INTENSIVE SESSIONs
"The space of the in-between is the locus for social, cultural, and natural transformations: it is not simply a convenient space for movements and realignments but in fact, is the only place—the place around identities, between identities—where becoming, openness to futurity, outstrips the conservational impetus to retain cohesion and unity.” — Elizabeth Grosz
And so we find ourselves poised at the edge of the pool — ready to dive into the in-between spaces of our future endeavours, at the cusp of change, committed to taking the plunge and striking out for a horizon we cannot yet quite envision. Read more...
In order to support your efforts in the current global situation we have designed a program of monthly translocal intensive sessions. These are intended to: prepare you to dive in despite current turbulence; support your first bold strokes; help you find a pace that aligns with your unique process of creating; allow you to swim the distance sustainably; and find your rhythm and flow.
You will undertake your personal intensive sessions, in both live and virtual realms and will attend the sessions the same way you would a retreat or onsite residency, i.e., maintaining singular focus, without the drag and lure of other distractions and responsibilities, on your praxis. It is important you give yourself these weekends free from all other obligations and responsibilities to find your pace, and a wider space for your practice, so that we can collectively kickstart your ambitious three-year project.
Foundationally, you will first establish how you will work, which paths you will follow, what voices you will raise and what resources you will gather for the independent months which follow. Next, you will determine strategies for completing the initial academic milestones, so that you can focus fully on your thesis projects and have research to present by the time we meet in person.
In order to get our feet wet, the initial weekend will commence with an introduction to the program, an e-library orientation and a pecha kucha session at which you will share your research interests and goals with your peers. This will lead to research modules, peppered with topical workshops, seminars, panels, films, screenings, projects, discussions, exercises, and talks.
The current embodied, experimental ethos of research writing, concepts of reflection, diffraction, and reflexivity in relation to practice-based research and the engagement of the voicing body will be explored in the first two sessions. Short exercises or responses to assignments in your chosen media, presentations and class discussions have been designed to help you apply these concepts and tools to your own research.
Your independent, peer-lead research groups will meet for the first time during this period and commence each monthly session. You will lead at least one of these sessions and determine for the group, a month in advance, what the topic or aim will be for that session (an oral or written critique, a reading, a reading assignment and discussion, etc. whatever you think will be useful for your research). You will decide the initial parameters and direction of your group in the first session.
In addition to the sessions, you will hold monthly meetings with your advisors commencing with refining your proposals and mapping out your trajectory. Goals to strive for in these opening meetings include: clarifying roles and responsibilities; scheduling of future meetings; and initial discussion and planning of the research project.
And finally, in order for sessions to be as fruitful as possible in their condensed form, you will update your process blog each month, in advance, so peers, advisors and instructors have time to review and reflect on your work. For the first session, simply upload your proposals and make your first reading diary entries for your workshops and you're set to go.
PROGRAM
30 OCT 2020 - 27 JUNE 2021
LAST WEEKEND EVERY MONTH
BETWEEN 15:00 - 20:00 UTC
TRANSLOCAL
(unless otherwise noted)
Note: breaks are not reflected in the schedule which follows.
