PROVENIR DEL PORVENIR
(2024)
author(s): Paula Urbano
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
In Provenir del porvenir Urbano hovers through the fields of sociology, archaeology and philosophy while reflecting on the different mediations of the work: the guided tour, the performance lecture and the video essay. The exposition is based on a speculative artistic-historiographic project where the artist, in the context and aesthetics of the Museum of History, connects her own genealogy with the North. The investigation is a response to recurrent question to people of color living in Scandinavia: “Where do you come from?” This question leads to an epistemological enquire, discussing the limits of knowledge production on a scientific basis versus knowledge production on an artistic basis.
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.
The Unimportance of Why - exploring liminal space in narrative gaps
(2024)
author(s): Sara Key
published in: Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
Master in Film & Media, Thesis project, SKH/Stockholm University of the Arts - the Art of Impact 2024
Film as doing philosophy, and the liminal experience explored within the narrative gap of character creation, as a space for pre-reflective thought and attention.
Themes of Melancholy and Memory works as architecture for experimenting with spatiality and temporality.
With ideas of Film as Poetic Art, I have explored the How and Now in film acting with a tension dependent non-linear script motivated by the works of filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
What happens with us as filmmakers when we refuse to answer questions? What happens with the spectator when we refuse to give answers? Is there a gap created or are the gaps the magic that happens in between the creation?
Stitches and Sutures. Textile Metaphors and Graphic Topologies as Methodological Artistic Tools
(2023)
author(s): Barbara Graf
published in: University of Applied Arts Vienna
Barbara Graf (Center Research Focus, PhD candidate PhD in Art) takes Jacques Lacan’s notions of the ‘upholstery button’ and the ‘suture’ as starting points to explore textile metaphors as methodological tools for her artistic practice, informed by her own bodily sensory experiences and experience of paresthesia as a person affected by MS. Graf’s contribution "Stitches and Sutures" searches for images of the invisible and explores how deeply subjective experiences can be made accessible and adequately expressed.
Exercises in Existential Eccentricity. Conceptualising autoimmunity as a variation of the conditio humana
(2023)
author(s): Barbara Macek
published in: University of Applied Arts Vienna
Barb Macek (PhD candidate and fellow (DOC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Fine Arts & Media Arts) takes as her starting point self-reflections and her own experiences with the autoimmune disease SLE. She approaches the phenomenon of autoimmunity in relation to fundamental human ambiguity, following the philosophical anthropology of Helmuth Plessner. Macek’s contribution, "Exercises in Existential Eccentricity", explores the bio-philosophical dimension of the disease rather than its bio-medical dimension, showing how autoimmunity raises existential-phenomenological questions regarding bodily ownership, the self, and the notion of the body as “one’s own”. From an assumed embodied diversity, she designs an artistic technique, EEE - Exercises in Existential Eccentricity, drawing on the technique of auto-interviewing, autoethnography and poetics to facilitate a dialogue between different inner voices.
Fertility / 'Will You Carry Me?!'
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author(s): Nina Goedegebure
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Artist, actress and writer Nina Goedegebure conducts artistic research into the polyphony of a disease process at the Master Crossover Creativity @HKU, with two transdisciplinary projects; Fertility and 'Will You Carry Me?!'
Starting from the question: How are we carried within a disease process? she investigates the effect of art during a disease process, and/or treatment.
She is driven by the idea that in destruction lies creation.
'Through Research Catalogue I want to provide an open insight into this artistic process including my sources of inspiration, questions and finds.'
Can Philosophy Exist?
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Zoe Panagiota (aka Betty) Nigianni
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Photography with sound and net art, drawing, found folk sculpture with digital drawing, readymades, 2012, 2020, 2021. Accompanied by archival material.
The exposition exposes the question of what is artistic research. Usurping the mini-essayist format, which is traditionally associated with research in say the area of philosophy, the exposition formally operates on different levels. I selectively included visual art research material from my own artistic archive, as well as anonymous material that's readily available from the internet and in film archives. In this way, I wanted to emphasise the role of archiving and using archives in the artistic process, as an element of artistic research and artistic production that might involve remediation. Taking that we live in a largely theoretic culture, which means that we use external information systems for storage and retrieval of written, visual and other material, the implication is that art is part of this theoretical system.
Moreover, I specifically problematise the notion of value in relation to the visual arts by using the popular media figures of the counterfeit and the impostor, with reference to the so-called "impostor syndrome", correlated with being a minority of some sort in one's field: "A different thought is that two people may be answerable to the very same standard of success or competence, yet be subject to different epistemic standards for reasonable belief in their respective success or competence. This would be an example of pragmatic encroachment." (Katherine Hawley, "What is Impostor Syndrome?", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 93, 2019). I use visual art and figurative examples as illustrations, adapting from methods, such as the example, used in analytic philosophy.
