Performing Reflection: Improvisation in Word, Thought and Action
(2025)
author(s): IRK
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition contains the complete artistic output and accompanying reflective documentation of the artistic research doctoral project I conducted at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna between 2021 and 2024.
Free improvisation in music offers a unique field for exploring how artistic practices develop through embodied engagement, critical reflection, and collaborative experimentation. This research focuses particularly on the process of practicing within this context, tracing the evolution of specific exercises and preparatory methods. These were initially tested in collaborative projects with other musicians and later refined through a series of workshops. A central theme that emerged throughout this process is the role of reflection—both musical and verbal—as a vital component of artistic development. This realization culminated in the project Performing Reflection, which established a dialogical relationship between musical improvisation and reflective discourse. The work contributes to a deeper understanding of how structured exercises and reflective practices can support and expand the art of free improvisation, offering new perspectives on its preparation, pedagogy, and performance.
How To Reunite After a Break with Your Artistic Partner: A Personal Example
(2025)
author(s): Gosia Trajkowska
published in: Research Catalogue
In this text, I want to share the very personal experience of reconnecting with my
artistic partner, Vera Popova, through the means of an audio walk.
Screenshot Cameos of ‘After the Flood’; a project archived
(2025)
author(s): Mike Croft
published in: Research Catalogue
The project comprises text, location photos, photos of artworks, and video animations that record the experiences of a natural flood that affected house and studio. The project’s content is a consideration of the consequences of the flood towards an existing project in progress at the time and on existing finished artwork. The finished exposition had two unsuccessful reviews; the first due to insufficiently proposing a workable consideration of failure, the second for insufficient clarity of purpose. As this self-published iteration, screenshots taken from the original iteration as formatted on the RC are overlaid with short summaries of aspects of the project’s content, in terms pertaining to both the staining of the flood water and the often unacknowledged writing, re-writing, and over-writing of whatever is the language basis of one's practice. The screenshots, as simulated text-and-image cameos, have the summaries ranged next to them as legible text. The original submitted project is archived though accessible as a PDF only, along with its supplementary papers and video clips.
Metamorphosis of HOME
(2025)
author(s): Annamária Zemková
published in: Research Catalogue
Pigeons- an urban creature once domesticated, now roaming freely and confused searching for Home.
Karaoke and Queering Capitalism
(2025)
author(s): Eygló Höskuldsdóttir Viborg
published in: Research Catalogue
This is the final reflection paper of Eygló Höskuldsdóttir Viborg from the MA program in Performing Arts at Iceland University of the arts.
It is hard to live as a living artist these days. Here are some of my findings on how I can use the art of karaoke to make ends meet.
Vermehrstimmigen als kontemplative Praxis - Dokumentationsteil
(2025)
author(s): Jakob Stillmark
published in: Research Catalogue
Abbildungen und Medien zur Dissertation