Session 1: Orientation + Methodologies
(Note Daylight Savings time shifts)
FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
Time Zone Converter
15:00 UTC
welcome
15:15 - 16:45 UTC
LJMU LIBRARY/E-CATALOGUE INTRO SESSION
17:00 - 19:00 UTC
STUDENT PECHA KUCHA (7 MIN. each)
19:00 - 20:00 UTC
ORIENTATION + Q&A WITH
MICHAEL BOWDIDGE + JUNE CHUA + ALLISON GEREMIA + ECE PAZARBAŞI + TAYLORE WILSON
Orientation Agenda
SATURDAY, 31 OCT 2020
TIME ZONE CONVERTER
15:00 - 20:00 UTC
Artistic Research: Methods and Methodologies - an introduction
A Workshop WITH SarAH BENNETT
20:00 - 20:50 UTC
Material Matters, A practice presentation with a focus on Her methodological approach
A Talk With SARAH BENNETT (PUBLIC)
SUNDAY, 1 NOv 2020
TIME ZONE CONVERTER
15:00 - 20:00 UTC
From Method to Methodology:
the Becoming of Practice and Research
A workshop with
MICHAEL BOWDIDGE + VALERIE WALKERDINE
FEEDBACK
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SESSION 2: Epistemologies
(Note Daylight Savings time shifts)
FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
Time Zone Converter
15:00 - 16:00 UTC
Sound bath Berlin SESSION
(Yoga Mat Helpful)
16:00 - 20:00 UTC
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH SESSION LEAD BY
IRENe Loy
SATURDAY, 28 NOv 2020
Time Zone Converter
15:00 - 20:00 UTC
ON REFLECTION
workshop with MICHAEL BOWDIDGE + STEVE DUTTON
20:00 - 20:30 UTC
ART AS RESEARCh
a TALK + Q&A WITH STEVE DUTTON (PUBLIC)
Register For The Public Talk Here
SUNDAY, 29 NOV 2020
Time Zone Converter
15:00 - 17:30 UTC
phenomenology as a meta-frame
a WORKSHOP with ANA SANCHEZ-COLBERG
17:30 - 18:30 UTC
ways of exposition of knowledge in Artistic Research
a TALK with ANA SANCHEZ-COLBERG (PUBLIC)
Register For The Public Talk Here
Session Evaluation
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SESSION 3: ARTICuLATION
TIME ZONE CONVERTER
FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
15:00 - 16:30 UTC
With the Body 1/2
A MOVEMENT SESSION with Kate Hilliard
16:30 - 20:30 UTC
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH SESSION LEAD BY
MEGAN CURET + DONNA KUKAMA
SATURDAY, 30 Jan 2021
15:00 - 20:00 UTC
WRITING VOICing 1/2
A WORKSHOp WITH LYNN BOOK
22:00 - 23:00 UtC
situation-creation: research writing in the present
Lecture + Q&A with ANNA GIBBS (PUBLIC)
SUNDAY, 31 JAN 2021
15:00 - 20:00 UTC
WRITING VOICing 2/2
a Worshop with LYNN BOOK
20:00 - 20:30 UTC
Voice and its bodies: Deranging as proposition
a TALK + Q&A BY Lynn Book (PUBLIC)
Session Evaluation
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SESSION 4: personae
FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
15:00 - 16:30 UTC
With the Body 2/2
with Kate Hilliard
16:30 - 20:30 UTC
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH SESSION LEAD By
ALDEN JONES + Jake Tkaczyk
SATURDAY, 27 FEB 2021
15:00 - 20:00
MINOR, INSIGNIFICANT, MEANINGLESS:
RESEARCH AND THE EVERYDAY
A Workshop with ANGELIKI AVGITIDOU
SUNDAY, 28 FEB 2021
15:00 - 20:00
PERSONAE AND THE PATHOLOGICAL selves
A Workshop with JEAN MARIE CAsBARIAN
20:00 - 20:30 UTC
Memory as practice
a Talk With JEAN MARIE CASBARIAN (PUBLIC)
Session Evaluation
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SESSION 5: DISSEMINATION
FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
15:00 - 16:00 UTC
NN
16:00 - 20:00 UTC
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH SESSION LEAD BY
Desmond Beach
20:00 - 21:00 UTC
THE OFFICE OF Useful Art
a Talk + Q&A with JOHN BYRNE (public)
SATURDAY, 27 MAR 2021
15:00 - 20:00 UTC
The Human Memorial
a Workshop with YUEN FONG LING
+ GUEST PhD STUDENTS FRoM SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY
20:00 - 20:30 UTC
Towards Memorial
a Talk with YUEN FONG LING (PUBLIC)
SUNDAY, 28 MAR 2021
15:00 - 15:30
”NN” a Talk with LUISA SANTOS (PUBLIC) TBC
15:30 - 20:00
”Curating as a political action”
workshop with LUISA SANTOS TBC
Session Evaluation
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SESSION 6: CHANCE
FRIDAY, 30 April 2021
15:00 - 16:00 UTC
Groove and Move … Soften and Center
(The artists’ artistic fitness club)
a Movement session with Susanne Martin
16:00 - 20:30 UTC
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH SESSION LEAD BY
EVA CHARTRAND+ CARRIE E. NEAL
SATURDAY, 1 MAY 2021
15:00 - 15:45
A Deep Dive into Chance, Randomness, Order, and Entropy
a Talk + Q&A with Jeff THompson (PUBLIC)
15:45 - 20:45
Chance & Randomness
workshop with Jeff Thompson
SUNDAY, 2 MAY 2021
15:00 - 15:30
body art research – what are we practicing?
