Choreography as Reading Practice
(2019)
author(s): Simo Kellokumpu
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
ENG
My doctoral artistic research project (2013-2019) examines choreography as reading practice. In the research, the notion of choreography operates simultaneously as an analytical device, problem to be examined, and an artistic outcome. The primary method for the research is choreographic experimental practice that delves into the process of dynamic place-taking in which the human body couples with surrounding movements, from microscopic to telescopic, without the aim of mastering the movement. The research project contains two examined artistic parts; the first one consists of five choreographic projects and the second materializes choreoreading practice as performance with three performers.
The research practice delves into the conditions of movement and choreography through the following transformations:
from choreographer to choreoreader
from choreographing to choreoreading
from grounded embodied choreographic construction to
astroembodied choreostruction
from human vessel to human atmospheric organism
In the framework of choreography studies, the research contributes to the shift and expansion from the historical notion of choreography as writing practice, in which the human body masters the movements to a choreoreading practice. The research project also contributes to the genealogies of site-specific and context-responsive practices, extending the notion of site to outer space.
Errata
On the cover page of the exposition, the peer review logo of The Federation of Finnish Learned Societes should be ignored as the publication has not undergone anonymous peer review. The logo was inserted by the publishers.
FIN
Tohtorintutkintoon johtanut taiteellinen tutkimusprojektini (2013-2019) tarkastelee koreografiaa lukemisen praktiikkana. Prosessissa koreografia toimii samanaikaiseseti analyyttisenä välineenä, tutkimuskysymyksenä sekä taiteellisena lopputulemana. Ensisijainen tutkimumetodi on ollut kokeileva koreografinen praktiikka, jossa paikantuminen ja paikan ottaminen toimii taiteellisena strategiana jossa ruumis linkittyy sitä ympäröiviin liikkeisiin mikroskooppisesta teleskooppiseen mittakaavaan ilman liikkeen mestaroinnin tavoitetta. Tutkimusprojekti sisältää kaksi tarkastettua taiteellista osaa; ensimmäinen osa koostuu viidestä koreografisesta projektista ja toinen osa on koreolukemista materialisoiva esitys kolmelle esiintyjälle.
Tutkimuspraktiikka tarkastelee liikkeen ja koreografian olosuhteita seuraavin muutoksin:
koreografista koreolukijaksi
koreografioimisesta koreolukemiseen
maadoittuneesta ruumiillisesta koreografisesta
konstruktiosta astroruumiilliseen koreostruktioon
ruumis-säiliöstä atmosfääriseen ruumiiseen
Tutkimus asettuu siihen koreografiaa koskevaan historialliseen jatkumoon, joka laajentaa koreografian ymmärrystä kirjoittamisen praktiikasta, jossa liike ymmärretään mestaroituna materiaalina. Tutkimuksen esittelemässä koreolukemisen praktiikassa ruumis kytkeytyy liikkeeseen taiteellisessa prosessissa toisenlaisen asenteen kautta. Tutkimus sijoittuu myös paikka-, tila- ja kontekstisidonnaisen taiteen historian jatkumoon venyttämällä paikan ja tilan käsitteen ulkoavaruuden mittakaavaan.
Errata
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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
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
Astrotrilogy
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): Simo Kellokumpu
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Astrotrilogy
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