ChatGPT and The Art of Dance-Making
(2024)
author(s): Chiara Bellich
published in: Research Catalogue
Drawing from Blast Theory and Bourriaud's concept of Relation Aesthetics, this practice-as-research project analyses the relationship between choreography, ChatGPT, and audience interaction, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The aim of the project is to understand how ChatGPT can be used as a tool for generating choreographies.
To answer this question, I conducted two workshops with six participants, after which I obtained four dance sequences. Participants agreed that ChatGPT contributed to a unique and dynamic experience by creating new and innovative movements. When asked about challenging traditional notions of choreographic authorship, there was a split, with some participants expressing uncertainty.
The Document as Music. Exploring the musicality of verbatim material in performance
(2018)
author(s): David Roesner, Bella Merlin
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
During a four-week fellowship at the LMU Munich in 2016, Bella Merlin (UC Riverside, USA) and David Roesner (Theatre Studies, LMU Munich) investigated the relationship between original interview material and its (musical) staging. In particular, they explored the ethics and aesthetics that musicalisation might present in relation to the speech patterns, vocal inflections and rhythms of their interview partners from across three generations in three different countries. In this article they will draw conclusions from their working process, which address questions about verbatim theatre and musicality beyond their particular study.
Shuttling
(2015)
author(s): Mick Douglas, Beth Weinstein, James Oliver
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition investigates practice-as-research dynamics through a project titled ‘Shuttle’, from which emerged a practice of ‘shuttling’ as a layered modality for processing methodological artistic research. An international crew of artists, designers, and performance makers enquire into peer-to-peer creative practice development: practices unfolding through the dramaturgy of a twenty-day, four-thousand-mile mobile performance-research journey in the deserts of the North American south-west. We trace the dynamics of a practice-as-research milieu through a suite of artistic operations, performatively elaborated through this rich-media exposition. Through ‘shuttling’, we generate parafunctional performative spaces and temporalities. Our spatio-temporal and sensory mode of research – conditioned, co-created, and situated as a mobile laboratory – posits reflexivity as an embodied practice, as a medium of ‘shuttling’ with the dynamic emergence of creative research practices.
The slippery trail: The mollusc as a metaphor for creative practice
(2015)
author(s): Karen Savage
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition documents several years of process-driven practice-as-research. The work explores themes of womanhood, embodiment, and autobiography.
Throughout the exposition I argue that the embodiment of process is key to understanding practice-as-research. I propose that practice-as-research projects don't always begin with a ‘final output’ in mind. Instead, the practice of practice-as-research should be reconsidered throughout its development; it should use its potential for liminality. It is the demonstration of a ‘living process’ – living in process. However, what becomes key within the practice is a clear articulation of process, and how the research is recorded as part of that process. In this work, 'writing about practice' and performative practices are integrated, enabling a dialogue between various creative responses as well as offering access points to the research in a variety of forms.
This exposition explores ways in which we live in process through a presentation of text, visual essays, and short film and video pieces.
The work develops from creative artefacts and critical text into a piece of responsive writing, 'A Play of Characters'. This playtext reconsiders some of the influences in the work and explores the imagery of the whole project in a performative context.
The notion of embodiment and a 'living body of work' is developed further through the use of metaphor, in particular the metaphor of the mollusc. I use this to consider how practice evolves alongside process, 'housing' both the work and the process in both material form (the shell) and trace (the snail trail).
Different combinations of this work have been presented as performance installations, both at the University of Portsmouth, as part of my PhD examination in 2010, and at the University of Lincoln, as part of the Gnarlfest in 2014. However, by the very nature of 'living in process' this is a work that continues to evolve and 'live' in different forms. The purpose of this exposition is to explore the work in an accessible online form – one that offers alternative platforms and sequences, creating different possibilities and readings of the practice.
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.
Performance as Research in Hyderabad - Proceedings of the Performance as Research Working Group meeting at the IFTR conference in Hyderabad 6-10th July 2015
(last edited: 2018)
author(s): Annette Arlander, Manola Gayatri Kumarswamy
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This exposition consists of material presented at the Performance as Research Working Group meeting in Hyderabad as well as material documenting the work undertaken during the meeting. The meeting took place as part of the IFTR (international Federation for Theatre Research) conference "Theatre and Democracy" in Hyderabad, India 6th to 11th July 2015. These proceedings are compiled by Annette Arlander and Manola K. Gayatri on behalf of the working group.
During a four-week fellowship at the LMU Munich in 2016, Bella Merlin (UC Riverside, USA) and David Roesner (Theatre Studies, LMU Munich) investigated the relationship between original interview material and its (musical) staging. In particular, they explored the ethics and aesthetics that musicalisation might present in relation to the speech patterns, vocal inflections and rhythms of their interview partners from across three generations in three different countries. In this article they will draw conclusions from their working process, which address questions about verbatim theatre and musicality beyond their particular study.open exposition comments (0)
This exposition consists of material presented at the Performance as Research Working Group meeting in Hyderabad as well as material documenting the work undertaken during the meeting. The meeting took place as part of the IFTR (international Federation for Theatre Research) conference "Theatre and Democracy" in Hyderabad, India 6th to 11th July 2015. These proceedings are compiled by Annette Arlander and Manola K. Gayatri on behalf of the working group.open exposition comments (0)