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Lehrende: Amanda Newall; Antti Saario
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
IntL.02
Credits:
9,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Deutsch
Veranstaltungsname:
The Bremen Intersection: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Art, Sound and Creativity.
Veranstaltungsbeschreibung:
Project Highlights:
- Practice-based research project with a challenge-based pedagogy
- Co-creation of research questions, aims, and objectives
- Co-creation and collaboration as affirmative methods in in interdisciplinary projects
- Celebration of diverse creative practices and multiple sense modalities
- Dissemination of the project findings and final outcomes through public-facing outputs
Introduction: We are proposing to run a Semester-long interdisciplinary practice-based research project and contextual enquiry project that is open to all interested students from the University of The Arts Bremen. The project will take the form of an interdisciplinary challenge with all participants (incl. the project leaders) engaging in an evolving and ongoing dialogue between practice and context, in relation to ideas, materials and methods, as relevant to the given practitioner in their interdisciplinary project. As such, the participants will explore the productive forces of co-creation and collaboration in the context of a contemporary inter- and/or transdisciplinary challenge as modes of affirmative action.
The project offers the participants an immersive learning experience in which to explore and produce interdisciplinary art and to develop their ability to adapt and thrive in the turbulence of contemporary culture-scape. The learners will explore a range of critical, creative and research methodologies, and will develop effective creative strategies for their project, informed by their research and interaction with their chosen context(s). The project culminates in a live public ‘event’ that brings together students’ research and creative practice.
The project team will work together with a clearly articulated and co-designed ‘mission agenda’, research questions and associated aims, objectives, and values. Through workshops, seminar sessions, 1-to-1 and small group tutorials, and event organisation, the team will foster a shared culture and agility in relation to project’s meta- and emergent-themes in relation to both collaborative and individual creative practice. The team will utilise planning discussions, review and feedforward meetings, brainstorming sessions, and working groups to enhance efficiency and prepare participants for real-world challenges in contemporary creative projects. Part of the learning and teaching is the curation and production of the final public facing ‘event’ that will demo the projects findings both in terms of process and outputs.
The Challenge
Contemporary artists and creative practitioners are faced with a myriad of (new) challenges ranging from climate crisis, depleting resources, reduced funding, ‘threats’ from automation, political and cultural attacks on the arts and general devaluing of creative practice and critical thinking in public media, and the necessity to have a ‘portfolio career’, just to name a few. It is clearly not possible to remain or retain a status quo in creative praxis.
"Everything excellent comes from oxymorons and paradoxes"
The above quote by Professor Alf Rehn paraphrasing the world-famous chef Andoni Luis Aduriz, known for his multidisciplinary approach to innovation, contains the core challenge of effective and sustainable contemporary creative praxis: the ability to navigate, operate and innovate in a context with high levels of complexity and dynamically varying parameters, repeatedly and under pressure.
The proposed project approaches the ‘project team’ as a network of dynamic effect and affect – as a ‘creative matrix’ - which is not seeking synergies per se but embraces tensegrities and is able to draw creative potential from, and produce ‘solutions’, to oppositions, challenges, and paradoxical scenarios, thus being stable, adaptable and resilient. Key is to establish the necessary conditions (‘values, environment, time and space’) for the creative structures and processes through a co-design process, to enable the ‘operational body’ at large to be able to thrive under these seemingly oppositional pressures.
The project will launch with an investigation, and a re-reading and a reconfiguring of the productive forces associated with the chameleon and the Hydra, as initial portals through which project participants will explore the challenges of interdisciplinary practice. By embracing the oxymorons and paradoxes of our post-digital eco-systems, the project encourages creative thinking and collaboration in addressing complex challenges.
Delivery of the project includes various artistic mediums such as music, sound, visual arts, fashion, costume, textile, sculpture, performance, installation, intervention, and moving image. Students are encouraged to address current urgencies (e.g. environment, sustainability, capitalism, and emotional and social unrest) within their artistic projects.
