Exposition

"No Self Can Tell" (last edited: 2024)

Laasonen Belgrano, E. and Price, M.D.
Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano, Mark Douglas Edmund Price

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The research explores 'ornamenting' as a transferable method in inter-disciplinary studies, inter-faith dialogues and artistic/therapeutic practices. Adapting techniques of Renaissance musicology, the processes we have developed de-create and re-create vital connections. It is a communica-tions strategy for times of crisis. Starting with simple sonic relations we extend the method far be-yond its traditional musical setting. The practice utilises 'Nothingness' as a component of creativity, providing a novel response to figurations of nothingness as mere negation. Preliminary results sug-gest its potential as a counter force to nihilism and social dislocation. The work divides into four areas. 1. Primary research on relationships between sound, meaning, and the sense(s) of self, exploring how sense is made of Otherness via processes akin to musical praxis: consonance, dissonance, 'pure voice' and ornamentation. 2. To apply this new perspective to a range of exile experiences – mourning, social disconnection, ex-communication and aggres-sive 'Othering'. 3. To investigate the cancelling of normal time-conditions in crisis situations such as trauma, dementia, and mystical experience, relating non-linear temporality to creative practice and healing. 4. To widely disseminate our results and methods as contributions to the methodology of artistic research via journal articles, live workshops and performances, and a book of original, praxical, testable, and teach-able interventions.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsTrauma, loss, longing, kalevala, kabbalah, 'A Thread of Words', Body-Flesh, Diffractive thinking, Exile, Existential counselling, Finnish War Children, holocaust, Karelian Lamentation, Lamenting, madness, 'Nachtraglichkeit', Narratives, nothingness, Ornamentation, 'Ripening of Trauma', Second & Third Generations Victimes, self, Suffering, Time, non/linear, touch, Unknown
date05/09/2020
last modified04/09/2024
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightM/E2020
licenseAll rights reserved
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/980511/988893


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