TRACES OF PLACES: PRACTICES OF FIELD RECORDING

Nikolaus Gansterer, M.A.
Artistic project work (2 hours) in combination with practices (2 hours)
The seminar will take place as a block within the framework of an excursion lasting several days at Whitsun 2023. (max. 10 persons), further preparatory meetings and individual meetings by arrangement.

The course is part of the APL (Applied Performance Laboratory).

The seminar deals with translation practices of notation and translation of perceptual processes. We develop very specific dynamic forms of notation of places and situations and their respective atmospheres in the form of artistic field research. Based on Gansterer's current PEEK research project on "Contingent Agencies", central methods and experimental approaches of artistic research will be taught in theory and practice. The seminar will take place within the framework of an excursion lasting several days (Whitsun 2023). In the course of walking and "being on the way" through diverse spaces and landscapes, we will observe the reciprocal effects of perception between the so-called "outside and inside". Through transformative transitions from the idea to the sign, from the word to the image, from the trace to the figure, from the material to the action, strategies of drawing on and writing in the spatial and the physical will be invented and experienced individually and collectively. The aim is to heighten awareness of the qualitative characteristics of being in motion in the landscape, to explore the possibility of inherent and idiosyncratic choreographies of sense-making, and to performatively expand the concept of form and material.

 

SS23:

March 2023, Introduction and preparatory meeting

May 2023, preparatory meeting

Prospect: Sat 27 + Sun 28 + Mon 29 May 2023, (Whitsun) multi-day excursion with overnight stays

June 2023 internal presentation and class presentation

 

Literature und links:

– Contingent Agencies, Nikolaus Gansterer, Alex Arteaga et al., https://contingentagencies.net/
– Die Kunst des Handelns, Michel de Certeau (ed), Merve Verlag, Berlin, 1988.
– Walkscapes: walking as an aesthetic practice, Francesco Careri (ed.) Culicidae Architectural Press, 2017.
– Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line, Gansterer, Cocker, Greil (eds.), Edition Angewandte, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2017

Regular participation and collaboration as well as presentation of the process results.