ARTISTIC RESEARCH- Classes/Seminars/Talks
- Thoughts on artistic research and how it is put in practice/tools for putting in practice (experimental space lab)
- kindness + gift-giving in research
. simultanous arrival (simularr.net) :
- collaboration with follow-up on processes
- collective on more long-time that change structure over time
- is it possible to collaborate together without forgetting who you are, in keeping with individuality. connection between people but still doing their own individual research.
- collectivisation - coming together and doing something together. they are for moments, they don’t need to last.
- an action that glues you
- they are trying to propose other ways of being together
- artistic research: a place where you do art and analyze it while doing it, focus on process, not so much on product (even though product-making is also part of the research)
- they way you collaborate on similar topics influences the project.
-space as knowledge-space, space as mental space.
- what constitutes individuality? (is it needed?)
- do we need consensus?
- how can plurality be preserved in collaborative processes? bodies in alliance (investigating how these connections come together as a group of people).
- proximity, intimacy vs distance + opacity.
- two conceptual points
simulataneity and spatiality: how do they influence each other in the process of making the proposition (BUT keep the individuality), the process is united.
intermediality as an ephemeral meeting point: process oriented view where boundary concepts allow us to come together without forgetting our own practice. they influence each other with AWARENESS of this influence.
- in art, errors are places of subdtance, ‘debris’, the remains of something unwanted is one such boundary concept.
- artistic research is about naming, recording, defining.
PILOT
-small group that spent time together
- 15mins everyday to write about their own practice and how its growing.
-smaller groups within the group were created as a result of similar skills, interests, which they wanted to stop as it was counter productive to the collectivising.
- speaking of rhythms when working together!
- having an exterior mediator/facilitator not me
- tools for working with space, these are individual particular to each person but when they connect with other people’s tools, that’s a collaboration there (bakehouse example: the capacity of baking bread as a tool). that’s their materiality.
other examples of tools, used in the project:
- tavla where you could write ‘invitations’ (soft invitations): ‘I need someone to come with me to look at trees’ and someone turns up, ‘I’m leaving this object used as... help yourself’
- loogbook ‘tool’- you come and write down what the other is doing (with discussion later on).
- at the end of 5 days: physical meta exhibitions to bring everything together and discuss
- proposition as a tool
- daily sheet: process to write down your own actions what you will do everyday, everyone does it.
- dissociating tools: ‘go away from your painting and come back’ is a tool
- Artistic Research: understand these processes that influence you. instead of post-analyzing the process you pre-analyze the process.
in relation to the blindfolded exercise (take it in turns to walk with a colleague blindfolded, not lead, just walk with): by being a ‘carer’ you’re also taking in that person’s process but also good to udnerstand a process. observing, listening is caring.
- embodied knowledge: reconnecting to memories (knowledge) through re-embodying/re-doing past movements that I didn1t necessarily do myself (walking blindfolded and being aware of my knees bending like Granny used to walk and reminded me of her and putting myself in her shoes).
-repeat an action until there was a change.
exercise: identify a creative question,identify your area of research, identify a dissociating tool, and a toold to get into the work
paulo de assis video:
to have questions in the field of problematicity:
-factual questions (we know they have answers)
- analytical questions (that deal with measurable traits of a particular something. we know they have answers even though they might have different answers based on the tools you’re using to look at it)
- speculative questions (discussed, leading to new ideas which make knowledge evolve)
-creative questions= artistic research
questions that generate other questions. all those questions that don’t have answers and are found through making art. eg from video: how to turn a waltz into an object of discourse within a performance. how to unravel the process of unravelling a waltz in front of au audience.
-making art for research.
- liminal conversations: conversations in the in-between. (‘feldtstellen’: https://www.nayaricastillo.com/en/portfolio/fieldstanding/).
exercise: graphicate your process until the artwork.
-what are your rhythms of production...
- how long does it take to research etc...
- what you do when you make a project
- make an experiment to translate in semi-public space
- when in doubt, listen to the ‘other’ voices, less loud voices, what you don’t notice at first.
Installation in semi-public/public space
- for public space you need to add a research aspect (as it relates to the public)
- corporeal observations to your research.
- to think of: semi-public space and what it means.
- the factual questions of the details of the artwork (in terms of making artworks from one place to one place, there’s other details to be taken into account. those details, amplification of the rhetoric of a piece, paying attention to the other parts of the work (eg: Tiger helicopters being used to transport artworks that are then not used to transporting army stuff just then and there).
Interesting/Inspirational
exercise: using an A3 sheet of white paper, depict/show/represent an aspect of your process (not allowed to draw or write on it). then using a 5m long A3 size sheet of white paper, expand.
mini- tutorial Nayari
- using systems that are in place that generate change
-thinking of a scale and what is appropriate for that space and project.
-representation is not decolonization
- boundary concept: things that unify
- AR: is a living thing that allows you to have a process.
-whiteness vs the other is not decolonization
- GLISSANT we are all mixed
-Hans der offenen Tore (http://2016.steirischerherbst.at/english/Programme/House-of-Open-Gates) as an example of this ‘we are all mixed’ + Daily Rhythms Collective Nayari was part of.
-AR is to understand the rules and make them usable
- Performance as a means of communication
- tools to allow for your narrative
( more or less similar to putting myself in my own research and art)
- think of the other ecological processes that generate ‘newness’ (in relation to me wondering if I was pushing these eco-metaphors and what else can they be)
Performance ‘Breaking out of the cycle of boxes’ (working title) 2024 - work in progress