Friday 19 January – TV studio, Valhallavägen 189 and Studio D4 Valhallavägen 189
Ongoing – Open studio workshop during the day in Studio D4 Valhallavägen 189
Jenny Sunesson, Hara Alonso, Martin Sonderkamp.
You are cordially invited to visit the open studio workshop at any time and for any duration during opening hours.
Title of the presentation
I am listening in a Room
What will we experience during your presentation?
The researchers will invite the audience to explore "Acoustosomatics," a series of body tuning, listening, and sound practices mediated by various scores and proposals developed as part of the research project Bodies as Ears - Speculations in Acoustosomatics. Visitors are welcome to visit the open studio workshop anytime during the opening hours. They will experience a space conceived as an experimental art laboratory in which proposed activities will alternate according to the schedule below. The researchers will support and guide your participation with instructions and tasks based on scores.
NOTE: For the Listening Etudes per headphones, please bring your own smartphone. You need internet access to access sound files via a QR code and be able to connect to headphones via Bluetooth. A supply of headphones is available for use. However, you can bring your own headphones if you wish. Thank you!
Schedule
10:00–10:30 Tune in
10:30–10:45 Break
10:45–11:30 Listening études per headphones
11:30–12:00 Live notes
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–13:30 Tune in
13:30–14:30 “The Listening Tent”
14:30–14:45 Break
14:45–15:45 Over_LAB
15:45–16:15 Live notes
Savas Boyraz
PhD student
Duygu Örs
Doctoral candidate, researcher, art mediator and curator with a background in cultural and urban research
Title of the presentation
Tracing traces of Artistic Research (or how I became an ethnographic exhibit) Tracing traces of Artistic Research (or how I became an ethnographic exhibit)
What are you investigating and why?
How can Artistic Research survive in anthropologic and ethnographic context? This presentation will investigate the friction between scientific and artistic ways of engaging with archives. We will unfold our experience at Zozan Project by Austrian Academy of Sciences and the workshop/exhibition in Hamburg Museum of Ethnography, as a case study for this friction.
What will we experience during your presentation?
There will be talks by me and my collaborator Duygu Örs, sharing audio-visual documentations, and an open discussion.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
Ethics of accumulation, objectification and engaging with archives is the core of this particular experience. The artistic practice as a "cleansing agent" in institutional context will also be discussed.
(This presentation will not be live–streamed)
Caterina Mora
PhD student
Title of the presentation
Essay presentation: “Conflicted Embodiment. Notes from Dancing on Both Sides of the Atlantic”
What are you investigating and why?
I explore the potential of translation of dances into each other and what a mother tongue could be in dancing and performing. Embracing the complexity of the untranslatable, in this essay I unfold the idea of a Conflicted Embodiment as a research device to address the question of how does a body navigate migration, colonialism and dancing?
What will we experience during your presentation?
We will read some parts of this essay together and have a later discussion about it.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
This project asks:
How to specify and embrace complexity towards the role of collaborators and co-researchers in Artistic Research projects?
What does it do the use of CC4r license in Artistic Research?
(This presentation will not be live–streamed)
Brett Ascarelli
PhD Student
Title of the presentation
Inspired by Instructions
What are you investigating and why?
Podcasts are a popular form of entertainment, but their production is under-explored from an artistic point of view. The research project is about the transformative potential of artistic podcasting processes to open up a space for people to creatively grapple with challenges of this shared global moment. This workshop zooms in on one aspect of the process.
What will we experience during your presentation?
This demonstration of methods takes the form of a workshop where we test one way for beginning to weave a new, true story. We will think of dilemmas of various scales that we face as individuals and as society, and then see how introducing "art by instruction" (or scores, assignments, etc.) might affect our conception of how we can cope with those dilemmas.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
The philosopher Yuriko Saito has written about the, sometimes powerful, relationship between ethics and aesthetics. How should/could this relationship play out in the realm of narrative podcasting processes as we push them artistically? What should the producer's role be vis-a-vis the needs of the participants / co-creators and the dramaturgical "needs" of the story?
Paola Torres Núñez del Prado
Doctoral student
Title of the presentation
THE TANGIBILITY OF THE DIGITAL: Transcultural Interfaces as Post-Phenomenological Artifacts
What are you investigating and why?
Departing from the study of Andean textile technologies in order to question the assumed linearity of the History of Technology, my transdisciplinary research involves the development of Syncretic Smart Sonic textiles controllers and coding environments for sound performances that ultimately aim to reformulate the apparent opposition of Technology and Nature in a post-phenomenological framework.
What will we experience during your presentation?
The presentation will introduce the audience to the background of my investigation, their social implications, the disciplines it involves, and the current state in which it is at. I will explain why I frame it as transdisciplinary, and will introduce them to the methodology I have been following, in hopes this method can be useful to other transdisciplinary researchers.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
All technologies and their associated philosophies require an ethical framework, not only in what refers to their impact, but on how these are being developed. My research deals with the (data/epistemic/ontological) extractivism required for technological development, and rethinks its ecological implications through a decolonial reframing of the philosophies behind their development.
Mamdooh Afdile
Assistant professor in Film and Media
Title of the presentation
The prospect of narrative artists as interpreters of the emotional brain- Introducing the Cine-graph method.
What are you investigating and why?
The use of films and music in neuroscience experiments to understand the emotional and social brain has shown to be a reliable way. Given the success of narrative artists in stimulating the emotional brain effectively, one might wonder if they have insights into interpreting the brain's response in relation to the art as well. In this talk, I will briefly introduce the new field of NeuroFilmology.
What will we experience during your presentation?
In this short talk, I will share my perspective on this aspect and my early steps of exploration in this topic. I will showcase a new method as well as new possible artistic fields of exploration.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
The emerging new fields connecting arts and filmmaking with psychology and neuroscience can make artistic practice more effective but also can provide insights that can be misused to influence the general public in a negative way.
John-Paul Zaccarini
Professor of Performing Arts for Bodily and Vocal Practices
Title of the presentation
FutureBrownSpace
What are you investigating and why?
Future Brown Spaces.
What will we experience during your presentation?
Welcome to an afro-optimistic flight into the future, on the research vessel The AfroStar Galactica, boldly and blackly going into the luminous darkness of your inner space.
How can your project open up thoughts about ethical issues within your artistic practice?
With humour.
