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KnowingUnknowing (last edited: 2018)

Helen Kindred
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KnowingUnknowing is an improvised duet in triptych form by dancer Helen Kindred and guitarist Benjamin Dwyer. Improvising filmmaker Pete Gomes joined them in a performance in which the director-as-camera operator became an integral element of the improvisation transforming the work from a duet into a trio. The film KnowingUnknowing is a demonstration of the combined improvisations of dancer, guitarist and filmmaker. Our writings on this process appear here in two parts. The first is an essay by Gomes that explores his developing practice of ‘improvising mise en scene’—the ways in which the live, improvised interaction of the director-as-camera operator advances upon traditional understandings of mise en scene in film. The second essay, written jointly by Dwyer and Kindred, explores themes surrounding originality in improvisation, the processes at work in the moment of the expression of embodied knowledges and experience, the role of poetics and philosophy in understanding these processes, and how they have specifically impacted the KnowingUnknowing project.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsimprovisation, dance, music, FILM, philosophy
date07/07/2017
last modified02/02/2018
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationMiddlesex University London
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/379625/379626
external linkhttp://www.knowingunknowing.com


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nameKnowingUnknowing_full_2017
copyrightPete Gomes
licenseAll rights reserved
usagesvideo
nameKnowing Unknowing_ improvising mise en scène
copyrightPete Gomes
licenseAll rights reserved
usagesvideo

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