the night sky together with someone, it can be challenging to guide the other person’s attention to a specific star or cluster. To completely follow the alignment of the eyes and the tip of the index finger to the object in mind would require us to climb into the other, to see the world through their eyes. How do we know if we have the same star in mind as the person next to us? Are we talking at cross-purposes? At Cross Purposes, reflections on constellations, comprises three texts by different authors on language, narrative, sign and signification, as well as poetry and anxiety in art.open exposition comments (0)
This page is part of TAAT's Live Archive. It's an attempt to structure the archival material of the project HALL33. We focus on scripting a specific workshop-performance that took place Match 10-11th in Vilnius, Lithuania. For this workshop-performance embedded researcher Siebren Nachtergaele (UGent/HOGent) was part of the team as an inside/outside eye in co-assembling of this script/archive page. This page functions as a residu of an embodied and reflective proces, visually meandering between action and extraction. TAAT is founded in 2012 by Gert-Jan Stam and Breg Horemans.open exposition comments (0)