Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano is a voice artist and artistic researcher. Her professional career is characterized by an entangled and diffracted performance practice including the following components and experiences: 17th century vocal music staged as contemporary performance art / recipient of the Noah Greenberg Award from The American Musicological Society in 2005/ warded a PhD in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama in 2011 for her investigation into Performing Nothingness through Mad Scenes and Lamentation in 17th Century Opera, Academy of Music and Drama, Univ. of Gothenburg / supervising and examining in higher art education (performative arts and teachers-training in visual arts and music) / co-directing the Cross-Disciplinary Faculty Group for Performance/Performativity, University of Gothenburg 2013-15 / co-supervising doctoral artistic fellow at Norwegian Academy of Music 2017-2019 / performing research at international symposia and conferences / passionate about paradoxes / loving pedagogical adventures / mad about vocal ornamentation through artistic sensuousness / caring for intra-active encounters / desiring trust through touch...
Dear Valerie,
not sure it this message will find you but I try anyhow....
I find your expo really inspiring at the same time as I am thinking about how do or don't we connect in a field name AR. It makes me think: Are we in the need of a field named AR...? I finished my thesis investigating How to perform Nothingness in June 2011. I have also continued to work through Barad'd diffractive methodology... These ideas are developing within the arts, but somehow I don't see that we connect as a field... could we do ressearch connections differently? Are we in the need of mapping the field? Can we build through one another's thinking even more..? Or is a field a more close and local concept in the arts?
I write to you now just because it interests me alot to think about the research field AR.....and to whom we refer when we create 'new' knowledge and discoveries.... It would be interesting to make a review expo on AR through performative thinking on Nothing and Diffraction. Would you me interested to join me in such a paper....? I think such it would make a difference to an explorative or a thematic field...
Thanks!
Best,
Eli. LAASONEN BELGRANO
Portfolio: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/378762/430811
Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano, ‘“Lasciatemi morire” o farò “La Finta Pazza”: Embodying Vocal Nothingness on Stage in Italian and French 17th century Operatic Laments and Mad Scenes.‘, Research Catalogue (2021) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/397858/397859/0/0 [accessed 31/05/2023]
Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano, Mark Douglas Edmund Price, ‘Letting NOTHING do itself‘, Research Catalogue (2022) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1516617/1516618/0/0 [accessed 31/05/2023]
Laasonen Belgrano, E. and Price, M.D., ‘"No Self Can Tell"‘, Research Catalogue (2023) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/980511/1040331/0/0 [accessed 31/05/2023]
Dear Halla! Wonderful that you have added the thesis here in RC! I love creating expo in RC ;-). So much looking forward to have more tiime to dive into your work. Are just about to write a smaller MA thesis in Theology and am eager to read your words on (Autopoetic) feedback loops among others. I'm trying to articulate what Performative Theology may be, using AR, performance studies in an attempt to describe how theology-as-perfoormative-processing is emerging as an acadeic field...
Yes it is!
Dear Mareike,
COncratulations and Thanks for inspiring work.
Will enjoy looking into this with more care,
Best. Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano
Dear Kitty,
Lovely to see your expo! I wanted to make you aware of work that you may find interesting concerning 17th century vocal ornamentation and artistic research.
- a CD with Air Serieux that i did in 2004 (Eclatante Amamrante) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/229531/229532
- My thesis: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/397858/397859
- a performance: Moving through the garden of senses: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/313732/313733
- and my portfolio: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/378762/430811
Best wishes for your future vocal research and performance studies
Eli. Laasonen Belgrano
Dear Emily,
Thanks again for an interesting contribution to the field. In a way an attempt to describe a still highly complex academic research field. ... I have for many years tried to break with academic habits and systems. This often leads to mystification, and comments urging for clarifications and confinements to more academic structures. These are complex comments since the definition of clarification as a term first needs to be discussed. And what is clear and constructive for some is the opposite for others. I like your use of essaying as an method. I am also very curious to know more about 'unmethodology'. I need to read your work with more care, but being in the continuous process of moving between abstract intuitive expression and clarity translated into other forms of expression I approach you with a thought: In the process of essaying there are encounters of various kind. It would be interesting to know from you if these encounters could be cared for more equally in science and art. I have found a lot of 'comfort' in my research while applying a diffractive methdology incl intra-active encounterings. It has allowed for non-liniar and unexpected acts to be performed based on inclusive academic strategies. Have you considered such a methodology in your work on 'essaying'? Thanks again for your contribution!! Eli. Belgrano
Ah ;-) now I see what you did. Isuggest that you enter the command " edit workspace". When in the actual exposition you can add textboxes or any media you like. We can also use sticker.... let me try show... will add a mssage to you as a yellow sticker....
Dear Joa,
I am really interested in your work! WIll follow.
Best,
Elisabeth Belgrano
I respond even if I have not read you whole essay. Only parts of it.
I am a singer. Making art that sees no inside or outside. Art is myself-as-sound. Art in me is perhaps that ' experience of deeper natural form'. Have you work with voices? Have you explored your art as voice?
Kära Annette,
En föredetta biskop sa i en helgmålsrigning på TV att sittandet under ett träd har att göra med 'sökande' enligt en gammal tradition. Då tänkte jag på dig. Och vill nu bara dela en liten text med dig som kommer från Sura 19:23-26 i koranen:
http://mobil.koranensbudskap.se/translations.aspx?chapterID=19&langID=&p=2
Så tacksam över RC möjligheter...
Detta är helt färskt:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1926258/2261615
Hade för några veckor sedan en pilotlektion i Jerusalem... helt fantastiskt! Och idag efter allt som sker i Mellanöstern så känns klagosjungandet ännu mer relevant. Håller tummarna för att VR också ser detta projektets betydelse! Tredje gången gillt för vår ansökan... kanske kanske... säg gärna vilja höra vad du tycker om projektet LEKTIONER I DÖDENS SKUGGA och vår ansökan....
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1926258/1926259
Ta hand om dig och om alla dina träd! Du inspirerar!
Eli.