Building upon Ruins – Interweaving Metaphors
(2023)
author(s): Joanna Magierecka
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
Does the complexity of a work of art, composed of diverging narratives, present a possibility to connect to what we do not grasp? In this exposition I present interweaving as a compositional technique and dramaturgical strategy, through aspects of the creative process connected to and elements of three installations – part of a series called Ruins. The installations combine different aspects of storytelling, participatory strategies, media, and forms of expression. I believe that interweaving different and diverging fragments, allowing audience members to create their own performance dramaturgy and experience, can create an understanding of others and their experience. In that lies the possibility for a shared story – a collective story. Interweaving as a method is also present in the dramaturgy of the text itself – building up to an audio-visual representation of those elements and the written text. In this way, I hope the exposition lets the reader and me both investigate interweaving as a technique and experience it.
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