I suggest that some artworks operate as philosophical provocations of the archive: "The artwork just exists", as Frank Stella argued. Artworks and archival artistic material are offered for aesthetic contemplation; they don't possess any "magical" qualities, they don't cause any phenomena or events in the world. In this view, I ordered this exposition as a design proposal for two independent, yet interconnected exhibitions: one for the final artistic exhibition show; and one as a general overview for the artist's studio, set up as a stand alone, if parallel, exhibition.
Between control and uncertainty
(last edited: 2025)
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.
B.O.D.Y. - Between auditory fiction and body-reality
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author(s): Erika Matsunami
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The exposition "B.O.D.Y. – Between auditory fiction and body-reality" is a summary of my project `B.O.D.Y. 2010´, which was represented from 2009 (ground work) until 2012 and includes theory, artistic practise, procedure, realisation, representation and perception. Thereby, the theories refer to my artworks and are summed up my artistic thesis. The artworks in this exposition are related to the theses of the academic and scientific fields. The artistic research for the audio and visual works is based on the project `B.O.D.Y. 2010´. This project is an intermedia project; it uses media such as photography and drawing, photography and sound installation, and music (sound/sonority/noise) and drawing. The research field is interdisciplinary in visual arts and music within the expanded scope of the transdisciplinary approach.
In the project B.O.D.Y., I used the time-based mediums of sound and performance which are the mixing layers of design, happening and performing. The act, as well as performance, is conceptual and improvisational which evokes, in contrast, the connotation of the objects with the body in real-time.
In the space design for the installation and performance, the horizontal dimension of this installation is variable. Each exhibition space of the installation and performance will be re-designed by the cross-disciplinary approach in the art such as in the representation's concept and artistic approaches.
This digital exposition is likewise a part of the concept and contemplation for the art book B.O.D.Y. about the conceptualisation for a multimedia art book design with intermedia artwork.
(Human studies in the keywords is not the area of studies such as human science.)
Therefore, my artistic practice in sculpture is 'relief' of its spatiality and narrativity in connection with materiality rather than as the symbolism in the post-conceptual era. It is MA (間) as a transmedia between Relief and Byōbu.
Sounding Philosophy
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author(s): DÁNIEL PÉTER BIRÓ, Halvorsen Erik Håkon
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Sounding Philosophy
Grieg Academy Composition Research Group
Research Group Leader: Dániel Péter Biró
This project integrates the fields of music composition, philosophy and science to understand how theories of reason and the mind can be approached from creative, metaphysical and scientific perspectives. This project will build on research-creation initiated by a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017-2018, presentations at the interdisciplinary annual conference of the Swiss Philosophical Society in September 2018 and discussions undertaken in the context of the Grieg Academy Composition Research Group in 2019-2020.
Sense of Entangled Being, The Emotion of Awe in Weaving Towards Polyperspectivity
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author(s): Miranda Kistler
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How has the concept of the sublime informed an unconsciously internalized world view throughout the history? And how could a mindset driven by the emotion of awe be a foundation for new understanding towards our environment as polyperspective?
Small elements all play a part in how we perceive. The choices of words we make, influence how we experience and how we define our reality. It becomes clear that to be aware of definitions and the use of words in a certain context, is crucial to avoid unconsciously misinforming our own perception and creating a reality we do not want to be in. Words create realities, realities we live in and others tap into when enforcing exchange. But would it be possible to alternatively inform an exchange that can reach beyond words and their established structures?
Sublime and awe are terms which often seem to come hand in hand. Some might refer to them as synonyms. However, the word ‘sublime’ from the contemporary perspective, has throughout history accumulated multiple connotations. It is thus that it differentiates itself from the word ‘awe’.
This research paper investigates the difference of the two linguistic definitions. By comparing the difference between the philosophical works on the sublime, by thinkers such as Longinus and Edmund Burke to contemporary psychological works on awe by Dacher Keltner. The paper investigates the sublime from its early origin up until its transformation into the contemporary time.
By tracing back the development and unfolding of the sublime experience with a focus on nature, into a sublime influenced by technology, the paper will come to speculate how nature of the modern age can then be experienced and perceived if modern technology is drawn away within that experience.
As a counter proposal, the paper will there conclude in proposing the emotion of awe as a new guiding concept in replacement for the sublime. Sublime has influenced a world view and ontology, with a perspective led by distinction for the majority of history. Awe will hold a new aim to foster interconnectivity and polyperspectivity between the human and the environment, making awe to become the new guiding concept for viewing interspecies relation between human, nature and technology of the future.
