Running Freight on the River. A Clean Cargo Prefiguration
(2023)
author(s): Tim Boykett, Tina Auer
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
We are interested in exploring the types of futures that are preferable for us all. Discussions of preferable futures can be made difficult by a lack of understanding of the lived experience of that possible future. We like to think that some wise person once said: “I hear futures and I forget. I see futures and I remember. I do futures and I understand.” In order to explore scenarios of possible futures, we thus look into experiential modalities.
This exposition examines our Danube Clean Cargo project. The prefigurative process imagined what small scale localised transport could be like and attempted to run a pilot scheme. Reporting on that, merging the quantitative, qualitative and experiential aspects of the project, we present some resulting insights and imaginations. The project leaves us with speculations and visions drawn out by the process of prefiguration. It also leaves us with questions around heterotopic instantiations, queered economics and the everyday to be pondered as artistic research. This helps us reflect on the process of imagination and speculation, on dreams of various freedoms and the harsh realities of logistics chains.
The exposition develops ideas in both internal and external reflective modes. The exposition is oriented along a chart of the Danube river for the region of interest. Along the south bank of the Danube the project and its internal reflections are arrayed as episodic text fragments, leading up to a short vision that echoes older stories of sailing cargo barges. Along the north bank a more external reflection is positioned, bringing the project and its understandings into context with a collection of previous developments and external references. The entire exposition is arranged as a single page paper nautical chart, which in contrast to a digital chart plotter, always displays all of the information and does not hide features.
This exposition is part of Curiouser and Curiouser, cried Alice: Rebuilding Janus from Cassandra and Pollyanna (CCA), an art-based research project from Design Investigations (ID2) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Time's Up. It is supported by the Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): AR561.
Objects that Matter - Performance Art and Objects
(2019)
author(s): Pilvi Porkola
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
The Study on Objects (2018-) is an ongoing art project that focuses on everyday life objects we are surrounded by. While considering the objects and working with videos, I contemplate the relationship between new materialism and performance art. Feminist new materialism offers a perspective to explore many performance art works that reveal how we are related to objects and how we deal with them.
The cultural politics of pervasive drama: aural narrative, digital media and re-compositions of urban space
(2015)
author(s): Eva Giraud
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
This article argues that pervasive drama has the capacity to illuminate the cultural politics of urban space, by highlighting microsociological power relations that shape everyday movement. It suggests that the medium does this in two ways: firstly, through its use of “pervasive sound narratives” that actively defamiliarize urban space and, secondly, through the auditory technologies that disseminate this narrative, which draw attention to everyday engagements with mobile media that are ordinarily beneath our notice. These arguments respond to Anderson’s call for further research into the “productive listening potentials” of aural narrative (Anderson 2012), by exploring specific ways that pervasive drama can foster more meaningful and politically-engaged experiences of place. Drawing on The Memory Dealer as a case-study, narrative extracts and focus group findings from the drama are used to illustrate pervasive drama’s specific, politicised “listening potentials”.
REAL GAMES
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Nicoletta Cappello
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The Real Games is a podcast that instead of being listened to is designed to be enacted.
The RG Podcast contains 21 Real Games, 21 audio-based performances and theatre games each designed to be done in connection to a daily task or activity.
You do the performances and theatre games at home by following step by step the audio-instructions in real time while you listen the podcast.
The RG are created to add a spark of imagination and groove to your daily routine, and they can lead to unexpected results.
You can do the RG alone or accompanied, here and now, or later.
The performances can be only listened to or actively danced.
Jobba hemifrån. Erfarenheter från en pandemi.
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Maja Willén
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I en dokumentär fotoserie publicerad i Svenska Dagbladet hösten 2020 visar fotografen Daniel Nilsson upp hur en grupp svenskar löste sin arbetssituation i hemmet under våren och sommaren 2020 när kraven på att arbeta hemifrån var nya och framtiden osäker. På de nio fotografierna syns människor som arbetar från sängen, från en pall vid barnens skrivbord, lutad över ett trädgårdsbord på uteplatsen eller vid ett sminkbord i vardagsrummet (SvD 15/10–20). Dessa bilder skildrar på ett uttrycksfullt sätt den akuta och omvälvande fasen som det inledande skeendet av pandemin innebar när det krävdes snabba omställningar och kreativa lösningar för de som skulle börja arbeta hemifrån. Sedan dess har hemarbetet i större utsträckning permanentats för många av de hemarbetande grupperna och förutsättningarna för att kunna sköta sitt arbete från hemmet förbättrats. Men vad har egentligen hänt med bostaden som fenomen och funktion under tiden med hemarbete?
Sedan våren 2021 har jag samlat in material om hur människor har upplevt situationen med hemarbete under pandemin. Jag har dels genomfört en kvalitativ intervjustudie med människor som arbetat hemifrån, dels samlat in visuella medieringar av hemarbetssituationen från diverse olika medieplattformar. Texten som här publiceras är ett första försök att samla mina tankar om vad hemarbetssituationen under pandemin innebar för människor vardagsliv.
Till texten hör ett antal bilder som jag fotade i mina egna hemmakontor under pandemin. Dessa visar de olika platser som jag och min sambo arbetade ifrån under de två årens hemarbete i två olika lägenheter i Stockholm.
Om hur hemmakontoret utmanat de materiella förutsättningarna i bostaden går att läsa i denna text: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1742649&dswid=-6963
Auditory Situation
(last edited: 2016)
author(s): Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
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Auditory Situation is a concept that drives a series of works in the domain of sound art. An auditory situation can be understood as a fluid frame of contingent juxtapositions and occurrences in the context of navigation through sounds. It is comprised of happenings and chance emergences from transient interaction with everyday sounds leaving traces of complex, nebulous and intermingling ‘Object-disoriented' impressions in sonic perception.