Recitativo/Clouds and Noise – fragments after Lucretius and Negri (2015 -)
Recitativo/Clouds and Noise was developed as live intertextual series of performances, underpinned by an exploration of the classical philosophy of Lucretius (with Antonio Negri as a contemporary ‘echo).’
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 902
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Aid & Abet, Cambridge; 395 Gallery, London; British School, Rome; Borough New Music, London; Cambridge Museum of Archaeology; University of Greenwich; Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University; British Institute, Florence; Athenaeum Theatre, Plymouth
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2015
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/890dfb1910cc17854a04
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Recitativo/Clouds and Noise - fragments after Lucretius and Negri (2015) consists of a long-duration creative work, comprising the multi-component output, and demonstrating sustained research effort. It was developed as a live intertextual series of performances, underpinned by an exploration of the classical philosophy of Lucretius (with Antonio Negri as a contemporary 'echo'). This undertaking of a complex, extended and multi-layered process of creative investigation gave this practice-based cross-disciplinary research considerable depth. This re-examines aspects of the modernist tradition - open work - within classical and contemporary contexts.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This is a project exploring the classical philosophy of Lucretius (with Antonio Negri as a contemporary ‘echo’); Recitativo/Clouds and Noise was developed as live intertextual performances. The fundamental research question was: how can we create something out of the classical philosopher/poet Lucretius’ concepts of chance and agency that is relevant today?
And how can cross-disciplinary art practice capture aspects of it? This led to specific questions: How to creatively respond to certain imagery or motifs in Lucretius (fluidity, change, event, action) and their corresponding treatment in Negri. How can fragments from two philosophical (materialist) texts (classical and modern) be integrated as generative material for a such performances? How does one approach foregrounding ‘sensation’ (rather than straightforward narration) within and across mediums?
The methodology was intertextual: drawing on diverse traditions and methods, including painting, theatre, video art, cinema, music, performance practice. Research processes included developing, from Lucretius’ ideas, a series of mechanisms for ‘encounters’ between visual, textual and musical events using random numbers to generate particular sequences of assembled texts, sounds, and video. These also formed the basis for creating source materials through recording sessions of readings of texts, as well as video research into relevant areas: including Italian landscape, Roman architecture, artefacts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology etc., these forming a palette of materials to be used in diverse ways as the piece developed and was presented in diverse venues. It also examined ancient modes of narrative (‘chiasmus’, aphorism, the fragment etc.) as a means of creating flexible structures for the piece as it developed. Its originality lay in this intertextual, open arena, as a form of ‘video performance’ difficult to categorize. Its significance lies in the practice-based cross-disciplinary research that both re-examines aspects of the modernist tradition - open work – within classical and contemporary contexts.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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