a Talk with Susanne MArtin (PUBLIC)
15:30 - 20:00
Sense-ability, Response-ability, Play
a workshop with Susanne MArtin
Session Evaluation
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SESSION 7: PLAY
FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
15:00 - 16:00
”The body as playground”
A movement session with Louis Laberge-cote TBC
16:00 - 20:00
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH SESSION LEAD BY
Tara Turnbull
SATURDAY, 29 MAY 2021
”Sounds like Sense”
a Workshop with Kim Schoen TBC
SUNDAY, 30 MAY 2021
TBA
Session Evaluation
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SESSION 8: AESTHETIC PROGRAMMING
FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
15:00 - 16:30 UTC
MOvement practice
with ANa Sanchez-colberG
16:30 - 20:00 UTC
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH SESSION LEAD BY
YVETTE CHAPARRO + DAWN SCHULTZ
20:00 - 21:00 UTC
Exploratory Diagramming
A talk With dean kenning (public)
SATURDAY, 26 JUN 2021
15:00 - 20:00
Workshop
Practice of Diagrams and Flowcharts 1/2
Geoff cox + Winnie Soon
DRAWING
SUNDAY, 27 JUN 2021
15:00 - 20:00
Workshop
Practice of Diagrams and Flowcharts 2/2
Geoff cox + Winnie Soon
GRAPHVIZ session
Session Evaluation
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Workshops
(not open to the public)
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INSTRUCTOR AND GUEST BIOS
OPTIONAL ljmu RESEARCh development opportunities
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Artistic Research:
Methods and Methodologies - an introduction
a workshop with
SARAH BENNETT
This workshop will provide an introduction to artistic research as a distinct form of knowledge production, in order to consider some of its methods and methodological approaches.
Participants will be invited to share their draft research aims/questions and preliminary methods - for discussion by the group.
SITE | SYLLABUS
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FROM Method to Methodology:
the Becoming of Practice and Research
A WORKSHOP WITH
VALERIE WALKERDINE AND MICHAEL BOWDIDGE
Meccano Duck-Rabbit, mixed-media assemblage, Michael Bowdidge, 2012.
This workshop will explore the ways in which our existing creative methods can extend into and inform the practice of research. The session will start with artist talks from Dr Michael Bowdidge and Professor Valerie Walkerdine, who will both focus on how the methodologies of their research projects arose from the specificities of their practices. The session will then segue into a short discursive workshop that will both consider other iterations of that process and help students to consider how similar opportunities for methodological development might arise from their praxes.
SITE | SYLLABUS
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WRITING VOICing
A WORKSHOP WITH
LYNN BOOK
This short intensive proposes voice as a medium through which fresh, expansive writing canoccur – and in turn, the start of a practice for unexpected vocal experimentation to arise. By according voice an equal power in the production of meaning, we open ourselves up to a field of signification that can exceed the economy of dominant forms of language including public discourse, twitter feed, academic-speak.
For many of us, voice has precious little life outside of ever-rationalizing, often rhetorical speech acts. The burden of ‘making sense’ in writing and speaking can limit imagination. When the voicing body is engaged, a new exploratory play surfaces to challenge familiar rules and roles for words and meaning. If voice is a primary agent of desire’s body, dislocating from the abstractions of mind-bound states and language-centric orientation is a necessary recovery.
