From the abyss to the afterglow: On the practice of vibrant contemplation as a mode of artistic research

Luiz Zanotello

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Through a form of critical autoethnography, this study diffracts aspects of the author’s artistic practice through the intimate process of mourning to delineate a particular mode of knowledge production within artistic research that queers the relationship between the inside and outside of epistemic and ontological perspectives. The first section considers the abyss as a figure between grief, the unknown, and modes of knowledge production within artistic research. The second section bridges the work of theorising as a form of reconfiguring the world through the study of diffracted light, and further delineates the practice of vibrant contemplation as a method of entangling art practice with theorisation processes beyond a dichotomous opposition between art and science. The final section contemplates the figure of the afterglow as a material-discursive phenomenon that emerges from the temporality of mourning vis-à-vis artistic research. Download Accessible PDF

type	research exposition
keywords	mourning, critical auto-ethnography, theorizing, light, diffraction, poetics
date	15/07/2024
published	15/07/2024
last modified	15/07/2024
status	published
affiliation	University of the Arts Bremen, Leiden University, Royal Academy of Art The Hague
copyright	Luiz Gustavo Ferreira Zanotello
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1744157/2509165
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1744157
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	32. 32

name	Recording: sea diffraction at Cote D'Azur
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name	Scheme: Vibrant Contemplation (thin lines)
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name	Studio during experimentation process #4
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name	Experiment: Cutting light together-apart #3
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name	Experiment: Diffraction constellation #2
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
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name	Experiment: Acrylic Glass Diffraction #1
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Experiment: Feather Diffraction
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Experiment: Cutting light together-apart #1
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Studio during experimentation process #3
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Studio during experimentation process #5
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
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name	Experiment: Cutting light together-apart #2
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Experiment: Diffraction sheet #3
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Experiment: Crystal Diffraction #1
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Experiment: Crystal Diffraction #2
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Experiment: Acrylic Glass Diffraction #3
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
license	CC BY-NC-ND
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name	Scheme: Vibrant Contemplation
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name	Experiment: Diffraction sheet #4
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name	Recording: Afterglow in Venice
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name	Studio during experimentation process #7
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name	Studio during experimentation process #2
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name	Prototype: Light-voice transducer/repeater #1
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name	Documentation: Every abyss is a poem yet unfinished: Video
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name	Documentation: Every abyss is a poem yet unfinished #1
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name	Documentation: Every abyss is a poem yet unfinished #0
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name	Documentation: Every abyss is a poem yet unfinished #2
copyright	Luiz Zanotello
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name	Experiment: Diffraction constellation #1
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name	Graphic: next button
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name	Studio-during-experimentation-process-#6
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name	Experiment: Diffraction sheet #5
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