Exercises in Imagination no. 1 (2024)

25 November 2024, Black Box, Helsinki Music Centre, Centre for Music and Technology (Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki).

Paola Livorsi shaper, Jin Hyun Kim co-shaper (Jan Schacher, technical assistance).


This performance was recorded at the Black Box (Sibelius Academy) on November 25, 2024, within the scope of the symposium 'Investigating Musicians’ First-person Experiences.' It is part of Paola Livorsi and Jin Hyun Kim’s ongoing artistic research project, 'Exercises in Imagination'(2024–).

This project explores questions of identity and diversity through the performative transformation of Arendt’s philosophical fragments from linguistic into musical meaning, utilizing the artistic technique of 'stimming' to foster empowerment and solidarity with socially disadvantaged individuals.

Methodologically, the project adopts Kim’s nonverbal micro-phenomenological co-shaping approach (see https://doi.org/10.1163/15685241-20251582) to investigate the lived experiences underlying the processes of musical shaping.

 

 

 

 

 

EXERCISES IN IMAGINATION NO. 1

Paola Livorsi, Jin Hyun Kim

 

Sure, it is a kind of monstrous or sub-human expression! Visceral, coming from my body – I was down, with my knees bent, my head and hair down, between my legs – close to the ground.

Long life, long pain – and also, oh what darkness (...) is down there, inside there

                                                                                              (note 24.9.2021)

                                                                                                                 

 This experience, it is me collapsed, fallen into myself

                                                                                      (24.9.2021)