My present is more than I remember
(2025)
author(s): Clara Sharell
published in: Research Catalogue
"My present is more than I remember" explores the entanglements of word and image and their role in constructing memory and identity. Drawing on my four-year practice at the KABK, it analyses the methods I’ve developed and examines the interrelation between memory, photography, and writing. Delving into personal memories and intergenerational connections within my family, I seek to understand how inherited experiences and stories shape my personal and artistic identity, guided by the act of weaving as a concept and a material.
Furthermore, the paper examines the existential role of collective and familial memory in shaping Jewish and German-Jewish identity. Using a range of texts and styles, including sociological and art-historical theories, experimental diary entries, poems, and personal anecdotes, I explore the parallels between the construction of memory and the construction of photographs. Just as photography can never represent the essence of a person, memory will never be able to represent the full truth of the past.
Beauty and the Act of Narrating Material Aesthetics
(2022)
author(s): Maria Høgh-Mikkelsen
published in: Research Catalogue
I have always been very engaged in the phenomenon of beauty. Not in the sense of being pretty, but beauty as that special ambience certain objects or spaces or even humans can have. I wonder and puzzle with questions like:
What makes something beautiful? Can one practise the creation of beauty? How do I create beauty? Is the creation of beauty a matter of talent? Or a matter of professional culture? So, I am not only absorbed in the phenomenon of beauty itself but also in the act of beauty-creation. And in how other people experience the beauty I have created. Where other people see only bricks and numbers, I have always seen patterns in both brick walls and phone numbers. So, if other people don’t see what I see, how do I then communicate with them in objects and spaces?
These are some of the questions I set out to answer in the artistic research project, I call Narrating Material Aesthetics. With the project I want to explore how we as designers embed stories and meaning in the objects we create.
Best Practices in Integrating Research, Development and Creative Activities into Teaching. Stories of R&D projects at Pallas University of Applied Sciences
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author(s): Kadi Pajupuu
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Presentation at the seminar at Pallas UAS (28.11.2024)
Best Practices in Integrating Research, Development and Creative Activities into Teaching. Stories of R&D projects
by Kadi Pajupuu, Textile Department
Artistic Research Lab - Portfolio
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author(s): Clara Sharell
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This project was developed during the 'Winter School Tutorial' as part of my rMA in Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam.
It explores the relationship between me, as the maker, and my materials by applying weaving to other materials, namely negatives and photographs.
Writing Weaves
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author(s): Delphine Chapuis Schmitz
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This exposition presents a format designed for experiencing and experimenting with writing as a collective practice of weaving textualities from different sources.
The format consists of an iterative process to be implemented in a workshop setting. It is based on implementations that have taken place in different contexts in the fields of higher education and research in the arts, and is intented as an invitation to further adopt and adapt the format in transversal settings.
