Tipping Points (Reflection Component)
(2023)
author(s): Tijs Ham
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
The Ph.D. project in Artistic Research, Tipping Points, conducted by Tijs Ham ('81), is situated in the field of live electronics and focuses on the exploration of chaotic processes within instrument design, compositional strategies, and performance. The unpredictable nature of chaos impacts many aspects of musicking. Artistic works emerge from the interferences between processes that are set in motion. Instruments are influenced and in turn influence the performer in return. The reflections turn to the notion of wondering as the performer and audiences alike encounter unforeseen sonic behaviors that are strangely musical despite their volatile and fragile chaotic origins.
The Way of Wonder
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Karya Öner
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The Way of Wonder explores the transition from childhood to adulthood, focusing on the subconscious mind’s role in preserving childhood memories, emotions, and fleeting impressions. This project examines how the sense of playfulness, imagination, and freedom that define childhood gradually fades as societal expectations and responsibilities take hold in adulthood. Through my paintings, I aim to visualize the dreamlike, emotional fragments stored in the subconscious scenes, colors, and sensations that shaped our early perception of the world but often become suppressed over time. By merging these elements with figurative expression, I seek to capture the contrast between childhood’s spontaneity and adulthood’s structured reality.
Inspired by the expressive, figurative techniques of artists like Adrian Ghenie and Egon Schiele, I use human forms and body movements to emphasize the performative nature of adulthood. My paintings incorporate bold, vivid colors to reflect the raw intensity of childhood experiences and the subconscious imagery we carry into adulthood. The figures I depict often exist in an ambiguous space, caught between movement and stillness, symbolizing the ongoing struggle between personal identity and societal expectations.
For women, this transition carries additional layers of complexity. The expectations imposed by society regarding appearance, behavior, and roles can suppress individuality and creative expression, making it even harder to maintain the sense of freedom we once had as children. This project seeks to explore that struggle while offering a reflection on how we can reclaim a sense of play and spontaneity in adulthood.
Quiet Observations
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Åse Huus
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By looking closer, the normal and ordinary can become something else, something extraordinary, if we pay attention or exercise attention. And, by exercising attention we can get into the ordinary´s simple, but equally complex scope, but then – with a distance – something we no longer stand in the middle of. The artistic research project «Quiet observations» is about reflections related to wonder, relation and proximity. The project has evolved into a research project from a pre-project where the starting point was to research the concept of ambiguity. As I see it, the nature of everyday life and everyday surroundings are elusive and ambiguous, and by its inherent complexity, a source of wonder.
In ambiguity, we can find an indefinite space, a space for speculation and imagination. In this perspective, ambiguity provides a space for creative receptivity, to actively consider multiple interpretations of meaning and reconsider preconceptions.
Dedicated observations can provide proximity to everyday surroundings which make them no longer seem obvious, but rather manifests themselves as source of wonder, abstraction, imagination and daydreaming.
The project has two parallel areas of interest; the field specific perspective is defined as research through editorial design beyond media, and the other perspective is based on educational interest in the design process itself.
Editorial design in this context is understood as the framework and the architecture of how a given content is read and interpreted.
The Ph.D. project in Artistic Research, Tipping Points, conducted by Tijs Ham ('81), is situated in the field of live electronics and focuses on the exploration of chaotic processes within instrument design, compositional strategies, and performance. The unpredictable nature of chaos impacts many aspects of musicking. Artistic works emerge from the interferences between processes that are set in motion. Instruments are influenced and in turn influence the performer in return. The reflections turn to the notion of wondering as the performer and audiences alike encounter unforeseen sonic behaviors that are strangely musical despite their volatile and fragile chaotic origins.open exposition comments (0)