The aims of the intensive are to unfold polarities between inquiry and action, text and body, voice and its compact with power. The means will be direct: physical experimentation with voicing and writing when we gather online, amplified by individual investigations in between our meeting times. Select readings will lend credence and currency to the project, around which discussion and experimentation propel us further.
Lynn Book’s Biography | SITE
SYLLABUS
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Sound Bath Berlin
With Matthias & Jenny
The idea is to give our students body and sound experiences to transition out of the potentially busy and stressful aspects of their lives to the intensive so that they can focus deeply on the intensive without distraction, to be as present as possible.
It is recommended to have a yoga mat, blanket, cozy socks and, if necessary, bring a pillow. It is also an advantage if you do not wear restrictive clothing. You should be able to breathe easily.
With our Sound Bath you lie on one of our yoga mats and are allowed to press the STOP button for 60 minutes. No previous knowledge of yoga or meditation is necessary. You don't have to do anything or be able to do anything, except to snuggle up in your blanket while we play you with sounds. In addition to Tibetan singing bowls and crystal singing bowls, an ocean drum, a rainstick, koshis of all four elements and occasionally also planetary tones are also at the start.
Sense Healing - Sound Bath Berlin
https://sense-healing.com/sound-bath-berlin
Audio Sample: https://ageofaquarius.de/sound-bath-berlin/
What is a sound bath?
https://saraauster.com/whatisasoundbath
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-are-sound-baths-4783501
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ON REFLECTION
A WORKSHOP WITH
MICHAEL BOWDIDGE
This three-day workshop aims to clarify and explore notions of reflection, diffraction and reflexivity in relation to practice-based doctoral research. We’ll be examining these ideas though a variety of lenses, including the ideas and writings of Karen Barrad, Donna Haraway, David Kolb, Henri Lefebvre and Donald Schoen, amongst others, and aiming to gain a better understanding of how working with these multi-faceted concepts can help to shape and deepen our research processes Each session will focus on a different aspect of this trinity of ideas, and will consist of short exercises, presentations and class discussions designed to help you apply these tools within your own research.
Michael Bowdidge’s Biography | SITE
Steve Dutton’s BIOgraphy | SITE
SYLLABUS
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PHENOMENOLOGY AS A META-FRAME
A WORKSHOP WITH
ANA SANCHEZ-COLBERG
The workshop aims to bring key concepts from phenomenology as a way to frame studio practice and as a lens to consider the process of studio practice. Key ideas from phenomenology are explored and critiqued from the perspective of the ‘studio thinking-doing’ in order to rethink relationships of ‘world-making’ between subjects and objects. Moreover, the session destabilizes notions of ‘others’ (in particular conventional modes of considering ‘audience’, ‘the public’) to propose a mutual ‘holding’ of the world between artist-‘work’-others, embroiled in a relationship of dialogical ‘response-ability’.
Ana Sanchez-Colberg’s Biography | SITE
SYLLABUS
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With the Body
MOVEMENT SESSIONS wITH
Kate Hilliard
Photo: Sean Rees
At this moment of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been forced to consider the scale of time in ways that are new and challenging. It’s apparent that we are with ourselves more than ever. The absence of togetherness and our social pause means that our body matter is more often acknowledged on screen than in the flesh — this creates disparate understandings of the pace of our lives. Digital communication can leave one feeling fragmented. To overcome our new pixelated identity, we need to sigh, see, hold, take in air, and trace with our tongues. With the Body is a workshop experience comprised of breathing technique, core centring, and movement meditation. The class additionally considers compositional elements from Overlie, Bogart and Landau’s Viewpoints. This preparatory somatic practice aims to encourage makers to create with a greater awareness of their bodies. Let’s wake up the physical self, so that we can enter into our work feeling attuned to our surroundings and embodied in our conversations. If we stop taking note of our bodies in space and time — and in relationship to others, we will falter.
