Research Catalogue

This is a very lovely exposition. I am thrilled and honoured that I got to know this, and good luck to JAR who gets to publish this. I adored this exposition, and I had much fun with it. The work is ‘scoring an aesthetic encounter’ with the multimodal — visual, textual, sonic, performative — findings from the artistic research project Choreo-graphic Figures. It is clear that this exposition is based on a long-standing research project where multiple voices are heard and experienced and where the audience's own experience is encouraged to take place. It is very well designed, choreographed, performed and composed. This is one of the best designs I have seen in JAR, very easy to navigate. Each new title gives curiosity and energy to look further, revisit and combine impressions with expressions.

The strength for this exposition is how video, sound, engagement of the reader, doer, text collaborates equally. The possibilities for me as reader/explorer were endless. I would read and reflect on the presentation, on how to present research of practice, then I would leave my desk and walk around breathing, I would stop and shake and listen to objects shaking, look at little squares of people shaking. I could start one voice, add the other, and compose my own choirs of voices, sounds, and also move to this orchestra. I loved that there was no beginning and end, and that I could repeat as many times I wanted.

For future work - note to self and to the field - spend time investigating how shaking, breathing, voicing have been used in meditative, religious, shamanistic practices. The authors might want to look into the genealogy of the movements/tasks/doings presented, and just mention that they are aware that certain ways of being in space, and being together has a history. 

A joy to read/experience/perform this exposition. Thankyou.