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escalating inter-activity: brieftopic glimpse in site-specific post-human improvised music (2025)

Barbierato Leonardo
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There are moments within a performance where destruction and deviation from reality allow an alternative scenario to reveal itself. I argue that these moments can be called ‘brieftopic’, fleeting glimpses into a possible future (Behzad Khosravi Noori, 2024). But what are the connections between reality, deviation and alternative scenario? How can this brieftopia, which materializes for brief moments within a performative event, reverberate outside of it, propagating at a social and political level? During the site-specific improvisation series [in situ], it became evident to me that this brieftopia is tied to an artist’s relinquishment of control, leading to a decentralization of the performance. By introducing the case study, specifically the [in situ] performance held in September 2023 at the Maremma National Park, we will see how unforeseen, unpredictable, and non-linear interactions between myself, the audience, and the non-human components of the ecosystem in which we were immersed, shaped the performance itself, steering it in an unexpected direction and removing it from the continuum of artistic intention, audience perception, and everyday life reflection. In this brieftopia, in a sense, it is existence itself that is reduced to rubble, not for the love of rubble, but for the way out that passes through it, paraphrasing Walter Benjamin.

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Det finns ögonblick under ett performance där förstörelse och avvikelser från verkligheten möjliggör att alternativa scenarier framträder. Jag använder begreppet ‘brieftopi’ (Behzad Khosravi Noori, 2024) för att beskriva dessa flyktiga ögonblick – glimtar av en möjlig framtid. Men vilka är kopplingarna mellan verklighet, avvikelse och alternativa scenarier? Hur kan denna brieftopi, som uppstår i korta ögonblick under ett performativt verk, få resonans utanför det och sprida sig på ett socialt och politiskt plan? Under den platsspecifika improvisationsserien [in situ] blev det tydligt för mig att denna brieftopi är knuten till konstnärens avstående från kontroll, vilket leder till en decentralisering av föreställningen. Genom att introducera en fallstudie – specifikt [in situ]-föreställningen i september 2023 i Maremma nationalpark – kommer vi att se hur oförutsedda, icke-linjära interaktioner mellan mig, publiken och de icke-mänskliga delarna av ekosystemet vi befann oss i formade verket. Dessa interaktioner styrde det i en oväntad riktning och lösgjorde det från den konstnärliga intentionens kontinuitet, publikens upplevelse och vardagens reflektion. I denna brieftopi är det, på ett sätt, själva existensen som reduceras till spillror – inte av kärlek till spillrorna, utan för den väg som går genom dem, för att parafrasera Walter Benjamin.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsBrieftopia, post-human, performance, re-enactment, landscape, site, Environment, improvisation, real-time composition
date23/05/2024
published17/03/2025
last modified17/03/2025
statuspublished
affiliationConservatorio Santa Cecilia of Rome
copyrightLeonardo Barbierato
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2828120/2828121
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/vis.2828120
published inVIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue13. VIS Issue 13
connected toEnacting Artistic Research
connected toConservatorio Santa Cecilia Roma


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