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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
typeresearch exposition
keywordsembodied knowledge, artistic palette, collaborative composition, performance practice, contemporary music, distributed creativity, ecology, mycelia, ornamentation
date07/08/2024
published07/08/2024
last modified07/08/2024
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationNorwegian Academy of Music Oslo
copyrightKarin Emilia Hellqvist
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1865089/2949362
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1865089
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue33. 33


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1866921 Polska after Näktergal Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
1866923 Vals after Erlandsson Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
1866925 Prestlundsbäcken Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
1866936 Visa after Risshytt Maria Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
1866944 Lunch at Floh Karin Hellqvist, Liza Lim All rights reserved
1866949 Sketch of Pocket 1 Karin Hellqvist, Liza Lim All rights reserved
1866952 Karin Hellqvist and Liza Lim at Wissenschaftskolleg, October 2021. Karin Hellqvist, Liza Lim All rights reserved
1879954 Stjärnsunds mansion visitdalarna.se CC BY-NC-ND
1879960 Emerentia Check this All rights reserved
1879967 Still from Berlin October 30th Karin Hellqvist CC BY-NC-ND
1879989 Recording at Stjärnsund mansion, July 2021 Karin Hellqvist CC BY-NC-ND
1880003 Recording at Stjäsnsund mansion 2 Karin Hellqvist CC BY-NC-ND
1880005 Practicing One and the Other Karin Hellqvist CC BY-NC-ND
1880007 Figure 8 loop sketch Karin Hellqvist CC BY-NC-ND
1880028 Wiko Colloquium, December 2021 Liza Lim CC BY-NC-ND
1888487 Vals efter Erlandsson Karin Hellqvist CC BY-NC-ND
1888503 Sketch 2nd beat as dreaming space Liza Lim CC BY-NC-ND
1888506 Sketch 2nd beat as dreaming space Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888508 Sketch 2nd beat as dreaming space Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888516 Part of sketch - dancing along the string Liza lim All rights reserved
1888518 Part of sketch - dancing along the string Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888521 Part of sketch - dancing along the string Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888524 Part of sketch - chopping Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888534 Part of sketch. Decoupling temporal flow. Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888552 Part of sketch - chopping. Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888561 Part of sketch - Alternate trills and ghost tune Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888565 Part of sktech - alternate trills Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888567 Part of sktech - alternate trills Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888569 Part of sketch - trills and ghost tune Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888571 Part of sketch - trills and ghost tune Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888572 Part of sketch - trills and ghost tune Liza Lim CC BY-NC-ND
1888576 Speculative Polskas sketches-7 copy Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888578 Part of sketch - alternate trills and ghost tune Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888580 Part of sketch - alternate trills and ghost tune Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888583 Part of sketch - trembling end Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888695 Berlin collab 2 Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
1888697 lunch at Floh Liza Lim All rights reserved
1888958 still from premiere Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
1888960 Still from premiere Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
1888962 Still from premiere Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
1888965 Still from premiere Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
1888973 Still from premiere Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
1889286 Part of sketch - dancing along the string_page-0001 Liza Lim All rights reserved
1889288 Part of sketch - chopping. _page-0001 Liza Lim All rights reserved
1889290 Sketch 2nd beat as dreaming space_page-0001 Liza Lim All rights reserved
1889292 Part of sketch. Decoupling temporal flow. -page-001 Liza Lim All rights reserved
1889296 2022-12-08_Solastalgia_Konzert_Mitschnitt_One_and_the_Other_Speculative_Polskas_for_Karin_Final Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2674457 Lim Third Movement One and the other G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin All rights reserved
2674511 Lim polska beats 1st movement G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin All rights reserved
2674519 Lim single ornament Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674527 Lim repeated ornament Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674537 Lim resonance strings 1st movement bar 7 Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674543 Lim trill notation Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674554 Lim preface detail: tuning Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674567 Lim Pocket 1st movement Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674574 Lim pockets 2nd movement Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674578 Lim insert pockets many times Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674582 Lim nested repeats Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674610 Lim-One and the other, program notes Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674621 Lim-One and the other, program notes Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674635 Lim-One and the other, program notes Courtesy of G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin. All rights reserved
2674660 Figure 8-loop_page-0001 Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2675228 Workshop: first tryouts of chop-lift technique. Liza Lim, Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2675340 Video from workshop. Speaking about chopping technique, threads, loops, strings Liza Lim, Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2675415 Video, discussion of ornamentation as desire, beauty and skill. Liza Lim, Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2675453 Video, discussing the pocket of the 1st movement. Liza Lim, Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2675495 Video, discussing the pocket of the 1st movement. Liza Lim, Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2736521 Karin_2 Karin Hellqvist, Liza Lim All rights reserved
2770005 Liza Lim: One and the Other (Speculative Polskas for Karin) Karin Hellqvist, Liza Lim All rights reserved
2784554 Karin_Hellqvist Karin Hellqvist, Liza Lim All rights reserved
2949419 Workshop-in-Berlin-2021 Hellqvist All rights reserved
2952307 Hellqvist2-1 Karin Hellqbvist All rights reserved
2952309 Hellqvist2-2 Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2953135 Hellqvist4 Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2953565 Hellqvist_performance Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2953570 Hellqvist_performance Karin Hellqvist All rights reserved
2954483 Hellqvist-house Claes Hellqvist All rights reserved

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