Zoological Architectures and Empty Frames
(2024)
author(s): Katharina Swoboda
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
In general, zoo architecture directs the attention towards the animals. The buildings create ‘frames’ around the animals, as John Berger (1980) states in his 1977 essay ‘Why Look at Animals?’. Following this premise, my work explores visual and psychological aspects of framing, relating to animal housing. Judith Butler (2009) explains how (visual) framings always create meanings and evaluations of what is enclosed within them. Therefore, the representation of animals in human culture affects how we treat animals socio-politically. Zoos generate and communicate ongoing conceptions of zoo animals. Zoo architecture, although often in the background of one’s field of vision, forms an important factor in the construction of these ideas.
Nostalgia
(2019)
author(s): Saman Samadi
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition represents a collection of Saman Samadi's multimedia compositions, incorporating electroacoustic music and video art, evolved from various nostalgic states of the author. This project was presented at "Lethal #7" from the "Last Saturdays Salon" concert series of new music, hosted by Concrete Timbre, in Manhattan, New York, on the 19th of November, 2016. An album consisting of the audio recordings of these compositions has been published on digital music platforms on the 7th of December 2018.
U-Turn
(2019)
author(s): Saman Samadi
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition represents a collection of Saman Samadi's electroacoustic works composed between 2010 and 2014.
The Body + The Lens: Shrink, Wax, Purge, Bleach.
(2019)
author(s): Tyler Payne
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
"The Body + the Lens: Shrink, Wax, Purge, Bleach" was a creative practice research project that investigated the relationship of (white) women’s embodiment to the lens of gendered advertising. To focus the research, a recently mainstreamed group of female cosmetic rituals were chosen — body-contour wear (SPANX), Brazilian waxing, salt-water cleansing, and fake tanning. The intent of the research was to interrogate the relationship between these body-correcting practices and the idealized image of the "Glossy Magazine Girl" — i.e. preternaturally thin, hairless, and unblemished by shades darker than pink — which now appear with more frequency in women’s everyday life, and have reconfigured the social construction of female gender. The (artistic-research) response to the subject matter was a series of video and photographic works in the genre of self-portraiture. These works attempted to critique the new norms of embodiment emerging through these practices through the researcher’s parodic undergoing of the cosmetic rituals themselves. This "carnal" methodology, following from the methodology of Louis Wacquant, is one that embodies the researcher in the social practices being researched, i.e. body-correcting practices. This method produced research results — embodied and affective — not available to purely observational research, which should interest the artistic research community and feminism generally. The images and videos de-fetishize and denaturalize the embodied product of the cosmetic rituals. My studio-led research reveals the intractable, comic "failures" in the face of the demands placed on the everyday performance of women’s gender. By doing so, it turns these failures to affirmation, as well as critique of the gender norm these practices construct.
Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja / Genre pictures and experiments in writing
(2017)
author(s): Elina Saloranta
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
GENRE PICTURES AND EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING is a doctoral thesis in article form of the interaction between image, word and sound. It consists of five essays, which have been published or otherwise made accessible to the public in various forums for artistic research, plus a total of seven videoworks. The last of these videos is a wordless epilogue. The thesis also includes an introduction in the form of a letter.
Hienopesu 40 astetta / Delicate wash 40 degrees
(2017)
author(s): Elina Saloranta
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition contains two video pieces that mirror each other (Two rooms and a kitchen 2010, Reflections in a window pane 2012) and an essay originally published in the Finnish-language audiovisual-culture journal Lähikuva 3/2013. The essay and the videos are part of my article-based doctoral thesis Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja/ Genre pictures and experiments in writing (University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts 2017).
An archive of consolation
(2017)
author(s): Elina Saloranta
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition consists of my videowork Voices of Consolation (2014), which is an attempt to console the black-clad woman seen in Vilhelm Hammershøi's (1864–1916) interior paintings, and an experimental essay in which I ask: Could a research text be constructed in the same way as a picture? This was previously published in Finnish with the title “Lohdutusten arkisto” (Ruukku 4, 2015) and is part of my article-based doctoral thesis Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja/ Genre pictures and experiments in writing (University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts 2017).
