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Desde nuestra primera edición inaugural, la número 0, la mayoría de los editoriales han abordado, de una u otra manera, qué son y qué pueden ser las exposiciones de la práctica como investigación. En muchos de ellos, las preocupaciones ontológicas, institucionales y también políticas han tenido un lugar destacado, dado que JAR ha orientado su trabajo a navegar en el campo y contribuir a él.

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Agential Guts — Care and Creativity within the Messy Multi-species Assemblage

Riina Maaria Hentriika Hannula

Agential Guts was an artistic multispecies practice of care; a messy entanglement with goats, soils, microbial companions, and gardening activities. The concern over biodiversity loss and many ecological crises caused by traditional farming led me to learn about alternative soil care and goat-keeping and to invent new modes of relating and caring in a multispecies context. The fieldwork drew from rewilding practices that strive to create biodiverse conditions.

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Living Lines of the Barely Noticeable

Linde Ex

Living Lines of the Barely Noticeable is a long-term artistic research project aiming to develop distinct artistic approaches to relate to and interact with flying insects and provide the artistic research with a theoretical and practical context by reflecting on relationships and connections with the more-than-human world that occurred within the research. The research aimed to explore ways and manners, that can contribute to more meaningful relationships with a more-than-human entity.

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Musical topics, (self-)narrativity and adaptation in my recent composition Pearl

Matthew Kaner

This exposition charts the creation and musical-narrative structure of Pearl, my recent composition for symphony chorus, orchestra, and solo baritone: a setting of extracts from the medieval poem Perle, translated into modern English by Simon Armitage, commissioned as part of the BBC Proms in 2022.

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The Creative Potential of Evolving Constraints in Peer-to-Peer Reciprocal Coaching: A Three-way Investigation

Marie Hallager Andersen, Martin Høybye, and Alan O'Leary

This exposition reports and assesses the experience of the project ‘The Creative Potential of Evolving Constraints in Peer-to-Peer Reciprocal Coaching: A Three-way Investigation’ (hereafter 3WI), funded by the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University.

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The Non-Human Animal Artist: Toward the Presentation of an Artistic Species-Companionship in Circus

Franziska Trapp, Natan Alberca, and Sabrina Sow

How can we practice, think, and write contemporary circus beyond the human? What would it mean to create new modes of performance that would (re)valorize the animal in the ring? This exposition presents an exploration of the inventive, creative, and active dimensions of non-human animals in the context of circus.

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Lxs investigadorxs artísticxs enfrentan la cuestión de la identidad de manera particular. Para empezar, nos hemos enfrentado constantemente al desafío de explicar la identidad de nuestro campo: ¿sigue siendo arte? ¿Es ciencia, incluso? En algunos países y regiones, la urgencia de este desafío ha disminuido mucho a lo largo de los años, pero, en otros, sigue siendo difícil ser reconocidx como investigadorx artísticx (y valoradx en consecuencia).

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At the Knot of Presence: Weaving with the embodied knowledge of my artistic palette in Liza Lim's One and the Other (Speculative Polskas for Karin)

Karin Emilia Hellqvist

This artistic research exposition unfolds the shared work between Australian composer Liza Lim and Swedish violinist Karin Hellqvist, from the viewpoint of Hellqvist as performer and co-creator. Together, the artists have created the violin solo work One and the Other (Speculative Polskas for Karin) (2021–22). The Swedish folk music tradition that Hellqvist has carried with her since her childhood, and especially the polska dance, serves as their point of departure.

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Greenwashed Concrete. Artistic Research With, On, and Against Concrete, Concerning Conflicting Concepts of Its Sustainability

Christoph Weber & Nikolaus Eckhard

Environmental science has shown that the global use of concrete has led to significant challenges today and will seriously trouble future generations. Nevertheless, international building industries advertise concrete as a natural, regional, sustainable, and hence green material. In 2020, global human-made mass exceeded all living biomass, with concrete accounting for nearly half of it, making it a signal of the Capitalocene. A radical transformation of industrial building culture is asked for, otherwise anthropogenic mass will be three times biomass by 2040.

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Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm: A Research Approach to Reimagining Traditions of Chinese Poetic ‘rules of rhythm’

Ling Liu

Throughout the history of China, from early dynasties into contemporary times, aspects of poetry, painting, and writing have been grounded in varied but deeply connected ‘rules of rhythm’. These ‘rules’ permeate in diverse yet identifiable and recognizable forms. The research in this project is aimed at both adopting and adapting these rules of rhythm or rhythmic patterns in an experimental form that reimagines a tradition of ‘lyric aesthetics’ in the context of the contemporary interplay between sound, image, and writing.

