"No Self Can Tell" by Laasonen Belgrano, E. and Price, M.D.

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.

Before the beginning...

HEAD OVER HEELS

Some say it's unseemly

for a woman to be so... proactive

Ah but she had style

She flew all the way

From Lancashire to Australia

To marry him

Head over heels.

Eighteen months in

Something went drastically wrong.

Some disaster broke her heart.

So she flew back to Lancashire alone

Eventually they found

Most of his body

In a suitcase

Buried on a beach

Head over heels.

(Mark D. Price 'Re-Union', 2019)

Madness & Civilisation

The Night Watch: Foucault, Rembrandt, Lenkiewitcz (Price 2020)

... days seemed to pass faster than she could ever dream. All had grown into something unimaginable.

... and out of this broken heart three white rose kept growing. With thorns making the blood turn into a purple flooding...

... a nightingale sang in sorrow.

flipping its wing

fanning breath into his dead body.

making new life possible...

(based on the myth of Isis, Horus and Osiris)

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Madness & Civilisation

The Night Watch: Foucault, Rembrandt, Lenkiewitcz (Price 2020)