Kate Hilliard’s Biography | SITE
SYLLABUS
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Minor, insignificant, meaningless:
research and the everyday
A WORKSHOP WITH
ANGELIKI Avgitidou
Not least in autobiographical practices, the everyday, its recording and employment has been a constant preoccupation of thinkers and artists alike. The everyday seems to escape definition and scientific examination, yet forms a major part of practice-based research. How are we to negotiate its fragmentary nature as part of our research and practice routine? In this workshop we will explore art and research as a constant negotiation, censoring and critique on the everyday, its meaningfulness, its importance and substantiality.
SITE | SYLLABUS
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PERSONAE AND THE PATHOLOGICAL selves
A WORKSHOP WITH
JEAN MARIE CASBARIAN
“There are more I’s than I myself” so said Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Writing under the guise of more than seventy-five distinct authors in The Fictions of the Interlude, Pessoa goes on to say “To pretend is to know ourselves.” This workshop will explore the various ways in which the life of fiction might be roused, creating characters that oftentimes almost silently emerge in our practice and artworks. As a way to investigate both the true and imagined self, we will adopt the strategies of imitation and invention as a way to coax these characters to come out and play. As we dive into ambiguity, historical myths, gender roles, and the fantastic we will discover how research begins to percolate through the act of merely being human. We will look at a variety of artists and writers whose work explores the idea of fiction and false personae including, Claude Cahun, Jorge Luis Borges, Marcel Duchamp, Walid Raad and the Atlas Group, Ilya Kabakov, Joan Fontcuberta, Michael Ondaatge, Keith Waldrop, Andrea Fraser, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Eleanor Antin. Personal assignments will be developed through a process of writing and visual work in and out of class.
SITE | SYLLABUS
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The Human MEMORIAL
A WORKSHOP WITH
YUEN FONG LING
Yuen Fong Ling, "Towards Memorial" 2019 - ongoing, photo credit: Yuen Fong Ling.
Using the artwork and exhibition "Towards Memorial" at Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre considering alternative forms of public art monuments and memorial making, Ling will explore concepts of dissemination of knowledge through the 'transmission' of historical narratives via the artwork, types of 'exchange' between artist and participants, and through the artworks 'application' into realms of public debate and engagement.
SITE | SYLLABUS
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Groove and Move …
Soften and Center (The artists’ artistic fitness club)
A Movement session WITH
SUSANNe MARTIN
photo: Susanne Martin
All states welcome: sloppy, fuzzy, tired, tensed… Have everything ready to be warm enough when laying on the floor and cool enough for silly hopping around. If you tend to knock over things, get them secured beforehand.
SITE
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Sense-ability, Response-ability, Play
A WORKSHOP WITH
SUSANNe MARTIN
photo: Susanne Martin
This workshop is a chance (or a challenge?) to jump into a body-, movement-, and dance-centered practice for a day. We will dive into sense-ability, response-ability, and play as core principles I work on and work with as a dance artist. We will explore themes, tasks, scores from my performing and teaching practice, present/perform the instantly composed results to each other. And we will reflect on wishes and possibilities for a deepened integration of your own sensing, responding or playful bodies into your respective artistic research practice.
Kinesthetic Empathy 2020 (10 min): https://vimeo.com/showcase/7265884/video/430978157
Retroperspective 2017 (4 min): https://vimeo.com/252129372
SITE | SYLLABUS
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CHANCE AND RANDOMNESS
A WORKSHOP WITH
JeFF THOMPSON
In this workshop, we will explore chance and randomness as tools for making art. Taking approaches from visual art, music, popular culture, science, and technology, we'll discuss the differences between chance, randomness, information, and entropy, and investigate the creative potential of letting go of artistic decisions and what happens when (to varying degrees) we remove the artist’s hand in favor of mechanisms out of our control.
