Site Awareness in Music – recontextualizing a sensation of another place
(2020)
author(s): Knut Olaf Sunde
published in: Norwegian Academy of Music
The project argues that a sensation of another place is vital to the recognition of unfamiliar perspectives.
Space and sound are inextricably connected. The surroundings and context are central to how we perceive external stimuli, such as images, events, history, ideas or music. The brain interprets and make choices by association, based on what the body perceives and based on previous knowledge and experience. How humans listen, hear, see, perceive, interpret and react to our surroundings are based on our cognitive structures.
An unformatting of society is needed.
A risk makes the body and brain aware and alert. Adrenalin is released to the blood, enabling the organism to sudden and severe effort. Risk implies something unestablished, uncertain, a danger, something unknown. Risk implies the possibility of failure and ultimately death. Risk increase anxiety and excitement, enabling the alertness needed to maneuver away from or solve problems. When something is at stake, interest is set into play. The unknown is by its very nature beyond the body’s experience.
The project is about increasing the awareness of the situational and contextual implications of music. This is enquired through three works. For each site or situation I work with, I analyze its characteristics, such as acoustical conditions, the relations of the place to its surroundings, the shape of the landscape and historical or political context.
I try to create immersive, audiovisual projects that are connected to a certain place.
I aim to involve qualities and characteristics from the place, shaping a conversation, putting something at stake.
I conceive a music activating the place, making created situations.
I do this because there is a close link between memory, comprehension and place.
The sense of place and ability to navigate is essential to our memory and bodily existence in the world.
Main supervisor: Ole Lützow-Holm
Second supervisor: Marianne Heier
The Many and the Form - reflection and reference materials
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Edit Kaldor
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Reflection text and reference materials of the research project The Many and the Form
by Edit Kaldor
An account and reflection of the processes, phases and outcomes of the research project The Many and the Form, which explored in different contexts how lived experiences can be articulated in and through live performance. The text brings together the various strands within the research and some of the underlying connections between the different components. It aims to communicate about practices and provide insights that can be useful for those who are interested in contemporary theatre making, participation and social imaginaries, as well as for those who have or are curious about immigrant experiences and knowledges.
Reference and documentation materials created as part of the research:
- Digital online archive Inventory of Powerlessness
To accesss, click on http://inventoryofpowerlessness.org/
Interactive digital online archive that was made as part of the research, processing the accounts of lived experiences of 300 participants in the long-term theatre work that preceded and prompted this research project. As part of the preparation for the workshops I wanted to gather and organize these stories in a sharable format which reflected the processes within the performance project. It was important for the current research because it gave me a chance to touch base with its core motivation for creating working methods that allow people to translate lived experiences into live performative situations. Revisiting and reworking the range of experiences that were articulated during the Inventory not only recalled the particular context and the sense of purpose that the research originated in, but also the kinds of procedures I was working with in the Inventory, some of which served as basis for the working methods I have been developing during this research, which were shared in a range of workshops.
I collaborated on the archive with dramaturg intern Joseph Anderson, theatre maker Jurrien van Rheenen and computer programmer Joris Favie. The work consisted of bringing together recorded materials, transcribing them, translating them from one of the five original languages (Dutch, German, Polish, Czech, Greek), making a single version that most closely reflected the different oral versions, and placing them into the digital archive with the connections and categories.
The online archive is an important reference for the research project, as it situates the research in terms of the kinds of lived knowledges that it aims to bring into performance-making.
- Edited video documentation of workshop Ghost in the Machine, December 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAxdAD4kEv4&t=1429s
The video gives an idea of the new strand of the research within the project after Covid made physical presence workshops impossible and the focus of my investigation shifted to exploring situations of digital intimacy and presence through moblie devices. This strand of the research led to the development of the site-specific interactive performance Parallel Life, one of the practical outcomes of The Many and the Form.
Although it’s a short, edited version of a longer series of workshops, the video gives a glimpse of the practice-oriented working processes typical for my workshops.
The Many and the Form - Video Documentation of Practical Components
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Edit Kaldor
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Video documentation of the practical components of the artistic research project The Many and the Form by Edit Kaldor, including:
- The video registration of Strangers (2022), a lecture performance that brings together an array of materials from various phases of the artistic research; investigations in different contexts into how lived experiences can be articulated in and through live performance.
- A video documentation of Parallel Life (2021), an interactive performance played for and by individual spectators on the streets of the city, using their mobile phones. The paradoxical situation of social distancing and digital intimacy between strangers formed the starting point of the performance.
–Video fragments of rehearsal experiments and performative works made by participants during the workshops held throughout 2019 at Pleintheater in Amsterdam as part of the artistic research project The Many and the Form. The final outcomes were presented publicly at the Vrije Vloer Festival in November 2019.
VOICES_ruukku_peripheries/katveet issue: FLOATING PERIPHERIES Conference 2019 – Sites and Situations
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Maiju Loukola, Mari Mäkiranta
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FLOATING PERIPHERIES CONFERENCE 2019 – SITES AND SITUATIONS was an international conference on artistic research organized by the research consortium “Floating Peripheries – mediating the sense of place” between Aalto ARTS Department of Film, Tv and Scenography and University of Lapland’s Faculty of Art and Design.
The conference and the curated event of experimental and situated artistic research practices, “Sites and Situations Art Event”, took place on 14 – 16 January 2019 at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi.
This "VOICES" exposition presents a selection of conference and post-conference contributions (essays, articles, conference papers, abstracts, afterthoughts and images) by participating artistic researchers, scholars and students across disciplines, aesthetics and practices. It also presents a "visual journey" of the art event, curated by the artist-in-consortium Pia Euro.
The conference focused on the notion of periphery/ peripheries in relation to the varied methods, materials, concepts, questions and ideas accurate in the fields of artistic research and visual studies. During the 3-day international event, which took place at the heart of the arctic periphery, a multitude of peripheral sites and situations were speculated as multi-layered and complex phenomenon – as conceptual, spatial and site-responsive domains, aesthetically and spatially shaped and experienced associations, representations and practices through different mediums in arts and epistemologies. The conference included presentations, artistic interventions, discussions and installations.
The exposition editors are Maiju Loukola, Mari Mäkiranta and Pia Euro.
The "Floating Peripheries" consortium is funded by the Academy of Finland during 2017–2021.
(See more: https://floatingperipheries.fi/about/)
Auto Curating
(last edited: 2017)
author(s): Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
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Can “sound” be “exhibited” at all? Isn’t that a basic fallacy, given the nature of sound? In addressing these fundamental questions from a conceptual leaning, one needs to comprehend sound’s specific problem as a curatorial artifact. In the discourse of sound art curating, instead of the “sound object,” the perspective of the project suggests exploring the cognitive-associative thought processes triggered by the process of listening, drawing lines between the source of sound and the listener’s mind that apprehends it. The curatorial process intends to frame the open-ended experience of various fertile auditory situations exploiting sound’s subjective nature at the listener’s end.
Can “sound” be “exhibited” at all? Isn’t that a basic fallacy, given the nature of sound? In addressing these fundamental questions from a conceptual leaning, one needs to comprehend sound’s specific problem as a curatorial artifact. In the discourse of sound art curating, instead of the “sound object,” the perspective of the project suggests exploring the cognitive-associative thought processes triggered by the process of listening, drawing lines between the source of sound and the listener’s mind that apprehends it. The curatorial process intends to frame the open-ended experience of various fertile auditory situations exploiting sound’s subjective nature at the listener’s end.open exposition comments (0)