Choreo-graphic figures: deviations from the line
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 11- 699061
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- ISBN
- 9783110546606
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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A - Artistic Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Cocker was the theoretical-conceptual lead on the central chapters and framing sections of this 395-page book, that derived from 3-years of collaborative research conceived in parallel to an online archive/ exposition. The collaboration developed new practices and vocabularies for exploring artistic process, making tangible the ‘thinking-in-action’, ‘thinking-feeling-knowing’ and ‘dynamic vitality forces’ in collaborative artistic exploration. Involving five residencies including public presentations in Brussels and Vienna., the wide scope of the collaborative research and the complexity of the editorial design was necessary to present new theoretical insights into artistic process through a distinctive methodology brought into relation through a diagrammatic ‘score’.
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- Additional information
- This co-authored publication presents findings from Choreo-graphic Figures (2014-2017), a 3-year international (€300,000+ PEEK funded) practice-based collaboration with Vienna-based artist Nikolaus Gansterer and choreographer Mariella Greil. The enquiry develops new practices and vocabularies for exploring artistic process, for making tangible the ‘thinking-in-action’ (Manning/Massumi, 2014), ‘thinking-feeling-knowing’ (Maharaj/Varela, 2012) and ‘dynamic vitality forces’ (Stern, 2010) within collaborative artistic exploration.
The research developed through several 2-5 week-long international residencies [Method Labs] including public presentations: at Tanzquartier, Vienna, (2015, 2016); a.pass; Centre of Advanced Performance, Brussels, (2015); ImpulsTanz, Vienna (2014, 2015, and 2016 within Visual Arts X Dance curated by Tino Sehgal).
The publication provides new theoretical insights into ‘vitality forces’ within artistic process (See Figuring Figures, Elemental, Empathetic, Transformative Figures), explored through a distinctive methodology involving different Practices of Attention, Notation, Conversation and Wit(h)nessing (See Method Labs, Practices) brought-into-relation through a diagrammatic ‘score’ (See Embodied Diagrammatics). The research project and publication’s editorial design was collaborative, including inviting philosophers Alex Arteaga, Dieter Mersch and Alva Noë as contributors. Cocker took a theoretical-conceptual lead by writing the publication’s central ‘chapters’ and framing ‘preludes’.
Research-in-process was disseminated through international conference (e.g. SARN, Swiss Artistic Research Network, Geneva, 2014; German Semiotics Congress, Body Diagrams, Tubingen, 2014) and peer-review journal articles (e.g. Performance Research, On An/Notation, 2015; RUUKKU, Finnish Journal of Artistic Research, 2015).
Summative findings were shared through conference (e.g. Society of Artistic Research, Helsinki, 2017; Zurich, 2019); exhibition (e.g. in Understanding Art + Research, DSA Gallery, Dunedin School of Art, New Zealand, 2018; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2018; MAK, Vienna, 2019); invited performance presentations (e.g. Independent Dance/Siobhan Davies Studios, London, 2017; Salon für Ästhetische Experimente, udk, HWK, Berlin, 2018); enhanced-media publication (e.g. Journal of Artistic Research, 2019, https://www.jar-online.net/exposition/abstract/choreo-graphic-figures-scoring-aesthetic-encounters). The book has received international reviews (e.g. Corpus: Performance/Philosophie/Politik, http://www.corpusweb.net/expanding-the-vocabulary.html).
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