Research Catalogue

research expositions

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  There Is Nothing Outside the Stage Any Longer (2019) author(s): vincent roumagnac published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
  No Abstract (or This Box Left Intentionally Almost Blank) Except, Perhaps, This Extroduction (White Noise) (Winds) Exit (Enter) _ NB / The duration of the (close) hyper-reading of this exposition might be approximately 90 minutes - Sound output is recommended - Click on the images/pictograms to pop up/open - Click right down corner of the videos to enlarge and play.
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  REACCLIMATING THE STAGE (SKENOMORPHOSES) (2020) author(s): vincent roumagnac published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
  REACCLIMATING THE STAGE (SKENOMORPHOSES) An Ecotonal Doctoral Piece in 40 Scènes, 15 Parergonal Writings and 5 Double-Postcards. From the perspective of mise-en-scène (staging), and correlatively that of the place and the practice of the metteur-en-scène (theatre director), this artistic research project addresses, examines and experiments on the question of the scenic/scenographic representation of a postnatural world, in climate transition, affected by global warming and moved by abstract data-flows, in a tangled web of storms, information, and algorithms. While lived and conceptual "time", no longer telically given as linear and chronological, is being anthropodecentered and, therefore, diffracted into an open plurality, the Reacclimating the Stage (Skenomorphoses) artistic research project takes the earlier notion of time as a raw material to reexamine, from an eco-scenic and research perspective, in order to transform the theatrical practice of its author and to trigger the latter’s specific contribution to artistic research milieu. By obliquely playing on one hand with memories of theatrical history of scenic internal modi operandi, architecture, and literature, and on the other hand with institutional requirements for doctoral research appearance, the project aims at repositioning the director's practice in a movement of transition of scenic thinking and imaginary through a series of artistic and research experiments, whose enactments and resonant redistribution are poetically at interpretative play in this exposition.
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  pompom (last edited: 2020) author(s): vincent roumagnac, Simo Kellokumpu This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  pompom A project by Simo Kellokumpu in collaboration with Vincent Roumagnac & Nao Yazawa
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  PANDEMIA MUNDI: STAGES OF EPIDEMICS (last edited: 2020) author(s): vincent roumagnac, Simo Kellokumpu This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  For the first research episode in the new artist-researcher-run space Pengerkatu 7 Työhuone in Helsinki, Vincent Roumagnac chose to address, with a sense of urgency, the viral issue, at a time when we have entered the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, and in order to, collectively, try to understand more, from various perspectives, experiences, and sensitivities, what this virus is doing to our stage practices. Initially, we thought to organize a seminar in Helsinki, but the general situation in which we are does not allow it any longer. Hence, this proposal. But not as a Plan B. Rather an alternative form and attempt of making « sense » together. All the contributors work in relation to the « stage », through the lens of scenography, dramaturgy, choreography, directing, acting, performing, dancing, reflecting... They were invited to respond to the call with a short videographic object, in which they address the (notion of) virus in relation to their ongoing scenic practice. An online and open access collective publication is launched on Työhuone pages on the Research Catalogue (International database for artistic research) on December 11 2020. A celebrative display and live broadcast on SN will also takes place Pengerkatu 7 Työhuone on December 12 2020. Contributors: Hanna Ahti, Ignacio De Antonio, Horacio Banega in collaboration with Eduardo Safigueroa, Mai Endo, Simo Kellokumpu, The Institute Of Interconnected Realities (Ida-Elisabeth Larsen, Marie-Louise Stentebjerg & Jonathan Bonnici), Carl Lavery in collaboration with Simon Whitehead and Lee Hasball, Maiju Loukola, Elina Pirinen, Vincent Roumagnac, Charlotta Ruth, Stacey Sacks, Carolina E. Santo, and Marc Salicrú Julià
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  Backdrop (last edited: 2025) author(s): vincent roumagnac This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  Backdrop project/PORTFOLIO
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  weS.A.N.K. (last edited: 2019) author(s): vincent roumagnac, emmanuelle chiappone-piriou This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  2016 – 2018 by weS.A.N.K.* Research Group: Vincent Roumagnac and Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou in collaboration with guests artists and architects The weS.A.N.K. research project emerged from director-researcher Vincent Roumagnac’s dialogue with architect- researcher Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou. It surfaced at the confluence of Roumagnac's doctoral research on “Deepening the Stage” and Chiappone-Piriou's research on proto-architecture in relation to art and computation. Together they have designed and implemented a two-year experimental project with and around the question: "How to prototype the stage of the future?". Via five collaborative sessions, in Tokyo, Paris, Helsinki, Barcelona and Daegu, together with artists and architects invited locally, they carried out the performative design and assembling of those prototypes. From general themes – including theatre and architecture, stage and time ecology, big data and post-industrial landscapes, dystopian narratives and daily rituals, networks, climate, memory, energy and affect... – the spontaneous conceptualization and manufacture of prototypes sought to explore contemporary bio/techno-sensitive and geographical conditions and, from those diverse perspectives, to coalesce physical and informational objects with a scenic dimension. weS.A.N.K. Deep Stage As... is the final staging of the whole research project. Through a double mise-en-scène - an installation and an exposition on the Research Catalogue - it invites spectators to enter this twofold speculative landscape and to take part, through the experience of the shared quantity, in the emergence of alternative common scenic imaginaries. *weS.A.N.K. is for we Speculative Architectures of Neganthroposcenic Kronotopias
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  Open Studios Villa Kujoyama (last edited: 2023) author(s): vincent roumagnac This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  Open Studios Villa Kujoyama / Printemps-Spring 2020
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  DATA OCEAN THEATRE (OUT OF THE BLUE); A Discipline-Fluid Postdoctoral Artistic Research Project Exposition (2025) author(s): vincent roumagnac published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
