Full Description
Research is a process that leads to new insights rupturing the existent fabric of knowledge. To prevent this process from disintegrating, its coherence must be assured. Under the heading transposition, seventeen artists, musicians, and theorists explain how one thing may turn into another in a spatio-temporal play of identity and difference that has the power to expand into the unknown.
While it does not attempt to define the still evolving field of artistic research, through the idea of transposition this book aims to grasp a quality increasingly important to artistic practice because representational approaches have been losing traction. Taking to heart the lessons of deconstruction, new modes of epistemic relationships are being invented that include aesthetic dimensions. Working with materially concrete positions in a manner familiar to artists can ensure that knowledge does not decay into relativism.
Contributors: Annette Arlander (University of the Arts Helsinki), Paulo de Assis (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University), Leif Dahlberg (Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm), Lucia D'Errico (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Mika Elo (University of the Arts Helsinki), Laura Gonzalez (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Esa Kirkkopelto (University of the Arts Helsinki), Yve Lomax (Royal College of Art, London), Cecile Malaspina (CNRS-Universite Paris 1/Universite Paris 7), Tor-Finn Malum Fitje (independent artist, Oslo), Dieter Mersch (Zurich University of the Arts), David Pirro (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz), Hans-Joerg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Hanns Holger Rutz (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz), Michael Schwab (Orpheus Institute, Ghent/University of Applied Arts Vienna),
Birk Weiberg (Zurich University of the Arts)
Contents
Introduction Michael Schwab Transformations Rosi Braidotti Abandoning Art in the Name of Art: Transpositional Logic in Artistic Research Esa Kirkkopelto Calling the Dragon, Holding Hands with Junipers: Transpositions in Practice Annette Arlander Aberrant Likenesses: The Transposition of Resemblances in the Performance of Written Music Lucia D'Errico Work of Art as Analyst as Work of Art Laura González Annlee; or, Transposition as Artistic Device Leif Dahlberg Transposing the Unseen: The Metaphors of Modern Physics Tor-Finn Malum Fitje Staging Collisions: On Behaviour David Pirrò Algorithms under Reconfiguration Hanns Holger Rutz
Speculations on Transpositional Photography Birk Weiberg
Transpositionality and Artistic Research Michael Schwab Transpositions: From Traces through Data to Models and Simulations Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Transposition Cecile Malaspina
Transduction and Ensembles of Transducers: Relaying Flows of Intensities Paulo de Assis
Alchemistic Transpositions: On Artistic Practices of Transmutation and Transition Dieter Mersch
Ineffable Dispositions Mika Elo
Without Remainder or Residue: Example, Making Use, Transposition Yve Lomax