Throughout the project, students will engage in conceptual thinking and collaboration across disciplines to foster new and critical thinking and explore diverse methodologies and ideas in practice-based research. The focus will be on process-oriented work, encouraging students to challenge and disrupt their routine and embrace teamwork, the power of creative- and critical-friendship, and openness to change.
Learning Outcomes & Skills Development
The project participants will produce an interdisciplinary Portfolio of work and effectively design their own learning and development challenges and align the project learning outcomes and any assessed elements to the requirements of their respective programme of study at Bremen University, as well their personal value systems, transformative desires and ambitions.
The project will develop students’ specialist skills associated with their creative practice, alongside their knowledge and understanding of interdisciplinary working, contextual awareness, professionalism, and intellectual and transferable skills (e.g. critical thinking, professionalism, research, collaborative and project management skills).
Project participants will:
- Explore and utilise different methodologies for their contextual investigation of their practice.
- Gain new ways to perceive, conceive and experience their ideas, practice, and the associated materials, spaces, contexts and value propositions.
- Be presented with a user-focused design challenge where on-going and active investigation, testing and experimenting with creative options and sustained engagement with reflective practice forms the key part of developing a future proof creative praxis.
- Develop knowledge and understanding and critical awareness of their creative praxis in an interdisciplinary context
- Develop an awareness of the interrelationships between their creative practice and key sustainability themes such as climate and ecological crisis, social equality, health and well-being
- Understanding of practice-based research methodologies
- Evaluate and critically reflect on both process and output
- Create and practically realise work in response to challenge-based thinking and research.
- Develop the ability to research, understand and respond creatively to an interdisciplinary challenge
- Devise a research-informed project and self-reflect on progress;
- Communicate and evaluate work with a focus on shaping meaning, engagement, impact and interaction.
- Develop means to present creative work and associated processes
- Problem solve
- Report and evalute a project Project reporting and evaluation
- Negotiate with relevant external parties and stakeholders, as needed for the realisation of their project
Zusätzliche Informationen:
Modes of Delivery:
The learning and teaching associated with the project is through a challenge-based pedagogy. The project delivery at Bremen will be divided into three blocks of time (as shown below), with interim touch points through online tutorials.
Project Schedule:
- Block 1: Groundworks (16-27 October)
- Block 2: Core Project Development (04-08 December)
- Block 3: Present Findings (12-16 February)
(*) Optionally the project can be delivered over two semesters and/or with the final showing later in the Spring/early Summer of 2024.
The learning and teaching sessions comprise:
- Practical workshops
- Seminars
- Review and feedforward sessions
- Project management sessions
- Project supervision
Saario will deliver sessions on listening practices, assemblage and affect theory, nomadic praxis, sound based and fixed media practices (composition, sound recording) as methods of creation and as methods of critical investigation.
Newall will deliver sessions on reading, unpacking and understanding context and site, storytelling, garment and costume as an emancipatory tool for agency, physical sound through sculptural object making and activating environments with sound-producing objects, performance art and intervention practice, such as flash mobs and identity correction via a specific issue of interest.
Raum:
3 12 090
Tag/Zeit:
•Block 1: Groundworks (16-27 October)
•Block 2: Core Project Development (04-08 December)
•Block 3: Present Findings (12-16 February)
All of the sessions are in the 12.3.090 if not specified otherwise (*).
Monday 23 Oct
10:30-13:00 Course Launch Session
14:00-17:00 Afternoon Session
Tuesday 24 Oct
10:00-13:00 Morning Session (*) [is it possible to have this in the sewing room on floor 4, please]
14:00-17:00 Afternoon Session (*) [is it possible to have this in the sewing room on floor 4, please, if the morning slot is not possible]
Wednesday 25 Oct
10:00-13:00 Morning Session
Thursday 26 Oct
10:00-13:00 Morning Sound Activity (*) [inside and outside hfk spreicher xi - as 3.12.090 is in use by mattia]
14:00-17:00 Afternoon Session
Friday 27 Oct
10:00-13:00 Morning Session
14:00-17:00 Afternoon Session
Saturday 28 Oct
13:00-16:00 Afternoon Listening Session
Radio Work
RADIO ANGREZI Open Studio session 17:00-18:00 on Thursday 26 October
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