Textile Awareness
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author(s): HANNA felting
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
To create positive Textile Awareness I will be researching the relationship and interaction of consumers with clothing and textiles.
With the intention to encourage people to recycle clothing and shop less.
Inspire people to think critically about their purchases and create awareness about the consequences of clothing choices for the environment.
I want to make a joint impact so that clothing and textiles are no longer treated as waste products. More than half of old textiles in the Netherlands are not recycled but thrown out with the garbage. And thus into the incinerator.
Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge of our time. What can the consumer change in his behavior towards clothing and textiles? That is the question that concerns me.
S I R E N E N
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Katharina / K.H. Hauke
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Diese Exposition präsentiert SIRENEN – auditive, performative und sprachliche Versuche von Fluchtlinien gen jenseits der Projektionsfläche – ein künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt zum Gesang der Sirenen, dem immanenten Wissen, das dieser verspricht und dem Versprechen, als das wir ihn kennen.
„Welcher Art war der Gesang der Sirenen? Worin bestand sein Mangel? Warum verlieh dieser Mangel ihm solche Macht?”
(Blanchot, 1962, S. 11)
SIRENEN ist eine vernunftkritische Arbeit, die davon ausgeht, dass die Kategorien in denen wir denken, Worte in denen wir uns ausdrücken und Medien, in denen wir auf- und abspielen, den Sinn und die Grenzen des jeweils Denk- und Sagbaren mit erzeugen. Sie sucht deshalb Möglichkeiten, sich dieser Grenzen zu entledigen oder zumindest an diese zu stoßen und sie aufzuzeigen.
Die Soundstücke sind als Argumente zu lesen und die Schriftstücke befassen sich inhaltlich (per formal) auch mit ihrem Medium, der Sprache. Es handelt sich nicht um den Versuch, ein kohärentes Ganzes, eine Theorie oder auch nur ein schlüssiges Argument zu entwerfen, da der Logik, auf die sich all diese Formen gleichermaßen berufen, zu vieles entgeht.
SIRENEN war meine Meisterschülerinnenarbeit, die aber den Umfang einer Exposition überschreitet. Externe Links weisen zu weiteren Audiostücken, Dokumentationen und Texten.
Umfang und Struktur der Arbeit sowie die gewählten Medien wollen dazu anregen, „den Überblick zu verlieren“ (Seloua Luste Boulbina) und sich der Art von Wissen zu öffnen, das entstehen kann, wenn wir die Welt nicht (mehr) durch unsere Konzepte und Vorstellungen von ihr wahrnehmen (können).
So versuche ich beispielsweise und bitte ich die Zuhörer zu versuchen, unsere schmale menschliche zeitliche Dimension zu verlassen und uns in einem mehrstündigen Recording zu orientieren – in diesem Sinn sagt diese Arbeit, dass wir uns nicht von unseren Voraussetzungen frei machen können. Diese Ergebnisse musste ich auslagern, sie sind zu lang. Andere Stücke musste ich deshalb entfernen weil auf dem research catalogue alle Sound-Dateien zu mp3s komprimiert werden, was nicht nur für Klangkunst destruktiv ist, sondern auch Teil eines meiner Versuche war, den ich demzufolge gänzlich ausgelagert habe. In diesem Sinn will die Arbeit darauf hinweisen, dass wir unsere Konzepte sehr wohl hinterfragen müssen.
Unsere Grenzen kennen und akzeptieren zu lernen und gleichermaßen sie fallen zu lassen oder uns an ihnen zu reiben bis sie sich verschieben, bedeutet, sich im Sirenen Werden zu üben.
Während ich SIRENEN in neun Essais entwickelte, solo und in Kollaborationen, gliedert sich die Exposition in eine Einleitung und fünf Kapitel. Dies ist nicht die Repräsentation einer künstlerischen Forschung, sondern (auch da, wo es sie beschreibt und versucht zu begreifen) ein Teil derselben.
MATERIAL STRATEGIES
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Sage Canellis, Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk, Electa Behrens
connected to: Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Material strategies explores ways of practicing materiality in relation to artistic processes of creation. It responds and aims to contribute to questions related to sustainability and the antropocene, identity and subject formations, and appropriation and cultural exchange.
With reference to object oriented philosophy and new materialism as an ethical ground, the proposed research project will investigate voice and body as material in relation to spaces, architecture and objects. How can we as artists to a greater extent listen to the agency of the material and let it shape our artistic work? How do human ideas, emotions, visions and memories come into play when the artistic strategy calls for less power and control over the material? How are performative and material practices articulating the embodied nature of memory?
