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Preface Annette Arlander

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Annette Arlander The purpose of the biannual CARPA colloquia is to contribute to the development of artistic research practices in the field of the performing arts and to foster their social, pedagogical and ecological connections. The fourth Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts, CARPA 4, took place at the Theatre Academy of the University […]

Welcome Speech Leena Rouhiainen

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Leena Rouhiainen Good morning everyone! Thank you for being here! My name is Leena Rouhiainen and I work as Vice Dean of research and Head of the Performing Arts Research Centre here at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. It is my pleasure to welcome you to our 4th Colloquium on […]

CARPA4, The Non-human and the Inhuman in Performing Arts — Bodies, Organisms and Objects in Conflict Opening words Esa Kirkkopelto

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Esa Kirkkopelto Dear Audience, Let’s start with a familiar-looking news flash… “More than 4,200 refugees rescued in Mediterranean” (30.5.2015) This is how we, Europeans, Westerners, encounter the refugee problem, or “illegal immigration” as it is officially called. “They” are coming “here” in masses. We cannot prevent them from arriving, but we do not know either […]

Ornamentation based upon More-Than-Human-References: Moving Towards an Ecology of Trust Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano

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Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano PhD in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama Keywords: Voice, Performance, Force, Form, Becoming, Trust Abstract This performance-presentation exhibits ornamenting processes of I/voice/force and becomings between sounding notes/structures/forms. In short: articulating mattering-processes through force and form. Following a transforming web of acts and encounters, desire and urge – becomings of I/voice – are […]

House Music: A Performance Lindsey Drury and No Collective

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Lindsey Drury and No Collective Performers: Lindsey Drury (USA), Johanna Gilje (Germany), and You Nakai (USA) Composer/Choreographer: You Nakai, Society for the Promotion of Sciences (USA) + Lindsey Drury, PhD Student, Erasmus Mundus Program in Text and Event in Early Modern Europe (Germany/UK) + Kay Festa, Independent Scholar (USA/UK) Abstract No Collective [You Nakai, Kay […]

Weathering the Body—Handling the body with care? Joa Hug

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Joa Hug Abstract This workshop proposes to practically approach the question of the “(non)human” from the perspective of artistic research in and through “Body Weather”, a comprehensive performance training that emerged in Japan in the 1980’s and that has developed a wide range of practical tools to investigate how bodies and environments intersect. In the […]

Workshop: Which scenic subjects may emerge when interacting with machines through vocal and bodily virtuosity? Ludvig Elblaus, Carl Unander-Scharin, Åsa Unander-Scharin

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Ludvig Elblaus, Carl Unander-Scharin, Åsa Unander-Scharin (all authors are first author) Building on our team’s work with enhanced cross-over multi-modal expressivity through embodied interaction in opera and dance, we presented a participatory workshop at CARPA4. Following an overview of earlier work, the workshop included hands-on interaction with our new custom-built system OculiVocem. The workshop was […]

This is Not Rubbish: Investigating Eco-materialism in Performance Tanja Beer

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Tanja Beer PhD candidate, University of Melbourne, Australia A number of theorists exploring the relational dynamics between humans and nonhumans have interrogated notions of sustainability through the concept of “vigorous materiality”. One area of particular interest is “vital materialism” which views the concept of matter as vibrant and forceful – an “actant” in human experience. Emerging […]

Smart Homes and Living Machines: Views from Performative Architecture Teemu Paavolainen

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Teemu Paavolainen Abstract From Le Corbusier’s “machines for living in” to the “smart homes” of the present, discourses of architecture and technology have sought to extend the everyday assemblage of domestic performance (be it in registers of normativity or enhanced efficacy) in a human-scale middle ground between individual initiative and imposing ideology. With snapshot examples […]

Contextual Choreography: A dance-mat workshop Simo Kellokumpu

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Simo Kellokumpu In Theatre Academy Helsinki there are several dance-studios. The studios are equipped with basic technical equipment. They are variable and they are meant to be used for training, rehearsing and performing within the curriculum. When it comes to the equipment and material conditions of the studios there are studios with and without dance-mats. […]

Scenic Imagination — the actor/performer’s body as a scenic element Mikko Bredenberg

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Mikko Bredenberg The title of my lecture-demonstration-workshop is “Scenic Imagination – the actor/performer’s body as a scenic element.” My session is divided into three parts: – First I will give a talk about my research subject: from what kind of problems did my research emerge? I also demonstrate how my own acting embodies my phenomenologically […]

Improvising with Twigs and Cells: Paradox in Transversal Practices Malaika Sarco-Thomas

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Malaika Sarco-Thomas University of Malta In 2006 in collaboration with my partner Richard Sarco-Thomas I danced a series of site-based improvisation performances with trees as part of a peripatetic, over-land journey from Devon, England to Guangdong, China. The project sought to answer the question, “how can improvisation be a practice of ecology?” The solo performances, […]

Encountering Metal and Wood. The Double Bass as Collaborative and Resistive Actor in Musical Improvisation Vincent Meelberg

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Vincent Meelberg Department of Cultural Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen Introduction Traditionally, music is considered a form of human expression. Through music human subjects may express emotions and affect other people. Often, objects are used to create music, and although much has been written about musical performance, musical emotion, and musical embodiment, the notion of a […]

Publication Details

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The impact of performance as research Proceedings of CARPA 3 – The third Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts Theatre Academy Helsinki 28th February to 2nd March 2013 PUBLISHER Theatre Academy Helsinki © University of the Arts Helsinki, Theatre Academy Helsinki, The Performing Arts Research Centre, TUTKE, editor & writers EDITOR Annette Arlander WEB DESIGN Sari Koskinen & Outi Mansikkamäki, wrkshp.fi ISBN 978-952-XXXX-XX-X […]

 

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