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Welcome to JAR1, the first open submission and peer-reviewed issue of the Journal for Artistic Research. JAR remains a work-in-progress, and with this issue we introduce two major enhancements to the journal: a dedicated and open peer-reviewing process and an upgraded publication platform (the Research Catalogue) that is easier to use than its predecessor and enhanced with an initial set of social media functions.

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A Place, Constructed

A Place, Constructed

Laura F. Gibellini

The exposition introduces the artist’s research into the concept of ‘place’. To do this, the weave has been conceived of as a place in itself and as a space for mapping some fundamental considerations implicit in the artist’s own practice. Layering image, moving image

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A Work on Progress

A Work on Progress

David Overend

The exposition functions as a critical reflection on A Work on Progress, a practice-as-research performance/installation. Aiming to provide an alternative to the commodification of theatre, the project explores the possibility of moving beyond postmodern

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Relational Aesthetics

Theatre Production

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Expanded Architecture 01-06

Expanded Architecture 01-06

Sarah Breen Lovett

The exposition of practice-based research is focused on using moving image installation to reflect upon our relationship to architecture. Through a site-specific practice, existing architectural elements are re-framed, re-focused and projected back onto themselves

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Expanded Architecture

Expanded Cinema

interdisciplinary

multidisciplinary

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Motion Perception: Interactive Video and Spatial Awareness

Motion Perception: Interactive Video and Spatial Awareness

Nell Breyer

Interactive video art is increasingly woven into urban public places around the world. A dominant argument about this growing form of public art is that it offers potential for new social, political and physical engagement with public space

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Moving to Become Better: The Embodied Performance of Musical Groove

Moving to Become Better: The Embodied Performance of Musical Groove

Vincent Meelberg

Starting from the knowledge that the perception, experience and creation of music is always a bodily activity, the exposition explores the influential and intrusive power of musical ‘groove’. Whereas the concept of groove has been extensively discussed both as a general

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musical performance

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Oorwonde - a tactile experience

Oorwonde - a tactile experience

Laura Maes

The exposition focuses on Oorwonde, a specific practical experiment within the research project Sounding sound art. The work, which falls somewhere between a sound installation and an interactive performance, consists of specially constructed

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Taking the Book Apart

Taking the Book Apart

Sarah Alford

The exposition opens up the artist’s investigations into the historical figure Ellen Gates Starr, co-founder of the Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago, Midwest United States. Reflecting on the life and work of Gates Starr and on the artist’s own works inspired by these

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Arts and Crafts

Ellen Gates Starr

political practice

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The Entanglement of Arts and Sciences: On the Transaction Costs of Transdisciplinary Research Settings

The Entanglement of Arts and Sciences: On the Transaction Costs of Transdisciplinary Research Settings

Martin Tröndle

Using the research project eMotion – mapping museum experience as a working example, the exposition examines the advantages and risks, challenges and hurdles, methods and management of projects based on transdisciplinary art research. On the one hand, analysis shows that the participating researchers’ embedded character, in their respective disciplines

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Collective authorship

Empirical Aesthetics

Epistemology of the arts

New data displays

Organization Studies

Research management

Transdisciplinary research

Visitor Studies

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The publication of this inaugural issue of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) coincides with a moment at which the term ‘artistic research’ has become ubiquitous. For some, this moment represents success, since, particularly in institutional environments, the production of objects, events or concepts is starting to lose its grip on the less tangible, intellectual and open-ended requirements of practice. For others this moment is viewed less favourably and represents an erosion of art’s perceived autonomy and efficacy.

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An Alphabet for the Nose

An Alphabet for the Nose

Sissel Tolaas

Given that our societies have developed a language for colour, it is remarkable that we have not yet developed one for smell. Generally, when we categorize smells we only use the subjective connotations ‘like it’ or ‘don’t like it’

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Cargo: Dwelling in the Archive of Slavery at the Cape

Cargo: Dwelling in the Archive of Slavery at the Cape

Mark Fleishman

In 2006, together with a group of collaborators, representatives from two Cape Town-based performance companies with connections to the University of Cape Town, I set out to create a production on the history of slavery at the Cape

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Indian ocean slavery

Jazzart Dance Theatre

Sites of memory

Staging archives

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Diagrammatic Praxis

Diagrammatic Praxis

Sher Doruff

Diagrammatic Praxis was a post-doctoral research process drawing upon applied concepts of the diagram previously explored in my dissertation, ‘The Translocal Event and the Polyrhythmic Diagram.’ As a researcher in the Art, Research

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Glide: Design, Indeterminacy and the Specificity of the Contingent

Glide: Design, Indeterminacy and the Specificity of the Contingent

Richard Blythe

There is a moment that paddlers and rowers all know, the pause between one stroke and the next, a kind of suspension of things when trajectory takes over from purposeful endeavour and the future belongs to the gods, or, to be more precise the designer of the hull

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creative practice

design research

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Miltä hiljaisuus kuulostaa? What does silence sound like? (2011)

Miltä hiljaisuus kuulostaa? What does silence sound like?

Elina Saloranta

The contribution consists of a nine-minute video Room and a text entitled ’What Does Silence Sound Like?’ The video records changes that take place in a bedroom after the occupant’s death

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Non-Humans and Performance: A Performance with an Ocean View (and a Dog/for a Dog) - II Memo of Time

Tuija Kokkonen

A Performance with an Ocean View (and a Dog/for a Dog) – II Memo of Time is a pair of performances where the basis of the presentation is weather, time, potentiality and non-human co-actors

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ecological crisis

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Research Navigations

Research Navigations

Otto von Busch

In artistic research, the ‘reflective practice’ promoted by Donald Schön (1983) runs the risk of mere self-gratification. More perspectives need to be put into the equation, into something more ‘diffractive’, as Donna Haraway (1997) would say

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reflective practice

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Song No 3 – Singing through Gestures

Song No 3 – Singing through Gestures

Cathy van Eck

This exposition discusses the performance Song No 3 in the context of research into the use of loudspeakers and microphones as musical instruments, and analyses what kind of categories of movements are generally used in music as well as how these different categories are connected to each other

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Staats-theater

Staats-theater

Daniel Kötter, Constanze Fischbeck

‘staats-theater: Lagos/Teheran/Berlin’ is a modular art and research project initiated by Berlin based video artists Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck in collaboration with performers and architects from Lagos, Tehran, and Berlin, as well as the collective Hunter &

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socio-political

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Thanks to Lysenko, we got Haldane

Thanks to Lysenko, we got Haldane

Abhishek Hazra

The exposition contextualises a set of artworks that reflect on the notion of error both scientific and political - and the epistemological implications of partisanship. The artworks juxtapose diverse historical contexts, which might or might not share actual causal linkages.

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The Double Skin/Double Mind Interactive Installation

The Double Skin/Double Mind Interactive Installation

Bertha Bermudez, Scott deLahunta, Marijke Hoogenboom, Chris Ziegler, Frederic Bevilacqua, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Barbara Meneses Gutierrez

The interactive installation Double Skin/ Double Mind is a virtual interactive version of the Double Skin/Double Mind workshop. This workshop, which has been taught by dance company Emio Greco | PC since 1996

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motion tracking

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“Who creates the creator” - and the limits of interpretation?

“Who creates the creator” - and the limits of interpretation?

Anders Hultqvist

In this presentation I will discuss some associative thoughts and preliminary results arising in connection with the forthcoming production of new stage-settings of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Albinoni’s ‘Adagio’. The goal is to re-read and re-set the music.

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musical tradition

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