“The Innocent Eye Test”, Mark Tansey, 1981

The merchandising of artistic research art and artistic research theory

An institutionalised critique

”That Howard Hawks made so many good movies without actually having a theory of moviemaking was a strong sign that he must really have a fantastic theory of the movies, if he would only tell you.”
/ Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, January 12, 2015

The area involved in my inquiry is the economy of labour within artistic research, an area of academized art practice being elevated and validated within higher and higher hierarchies of The Higher Education Industry, a part of  The Knowledge Economy.

This economy, or market, inside international networks of that (severely politicized) industry, will by necessity produce it’s own line of artistic research art as well as it’s own line of artistic research theory.

I call these two products Edu-art and Edu-theory; Edu being a short form for Education.

• What is being produced and for what purposes, inside our artistic research milieu?
• What in particular distinguishes edu-art from out-of-academia art-art?
• Which are its characteristics in relation to the economy, the labour, the production processes, the audience, it’s dissemination, documentation and archiving?

As an inquiry and exploration into this higher education marketplace, for this work, I’ve bought the intellectual property of Art production. I have found an artist online and obtained her services.

On the evening of 7 June, – Yvette Hammond, the composer, musician and artist from Los Angeles, will perform “Grounding” – a new series of compositions at the Stockholm University of the Arts – in the subterranean concrete room, “Blue 210”.  She will perform and I will stage the performance according to her dictates.

Opponent: Sinziana Ravini.

INFORMATION

Date: Wednesday 7 Jun, 18:00 – 21:00

Place: Gathering 17:45 in the foyer at Stockholm University of the Arts, Linnégatan 87. You will be guided down to a room below the building.

Time Schedule:
• 18:00 – 19:00 Concert
Yvette Hammond, music & vocals
David Österberg, soundscape & electronics
Szyberspace Visuals (Carl-Jonathan Szyber), live projections & mapping
• 19:00 – 19:30 Snacks & beverages
• 19:30 – 21:00 Audio-visual lecture by the doctoral candidate
Opponent’s response to proposal
Open discussion with participants in the seminar

The seminar will be in English. Free entrance, no pre-booking.

Dance4 : Artistic Doctorates In Europe
Talking, thinking, dancing

Tuesday 6^th  June  @ 5.00pm – 8.30pm
Wednesday 7^th  June @ 9.00am – 5.00pm

Dance4   international Centre for Choreography, 2 Dakeyne Street, Nottingham.

This event bringing artists, researchers, supervisors and producers together to think through the past, present and future of Practice as Research degrees. A place to experience practice, discuss doctoral research processes and explore how knowledge creation through artistic practices could lead the future of the dance and choreographic field.

Wednesday 7 June, 9am – 4.45pm

 Three Practice as Research projects will inform the ADiE research through their performance, participation and discussion:

Carina Reich (SE) is a stage director and performer, and currently a PhD candidate in performative and mediated practices at Stockholm University of the Arts. She will expose the working processes leading to performance and the research process itself by re-staging The absent becoming present – a staged seminar that foregrounds different voices within the collaborative process of a devised performance.

Tero Nauha (Performing Arts Research Centre of the Theatre Academy at University of the Arts Helsinki, FI). Nauha will present the latest incarnation of A Performance from fictioning – an inquiry on positions, decisions and postures of performance. Tero was in the first cohort of students to undertake the national doctoral programme in artistic research (TAhTO). In discussion with Leena Rouhiainen, Tero will consider how the doctorate changed his practice.

Rosanna Irvine and Sara Giddens (UK)have extensive professional careers in dance and the expanded field of choreography. In 2015 they were awarded PhD’s from Middlesex University, commissioned by Dance4 and Middlesex University, through Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Awards. They will uncover this process through examples of their performance practice and a staged conversation with Paul Russ (Artistic Director at Dance4) and their former supervisors, Professors Vida Midgelow and Jane Bacon.

The day will be punctuated by conversations and interviews with Vida Midgelow (Middlesex University), Jane Bacon (University of Chichester), Camilla Damkjaer (Stockholm University), Leena Rouhiainen (University of the Arts Helsinki), Paul Russ (Dance4) and guests.

http://www.dance4.co.uk/adie/event/research/2017-06-06/talking-thinking-dancing