FORO NO.2 NODOS ACTIVOS (2023): Artistic Research Through Playing (2023)
(2023)
author(s): Yamil Hasbun Chavarría, Pamela Jiménez Jiménez
published in: Research Catalogue
Systematization of the experiences lived in a space for reflection and dialogue between teachers, researchers and students from various artistic and design fields around the theme “artistic research through playing”.
The games implemented in this forum are the culmination of an extensive design and planning process summarized in a second exposition in this catalog titled DESIGN OF GAMES AS ‘HANDS ON RESEARCH TOOLS’ FOR FORUM No.2 NODOS ACTIVOS: 2023’ (
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1920338/1920339)
This exhibition recounts the experience of playing those games during the month of October 2023, in the facilities of the Center for Artistic Research, Teaching and Extension (CIDEA) and their surroundings, where the four schools of arts and design of the University come together: School of Art and Visual Communication (EACV), Performing Arts (EAE), Dance School and Music School.
Aside from the researchers in charge of the Nodos Activos project, the creative team in charge of the development, design and ‘put to practice’ work implicit in all these research tools/games included EACV students Karolay Mendoza Castrillo, Marian Casanova Guzmán, Iván Sibaja Segura, and Nicole Barboza Alvarez; and EAE student Adrian Campos Chaves.
Breathing into the Ecological Trauma: The Case of Gruinard Island
(2020)
author(s): Christoph Solstreif-Pirker
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
With the performative investigation of Gruinard Island, Scotland, an exemplary non-site of anthropocenic extinction, this research exposition aims for alternative ways of encountering space in the midst of the present ecological crisis. The research exposition suggests an inclusive way of breathing, thinking, and living that merges “with experience, art, ethics, technology, mysticism, science, etc.” (François Laruelle: Principles of Non-Philosophy).
Facing our own imminent extinction, ecological thought can no longer fall back on ideologies toward-death but has to investigate how the immediacy of our planetary all can be encountered in the fullness of its ambivalence. With this affirmative approach, a feminine, birthing approach unfolds, that makes the otherness of the environment an ally for forging practices of vibrant becoming, political responsibility, and mutual trust.
Performative Symposium for Ecological Spectatorship
(2018)
author(s): Juriaan Achthoven, Rhian Morris
published in: Research Catalogue
This page consists of the program of the Performative Symposium for Ecological Spectatorship, that took place on the 16th of October in Het Huis Utrecht.
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The symposium is organised by Gaia’s Machine: an upcoming artistic research collective exploring the intersection between art, technology and nature. Aims for the symposium are:
- Exchange knowledge between arts and sciences leading to a cross-fertilization of ideas and practices related to ecological spectatorship
- Reflect on our positioning as young artists & scientists at a time of ecological crisis
- Open a space for a young generation to question our responsibility and to explore potential methods of moving forward
The term ecological spectatorship draws awareness towards humanity’s entanglement within an ecological web. We approach ‘ecology’ from an ethical perspective, addressing the responsibility we have as a human species in relation to the earth (our oikos). Furthermore, we focus on ‘spectatorship’ – a branch within theatre studies that is concerned with the relation between makers and performers and the audience. We emphatically include the spectator in the performative space. Ecological spectatorship expresses a concern that in our view is not only relevant for theatre makers but also for politically engaged scientists.
In the symposium we will not only take the placement of the spectator into account but we will allow the spectator to become actively engaged in making sense of ecological spectatorship. We are keen to create ample space for the audience to reflect on their experience and to open an exchange of knowledge between both objective and embodied knowledge, and between the collaborators as well as the audience.
We will be researching the proposition of ecological spectatorship through the form of a performative symposium – a play on the traditional form of the symposium by making it both artistic and participatory.
Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device)
(2017)
author(s): Franz Thalmair, Michael Kargl
published in: University of Applied Arts Vienna
Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device) is an experimentally designed scenario in the draft stage, a think-tank and rehearsal for a future exhibition—but Periphrasis (for a ditto, ditto device) is also an exhibition in itself. Starting from the idea of the copy as a nowadays omnipresent yet more and more invisible artistic practice and form, seven Austrian and international participants discuss different strategies of appropriation. At the center of this public reflection on methodologies is the potential of the act of copying, its generative force and mimetic productivity. The purpose of this test setting is to collect current copying methods and to analyze their modes. By subjecting the copy to the act of copying again, new copying techniques will derive from this process, creating a research loop that is self-reflective and auto-generative at the same time.
Material in the artistic process
(2017)
author(s): Michael Kargl
published in: University of Applied Arts Vienna
The materials used in a work of art are not necessarily determined from the start. The contemporary artistic work process involves a great deal of experimenting in order to arrive at the most suitable material to realize an idea. In this test phase one also risks altering the complete work, its parameters, characteristics, and not least its final appearance. This process of material-based transformation has a two-fold effect: first, on the artwork itself (its haptic conditions), and then on its perception, which in turn influences the specific form of aesthetic recognition actuated by the artwork.
4 sides of a triangle
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Marjolein Wagter
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Abstract,
this research was done in the context of the master COMMA, master in choreography for dance, circus and community arts.
Being a performer in outdoor circusarts, I am used to start a creation with an idea for an object, in this case a mobile triangle for aerial performance. I asked my self the question: ‘how to let meaning arise through the practice of creation, using ‘the other’ by listening to reflections and reactions during the creation process.
Breaking boundaries with the audience and ask for feedback during the creation process to get informed about the meaning of the piece is the approach I use
I am interested in how much of influence on the meaning of the piece is the material, the object we work with in itself? I decided to not know what the performance is about until the presentation in May.
GLORIES TO NOTHINGNESS: A Music Research Seminar honouring Accademia degli Incogniti and Claudio Monteverdi
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano, Päivi Järviö, Johannes Boer, Dinko Fabris, Mauro Calcagno, Björn Ross, Charulatha Mani, Elisabeth Holmertz
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
A Music Research Seminar
honouring Accademia degli Incogniti
and Claudio Monteverdi
Palazzo Grimani, Venice
15 June 2017
Nordic Network for Early Opera and Nordic Network for Vocal Performance Research, in collaboration with Scuola di Music Antica Venezia, are delighted to invite you for a performance seminar in Venice 15 June around the theme of vocality, music drama and the vibrant intellectual / artistic scene in Venice around Monteverdi and Accademia degli Incogniti. The idea comes from a desire to offer a fringe-event / sub-encounter / prologue for (among others) participants of the two symposia co-happening in Venice 16-17 June: The Foundazione Cini conference on Monteverdi (16-17 June) and the symposia "Encounters, Discussions, Experimentations: Art, Research and Artistic Research in Music”, the Research Pavilion of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Venice Biennale 2017 (16-17 June)
We are also hoping to meet anyone interested to explore the fairly new academic field of Artistic Research.
Time:
15 June 2017
15:00-18:30
Venue:
Palazzo Grimani, Ruga Giuffa off Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Venezia,