Practice-based research: multimodal explorations through poetry and painting

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Norris
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Mediated Discourse ◽  
Action Analysis ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Theoretical Thinking ◽  
Identity Production

AbstractIn this article, I investigate the practice-based research project called the poetry-to-painting project that the independent German artist, Andrea Brandt, who has also been a participant in two of my ethnographic studies on identity production, and I are involved in.(Norris and Brandt, 2011) illustrates Andrea’s early to current emotive stages that she links to the lifechanging event, her divorce. Taking this project as my example, I develop some theoretical thoughts and demonstrate how a practicebased project embeds and produces theoretical thought. In order to establish this theoretical thinking, I lean on mediated discourse theory (Scollon, 1998, 2001) and multimodal (inter)action analysis (Norris, 2004, 2011a).Through this project, the notion of

Objects, Frozen Actions, and Identity: A Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Norris ◽  
Boonyalakha Makboon
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Action Analysis ◽  
Identity Production

AbstractIn this article, we take a multimodal (inter)action analytical approach, showing how objects in everyday life are identity telling. As social actors surround themselves with objects, multiple actions from producing the objects to acquiring and placing them in the environment are embedded within. Here, we investigate examples from two different ethnographic studies, using the notion of frozen actions. One of our examples comes from a 5-month-long ethnographic study on identity production of three vegetarians in Thailand (

scholarly journals Tender like marrow: A gender-based reading of Boom van my lewe [Tree of my life] and Ad hominem

Literator ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisemarié Combrink
Keyword(s):  
Subject Position ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ad Hominem ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Artist's Books ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Alternative Masculinities ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
Gender Based

This article presents a reading of two artist’s books by male artists who participated in the practice-based research project Transgressions and boundaries of the page. The selected artists specifically address the notion of masculine vulnerability and injury, and in the process, they utilise a number of signifying strategies conventionally associated with masculine as well as feminine gender divisions. Schutte’s Boom van my lewe [Tree of my life] and Strydom and Burger’s Ad hominem were investigated. I argue that the use of media with a conventional feminine character together with themes associated with both masculine and feminine aspects assisted towards expressing the experience of masculine vulnerability and injury in such a manner that an unusual masculine subject position was suggested. This subject position offered a more nuanced view of masculinity that departs from masculinities proposed in discourses of conventional (heteronormative) or even so-called ‘new’ or alternative masculinities (transgender, homosexual and the like).

scholarly journals A Vision For The Future of Non Binary Fashion on Video Trans Animal Conceptual Sculpture Performance Explorations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick James Edelman
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Wearable Sculpture ◽  
The Relationship

The Vision for the Future of Non-binary Fashion on Video is a practice- based research project that examines the relationship between trans and non-binary bodies to, public space through creative methods of wearable sculpture, dance, performance and experimental video. This project enacts my theory of gender pregnancy, that one can achieve a non-binary appearance through using garments, motifs, or colors typically associated with binary gender and juxtaposing them into one look that is full of gender. This project dismantles binary notions of gender, public/private, mind/body and human/animal. Through the use of performance this project speaks to the transformative power of queer visibility in reclaiming public space. The resulting video, Trans Animal Fashion Futures, presents similarities between trans experiences and non-human animals in an to situate trans narratives as part of the ‘natural’ environment. Ultimately, this project engages with trans subjects and experiences to imagine queer collective futures in the interest of all.

Are there things only artists can do?

Forum+ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Carolina Bonfim
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article seeks to share the methods and strategies of the practice-based research project Ninety movements on TECHNOGYM G6508D. The research dissects the act of running in all its dimensions by fragmenting, archiving, incorporating, and highlighting what is unique and personal in each gesture and each way of moving. Ninety Movements is a continuation of Carolina Bonfim’s recent artistic practice, which explores the relationship between the body and the archive through a visual-arts approach.

Towards a radically different understanding of experience: Looking for an heautonomous auditory field in film

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martine Huvenne
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Auditory Experience ◽  
Auditory Field ◽  
Film Making

What can be the status of sound in film? Is sound always dependent on image in film? Or is it possible to give sound a more autonomous status? If yes, what are the consequences for the workflow?In the 1980s and early 1990s two opposing propositions about the relation of the audible and the visible in film were presented. For Michel Chion the auditory field is completely a function of what appears on screen and for Gilles Deleuze the externality of the visual image as uniquely framed has been replaced by the interstice between two framings, the visual and the sound.Introducing the auditory field as multi-layered, dynamic, experienced and embodied, the author proposes a phenomenological approach of the audio-visual that moves towards a different understanding of the filmic experience, which has its roots in a phenomenology of auditory experience. In the practice-based research project, Surrounded, the author explored together with sound designer and sound mixer Griet Van Reeth, how the creative process of film-making can start from the auditory field, including inner sound and a heautonomy of the auditory field.

