Reclaiming Creativity Through Objects, Collaboration, and Site-Specific Work

Art Education ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Karla Stauffer
Keyword(s):  
Specific Work ◽  
Site Specific

scholarly journals Towards a New Pacific Theatre: Practice‐Led Enquiry into a Model of Theatre Making that Relates  to the Geography, Cultures and Spiritual Values of  Aotearoa/New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Bert Van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Devised Theatre ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Intercultural Performance ◽  
Time Space ◽  
And Performance

<p>This practice‐led research enquiry sets out to develop and test a model of theatre practice that relates to the unique geographic, cultural and spiritual dimensions of Aotearoa/New Zealand. In this practice, actors are connected with their body and the earth (they have feet), archetypal qualities inherent in nature and culture are incorporated into training and performance (return of the gods), a sense of adventure and risk‐taking is emphasized, and the practice relates to the multiple cultures and communities of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Presence, defined as the ability to be sensorially alive in the moment, and site‐specific performance, a creative response to locality, emerged as two of the key strategies to connect with self, other and the environment.  By investigating selected principles, strategies and values from the indigenous, pre‐European, Māori performing arts (whare tapere), devised theatre, the Michael Chekhov technique, and Japanese Noh theatre, an intercultural approach to site specific theatre evolved that interweaves the four pathways of collaboration, connection, exploration and transformation and their corresponding values. After considering the political and ethical issues of intercultural performance a number of principles to guide the process of intercultural exchange were formulated and tested. A vital component of this study was the creative development and performance of Ex_isle of Strangers – a site‐specific work developed in response to the tangible and intangible dimensions of Matiu/Somes Island. The research generated moments of practice that investigated the creative potential of residential devising processes and the transformative value of audience mobility in performances that involve physical and metaphorical journeying. These moments provided the participants (performers and spectators) time, space and opportunity to interact with one another and with the site they occupied, thus significantly increasing their level of physical and mental engagement with the work.</p>

scholarly journals When Public Art Goes Bad: Two Competing Features of Public Art

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Willard
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
The Other ◽  
Site Specificity ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Work ◽  
A Site ◽  
Compare And Contrast

AbstractNot all public art is bad art, but when public art is bad, it tends to be bad in an identifiable way. In this paper, I develop a Waltonian theory of the category of public art, according to which public art standardly is both accessible to the public and minimally site-specific. When a work lacks the standard features of the category to which it belongs, appreciators tend to perceive the work as aesthetically flawed. I then compare and contrast cases of successful and unsuccessful public art to show that accessibility and site-specificity are features which tend to preclude the other. It is difficult, although hardly impossible, for a site-specific work to remain accessible, and difficult for an accessible work to engage adequately with the site on which it is situated. As a result, while not all public art is bad, the features peculiar to public work encourage a latent tendency toward badness.

Jay Pather Reimagining Site-Specific Cartographies of Belonging

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Ketu H. Katrak
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New York ◽  
South African ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Classical Dance ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Indian Classical Dance

This essay examines Jay Pather's site-specific workCityscapes(2002) within a theoretical discussion of the conjuncture and disjuncture of space and race in South Africa. Jay Pather, a South African of Indian ancestry, an innovative choreographer and curator of site-specific works, creatively uses space to inspire social change by providing access and challenging exclusions—social, cultural, political—of black and colored South Africans during apartheid (1948–1994) and after. A progressive vision underlies his avant-garde work expressed via a hybrid choreographic palette of South African classical and popular dance styles, Indian classical dance, modern and contemporary dance. His choreography is performed across South Africa and the African continent as well as in Denmark, Mumbai, and New York City.

Improvisational Listening: Audiowalk – St Enda’s Park

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Jimmy Eadie
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Flow State ◽  
Site Specific

This article discusses the affordance of headphone listening as a sensory experience within a responsive, interactive and improvisational site-specific audiowalk. The intention here is to elucidate how correlational and dialectic tensions between improvisation and listening have informed an approach to creating the geolocative project: Audiowalk – St Enda’s Park. Initially using the concept of soundwalking, as both a touchstone and a springboard, I explore some of the theoretical and dialogic underpinnings that have grounded this process-orientated work. The discussion is then extended into a phenomenological application of improvisational listening and walking in this form of somatic art, and particularly how this can impact the immersive experience for the participant/performer. The theoretical grounding and telos are explored in terms of the improvisational ‘flow’ state and how this accentuates and engenders an awareness of a soundscape through contextual and ethnographic aural histories. Critical reflection and analysis will be discussed throughout in attaining greater epistemological efficacy dealing with concepts of place and memory within this site-specific work.