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Renegotiating the notion of artistic genius - within the frame of an institutional theatre

Mette Tranholm

This exposition explores how the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen, with the artistic research project, BETTY DEVELOPS, works with spreading a collaborative practice to the infrastructure of an entire institutional theatre and how this renegotiates the notion of artistic genius and the star. The exposition offers a meta-reflection on the author’s artistic research activities at the theatre.

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synthetic bodies: protocols for intra-acting

Lenka Veselá

Our bodies are porous entities that interconnect with and depend on the broader collectivity of human and nonhuman life that exists within a shared environment. Using the figuration of synthetic bodies, this exposition aims to examine the relationships in which we are enmeshed as our bodies absorb and excrete chemicals.

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Las exposiciones multimediales que publicamos en JAR han demostrado ser muy exitosas en cuanto a articular la práctica artística como investigación. Permiten romper la relación a menudo jerárquica entre los medios y el texto, así como la estructura lineal dominante de la escritura académica, de manera de que la forma artística desempeñe un papel más relevante en la investigación, la publicación y la difusión. Sin embargo, estas exposiciones no solo consumen muchos recursos (tanto en términos de conexión a Internet como de potencia informática), sino que, además, están poco estandarizadas.

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Controlled Rummage Approaches for Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre

Sarah Bennett, Andrew Bracey, Danica Maier

'Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre' is an artistic research project involving three artistic researchers: Andrew Bracey, Danica Maier and Sarah Bennett. A bummock is the unseen — submerged — part of an iceberg, and comprises the largest volume of ice, compared with the tip — which is visible above the surface of the water. Likewise, archives hold more items than are commonly viewed or accessed. In Bummock, we choose to bypass the catalogue to engage with materials directly, establishing a 'controlled rummage' method as an alternative approach to standard archive access practice.

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Da imagem ausente

Ludgero Almeida

O projeto apresenta-se como uma investigação centrada nas reverberações da prática artística diante dos arquivos institucionais e privados e de imagens e objetos-vestígios encontrados no Vale do Ave (Portugal), relacionados à história, ao imaginário e à memória do itinerário do algodão e da indústria têxtil algodoeira neste território.

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From the abyss to the afterglow: On the practice of vibrant contemplation as a mode of artistic research

Luiz Zanotello

Through a form of critical autoethnography, this study diffracts aspects of the author’s artistic practice through the intimate process of mourning to delineate a particular mode of knowledge production within artistic research that queers the relationship between the inside and outside of epistemic and ontological perspectives. The first section considers the abyss as a figure between grief, the unknown, and modes of knowledge production within artistic research.

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n-fach-Belichtungen – Non-Photographie, Materialismus der Begegnung, Bilder ohne Objekte

Stefan Paulus

In Doppel- oder Mehrfachbelichtung bergen die zufälligen Vermischungen von unterschiedlichen Orten und Zeiten auf einem Photo die Möglichkeit, Unbekanntes, Unbewusstes aufzuspüren, Spekulationen über Zufall, Leere und Unendlichkeit anzustellen oder Immanenz zu erfahren. Dieser Artikel begibt sich mit dem Konzept der Non-Photographie von F. Laruelle, des aleatorischen Materialismus von L. Althusser sowie den immanenzphilosophischen Überlegungen von G. Deleuze und F. Guattari auf die Spuren einer Ontologie resp.

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Your Digital Graveyard: Sound, Toilets and Participatory Post-Internet Practice in Scrape Elegy

Gabby Bush and Monica Lim

Scrape Elegy is a participatory multimedia art installation designed as a critical exploration of our presence on and engagement with social media. The work uses sound, a physical installation in the form of a pink public toilet, and participatory practice through visitors’ Instagram accounts. It joins the postmodern art procession of toilet-based installations and plays on the aesthetics of the banal (Maffesoli 1999) as a critique of society, much like such works as Maurizio Cattelan’s America (2016) and Gelitin’s Locus Focus (2004).

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Recientemente, se puso en contacto conmigo unx autorx que tenía preguntas acerca de la preferencia estilística de nuestra revista: ¿JAR prefiere diseños no lineales? ¿favorecemos que los reproductores multimedia se reproduzcan automáticamente cuando se abre una página? ¿nos gusta la primera persona del singular? Mi respuesta fue la que suelo dar: "no, no esperamos elecciones formales particulares. Por favor, ¡use lo que mejor apoye la articulación de su práctica como investigación!".

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Performing with Sonic Tools. An approach to designing and analysing new instruments

Gaute Barlindhaug

In recent decades, digital technology has accelerated the development of new musical instruments, not only establishing new techniques for creating sound but also enabling new performance practices. From the perspective of the performer, this has significantly broadened their possibility to express themselves, but through earlier experimentations it has become clear to me that audiences have problem comprehend such use of new musical instruments.