1: "House of Dust" by Alison Knowles and James Tenney (1967)
2: "Dice Man" from "Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival" (1590)
3: "Clinamen" by Céleste Boursier Mougenot (2012)
SITE | SYLLABUS
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architecture, urbanism, design
OPEN CALL
TBA
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MOVEMENT Practice
WITH ANA SANCHEZ-COLBErg
A simple thought ‘this is me, today’, will guide a transdisciplinary exploration of ‘movement practices’ in relation to artistic research. How does a movement practice help us unravel the continuum between experience (lived) and form (the perceived)? The workshop explores movement transdisciplinarily; as it is manifested in dance, musical gestures, tracing and mark-making.
This is a fully practical session. As it is being done online, participants should find a space that allows for movement or the whole body, standing as well as lying down. Participants should wear exercise clothing. Ideally, participants have Bluetooth earphones or can connect computer to speakers so that they can listen to the movement tasks/prompts without having to look at the computer screen.
SITE | SYLLABUS
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AESTHETIC PROGRAMMING
A WORKSHOP WITH
GEOFF COX + WINNIE SOON
Taking our cue from a chapter from our book Aesthetic Programming, we propose a workshop in two parts: first introducing (hand drawn) diagrammming and then (scripted) flowcharts. The idea is to open up different techniques for developing research ideas and structures.
The workshop will be run by Geoff Cox and Winnie Soon (http://siusoon.net/category/creative_works/) across two days.
It is also proposed to organize a linked artist talk by Dean Kenning on his diagramming practice (http://www.deankenning.com/).
SITE | SYLLABUS
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Talks
MATERIAL MATTERS, A PRACTICE PRESENTATION WITH A FOCUS ON HER METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH
A TALK WITH SARAH BENNETT
SATURDAY, 31 OCT 2020
20:00 - 20:50 UTC
Dr. Sarah Bennett will present three projects, selected from the last decade, in each of which historical archives provided a specific context for her artistic research and motivated the development of her research methods. Central to each project was the exploration of prevailing regulatory systems in three former institutions - two asylums and one stately home.
SITE
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ART AS RESEARCH
a TALK WITH STEVE DUTTON
SATURDAY, 28 NOV 2020
20:00 - 20:30 UTC
Despite, or indeed as a welcome consequence of, the multiple critical conversations, disagreements and discourses surrounding the fluid and complex nature of artistic research, the sometimes necessarily contradictory and unpredictable nature of artistic practices often remain straightjacketed by what might be perceived as the institutional demands being placed upon the creative practice-based researcher. Wrestling with the seeming incompatibility of placing art alongside research can be both exhausting and an even an unhelpful distraction from the matter in hand. I will explore the potentials of art to help guide us through the landscape of research, and vice versa. What is the ‘matter in hand?’ Might there be ways we approach the work of art ( its task ) in terms of research as something completely other than an instrument of problem solving, and as a process of inhabiting a set of problems, contradictions or and unstable territories from within?
Steve Dutton’s BIOgraphy
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ways of exposition of knowledge in Artistic Research
a TALK with ANA SANCHEZ-COLBERG
SUNDAY, 29 NOV 2020
17:30 - 18:30 UTC
What is exposed in the process of artistic research? How is it exposed? Why is it exposed? Who is actually exposed?
The talk draws from Schwab and Borgdorff (2014) definition of exposition as “the ways of making the artistic research present” in order to consider this ‘making present’ acts as a ‘re-doubling’ that allows practice “to be simultaneously the subject and the object of the enquiry”, delivering both “thought and its appraisal” (the thought and the critique of the very thought). In what ways can the exposition itself be embedded in a process of practice and as an outcome that is in itself a practice?
Ana Sanchez-Colberg’s Biography | SITE
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Situation-Creation: research writing in the present
A LECTURE BY
ANNA GIBBS
Anna Gibbs: “The Inadequacy of Language: Still Life After Cézanne”
SATURDAY, 30 JAN 2021
22:00 - 23:00 UTC
To write is to bring a present alive. To write is to create a new situation. To write is to conjure a relational magic, for each new situation entails a new organisation of relations. A situation might be material, affective, political or conceptual. The methods of situation-creation might involve remembering, storying, rearranging, imagining and dreaming its relational magic into being, but they are above all experimental, and experimentalism is always an embodied project. Here we explore story and non-story as two crucial trajectories in the embodied, experimental ethos of research writing today.