The project will further develop pedagogical areas that are fundamental to the teaching practices at NTA. Professor in Dramaturgy and Performance Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk will lead the project reflecting her recent PhD project Theatre-ting, toward a materialist practice of staging documents, which deals with object oriented philosophy as a framework for investigating dramaturgical practice and the ethics connected to staging documents. Other involved staff members are: Assistant professor Øystein Elle, Professor in scenography Jakob Oredsson, Assistant professor Electa Behrens, and research fellow Ingvild Holm.
We arranged a two days international seminar at VEGA scene in Oslo on 28. February and 1. March 2019.A two weeks practical workshop, culminating in a public presentation and discussion happens between 29. April and 10. May 2019.
Powers of Divergence – Online Repository
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Lucia D'Errico
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This exposition is thought as an online repository of media for the book "Powers of Divergence". Exposition and book, in combination, are part of my doctoral dissertation, and should be read together.
The research project which this exposition refers to is integral part of the five-year research programme Experimentation vs Interpretation – Exploring New Paths in Music Performance in the Twenty-First Century or MusicExperiment21, funded by the European Research Council, hosted at the Orpheus Institute of Ghent (BE), and led by Paulo de Assis. The programme has explored and developed notions of “experimentation” in order to propose new performance practices of Western notated art music.
This research project proposes a move beyond commonly accepted codes and conventions of musical interpretation. Crucially based on a strong creative and practical component, it presents a new approach to the performance of Western notated art music. In this new approach, corresponding to an artistic practice supported by reflections and research, the performance of past musical works is not regarded in its reiterative, reconstructive, or reproductive function. This new practice instead insists on performance as a locus of experimentation, where “what we know” about a given musical work is problematised. The performative moment becomes both a creative and a critical act, through which new epistemic and aesthetic properties of the musical work emerge.
This new practice insists on the unbridgeable divergence between codification (score) and materiality (sounds, gestures). Rather than being minimised, this divergence is amplified, so that performance happens through sounds and gestures unrecognisable as belonging to the original work as an interpreter would approach it. Instead of relying on the culturally constructed system through which symbolic categories are biunivocally connected to material events, this practice exposes the arbitrariness of such a system, together with the boundaries of its epistemic implications.
The activity of interpreters and executants focuses on the balance between objectivity (the instructions contained in the score, the “facts” accumulated around the musical work, etc.) and subjectivity (the performer’s freedom, his/her expressivity, etc.). This new practice goes beyond both objectivity and subjectivity, embracing an experimental approach to music performance that challenges traditional notions of interpretation. Whereas execution and interpretation relate to an ideal and aprioristic sonic image of the musical work (as Platonic copies), the performance practice proposed here posits itself as production of simulacra: thus performance becomes a sonic “image” that relates to what is different from it (the score) by means of difference, and not by attempting to construct a (supposed) identity. In this process, internal resemblance is negated, together with the idea of composition as origin and performance as its telos.
Optimistic Criticism: A Work in Progress
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): James Wood
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An introduction to and for myself as an attempt to more clearly define what I am calling Optimistic Criticism.
Frustrated with limited teleological analysis in any form, this evolving, never finished exposition is a postcard of my critical perspective. More postcards will be sent when I travel to different shores, but my home berth will be here.
Nietzsche N
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Lucia D'Errico, Paulo de Assis
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Nietzsche N is a broader artistic research project on the music of Nietzsche and a satellite project of MusicExperiment21 [ME21] (PI: Paulo de Assis, Orpheus Institute Ghent, BE). Nietzsche N is being realised by Paulo de Assis, Michael Schwab, Valentin Gloor, Lucia D’Errico, and Juan Parra C.
KnowingUnknowing
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Helen Kindred
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KnowingUnknowing is an improvised duet in triptych form by dancer Helen Kindred and guitarist Benjamin Dwyer. Improvising filmmaker Pete Gomes joined them in a performance in which the director-as-camera operator became an integral element of the improvisation transforming the work from a duet into a trio. The film KnowingUnknowing is a demonstration of the combined improvisations of dancer, guitarist and filmmaker.
Our writings on this process appear here in two parts. The first is an essay by Gomes that explores his developing practice of ‘improvising mise en scene’—the ways in which the live, improvised interaction of the director-as-camera operator advances upon traditional understandings of mise en scene in film. The second essay, written jointly by Dwyer and Kindred, explores themes surrounding originality in improvisation, the processes at work in the moment of the expression of embodied knowledges and experience, the role of poetics and philosophy in understanding these processes, and how they have specifically impacted the KnowingUnknowing project.