SCHRITTWEISE engl. Version
(2023)
author(s): Katja Münker, Andrea Keiz
published in: Research Catalogue
WALKING-CHOREOGRAPHY KIT
You will find a collection of experiments, questions to the research and reactions of participants.
Feel free to use it as a playground.
The Role of Sound as a Component of Urban Experience
(2021)
author(s): Greta Pundzaite
published in: Research Catalogue
The Role of Sound as a Component of Urban Experience is an audio-video essay that approaches urban sound as study material for sensorial analysis. An experiential experiment is carried when retransforming/playing with sensorial components of an urban dweller. Research focuses on the record of urban sound in relation to image and its proximity to cinematic/cinematographic experience. Playing with sensorial components reveals not only their influence on our ever-day perceiving of urban space but also the aesthetical nature of casual walks in the city. In other words, an analytical approach to urban sound reveals how cinematic everyday urban experience is or how cinema's sensorial base finds itself in the one of an urban dweller.
Swarming Event
(2019)
author(s): Christina Stadlbauer
published in: Research Catalogue
Witnessing a swarm of honeybees flying out of their hive is rare – especially in the urban environments. Because beekeepers manage their bees and take measures to prevent swarming from happening, the emergence of a swarm is regarded as bad beekeeping management. However, this event is a honeybee colony's birth and is an impressive show of nature's excellency.
Listening in/to Exile: Migration and Media Arts
(2019)
author(s): Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition responds to the current flux of migration and the resulting condition of estrangement. The projects – an augmented book project and a corresponding media artwork – respond to mass migration, hyper-mobility, placeless-ness and nomadism, which are blurring the boundaries between the local and the global, the corporeal and the digital, the private and the public. Through an exploration of the poetic and critical capacities embedded in everyday listening the two projects attempt to shed light on the aesthetics of addressing the notion of exile, alienation and estrangement. The exposition let the viewer/reader engage with the artistic matter; namely, the field recordings and on-site writings - artistic acts of poetic contemplation grounded in a personal experience of the urban alienation, with the aim of movement towards self-understanding and emancipation.
urban peripheries workshop Vol. 1 publication
(2019)
author(s): Maiju Loukola, Bea Tornberg, Una Auri, Virpi Nieminen
published in: Research Catalogue
The exposition is a visual and textual map of exploratory projects by 10 Aalto ARTS students and 12 Universität der Künste students in their collaboratory workshop URBAN PERIPHERIES Vol. 1 in Helsinki/Espoo, during 5-20 February 2019.
The exposition is composed by the Aalto ARTS students and their supervisor, and it reflects the interventional works realised by the ARTS + UdK students, and experimental texts realised by the ARTS students after the actual workshop.
The exposition similarly works as a basis for the second part of URBAN PERIPHERIES (Vol. 2) that will take place in UdK Berlin in December 2019. It thus also outlines possible scenarios to be explored on grounds of the first workshop.
Intersections of creative praxis and urban exploration
(2015)
author(s): David Prescott-Steed
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
Since the 1960s, walking artists have documented the multifarious relationship between humans and their built environments. By turning walking into art, key figures such as Bruce Nauman, Richard Long, Marina Abramović, and Hamish Fulton paved the way for future practitioners, such as Janet Cardiff, Tim Brennan, Tim Knowles, and Rachel Clewlow, among others, who continue to use walking as an opportunity creatively to investigate notions of place, identity, time, consciousness, and heritage. Whether walking fosters new artistic inquiry or remains its product, what a vast majority of walking artists have in common is that they pursue a form of praxis on the surfaces of their habitats.
This practice-led research project contributes to creative walking praxis by pursuing notions of cultural identity through an engagement with sub-suburban infrastructure. By developing sound-based, visual, and textual interactions with subterranean space – specifically stormwater drains – this project seeks to investigate alternative ontologies of everyday life.
P.A.F (pavement.as.fails)
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Maëlla Castiglione
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
P.A.F. is a project designed to give visibility to road defects that can become obstacles in urban traffic. Taking care of our cities is a real challenge. In Europe, tourist and historic districts are subject to rehabilitation, leaving other areas neglected. Awareness starts with the importance we attach to things. Making things visible is a way of raising awareness. Our cities need to be inclusive, and we need to take care of them in order to take care of our bodies and our uses. The city studied here is Porto (Portugal), but the project is adaptable to a European scale.
Voic/musick/perform/ing: an intra-active spiritual matter?
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The role of a singer/musician/performer calls for an ability to capture the attention of an audience. In the 17th century the general concern would have been for the performer to develop musical and performative means in order to touch both hearts and souls of the listeners. In a blog from 2016, Finnish voice-artist Heidi Fast writes about a specific case study in a hospital environment (as part of her doctoral research) where she examines and explores the possibilities of non-verbal vocality to attune embodied relationality: “my task is not to ‘give voice to the patients’, instead, I try to create favourable conditions with my voice and presence to invite the participants to an entirely new dialogue. The role of the researcher is not a distant observer, but experiential in proximity.” The relationality enacted by performer/s, researcher/s, listener/s, participants in a musical event/encounter allows for overlappings of shared elevated (or even spiritual) experiences inspiring to new ways of thinking. Such existential experiences can be challenging to describe or to discursively articulate at a later stage. At the same time these ‘spiritual’ experiences provide a provocative point of departure for artistic research. The aim of this presentation is to open up for an intra-active discussion on relationality, with reference to voicing musicking/performing and the spiritual/existential experience; artistic research and religious studies/radical theology/new materialist/non-dualistic/holistic theories; artistic research in music and its potential contribution to existential meaning-making applicable for ex in pastoral care.
The music performed in this performance-paper refers to the city of Paris in the 17th century, to the fallen city of Jerusalem as described in the biblical Lamentations, and to Gothenburg and an early 20th century water cistern. Experiencing walls and scores constructed in the past sheds new light on future structures and potential relations.
Presented as "Voicing: an intra-active spiritual matter?"
at National Network for Artistic Research in Music (Nationellt nätverk för konstnärlig forskning i musik / NFKM) 23-24 Aug 2017, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden
WALKING-CHOREOGRAPHY KIT You will find a collection of experiments, questions to the research and reactions of participants. Feel free to use it as a playground.open exposition comments (0)
The Role of Sound as a Component of Urban Experience is an audio-video essay that approaches urban sound as study material for sensorial analysis. An experiential experiment is carried when retransforming/playing with sensorial components of an urban dweller. Research focuses on the record of urban sound in relation to image and its proximity to cinematic/cinematographic experience. Playing with sensorial components reveals not only their influence on our ever-day perceiving of urban space but also the aesthetical nature of casual walks in the city. In other words, an analytical approach to urban sound reveals how cinematic everyday urban experience is or how cinema's sensorial base finds itself in the one of an urban dweller.open exposition comments (0)
Witnessing a swarm of honeybees flying out of their hive is rare – especially in the urban environments. Because beekeepers manage their bees and take measures to prevent swarming from happening, the emergence of a swarm is regarded as bad beekeeping management. However, this event is a honeybee colony's birth and is an impressive show of nature's excellency.open exposition comments (0)
P.A.F. is a project designed to give visibility to road defects that can become obstacles in urban traffic. Taking care of our cities is a real challenge. In Europe, tourist and historic districts are subject to rehabilitation, leaving other areas neglected. Awareness starts with the importance we attach to things. Making things visible is a way of raising awareness. Our cities need to be inclusive, and we need to take care of them in order to take care of our bodies and our uses. The city studied here is Porto (Portugal), but the project is adaptable to a European scale.open exposition comments (0)