scholarly journals “I left too late, I go back too often”: sentiments of belonging and home among Indian scholars in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinicius Kauê Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This paper addresses current notions of belonging amongst Indian scholars in social sciences building an academic career in the United Kingdom. Drawing on concluded PhD research in social anthropology, it articulates a multi-sited ethnography of centres of research and in-depth interviews. This research project acknowledges the fact that while the literature on circulations of scholars is vast and continues to grow, ethnographic studies on this matter are still rare. For this reason, this paper focuses on an ethnographic comprehension, based on everyday conversations and evocative situations, of these lives that are built in a context of mobility. Here, I address notions of diaspora, global citizenship and cosmopolitanism as relevant hermeneutic tools for the comprehension of transnational sentiments of belonging amongst these scholars. At stake are intersectional elements that include class, gender, origin and caste, in the construction of transnational academic circulations.

scholarly journals Creative, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research: An Educational Cell Biology Video Game Designed by Students for Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Isabelle Sperano ◽  
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Ross Shaw ◽  
Robert Andruchow ◽  
Dana Cobzas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Interdisciplinary Practice ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Right

In a three-year, practice-based, creative research project, the team designed a video game for undergraduate biology students that aimed to find the right balance between educational content and entertainment. The project involved 7 faculty members and 14 undergraduate students from biological science, design, computer science, and music. This nontraditional approach to research was attractive to students. Working on an interdisciplinary practice-based research project required strategies related to timeline, recruitment, funding, team management, and mentoring. Although this project was time-consuming and full of challenges, it created meaningful learning experiences not only for students but also for faculty members.

scholarly journals Futurismo Now: A Conceptual Menswear Fashion Collection Exploring Masculinity through Futurist Aesthetics An Exhibition of Conceptual Fashion Collection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeonseok Jang
Keyword(s):  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Main Design ◽  
Italian Futurism ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Practice Based Research

The Futurism Art movement and its manifestoes had a crucial impact on European literature, art, and fashion. This practice-based research project is an exploration of hegemonic masculinity (Connell, Donaldson…) through the lens of the Italian Futurism movement. My goal was to produce a conceptual menswear collection using Giacomo Balla’s “The Futurist Manifesto of Men’s Clothing” as the main design framework. This research dissects aspects of hegemonic masculinity and compares them with masculine tendencies that characterized the work of the Futurism movement. Through this study I meant to investigate if, by applying design elements and themes promoted by futurist artists, my menswear designs could reflect contemporary masculinities.

scholarly journals Connecting motional form to interface actions in web browsing: Investigating through motion sketching

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Olav Eikenes
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Web Browsing ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Visual Movement ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
And Function ◽  
Semiotic Theory

It is now possible to include complex visual movement in screen interfaces, including those that enable web browsing on different media devices. This article investigates the potential for employing movement in web browsing – or more specifically, how motional form may be connected to interface actions. The investigation is carried out through design experiment­ation. Techniques of ‘motion sketching’ have been developed and utilized in a practice-based research project. The resulting motion sketches are analysed as realizations of complex mediation – by drawing on social semiotics and the concept of action from Leont’ev. The article argues that motional form is made meaningful through connotations and experiential metaphors, and suggests ten provisional principles for how motional form may be used in web browsing. This challenges notions of form and function in current interface design and how social semiotic theory may be produced.

scholarly journals The materiality of the intangible: Literary metaphor in multimodal texts

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Lyle Skains
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Digital Writing ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Literary Metaphor ◽  
Explicit Study

Based on a larger practice-based research project in digital writing, this article examines how the materiality of digital media contributes to a layered metaphor that delivers meaning, reflects on the cognitive processes (the writer’s and the reader’s) of navigation and generates a dynamic narrative structure through multimodality, unnatural narration and user interaction. Many writers and artists engage with their chosen medium through an instinctive understanding of the materials at hand, gained through experience; the explicit study of a medium’s materiality is not always required for artistic success, however, that may be judged. This article offers insights into the creative process of creating digital, multimodal fiction, based on a practice-based research project designed to explore the effects of digital media on author and text, and argues that digital media have a significant effect on the outcome of the artefact itself. Awareness of these effects, their variations according to hardware and software, and the affordances of these various materials offer the digital writer greater insight and capability to craft his/her texts for the desired metaphorical meaning.

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