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  Heaven on Earth: As Above, So Below (2024) author(s): Bradly Couch published in: Research Catalogue
  "Heaven on Earth: As Above, So Below" introduces the novel idea that features on the seafloor mirror the constellations in our night sky; challenging the long-held belief that ancient people simply imagined such unusual creatures amongst the stars. Visual evidence is produced by exploring the topography of Earth to make connections with constellation myths. The results are highlighted on a digital map and surprisingly follow the same meticulous order as defined by ancient narratives. This research should resonate with individuals in various fields, including: Art, History, Religious Studies, Astrology, Archaeology, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Linguistics, Folklore, Anthropology, Geography, Humanities, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Classical Literature, Astrophysics and Cultural Anthropology. WARNING: Contents may cause a permanent change to your worldview.
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  Challenging the Theater of Memory. Yiddish Song beyond Kitsch and Stereotype (Pilot Project) (2024) author(s): Benjamin Fox-Rosen, Isabel Frey published in: Research Catalogue
  The artistic research pilot project Challenging the Theater of Memory: Yiddish Song beyond Kitsch and Stereotype attempts to explore and deconstruct the ways that Jewishness is portrayed and embodied in the performance of Yiddish song through ethnographic research and musical performance. Sociologist Michal Y. Bodemann’s concept of the “Theater of Memory” (1996) articulates how Jewish participation in public life is co-opted into the German national narrative to affirm a post-Nazi multiculturalism [^1]. This framework suggests that the diversity and complexity of Jewish life are often instrumentalized, serving merely as a backdrop in the German or Austrian national narratives. As a result of these dynamics, Yiddish culture and music are frequently presented through nostalgic tropes, stereotypical representations and in conjunction with the massive loss of the Shoah. Such representations often bolster hegemonic narratives instead of empowering Jewish minorities. Consequently, Yiddish singers become instrumental in either reinforcing or contesting the theater of memory through their artistic choices and performances. Our central question as artist-researchers was: How can we, artistically and through scholarly reflection, challenge and subvert the Theater of Memory as Yiddish performers on stage? In our project we use the frame of a lecture / concert to reflect on how we encounter the Theater of Memory in our artistic practice. Drawing from our experiences of past performances, theory from both performance and Jewish studies as well as ethnomusicology, we developed a performance which weaves together music, our own writings and visuals. We presented this lecture-concert in multiple settings and documented it through auto-ethnographic research methods and audio/visual recordings. Project supported by the: -Music and Minorities Research Center -Austrian Science Fund (FWF): Z 352-G26 -Artistic Research Pilot Grant (2022) university of music and performing arts vienna (mdw)
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• CAMPing (2024) author(s): Liane Paldi published in: Research Catalogue
  For the 'Breaking Free Essay'. A manifesto and personal reflection.
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• CAMPing; on breaking free from institutionalized aesthetics through physical occupation (2024) author(s): Liane Paldi published in: Research Catalogue
  Research and notes behind the "Breaking Free" essay CAMPing; breaking free from institutionalized aesthetics through physical occupation
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  Exploring plurality of interpretation through annotations in the long 19th century: musician's perspectives and the FAAM project. (2024) author(s): Nicholas Cornia published in: Research Catalogue
  The quest of reconciling scholarship and interpretative freedom has always been present in the early music movement discourse, since its 19th century foundations. Confronted with a plurality of performance practices, the performer of Early Music is forced to make interpretative choices, based on musicological research of the sources and their personal taste. The critical analysis of the sources related to a musical work is often a time-consuming and cumbersome task, usually provided by critical editions made by musicologists. Such editions primarily focus on the composer's agency, neglecting the contribution of a complex network of professions, ranging from editors, conductors, amateur and professional performers and collectors. The FAAM, Flemish Archive for Annotated Music, is an interdisciplinary project at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp that wishes to explore the possibilities of annotation analysis on music scores for historically informed musicians. Annotations are a valuable source of information to recollect the decision-making process of musicians of the past. Especially when original musical recordings are not available, the marks provided by these performers of the past are the most intimate and informative connections between modern and ancient musicians. Contrary to a purely scholarly historically informed practice approach, based on the controversial concept of authenticity, we wish to allow the modern performers to reconcile their practice with the one of their predecessors in a process of dialectic emulation, where artistic process is improved through the past but does not stagnate in it.
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  Gaia's Hair (Trailer) (2024) author(s): Fernanda Branco published in: Research Catalogue
  Gaia's hair - intruding thoughts (Trailer) This is the trailer for the film performance by Fernanda Branco: Gaia's hair-intruding thoughts Norway, 2020 45 min Images by Margarida Paiva The entire film can be seen on Vimeo with a requested password.
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