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

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
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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


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

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...

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