  Data Ocean Theatre (D.O.T.) is a four-year artistic research project that explores the intersection of myths, Western theatre memory, new media, digital animism, climate emergency, sea and ocean transformations, queer subcultures, and technological mutations in relation to aspects of “submersion” as a contemporary living condition. Expanding on the claimed unsustainability of Western theatre’s anthropocentric foundations, D.O.T. examines how the notion and practice of the stage transform amidst climate urgency, technological hypergrowth, and discipline-fluid hybridization. It seeks to generate experiments on a new temporal ecology of the stage, examining how theatre-making infrastructures might transition within a multi-agential dynamic of emergence. D.O.T. appears, disappears, and reappears through a series of polymorphic artworks and research affordances based on the ecodramaturgical consideration of the simultaneous phenomenon of 1. the rising sea and ocean levels, 2. the exponential growth of big data in our informational age, and 3. the emotional overload caused by the latter two happening, projection, and prophecy. D.O.T. explores inherited sea-and-ocean-oriented myths and revisits theatre plays with a marine backdrop, looking simultaneously into contemporary nautical vocabulary and sea imagery used as metaphors for computational realities. D.O.T. proposes to re-mythologise Western theatre foundations by forming an alternative pantheon for a queer, hydrofeminist, and technoanimist reset of the “tragic,” at the interplay between a syncretic marine mythology and the ambiguities of “technology-as-monster” narratives. In D.O.T. project, the forces and fragilities of transforming marine ecosystems intersect with algorithmic-conditioned life and crossbreeding of diverse art disciplines and research fields based on collaborations, generating imaginary prototypes for future societal constructions in the floods. D.O.T. is structured around several key components: the prologue Simultaneous Environments, featuring a series of experimental works; the central project Tragedy and the Goddexxes, which culminates in three public exhibitions; and a series of workshops, residencies, and a final publication in the form of an exposition on the Research Catalogue. This final publication of the DATA OCEAN THEATRE postdoctoral artistic research project (2021–2024) titled 'DATA OCEAN THEATRE (OUT OF THE BLUE); A Discipline-Fluid Postdoctoral Artistic Research Project Exposition' performs on the Research Catalogue as both an aesthetico-epistemic object in its own right and as an a posteriori account, or catalogue raisonné, of the project. It also acts as a supplement to the author's doctoral publication, Reacclimating the Stage (Skenomorphoses), completing the latter to form a diptych on the Research Catalogue. Similar to the doctoral publication, the non-linear, non-hierarchical, and non-chronological reading, or hyper-reading, of Data Ocean Theatre (Out of the Blue) invites its visitors to navigate freely and compose their own fluid, archipelagic, and tidal experience to make sense of the project as a whole.
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  Oumuamua _Gravity Escape (last edited: 2021) author(s): vincent roumagnac, Simo Kellokumpu This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  OUMUAMUA _Gravity Escape (...) It arrived on October 19, 2017. By that time, the flies had already disappeared and several swallows had collided with my bedroom window. October evenings were warm. Rick Deckard’s words brush softly my lips: “Sometimes to love someone, you got to be a stranger.”_ Oumuamua_Gravity Escape is a choreographic installation that shifts the geo-centered human place-taking towards interplanetary scales and speeds. The work amplifies the history of site-sensitive practices by projecting the notion of place to Outer Space. It brings together speculative fiction, terraforming imaginaries, and the choreographer’s experiments on astroembodiments. Spotted in October 2017, Oumuamua is the first interstellar body that moves through the Solar System. The work premieres in May 2021, when the vegetal and other organic life forms unfold in the northern hemisphere of the Earth. The work is part of Kellokumpu's artistic-research postdoc -project "xeno/exo/astro-choreoreadings". Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland and Performing Arts Research Centre, TUTKE, Theatre Academy University of the Arts Helsinki
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• Intervention in the symposium "Interdisciplinary art in the 20's" (last edited: 2021) author(s): vincent roumagnac, Simo Kellokumpu This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  Intervention in the symposium "Interdisciplinary art in the 20's" Copenhagen, Nov. 2021 Toaster platform/Husets Teater
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  Untitled (Submerged) (last edited: 2021) author(s): vincent roumagnac This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
  DATA OCEAN THEATRE is a research project at the intersection of performing and visual arts, which speculates on the contemporary entanglement of myths, western theatre memory, new media, digital animism, climate emergency, and technological acceleration. The project poses, as a starting point, the physical metaphor of submersion as a contemporary condition and dynamic of living, and manifests through a series of polymorphic artworks and research supplements, based on the consideration of the double phenomenon of 1. the rising sea and ocean levels and 2. the exponential growth of big data in our informational age. The artworks produced in the framework of the project are intended to be simultaneously performed in diverse art grounded venues and shared through multimedia research expositions. After the first period of eight months of research and a series of inaugural artistic experiments, I propose to disclose in Carpa 7 the encountered writing challenges of the project through a twenty-minute video essay. In addition to reflecting on the qualities of the video-essay-as-writing in the context of artistic research, I would like to open a dialogue on the project from an artistic point of view and from the correspondent perspective of its research iteration through the following questions: how to address the performative ever-changing liquidities and the aesthetic opacities of such a pelagic project in a practice of expositional writing that doesn’t solidify the inherent movements and metamorphoses at play into a contained and stabilized rhetorical object? How to give experiential hospitality to the vastness, the unknowability, the depth of the research terrain, and at the same time providing the human community with a research compass for conceptually navigating the inappropriable and unmasterable swell? Are the forces, and correlative weaknesses, at stake in such a project, inevitably leading towards a radicalization of the artistic research language? How to write oceanically?
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