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Running Freight on the River. A Clean Cargo Prefiguration

Tim Boykett & Tina Auer

We are interested in exploring the types of futures that are preferable for us all. Discussions of preferable futures can be made difficult by a lack of understanding of the lived experience of that possible future. We like to think that some wise person once said: “I hear futures and I forget. I see futures and I remember. I do futures and I understand.” In order to explore scenarios of possible futures, we thus look into experiential modalities. This exposition examines our Danube Clean Cargo project.

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The Making of 'Commotion'

Sara Pinheiro

“Commotion” is a fixed media multichannel composition that revolved around the principles of minimalist music. This exposition aims at understanding these principles while it tries to place the process of composing the piece within the common premises of artistic research. Due to the nature of its context, this approach includes also theories of reception - mostly by exploring themes such as intentionality, interpretation and representation.

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TroublingGAN: generated visual ambiguity as a speculative alternative to photojournalism

Lenka Hámošová & Pavol Rusnák

This exposition documents artistic research that engages with generative neural networks and artificial intelligence-driven visual synthesis, the goal being to challenge the limits of the research and question the value of the generated visual outcomes. We present here our experiment with a customised StyleGAN model. In contrast to its utilisation by computer scientists, it has been trained on a heterogeneous dataset, voluntarily exposing the generative neural network to failure while focusing on the unexpected moments of surprise that arise from such a process.

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[text]uring: writing through fashion for a new literacies dissertation

Rachel Kaminski Sanders

The term 'literacy' encompasses reading and writing practices, each with distinct meanings and histories. Scholars define individuals as 'literate' or 'illiterate' based on these practices, a point not to be taken lightly. New literacies studies have expanded literacy from print to encompass all forms of meaning-making, leading to an expansion of associated terminology. In American higher education, despite the expanded meanings of terms like 'writing' and 'text,' the term 'research' remains dominated by written language, even within dedicated disciplines (Coiro et al.

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Tras haber permanecido prácticamente inalterado durante muchos años, JAR ha actualizado recientemente el formulario que se entrega a lxs revisorxs para que asienten sus revisiones. Ambos formularios, el anterior y el nuevo, constan de una serie de preguntas -o indicaciones- que conducen a una sección final sobre lo que se espera o se pide de las revisiones, así como a una escala de evaluación.

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CRITICAL CONFABULATIONS – Corresponding Practices and Mappings

Jim Harold & Alex Hale

This exposition is based on an archaeological survey in the landscapes around Kilmartin Glen, Argyll and Bute, western Scotland, and references digital datasets – archaeological reference points –alongside the acts (enactments) of field walking, photography, drawing and poetry – experiences and representational discourses – to consider how land and landscapes may be read as dynamic palimpsestic and multi-dimensional fields of entanglement.

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Heterotopia of the Practice Room: Casting and Breaking the Illusion of Tristan Murail’s Tellur for Solo Guitar

Maarten Stragier

A combination of highly unusual extended playing techniques with open intabulated notation makes the solo guitar work Tellur altogether unique in Tristan Murail’s catalogue. When placed in the broader discursive context of Murail’s compositional philosophy, this unique configuration of elements causes a quandary. The composer aims to integrate “the totality of sonic phenomena” into his compositional language, and within this context he maintains a traditional view of musical authorship.

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La resistencia de las piedras

Alejandra Reyero & Maia Navas

La propuesta explora las potencialidades de la investigación crítica experimental, acudiendo a prácticas mediales - materiales de contramemoria frente a tecnologías de control históricas y contemporáneas. Se trata de un ensayo sobre restos de imágenes, sonidos y textos que formaron parte del proceso de investigación del cortometraje Enviado para falsear (Maia Navas - 2021).

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The Plane of Cicadas: On the Possibility of Making Kin through Musicking

Mathew Klotz

This autoethnographic exposition details a short series of musicking encounters aimed at making kin in a rainforest-covered mountain on unceded Djiru Country on the east coast of Australia. Each encounter consisted of a short hike and a discrete musical encounter with local subjectivities. The inquiry considers the place of the walking in the musicking, and my joint response-ability with my saxophone (or the ways in which we apprehend and respond to other subjectivities) in each encounter.

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We Are Public Space: Bodies and Minds in Post-pandemic Cities

Markéta Kinterová

The project aims to pay heightened attention to public spaces in cities on several levels. The first follows the trend of newly developed privately owned public spaces (known as POPS), which establish a precedent for how corporations and cities define public space and what they prioritize within it. A clear focus on people as consumers – rather than citizens – have several effects, including strict restrictions, the creation of societies of control (Deleuze 1992: 3), and various forms of often indirect exclusion of certain groups of inhabitants.

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