At the Knot of Presence: Weaving with the embodied knowledge of my artistic palette in Liza Lim's One and the Other (Speculative Polskas for Karin)

Karin Emilia Hellqvist

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At the Knot of Presence: Weaving with the embodied knowledge of my artistic palette in Liza Lim's One and the Other (Speculative Polskas for Karin) (2024)

Karin Emilia Hellqvist

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This artistic research exposition unfolds the shared work between Australian composer Liza Lim and Swedish violinist Karin Hellqvist, from the viewpoint of Hellqvist as performer and co-creator. Together, the artists have created the violin solo work One and the Other (Speculative Polskas for Karin) (2021–22). The Swedish folk music tradition that Hellqvist has carried with her since her childhood, and especially the polska dance, serves as their point of departure. This tradition resides in Hellqvist’s body and performance practice as embodied knowledge – a term introduced by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962), and it becomes their main path of research. A central concept in the reflections is the ‘artistic palette’ – a concept created by Hellqvist to conceptualise the skills and abilities used in creative work. Hellqvist’s embodied knowledge connected to the tradition is woven into the work through explorations of elements as the specific pulse of the polska and its ornamentation. Furthermore, those embodied skills are explored as decoupled in the third movement, capturing indeterminate aspects. The main question addressed is how the embodied knowledge of Hellqvist’s artistic palette serves as resource and inspiration in the shared process and how it affects the ontology of One and the Other (Speculative Polskas for Karin). Topics of distributed creativity, shared work as mycelial structure, instrument-building, ownership, and temporal ecology are being unpacked in the light of the artistic palette. The artistic research exposition unfolds a compositional process whereby the performer is participating actively, thus problematising the view of where creativity may be located in compositional work. It comprises written reflections, audio examples, pictures, and video material from the creative process as well as a video of the whole work. The research context comprises historical and aesthetic perspectives, as well as recent research on performer creativity and embodiment. Download Accessible PDF

type	research exposition
keywords	embodied knowledge, artistic palette, collaborative composition, performance practice, contemporary music, distributed creativity, ecology, mycelia, ornamentation
date	07/08/2024
published	05/11/2024
last modified	05/11/2024
status	published
affiliation	Norwegian Academy of Music Oslo
copyright	Karin Emilia Hellqvist
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1865089/2949362
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1865089
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	33. 33

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name	Workshop-in-Berlin-2021
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name	Stjärnsunds mansion
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name	Polska after Näktergal
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name	Visa after Risshytt Maria
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name	Prestlundsbäcken
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name	Vals efter Erlandsson
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name	Hellqvist-house
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name	Lim polska beats 1st movement
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name	Lim single ornament
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name	Lim repeated ornament
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name	Lim resonance strings 1st movement bar 7
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name	Lim trill notation
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name	Lim Third Movement One and the other
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name	Lim preface detail: tuning
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name	Lim Pocket 1st movement
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name	Lim pockets 2nd movement
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name	Lim insert pockets many times
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name	Lim nested repeats
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name	Video from workshop. Speaking about chopping technique, threads, loops, strings
copyright	Liza Lim, Karin Hellqvist
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name	Workshop: first tryouts of chop-lift technique.
copyright	Liza Lim, Karin Hellqvist
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name	Video, discussion of ornamentation as desire, beauty and skill.
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name	Video, discussing the pocket of the 1st movement.
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name	Lim-One and the other, program notes
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name	Hellqvist4
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name	Practicing One and the Other
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name	Hellqvist_performance
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copyright	Karin Hellqvist, Liza Lim
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