Sound – Time – Space – Movement: the Space-soundInstallations of the artist-couple 〈sabine schäfer // joachim krebs〉

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
SABINE SCHÄFER ◽  
JOACHIM KREBS
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Principal Work

This article describes the theories and practices of the German installation artists and composers Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs. Much of their work concerns site-specific sound installations involving the articulation of time and space. Their principal work methods and materials are described. In addition, they have formulated a typology of five installation types which they describe using their own installations as examples. Each installation type responds to a particular set of aesthetic and practical challenges both for the artists and the visitors. These are discussed and illustrated in the article. The typology extends beyond the specific work of these artists and can be applied to installations in general, thus providing a framework for critical analysis. Furthermore, the translators have discussed the issues regarding the specialised vocabulary of the artists and the rendering of such language into English.

An introduction to geosphere research studies for the UK geological disposal programme

2012 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 3105-3114 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Geological Disposal ◽  
Nuclear Decommissioning ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Research Studies

AbstractThis paper gives an overview of the geosphere research studies being undertaken by the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The approach of the RWMD in the current generic phase of the UK managing radioactive waste safely (MRWS) programme is to maintain an understanding of key processes and to carry out research and development into techniques so capability can be built. Although RWMD can demonstrate a general understanding of geosphere processes at this stage in the UK project, it is recognized that this will need to be made site-specific as the MRWS programme progresses. An understanding of the geosphere at the selected site(s) will be an important part of the future programme. Where possible, the RWMD will participate in international studies so that relevant site-based information can be accessed. In this way, the RWMD will be prepared for site-specific work in stage 5 of the MRWS process.

scholarly journals Dancers of Incarnation

Théologiques ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Celeste Snowber
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Curriculum Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Bodily Expression ◽  
Poetic Expression ◽  
The Senses

In poetic, sensuous and visceral language this article explores how one liturgical dance artist, whose work as a dancer and educator was centered in dance and theology for decades was informed by an incarnational theology to break open a field of embodied inquiry now situated outside the field of theological studies. The article is in itself a dance consisting of five movements which trace the journey of a liturgical dance artist from theology to doxology, embodied prayer and embodied inquiry to dancing in nature as a cathedral. Here in creating and performing site-specific work in the natural world, all of living and being is an embodied expression of spirit. Attention is given to the Biblical foundation of bodily expression and wisdom, moving to the fields of arts-based research rooted in phenomenology and curriculum theory to open up an embodied and poetic scholarship. Here writing is artistic and scholarly, personal and universal, evoking a physicality through the senses where connections between the holy and ordinary are honoured. Dance, movement and the body are rooted in incarnational and poetic expression and represent a philosophy through the flesh where physicality and spirituality are deeply intertwined.

scholarly journals Installation of the Exotic

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Stoneman
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Art World ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Expanded Cinema ◽  
Public Museums

INSTALLATION OF THE EXOTIC Film and audiovisual installations have increasingly taken place in the art world in recent years extending and renewing the range of activities in the fine art domain. Tracing its origins to expanded cinema and video art in the 1970s, moving image installation is now ubiquitous in public museums and private galleries. This is at a time when access to experimental work via public service versions of television has now all but disappeared.(1) In the two decades since, as television channels have proliferated, choice has actually narrowed. Moving image installations are visible in a diversity of art environments from gallery spaces to site-specific work in urban or industrial pop-ups. Multi-screen configurations are not easily arranged in cinemas or easily watched on television sets, let alone computers. The small portable digital screens may issue a blizzard of information and imagery everyday, but their size and scale...

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR A PERMIT-WIDE DRILLING PROGRAM IN A SENSITIVE MARINE ENVIRONMENT

1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 750
Author(s):  
Barry Smith ◽  
Julie Martine ◽  
Graeme D. Hubbert
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Surface Current ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
North West ◽  
Response Planning

An integrated program of environmental studies was undertaken in support of an application to conduct permit-wide exploratory drilling in a shallow, sensitive marine environment. The program comprised permit and well site specific work which was carried out in parallel with a corporate due diligence program established by the permit Operator.Scientific studies undertaken for permit area EP 341 off the north west coast of Western Australia comprised underwater surveys, aerial video reconnaissance, surface current tracking surveys and oil spill trajectory modelling to characterise the local environment and identify sensitive resources at risk of impact from oil spills. Survey data were used to prepare an environmental impact assessment report and an oil spill contingency plan, which provide a set of site-specific environmental management guidelines for use by field and office personnel involved with the drilling program. A 3D oil spill trajectory model successfully predicted current flows in the complex hydrodynamic environment of the permit areas, demonstrating its usefulness as a real time tool for oil spill response planning.

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