Choreo-graphic
Figures: Beginnings and Emergences, a collaborative research article
reflecting on the first year of the project Choreo-graphic Figures:
Deviations from the Line (a collaboration between myself,
Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil), is now published in
the online journal RUUKKU: Studies in Artistic Research, in
the forthcoming issue on Process in Artistic Research.
About the issue: Process in artistic research: Various processes are an indistinguishable part of the practices of art and research. Ever since the 1960s when works of art evolving in time or transforming in shape were presented to viewers, listeners, and participants, ‘process' has been one of the magic words within contemporary art. Repetition, variation, and works based on interaction are examples of compositional methods that underline happening and change, instead of the complete, monolithic, and intact work of art. Comparing variations and analysing transformations are common methods of artistic research. In performing arts process is essential since the skill and knowledge of the artist are accumulated in a corporeal manner. Understanding is developed in interactions between musicians, actors or dancers; we can speak of encountering unknown layers or, in line with Michel Foucault, an archaeology of skill. Opening up and articulating artistic processes is considered one of the main tasks for artistic research. At the same time, developing new interactive processes is one of the societal duties of contemporary artists and artistic researchers.
