Exposition

HÉR! An Exploration of Artistic Agency - Media Repository (2023)

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
open exposition

About this exposition

Media repository published as part of Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir's doctoral thesis 'HÉR! An Exploration of Artistic Agency' (2023). See here: https://bit.ly/LUResearchPortal Abstract: This doctoral thesis is concerned with agency in the work of a performer, curator, and composer, and how these agencies are socio-culturally constructed. Grounded in creative practice as primary research methodology, the project builds on feedback loops between creation, analysis, and interpretation. The aim is to better understand the conventional norms that define the roles of composer and performer and, further, to explore more dynamic approaches to these agencies through the perspectives of a composer, performer, and curator active in the fields of contemporary music and sound art. The project responds to the following research questions: o How can ecological-enactive and post-phenomenological perspectives on musical practice within Western classical music challenge current understandings of the roles of performer and composer? o What artistic methods can be employed to provide a more robust understanding of the fluidity of these roles, to uncover their potential for artistic renewal in the creation and performance of contemporary music? The research was designed as a series of micro-laboratories to look at agency through artistic collaboration in situations set in the concert hall, the recording studio, the virtual domain, and ecological sound art. This resulted in electroacoustic compositions, multi-channel installations, and site-specific work, including performances within a sonic hologram and with artificial intelligence. The analytical approach was built on autoethnography, and audio and video analysis through stimulated recall. The findings outline how the technological, non-human, and human agencies of environments affect and shape processual work. The analysis highlights how co-relation between theory and practice may both serve to unpack the pre-conditioning of agency, while the artistic experimentation in the laboratories seeks to explore other agential relations. Here, the intentionality of the technologies used in the lab have unfolded new perspectives on the conventional roles of composer and performer, while enabling the development of more dynamic practices. Through a study of the author’s curatorial practice, the role of a curator is understood not as defined by prescribed methods, but rather as dependent on the negotiation of the many agencies at play in artistic practice. The method development of the project has implications for the design of artistic research through the model of the laboratory. Herein, the use of audio and video technologies, particularly their application within stimulated recall methods, are integrated parts of analysis and artistic creation. The artistic research laboratory is proposed as a framework through which the potential of artistic research in music—as a vehicle for the development of new practices in professional contexts and in teaching environments—is substantiated and facilitated.
typeresearch exposition
date28/04/2023
published26/05/2023
last modified26/05/2023
statuspublished
share statuspublic
affiliationLund University
copyrightHalla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2109128/2109129
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.2109128
published inResearch Catalogue


Simple Media

id name copyright license
2109287 IPNLight Binaural mvt1 #1 Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir All rights reserved
2109302 coverRaindamage Sono Luminus All rights reserved
2109315 DSL-92224 Album Cover 5-11 Sono Luminus All rights reserved
2109600 Strengur sleevework Carrier Records All rights reserved
2109601 strengur_cover Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir All rights reserved
2121076 halla-strengur (1080p) Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir All rights reserved
2147426 HSS in Northern Lights Halll - activation Angela Rawlings All rights reserved
2149636 UA HSS demo 7.7 Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir All rights reserved
2149642 Cover album Halla Steinunn Davíð Brynjar Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir Davíð Brynjar Franzson All rights reserved
2149644 HSS and DB cover from strengur Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir David Brynjar Franzson All rights reserved
2149679 Halla Steinunn Halla Lovisa cover Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir All rights reserved
2149821 H. S. Stefánsdóttir (2019) 'study in sound - the quarry' Halla Steinunn Stefansdottir All rights reserved
2150071 Pick from seismograf website Halla Steinunn All rights reserved
2154571 LundUniversity_C2line_RGB Lund University CC BY-NC-ND
2154573 LundUniversity_C2line_BLACK Lund University CC BY-NC-ND
2154668 Headphone logo Design Circle CC BY-NC-ND
2154743 LU_Musikhög_BLACK_ENG Lund University All rights reserved
2154857 iStock-1134969065 Getty Images - Kyrylov CC BY-NC-ND
2158227 UAatSPOR Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2158229 AU SPOR for RC Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir and Davíð Brynjar Franzson CC BY-NC-ND
2158264 UA Iceland 20230523 Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2159241 The butterflies ascended updated trailer Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2159247 The butterflies ascended Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2159521 The butterflies ascended trailer Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2159533 The butterflies ascended Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2159570 VARP documentation Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2162365 VARP final trailer Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2162376 UA SPOR - documentation Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir Davíð Brynjar Franzson CC BY-NC-ND
2162854 20230525 SPOR UA Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir & Davíð Brynjar Franzson CC BY-NC-ND
2163786 AUAEG for RC SPOR Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir & Davíð Brynjar Franzson CC BY-NC-ND
2163797 AUAEG for RC SPOR Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir & Davíð Brynjar Franzson CC BY-NC-ND
2163861 strengur - premiere Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2164373 FINAL STRENGUR Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2164378 strengur video from premiere Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2164425 Strengur premiere - final version Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir CC BY-NC-ND
2164427 Frontispiece for strengur Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir All rights reserved
2164540 Onsite photograph of strengur Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir All rights reserved
2164550 Frontispiece strengur video Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir All rights reserved

comments: 1 (last entry by Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano - 31/05/2023 at 09:54)