Research Catalogue

Conversations with dance knowledge” is a development work by Chrysa Parkinson, Professor of Dance, and Frank Bock, Senior Lecturer in Choreography, and Andrew Hardwidge. The research is a conversation format that prioritizes movement between textures, atmospheres, qualities, and metaphors to express meaning and knowledge. By balancing somatic experience and language-based exchanges the research prioritizes nuances that emerge between people, places and things in activated space and time. The research is experimenting with question formation, spatial contexts and using simple materials in conversation. The process is documented by objects, texts, drawings, and audio files. The aim of the research has been to develop research methods that can emphasize the authorship, materials and processes of dance and dancers within social and aesthetic discourses of dance and art practices and have direct applications in teaching processes.

Filmed conversation between Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen, co-editor of issue #10, and Andrew Hardwidge, Chrysa Parkinson and Frank Bock, authors of “Studio Conversations”. During this conversation, the editor interweaves the essence of "Studio Conversations" with the overarching theme of "Circulating Practices." Through this talk, you'll get an insight into "Studio Conversations," a research project focused on ways of asking contemporary dance artists about the practices, working and knowing happening in their dancing. "Studio Conversations” was originally intended to be published as an exposition in VIS. In recognition of the project's specific approach, we decided in dialogue with the authors to depart from the conventional exposition format. Instead, we've chosen to present Studio Conversations as a video conversation. This decision stems from our commitment to presenting artistic research in a way that best reflects the purpose of the project and the vision of its creators. The discussion was filmed on Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) premises at Filmhuset on 29 September 2023.

Layered, scattered and synthetic traces of a performer’s authorship. A series of harmonic partials. Materials include photographs, audio recordings and writings sourced from performances the author participated in between 2013 – 2017. 1. Audio File: Sydney, Warsaw, Berkeley, 2016 Sydney Biennale: Adrian Heathfield/Ghost Telephone, 2016 Warsaw Museum of Modern Art: Boris Charmatz/Expo Zero, 2016 Death of the Documenter: Family Home, 2016 2. Photos (Zan Wimberly) of Sydney Biennale 3. Photos (Chrysa Parkinson) of Warsaw Museum of Modern Art and Family Home 4. Audio File: 7 Questions (4 voice recording), 2016-2017 with embedded questions from: Ilse, Louise, Klara, Yari, Adam, Kim, Hanah, Andreas. 5. Essay with Audio: Liminal Animates, Chrysa Parkinson 2013-2018 6. Audio file: The Glitch, Chrysa Parkinson 2015