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Choreographic Explorations in the Middle and the Excess: Turning habit into potential with Tools that Propel
Get PDFExamining how the choreographic improvisation system Tools that Propel (TTP) facilitates dancers to excavate their habitual movement for new creative potential, this article questions whether the co-evolution of technology and humans – technogenesis – can bring about new understanding to the nature of habit. TTP enables intra-acting dancers to improvise with their own virtual body, seen moving in two superimposed moments of time; past incidences of movement are folded into present ones (projected on screen) when the system determines them to be recurring in the motion it tracks on the floor. Through an entanglement of the embodied and virtual gesture the intra-acting dancer explores their movement habits; improvising with TTP they can investigate the effects of movements and rewind to their causes, investigating a movement’s centre, its fulcrum, the moment of action (and potential) itself. TTP both reveals and is a process of becoming. It is a diffraction apparatus (Barad 2007) enabling the re-conception of previously perceived entities in its entanglement of phenomena and a system of metastable equilibrium (Simondon 2011 [1958]) repeatedly bringing intra-actors back to the brink of emergence – the preformal universe before the separation of subject and object. This article argues that with(in) TTP the improvisation unfolds in a constant shifting process with no fixed boundary between subject and object – the becoming occurring in the movement between them. It posits that if nothing pre-exists the intra-action between phenomena, and thus the process of becoming, then arguably there is no such thing as habit at all; for nothing is fixed as an object, a thing, an entity, but always dynamically, and intra-actively, emerges as new potential
If Not Now, When?
Get PDF‘If Not Now, When?’ Is an invitation to explore the work of three established women artists, Christine Borland, Michele Fletcher and Wendy McMurdo. Together they remind us of the urgency to implement alternative strategies for thinking about and shaping the world around us.
‘If Not Now, When?’ foregrounds the power of art to communicate the unseen. Perhaps things we choose to ignore because we feel they are not for us - or presented in a way that makes them too complex to engage with. The exhibition is a window into each artist's research and provides a space to reflect on the natural world, new digital tech and the use of AI. The works remind us of the importance of beauty, care, community and love. The exhibition prompts the question: ‘Do we have time to wait on the consequences of not changing course?’
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Introduction to ‘Transitus: Illustration as Material Crossing Ground’: The stake in the physical trace
Get PDFTaking its inspiration from the ‘Transitus’ theme of the 12th Annual Illustration Research Symposium, hosted online 14–15 July 2022 by Falmouth University, United Kingdom, this editorial considers material expressions of what might be understood as the performative prefix ‘trans-’. Each of the essays introduced here responds to an understanding of the crossing ground we are naming ‘Transitus’ as one which is invested in retaining a physical connection or trace in its referential, illustrative function. Not coincidentally, many of the articles included here identify this physical trace as one which partakes in the materiality of photography or celluloid, prompting a larger consideration of relationships between photography, film and illustrative practices. This identified relationship signals a desire to hold on to a material trace of the ‘real’ in order to ground a given narrative. Other examples of material anchoring to those of photography and film are also considered here as part of a broader theorization of illustration practices that hold on to the physical object or artefact in order to achieve their respective communicative acts of crossing over
Three from Rupert Loydell: Impending Doom, Found and Enabled, Blossom Hibbert Is Not Your Friend
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The Sound/Image Cinema Lab, Long Way Back (dir. Brett Harvey): developing working principles for crewing feature film production with higher education students
Get PDFSince the release of the feature film Weekend Retreat (Dir. Brett Harvey 2011 and produced by Simon Harvey), students and graduates at Falmouth University have worked on over a dozen feature film and high-end TV projects as part of direct opportunities presented by staff, through directly produced, co-produced or partnered projects via the Sound/Image Cinema Lab, a research centre based at Falmouth University.
Using our three most recent projects – the feature films Enys Men (Dir. Mark Jenkin 2022), which premiered in Cannes as part of Director’s Fortnight in 2022 and is was released in January 2023 through the BFI and Long Way Back (Dir. Brett Harvey 2021) that was released in cinemas in 2022, together with a coproduction of the short film The Birdwatcher (Dir. Ryan Mackfall 2022) as case studies, we apply a production studies approach in the vein of those highlighted by Banks, Conor & Mayer (2016).
Through interviews with participants, we contextualise placements through a research overview that “take[s] the lived realities of people involved in media production as the subjects for theorizing production culture” (Mayer, Banks & Caldwell, 2009, 4). We consider how these projects have served as a catalyst for both learning gain, provided confidence in seeking out other opportunities, and have helped industrial partners and production companies reconsider their approaches to entry-level talent
Out of Place
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Death Walks Beside You
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Piloting Test Scales to Measure Perceptions of ‘Liveness’ Regarding ICT Enhanced Performances at Music Festivals
Get PDFMusic festivals are increasingly utilising ICT to augment live music performances.
This research project proposes and trials three liveness scales to measure attendee’s perceptions of authenticity regarding liveness across a broad spectrum of formats for, and viewpoints of, live performances at, or emanating from, music festivals. The research addresses the thesis that: It may be possible to develop liveness scales to measure attendee perceptions of liveness regarding ICT enhanced performances at music festivals. Following item development processes, pre-test liveness Likert scales were developed, and two iterations of primary research were carried out to collect and interpret empirical evidence from 164 respondents. Formats and viewpoints generating the greatest acceptance or resistance were identified. Significant differentiation in responses was tested for by gender regarding audience viewpoints and by occupation regarding audience size. Potential to further develop/simplify the liveness scales, and for future research into ICT enhanced experiences at music festivals, was ascertained
Appointed convener, Royal Scottish Academy Annual 2024
Get PDFIn 2023, I was appointed as Convener for the 2024 Royal Scottish Academy’s 198th Annual Exhibition which took place in the RSA Galleries in Edinburgh from 11th May to 16th June 2024. Appointed as Convener, I had the responsibility to curate, shape the vision of and oversee the selection and installation of this key event. The final show was ranged across all galleries and floors of the RSA and was made up of 418 works in total, from a variety of different mediums.
The final exhibition consisted of three distinctive parts. The first element consisted of a selection from an open submission. In excess of two thousand works – national and international – were submitted with approximately 250 works finally selected. The second element was the inclusion of works from five artists specially invited by the Convener to be included in the 2024 Annual. The final element was made up of works submitted by RSA Academicians. These three elements came together in the curation of the show, under the broad theme of ‘voices’ (see Convener’s essay for further elaboration on the theme).
A significant part of the Annual is the portfolio of awards given to selected artists and this year, there were awards given out from a wide range of sponsors. Further details of the funders and sponsors can be found in the illustrated catalogue produced for the event (full pdf provided). During the run of the exhibition, several public engagement events were scheduled to reach existing and new audiences. These events included: a Convener’s Tour, a Patrons Tour, an Architecture Discussion event, a Family Art Day, a private view event for collectors and a private view event for exhibitors, all designed to give exposure and insight into the construction of the exhibition
Self-Obsession
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