09:30-10:30
VOICE
Ane Hjort Guttu
Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Moderator: Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen
10:45-11:45
Back translation
Saskia Holmkvist
Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Moderator: Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen
12:00-13:00
Note: Moved to track 2 (Aud. 6101, Blokk 6)
Social Choreographies of Emotion
Dragana Bulut
Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2nd year presentation)
Moderator: Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen
14:00-15:00
The Many and the Form;
Lived Knowledges, Social Desires, Intersubjective Performative Situations
Edit Kaldor
HiØf (3rd year presentation)
Moderator: Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen
VOICE
Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Project leader: Ane Hjort Guttu
VOICE is an artistic research project about participatory filmmaking and contemporary image culture. Simultaneously, VOICE is a full feature film created for cinema distribution, based on extensive research and a number of workshops and interviews with youth and political activists based in Scandinavia. VOICE is centered around young people´s relationship to contemporary digital image culture, and explores moving image practices as a means to promote agency, self reflection and just representation.
The presentation of VOICE will focus on the development of the project and how working methods, content and distribution strategy evolved throughout the process.
Link to clip: https://vimeo.com/759043340/44824a003d
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Dragana Bulut: Social Choreographies of Emotion
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, The Academy of Dance
In my PhD project, Social Choreographies of Emotion, I am investigating the commodification of emotions through the lens of social choreography. By focusing on emotions of love and fear I am examining how they are choreographed and what are the processes that lie underneath this social choreography. Can social choreography be an agent in rendering transparent various systems of control that invisibly organize our subjectivities and choreograph our reality? I want to make these questions visible as staged social choreographies in the research which will frame a place of social gathering for observation. The choreographic investigation of these questions steps into the fields of psychology, sociology, and technology, as it observes emotions as social-cultural practices and reflects on their recent embeddedness in technology.
The research is devised as an accumulative layering of theoretical reflection /deconstruction, affective embodiment, social gatherings, and performative staging which articulate methodologies of appropriation of established social formats in a performative frame.
In my presentation at ARF, I will reflect on the previous phase of work as well as the future steps and challenges of the research while using the opportunity of encounter with the forum audience to try out some of the performative – staging methodologies I have been working with.
Dragana Bulut is working with choreography and performance. She regards the theater as a public forum: a place of social gathering for critical investigation of the various structures and intersections of aesthetics, economics, and emotions. By appropriating established formats, she creates performances rooted in the tension between the material and the immaterial realms, between tangibility and affect, to explore the space between reality and fiction. These social choreographies bring to light the, often, overlooked shifting processes that choreograph our behaviors as a society. Her work has been presented in various contexts (including: HAU Hebbel am Uffer Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Tanzquartier Vienna, InTransit festival Berlin, Pact Zollverein Essen, Museum Folkwang Essen, Sophiensaele Berlin, euro-scene Leipzig, Akademie Schloss Solitude etc.)
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Back translation
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Academy of Fine Art
Project leader: Saskia Holmkvist
Back Translation is a technique within translation studies borrowed into the context of art as a way of working with a performative translation from an existing performance from a near past involving memory, dialogue, listening and collectivity through performance and film. The research takes place in Northern Ireland with an intent to enable ethical and politically probing positions to speak about art, politics and translation from embodied positions in creating new art.
The presentation of Back Translation will focus on signs and listening through the research process that have been developed into working methods and language. Notions of performativity and collectivity, connection and disconnection, fragments, silences and faulty archives will be discussed. The artist and phd fellow Manuel Pelmus will participate in a discussion relating to a research group that was formed in relation Back Translation.
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Edit Kaldor: The Many and the Form;
Lived Knowledges, Social Desires, Intersubjective Performative Situations
Østfold University College, Norwegian Theatre Academy
The presentation brings together various strands of my research project The Many and the Form, during which I had investigated in different contexts how lived experiences can be articulated in and through live performance. Taking the social, intersubjective aspects of contemporary theatrical situations as the point of departure, I had set out to work in a series of workshops with participants to develop and test transferable working methods. During these workshops concrete, embodied approaches and procedures for translating experiences and social desires into intention and framing for performative situations have been tried out both with student practitioners and participants without formal theatrical training.
The closing of theatres and community centres due to Covid-restrictions has impacted the workshops and shifted the scope of the research to include previous participatory processes, as well as examining dramaturgical strategies, especially those concerning spectatorship. Additionally, emergent approaches to working with structure and dramaturgy during the creative process, based on visualisation and observation have been explored together with theatre students.
After zooming in on distinct but related facets of the research and sharing some of the material and insights it has produced, I would also like to conclude this talk with opening up to some of the broader questions it has brought regarding the contemporary theatre and performance field.
Edit Kaldor (H/NL) is a theatre-maker, writer and researcher, collaborating mostly with people from outside of the arts and using digital media. Her work, which pushes considerably the boundaries of theatrical conventions has been presented all over the world. She is co-editing together with Joe Kelleher the book Theatres of Powerlessness (Bloomsbury / Methuen Drama, 2023) and has been appointed from next year on as programme director of the new Master’s in Performing Arts as Critical Practice at the Malmo Theatre Academy in Sweden.
Bendik Stang: Narrativity in Video Games
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, The Norwegian Film School
How can contemporary interactive technology resolve the tension between coherent storytelling and player creativity in a dynamic gameworld?
Reflections on my artistic research journey so far, and my plans for the final year of my research fellowship.
Bendik Stang: Research fellow at the Norwegian Film School, researching narratives in games. Very interested in using Unreal Engine to make both games and animated film/tv.
Creative Director and Founder of Snowcastle Games, an indie studio from Norway that focuses on IP building.
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