Tangon oppitunti / Tango Lesson
(2017)
author(s): Elina Saloranta
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition is an encounter between art and empirical science at a dance lesson. It is also part of my article-based doctoral thesis Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja/ Genre pictures and experiments in writing (University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts 2017).
Lohdutusten arkisto (An Archive of Consolation)
(2017)
author(s): Elina Saloranta
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
This exposition consists of my video piece Voices of Consolation (2014) and my essay "Lohdutusten arkisto" ("An Archive of Consolation"). The video shows interior paintings by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916). On the soundtrack a group of people are trying to console the black-clad woman seen in the paintings. In the essay I describe the process of making the piece. The essay's structure reflects the video: the text is like an apartment with several rooms.
Owning Our Madness
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Whyte&Zettergren
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Owning Our Madness is a pre-study initiated by Whyte & Zettergren on how mental illness, PTSD, and historical traumas impact artistic expressions.
Today's society is marked by conflicts, violence, and environmental disasters, which create generational traumas and increase mental illness both locally and globally. We aim to investigate how these psychological effects shape art and how art, by processing and visualizing traumas, can contribute to healing on both micro and macro levels. The project aims to explore this synergy and its role in artistic renewal.
Historically, culture, religion, and rituals have been used to provide comfort in times of mental illness. PTSD treatment with art therapy is believed to help heal the brain's structures and functions damaged by trauma. In the pre-study, we will gather knowledge through interviews and practical sessions. By experimenting with methods to visualize the body's changes during trauma, we aim to develop techniques that combine choreography, moving images, and neurotechnology (EEG and EMG). We are exploring the stage of chaos and transformation that unites the creative process and trauma processing to develop a new artistic method.
The question of the 'mad artistic genius' attributed to the creation of groundbreaking art is long-lived, but is there any truth to it? The goal is to lay the foundation for a future project where more participants contribute to exploring the connection between mental illness and artistic innovation. The pre-study is supported by seed money from Kulturbryggan, Konstnärsnämnden.
desktop cinema dance
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): Amalia Wiatr Lewis
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Desktop Dance is an exploration of choreography on a video conferencing platform. Using and amplifying the visual and auditory qualities that are inherent to medium, the dance takes on the form of an attempt to make a shape and sing a song. The 2-dimensional screen is spatially fragmented yet manipulated to appear cohesive, but the body remains visually fragmented to the viewer and is a constant reminder of the 3-dimensionality that exists beyond the screen.
AŽI TRIO
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Saman Samadi
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Aži Trio is an NYC-based ensemble founded by composer and pianist Saman Samadi, in collaboration with saxophonist Sarah Manning, and Buchla-player Hans Tammen.
Shekasteh Mouyeh
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Saman Samadi
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Radif – or, the traditional repertoire of Persian classical music, consisting of more than 200 short melodic motions (gusheh), which are arranged into seven principal modes (dastgāh) with five secondary branches of these modes (āvāz) – is the oldest documented version of Dastgah music, developed by Mirza Abdollah in the 19th century. This exposition represents the confrontation of these microtonal modes with and within electroacoustic music material and techniques, and the problematisation of the results along with objects of video-art and visual effects, creating a set of compositions that would exhibit novelty; furthermore, the assemblage of them for and through a live performance utilizing improvisational methods as an attempt to expand timbral possibilities in a contextual relationship with Western contemporary classical music. The aim of this artistic research is producing a syncretistic multimedia work of art that could serve in assimilating two perspectives of Eastern and Western into a new coalescence towards the grail of a universal totality of classical forms.
SENSOUS SCREENS FOR THE MOVING IMAGE
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Torkell Bernsen
connected to: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
SENSOUS SCREENS FOR THE MOVING IMAGE- Relationship and interplay in spatial installations
This essay emerges from a research project concerned with how physical spaces can incorporate digital screen content towards human experiences and interaction. An analysis of a video installation called: Silence Interrupted serves as a startingpoint for a discussion on the merging of space and screen, in this case with a main focus on how the visual content of a video image is orginized in relation to the installation space and the audience present. The following discussions finds itself in between the field of motion graphics and installation art and are motivated from a growing curiousity towards a better understanding of the use of screen media in various spatial environments.
