Research Catalogue

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• Textile Cartographie (2024) author(s): Célia Ferreira published in: Research Catalogue
  Textile Cartographies is a participatory action research project using textile arts as story telling, coordinated by APECV Research Group on Arts, Community and Education (GriArCE) with 29 groups from universities, schools, collectives and NGOs in Americas; Africa; Asia; Australia and Europe. The project aims to give voice to minority and peripheral groups in relation to issues such as environment; climate justice; social justice and other sustainability issues through exploring visual discourses using arts and textile technologies.
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  ANTHONY BRAXTON'S TRICENTRIC THOUGHT UNIT CONSTRUCT AND POST WAR WESTERN ART MUSIC (2024) author(s): Kobe Van Cauwenberghe published in: Research Catalogue
  The perception of the canon of post-war Western art music today is still strongly determined by a constructed dichotomy which keeps Western art music separate from evolutions and radical experiments in jazz and African-American music. The very extensive oeuvre and philosophical body of thought of the American composer Anthony Braxton, what he calls his Tri-Centric Thought Unit Construct (TCTUC), can be seen as the metaphorical elephant in the room. This unique oeuvre has been largely ignored to this day within the repertoire, discourse and performance practice associated with the canon of post-war Western art music. This research project takes Anthony Braxton's TCTUC as a starting point to see how I, as an interpreter of Braxton’s music, can contribute to a broadening of this canon. My intention with this research is to provide artistic responses to the gaps within the existing discourse on post-war Western art music (see Braxton, Lewis, Piekut, Born, a.o.) by approaching a wide selection of Braxton’s compositions on his own terms. By putting these works as specific case studies on the agenda of relevant actors such as the conservatory, contemporary music festivals and concert series and through recordings and other media, I aimed to make a canon broadening possible through my practice as an interpreter. The results of this research, presented in the form of concerts, lectures, articles, workshops and recordings, are collected in this Research Catalogue website.
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  We Invite You To Sleep With Us (2024) author(s): Kimey Peckpo published in: Research Catalogue
  As a child my father sung me to sleep with folk songs weaving pain, desire and death. This milieu was comforting and his circumstantial act (not a decision) shaped my sense that songs are a technology of meaning. Is meaning a word for perceiving the story with ourselves as a part of it? Plato told a story about how the dialectic will separate us from becoming a part of the cosmos. F. Scott Fitzgerald told a similar story about a man bound to an idealised concept of beauty who cannot find his way back to the cosmos of feeling. He cannot emerge into the pragmatism of what Catherine Malabou calls the “one life only”. A N Whitehead describes this as the event of the past emerging into the present into the future. Using song, I speculatively invite attendees to experience meaning inside the event. As a researcher drawn to Barad’s ideas of the intra-relational, I feel stories are the cosmos expressing itself. In stories, as with Plato’s Republic, we can accidentally describe the problem. Fred Moten is clear on how maintaining a reciprocal assemblage methodology in the lyric creates an ability to “stay with the problem”, “Let’s call it the scene of empathy. Lets call it the hesitant sociological scene. The scene of the in calculable rhythm. It is a scene neither of subjection nor objection. Looking with this hearing is a kind of building with or bearing.” (2017) My research, along the song lines of Whitehead, Moten, Deleuze and Guattari et al, has arrived in the region of singing in academia. I enjoy the irony of Katherine Rundell concluding in her essay in defence of books that when you make them inaccessible to a child, “you cut them off from the song that humanity has been singing for thousands of years… To fail to do everything we can to help children hear that song is a stupidity for which we should not be forgiven.” We Invite You To Sleep With Us because my father’s songs were a gateway to the somatic experience of sleeping, a region where we are once more a part of.
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• Alterlibrary. A regenerative online library. (2024) author(s): Meike Gleim published in: Research Catalogue
  We propose to present the Alterlibrary, an experimental digital and life library that conceives knowledge as Renewable Sources—i.e. as an imaginative and transformative knowledge—with the aim to explore possibilities of fostering knowledge's practical role as an enabler of social and political agency (Arendt, The human condition 1958). Against the impact of today's communication technologies and AI that have turned the public sphere into a fragmented space where polarized discourses, fake news, and consumer-driven narratives thrive (Zumboff 2019), we claim that knowledge production needs to be reframed. While the mentioned contemporary productions of “knowledge” come along with manipulative content, encourage a consumerist, i.e. passive, mindset, and blur the boundaries between reality and fiction in a hyperreal scenario (Baudrillard 1994), the Alterlibrary experiments with the continuous critical regeneration of knowledge. The following shifts in knowledge production by the Alterlibrary will be explained through its practical translating of the formats on the website: Transformative: Instead of conceiving knowledge as static, it is continuously reassessed and renegotiated through comments and questions. Collaborative: Instead of a focus on the individual, the Alterlibrary emphasises the relational and collaborative dimension of knowledge production. Active: Instead of producing consumers, it requires active engagement. Ecosystemic: Instead of locating knowledge in the mind, it locates it in an ecosystemic approach to it that focuses on the interrelations between human and non-human actors (Latour 2005). These shifts are achieved through a display of the Alterlibrary’s collections - textual and visual - that creates a relational, lateral and rhizomatique environment, generating new reading paths between the sources and revealing the inexhaustible potential of recreation, as well as offering the “users” space to rethink and interact with the sources.
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  Mirror selfies as a phenomenon of contemporary society, identity changes and the interaction of fashion and interior design (2024) author(s): Kristina Zejkanová published in: Research Catalogue
  In my dissertation, I examine the manifestation of identity through material means - interior and clothing - and observe their dialogue in offline and online environments. I explore the occurrence of these spheres on social media, in everyday life and across history. I look for interesting connections in the context of the modern Western society we are part of. The key analysis was carried out by the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, where various artificial intelligence methods looked for visual and conceptual parallels and colour schemes in the so-called mirror seflies, which I consider to be artefacts of contemporary society. The current academic year has been conducted mainly on the theoretical level, while the following year I plan to implement practical outputs that will materialize the data and findings.
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• FROM ART TO ECONOMY AND BACK: Initial steps towards the understanding of resonance, affect and love in nomadic systems through the case study of Lisbon Drawing Club (2024) author(s): Lígia Fernandes published in: Research Catalogue
  This research builds on 20 years of combined experience in economics and art, exploring how economic and relational systems shape emotional landscapes. The study investigates the intersection of art and economy through the lens of love, using resonance and affect to understand their relational dynamics. With a focus on nomadic practices exemplified by the Lisbon Drawing Club, the research examines how community-oriented art fosters relational bonds and emotional responses, particularly through drawing sessions. Employing autoethnographic and desire-based approaches, the project integrates mapping, community engagement, and artistic experimentation to deepen insights into art-economy relationships.
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