BSIDES
(2012)
author(s): Diego Gil
published in: Research Catalogue
BSIDES is a choreographic project that researches the concept of the refrain as is found in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari philosophy book "A thousand plateaus".
The refrain is a rhytmic movement out and in of chaos and between different signs and codes. In its passage from one territory to the other the refrain transforms (transduces) the codes or signs that encounters.
BSIDES gives form to the concept of the refrain through the actions of reciting and singing poems and songs; crossing different aesthetic territories.
From a single performer with more than 40 years of experience on stage to a group of performers in a process of formation; from an abstract to a pop environment; and from the point of view of self invention to the one of re appropriation.
Lastly the refrain points to a common gesture of any artistic practice. It is a song that one sings in order to find some stability, when walking to the unstable dimensions of the unknown.
Ghetto Child
(2012)
author(s): Patrick Bobilin
published in: Research Catalogue
An essay responding to the respective site-specificity of both online and printed art criticism. The essay also discusses the importance of short-range broadcast medium for the purpose of cultivating regional art critical "dialects".
What is Artistic Research?
(2012)
author(s): Julian Klein
published in: Research Catalogue
Art and science are not separate domains, but rather two dimensions in the common cultural space. This means, research is not then or only artistic, if carried out by artists, but deserves the attribute artistic, where, when and by whom whatsoever been made to a specific quality: the mode of artistic experience. Artistic experience is itself a form of reflection. And furthermore, whether implicit or explicit, artistic knowledge is embodied knowledge. The knowledge that artistic research strives for is a felt knowledge.