Critique and the Cypriot Summer / Kral çıplak / Ήνταμπου κάμνουμεν δαμέ;
(last edited: 2017)
author(s): Chrystalleni Loizidou, Marinos Houtris
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
About this project
output from Critique and the Cypriot Summer,
an artist residency in the village of Lofou
4/7/2016 - 9/7/2016
with
Nurtane Karagil
Hayal Gezer
Marinos Houtris
Chrystalleni Loizidou
Invited by
Xarkis & Confrontation Through Art
with the support (in no special order) of
NIMAC
NeMe
ARTos
Re Aphrodite
Point Centre for Contemporary Art
Pater Theofanis
...
In general, zoo architecture directs the attention towards the animals. The buildings create ‘frames’ around the animals, as John Berger (1980) states in his 1977 essay ‘Why Look at Animals?’. Following this premise, my work explores visual and psychological aspects of framing, relating to animal housing. Judith Butler (2009) explains how (visual) framings always create meanings and evaluations of what is enclosed within them. Therefore, the representation of animals in human culture affects how we treat animals socio-politically. Zoos generate and communicate ongoing conceptions of zoo animals. Zoo architecture, although often in the background of one’s field of vision, forms an important factor in the construction of these ideas.open exposition comments (0)
This exposition represents a collection of Saman Samadi's multimedia compositions, incorporating electroacoustic music and video art, evolved from various nostalgic states of the author. This project was presented at "Lethal #7" from the "Last Saturdays Salon" concert series of new music, hosted by Concrete Timbre, in Manhattan, New York, on the 19th of November, 2016. An album consisting of the audio recordings of these compositions has been published on digital music platforms on the 7th of December 2018.open exposition comments (0)
This exposition represents a collection of Saman Samadi's electroacoustic works composed between 2010 and 2014.open exposition comments (0)
GENRE PICTURES AND EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING is a doctoral thesis in article form of the interaction between image, word and sound. It consists of five essays, which have been published or otherwise made accessible to the public in various forums for artistic research, plus a total of seven videoworks. The last of these videos is a wordless epilogue. The thesis also includes an introduction in the form of a letter.open exposition comments (0)
This exposition contains two video pieces that mirror each other (Two rooms and a kitchen 2010, Reflections in a window pane 2012) and an essay originally published in the Finnish-language audiovisual-culture journal Lähikuva 3/2013. The essay and the videos are part of my article-based doctoral thesis Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja/ Genre pictures and experiments in writing (University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts 2017).open exposition comments (0)
This exposition consists of my videowork Voices of Consolation (2014), which is an attempt to console the black-clad woman seen in Vilhelm Hammershøi's (1864–1916) interior paintings, and an experimental essay in which I ask: Could a research text be constructed in the same way as a picture? This was previously published in Finnish with the title “Lohdutusten arkisto” (Ruukku 4, 2015) and is part of my article-based doctoral thesis Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja/ Genre pictures and experiments in writing (University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts 2017).open exposition comments (1)
This exposition is an encounter between art and empirical science at a dance lesson. It is also part of my article-based doctoral thesis Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja/ Genre pictures and experiments in writing (University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts 2017).open exposition comments (0)
This exposition consists of my video piece Voices of Consolation (2014) and my essay "Lohdutusten arkisto" ("An Archive of Consolation"). The video shows interior paintings by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916). On the soundtrack a group of people are trying to console the black-clad woman seen in the paintings. In the essay I describe the process of making the piece. The essay's structure reflects the video: the text is like an apartment with several rooms.open exposition comments (0)
Aži Trio is an NYC-based ensemble founded by composer and pianist Saman Samadi, in collaboration with saxophonist Sarah Manning, and Buchla-player Hans Tammen.open exposition comments (0)
About this project output from Critique and the Cypriot Summer, an artist residency in the village of Lofou 4/7/2016 - 9/7/2016 with Nurtane Karagil Hayal Gezer Marinos Houtris Chrystalleni Loizidou Invited by Xarkis & Confrontation Through Art with the support (in no special order) of NIMAC NeMe ARTos Re Aphrodite Point Centre for Contemporary Art Pater Theofanis ...open exposition comments (0)