Tuesday 7 December 10.00 — 18.00 CET 2021 (online)
Attended by over 70 international artistic researchers, Affinities + Urgencies in Language-based Artistic Research was a day-long event that I co-hosted/co-organised with Alexander Damianisch, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin, within the frame of the SAR Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research.
This event evolved in response to the following questions: How can we collectively support the emergence of different species of proximity and community within the field of expanded language-based practices: we-ness and near-ness; participation; observation; conversation; caring/curation; listening; hosting; guesting; audiencing; supporting; bearing witness; hearing out; feeding back; offering help; spending time; sharing time; sharing resources, world-building? How can we together support different modes of relationality and connectivity [gravitational pulls and resonant affinities] within the field of expanded language-based practices, further ways for generating mutual support and resource?
Affinities + Urgencies in Language-based Artistic Research comprised a series of sessions led or facilitated by different individuals or groups for engaging with a specific thematic focus, a field of attraction and resonant affinity, or a matter of urgency relating to language-based artistic research. Towards a more distributed, open organisation of the Special Interest Group within this expanded and expanding community of practice. The aim of this online event was to provide a context for sharing live constellations of interest and focus within the field of language-based artistic research.
Sessions included:
* Choreographic Writing: Kirsi Heimonen | Rebecca Hilton | Chrysa Parkinson | Leena Rouhiainen
* Conceptual and Generative Practices in Language based Artistic Research: Marjolijn van den Berg | Rachel Smith | Marinos Koutsomichalis | Andrew Hauner | Simon Roloff
* In bits and pieces: hybrid writing, research, and (auto)fragmentation: Kris Pint | Nadia Sels | Goda Palekaitė | Maria Gil Ulldemolins
* The un|common ground: Language as a Hiding Place: Anna T. | Marinos Koutsomichalis | Phoenix Savage | Regina Dürig
* Writing as Research as Writing: Marjolijn van den Berg | Nirav Christophe | Daniela Moosmann | Ninke Overbeek
An archive of the event with some video documentation of presentations can be found here. Affinities + Urgencies in Language-based Artistic Research (Part II) will take place on 15 February 2022.