De koffer / The Suitcase

Forum+ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Morris

Abstract De koffer staat in de studio. Leeg. De duizenden brieven die er ooit in gepropt zaten, zijn intussen gesorteerd op datum, gelogd, gelezen, sommige uitgetypt en andere gefotografeerd. Muriel Leysen, de eigenares van de koffer én van zijn inhoud, stierf in de jaren 1970 in Johannesburg. De vader van de kunstenares had de koffer meer dan veertig jaar onder zijn hoede. Na zijn dood bracht de kunstenares de koffer naar België. Onlangs, in januari, kwam er een nieuwe brief. Eentje van Muriel. ‘De koffer’ is een tussenstation in Wendy Morris’ lopende studie rond de rol van brieven binnen een artistieke onderzoekspraktijk. The suitcase stands empty in the studio. The thousand letters once crammed into it have been sorted by date, logged, read, some typed up and others photographed. Muriel Leysen, the owner of the case and its contents, died in Johannesburg in the 1970s. The father of the artist has been guardian of the suitcase for over forty years. Following his death the artist brought the case to Belgium. Now, in January a new letter has arrived. This one is from Muriel. 'The Suitcase' is a waystation in Wendy Morris's ongoing investigation into the role that letters might play in an artistic research practice.

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolong Fang

This article explores gaps in communication and mistranslations between languages and cultural identities. My article centres on my artistic research practice, alongside Chinese contemporary artists, Xu Bing and Ai Weiwei, who brought their own culture to bear on the experience of living and making work in the West. When facing the clash of cultural and linguistic environments, the work featured seeks to find a balance between inclusive and exclusive language systems. What seems to be ‘lost’ in translation can be used creatively in art practice, through hybridized forms and often through humour, to ‘find’ new meanings for myself, and hopefully for the audiences of my work.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rikke Gürgens Gjærum

In this article, the researcher studies how it is possible to develop a reminiscence theatre production in an age-exchange project, created with life stories from pensioners, and how the audience experiences the performance. The article is based on six focus group interviews with nine pensioners, a theatre production and a “reminiscence café” between the audience and the actors, arranged after the performance. The researcher designed the study, “The aged as a resource”, based on guidelines for performance ethnography, art-based research, practice-led research and artistic research, in order to combine science and art, which could be said to represent two different epistemological traditions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 335-346
Author(s):  
Luca Soudant

Abstract This article reflects on an ongoing artistic research practice that deals with sound, gender, power, spatiality, and human–nonhuman entanglement. Sparked by a sound design for a less crunchy “lady-friendly” crisp, the research inquires the relationship between gender and sound at human–nonhuman encounter through making and thinking. Drawing on queer theory, sound studies, and posthumanism, it aims to transcend essentialist, vision-focused, and anthropocentric conceptualisations of gender and, as an insight gained from working with low-frequency sound waves, it reflects on sound as material-philosophically demonstrating human–nonhuman interconnectedness. The latter, as this article proposes, may encourage us to horizontalise hierarchies between the human and nonhuman. Finally, this text situates sonic thinking as a mode of trans*formative thinking: a process-oriented philosophy that aims to embrace the messy, queer ways of human–nonhuman relationality, which characterises a vibrant space from which this artistic research will further develop.


2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Till Bovermann ◽  
Dave Griffiths

What does computation sound like, and how can computational processing be integrated into live-coding practice along with code? This article gives insights into three years of artistic research and performance practice with Betablocker, an imaginary central processing unit architecture, specifically designed and implemented for live-coding purposes. It covers the themes of algorithmic composition, sound generation, genetic programming, and autonomous coding in the light of self-manipulating code and artistic research practice.


2012 ◽  
Vol 220 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-262
Author(s):  
Dean L. Fixsen ◽  
Terje Ogden

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