GRAVITY OF ARTISTIC COMPETENCE
(2018)
author(s): Isabela Grosseova
published in: Research Catalogue
Writing from the position of being a PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, I address the subject of competences in artistic education in my dissertation. My aim is to give insight into the experiences of graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and to evaluate the impact of this education on their lives.
PER-FORM - the performative essay and the essayistic performance
(2017)
author(s): Emily Huurdeman
published in: Research Catalogue
Everyone knows what an essay is, or at least everyone think they know what an essay is. But try to define it and you’re most likely at a loss, because the essay is
notoriously difficult to define. It balances between the artistic and the scientific, the experiential and the intellectual, it is labeled as an undefinable non-genre. The essay is experimental and doesn’t fit neatly in pre-defined boxes of genres, just like performance. Among other things they share a process oriented atitude and
are inherently authorial. Having many characteristics in common, I wondered: can performance be essayistic? This research investigates the essay and its connection to performance theoretically, and investigates the essayistic performance artistically.
I have chosen the workspace of the Research Catalogue to present my research in. This enables spatial freedom of form and content and can accomodate both the textual and artistic side of the research equally in the same space.
Redundant Perception: An Artist's Enquiry
(2017)
author(s): Christopher Hollins
published in: Research Catalogue
Living things often display redundant and unused appendages of physical characteristics that once served to give them an advantage in the struggle for life. Examples would be the flightless wings of penguins and ostriches, and the vestige of a tail in we humans; which is made of three small loosely fused bones called the coccyx. This is known as the ‘tail-bone’ because it is considered the remains of the full tail that our ape-like ancestors once possessed. It is also probable that our brains generate the remaining impulses from an older redundant power of perception that once gave our distant ancestors an ‘animal’ awareness of objects and events. This experience of mind now lies buried behind our modern day thought processes, and for any artist aware of this the implications are that the way we create art through intelligent learned ideas hides an experience of deeper natural form. A state of mind therefore exists that once allowed us to conceive of the world in a natural way, but artists have always created intelligently structured artificial images rather than the spontaneous intuitive results need to glimpse the instinctive insight. Art has always worked to suppress rather than reveal an original way of sensing sight, shape, sound, and movement, and it is this realisation that I believe was the motivation for challenging the established principles of art upheld by the founding pioneers of modernism.
Cross cultural meetings: Traditional music from Setesdal and world musicians
(2017)
author(s): Ingolv Haaland, Jeremy Welsh, Bjørn Ole Rasch
connected to: Norwegian Artistic Research Programme
published in: Research Catalogue
The starting point for the project is a set of recordings by Norwegian folk-musicians of Norwegian folk-songs in the “stev og slåtte” (stave and tune) tradition of Setesdal in Agder. This source material was presented to musicians around the world in various studio sessions. The musicians did immediate responses after listening to a song, connecting to the music and establishing a dialogue. The purpose of this article is to document and provide insight into some of the processes in this artistic research project. The album FERD was released on Grappa Records 17.09.17 and a 70 minute film documentary will be released in 2018.
Hienopesu 40 astetta / Delicate wash 40 degrees
(2017)
author(s): Elina Saloranta
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition contains two video pieces that mirror each other (Two rooms and a kitchen 2010, Reflections in a window pane 2012) and an essay originally published in the Finnish-language audiovisual-culture journal Lähikuva 3/2013. The essay and the videos are part of my article-based doctoral thesis Laatukuvia ja kirjallisia kokeiluja/ Genre pictures and experiments in writing (University of the Arts Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts 2017).