SITE
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Voice and Its Bodies: deranging as proposition
a performative talk by Lynn Book
The procedural practice of a voicing body invites collision at the crossroads of the familiar and the unpredictable. Restless undercurrents of desire impel us to be free even while fearing what freedom might bring. Agitated by an ecstatic delirium, haunted by fevers of possibility, this radically wayward guide performs an expeditionary entreaty towards new political imaginaries by way of derangement – as method, as necessity.
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Memory as practice
a Talk With
JEAN MARIE CASBARIAN
Memory as Practice lies in the reinterpretation of memories and the loss and longing that occurs in the process of trying to reconstruct them. In my attempts to interrogate the source of my own memory, I listen for the gaps, sometimes leaving them be as fragments. Other times, I might fill them in with the possibility of illusion and fiction, questioning the philosophy and physics of time and space. I make no distinction between my life and my artistic practice. The two intersect and collide, eventually landing in a place of remembrance through direct experience. It’s during these more subtle moments that the memories ricochet back, dissolving into the hallucinations of something barely recognized.
SITE
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THE OFFICE OF USEFUL ART
A TALK WITH JOHN BYRNE
Byrne has been collaborating with the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, on developing work around John Ruskin and the forthcoming Office of Useful Art which will open at Whitworth in the fall of 2019. Via the Uses of Art Lab, Byrne is committed to growing and developing the Association of Arte Útil network as a worldwide constituency of artists, designers, activists, and makers who wish to explore ways in which we can use as art as a ground-up tool for imagining ourselves otherwise.
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TOWARDs MEMOiral
A Talk WITH
YUEN FONG LING
Yuen Fong Ling, "Towards Memorial" 2019 - ongoing, photo credit: Yuen Fong Ling.
Using the artwork and exhibition "Towards Memorial" at Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre considering alternative forms of public art monuments and memorial making, Ling will explore concepts of dissemination of knowledge through the 'transmission' of historical narratives via the artwork, types of 'exchange' between artist and participants, and through the artworks 'application' into realms of public debate and engagement.
SITE
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A Deep Dive into Chance, Randomness, Order, and Entropy
a Talk with Jeff THompson
Following a winding thread between the visual arts, music, mathematics, and computer science, this talk will trace the ways thinkers of all kinds have thought about order and chaos. We’ll look at examples ranging from Surrealist collages and the Situationist “dérive,” collaged audio and open-ended Fluxus performance scores, and the binary determinism of the computer and ways cryptographic researchers measure randomness. We’ll also consider Claude Shannon’s idea that the more random a message the more information it actually contains and how this idea of entropy loops around into extreme order.
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body art research – what are we practicing?
a Talk with Susanne Martin
photo: Frank.Post
Dr. Susanne Martin (Berlin) talks about her doings as dance-based performance maker and artistic researcher and traces the relationship between honing practice, performing dance and articulating knowledge.
SITE
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Exploratory Diagramming
a Talk With Dean Kenning
I propose the term ‘exploratory diagrams’ to describe an approach to diagramming which goes beyond familiar statistical and explanatory diagrams so as to focus instead on how the phenomenal act of constructing a diagram is productive of knowledge rather than being merely a representation of already existing knowledge or ‘information’. Diagramming in this sense has particular relevance for configuring social forces and relations of a more complex, abstract and non-evident nature, and for envisioning new models of being beyond current conceptual and ideological frames. It can also constitute methods of close textual reading and critical reflection relevant to art education. I will discuss these ideas in relation to theories of the diagram (Peirce, Châtelet and Deleuze) and to my own diagrammatic works and methods such as Metallurgy of the Subject, Diagramming Politics, Social Body Mind Mapping, Plato’s Caves and Illustrating Capital.