SUPPORTING MATERIALS (thinking aesthetic thinking through aesthetic research practices) by Emma Cocker

thinking aesthetic thinking through aesthetic research practices is an artistic research project by Alex Arteaga, Emma Cocker, Nicole Wendel (with Sabine Zahn during the first phase), focused on the ways in which aesthetic research practices realise a specific form of thinking: aesthetic thinking. This exposition shares the research process of this collaborative project tracing its key phases between June 2020 - October 2022 and the gradual evolution of an original research dispositive or apparatus called Ecologies in Action. This exposition is conceived as Supporting Materials for a parallel article published in ______________.

Ecology in Action (17.05.2022)

* Format: An unstructured exploration within a 50-minute timeframe.

* Invitation to move spontaneously from and between practices as ‘called’ by the practice and unfolding Ecology in Action.

* Attend also to the relation of one's own practice as an 'ecology', an ecology within an ecology. The option of stopping or continuing within the Ecology in Action is also proposed.

* Additional Focus: In practising, exploring the relation between being-in-touch (being-with) other practices and being-apart (practising autonomously).

Practices in alphabetical order

- Practice of Conversation-as-Material

- Practice of Exploratory Essay Writing (Voiced version)

- Practice of Explorative Drawing

- Practice of Material Encounter

- Practice of Reading: Noticing Attraction and Distillation

- Practice of Very Slow Video Observation

- Practice of Video Observation from Physical Source

- Practice of Voicing Observation

8 practices in total, practised as three parallel explorations (by 3 different persons) with points of connection:

- Transitioning from Practice of Material Encounter to Practice of Explorative Drawing to Practice of Video Observation from Physical Source to Practice of Conversation-as-Material

- Oscillating between Practice of Exploratory Essay Writing (Voiced version) and Practice of Very Slow Video Observation

- Oscillating between Practice of Reading: Noticing Attraction and Distillation (MAJOR) and Practice of Voicing Observation (MINOR) and Practice of Conversation-as-Material

Note:

- The text source for the Practice of Reading: Noticing Attraction and Distillation is the transcript from the previous Ecology in Action (18.03.2022)

* Practice of conversation (Focus/referent) - The experience of practising within the Ecology in Action (directly) and aesthetic thinking (indirectly).

* Practice of Observation (Voicing) (Focus/referent) - The experience of practising within the Ecology in Action (directly) and aesthetic thinking (indirectly).

* Practice of Exploratory Essay Writing (Focus/referent) - The experience of aesthetic thinking (directly) and practising within the Ecology in Action (indirectly).

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