Pre-conference sessions: Carpa 7 conference
The Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts CARPA presents its seventh conference on elastic writing, organized online in 2021 by the Performing Arts Research Centre Tutke. Browse the pre-conference abstracts.
Daily Elastic Writing Workshop (DEWW) part 1: Writing as playing with roles
Wednesday 25 August, 13:15–14:45
- Mikael Brygger
The first part of a series of loosely connected workshops utilizes a set of collaborative, experimental and generative writing practices. Within this tripartite workshop, we gath- er to write collaboratively according to generative rules. At the same time, there is a master rule in effect, one rule to rule them all, which is to redefine the other rules to best serve each of the participants and the task at hand. The workshop’s collaborative focus is on creating a living and breathing open world of text, a sandbox for the partici- pants to explore, communicate and interact with by reading and writing with/in a two-dimensional digital space.
On Wednesday we explore how assuming roles could contribute to the generative and collective processes when writing in a shared digital medium in collaboration with other participants. Additional context relates to using game-like structures to organize acts of artistic expression.
The workshop continues on Thursday 26 August and on Friday 27 August at 10:30–11:30. The workshop is available only for the pre-registered participants. The registration closed on 20 August 2021.
Mikael Brygger is a poet and a visiting Professor in Writ- ing at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Mikael is known for his interest in media-sensitive, conceptual, digital and gamified approaches to writing. In addition to writing three books of poetry, Mikael has been involved in several collaborations between poets and visual artists. Co-found- er of the Finnish publishing house Poesia.
Writing to your chosen tree – a workshop
Wednesday 25 August, 15:00–16:00
- Annette Arlander
In this workshop we will explore writing a letter to a tree of our choice next to that very tree and share parts of those letters with each other via zoom. Thus, the partici- pants are asked to choose in advance a tree that is import- ant to them, or to go to a nearby park and approach a tree that seems inviting. Please, be prepared to bring your com- puter or phone or other device with zoom connection next to the tree at the time of the workshop. And prepare pen and paper in order to be able to write the letter to the tree by hand. Looking forward to meeting you and the trees…
Annette Arlander, DA, is an artist, researcher and a peda- gogue, one of the pioneers of Finnish performance art and a trailblazer of artistic research. At present she is visiting researcher at Academy of Fine Arts University of the Arts Helsinki with the project Meetings with Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees. Her artwork moves between the tra- ditions of performance art, video art and environmental art. See https://annettearlander.com
Opening of CARPA7 conference Various Elastic Writings: conference committee introductory panel
Wednesday 25 August, 17:00–18:00
- Leena Rouhiainen, Lynda Gaudreau, Davide Giovanzana and Mikael Brygger
An evocative and performative introduction to Elastic Writing in Artistic Research with a welcoming speech to CARPA7.
Dr. Leena Rouhiainen is Professor in Artistic Research at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsin- ki. She is a dancer and choreographer whose research in- terests lie in somatics, choreography, experimental writing, phenomenology and artistic research. She has published articles and co-edited journals and books in these areas, including Dance Spaces: Practices of Movement (2012) with Susanne Ravn, Tanssiva tutkimus:tanssitutkimuksen mene- telmiä ja lähestymistapoja (2014) with Hanna Järvinen. She was chair of the board of Nordic Forum for Dance Research (NOFOD) between 2008-2010 and executive board member of Society for Artistic Research (SAR) between 2015-2020.
Lynda Gaudreau is an artist from Montreal. She has been leading an international career in Europe and in Canada. Her work which encompasses creation, research, and cura- torship examines the choreographic approach and involves a constant dialogue with architecture, visual arts, cinema and writing. Her many collaborations include a long-time association with Flemish organizations, and a partnership with the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris which coproduced
and presented her work for seven years. She completed a doctoral research in 2018 dedicated to asynchrony in art. She has occupied the position of postdoctoral researcher and staff at TUTKE, Uniarts, Helsinki between 2019-2021. (http://www.lyndagaudreau.com/)
Davide Giovanzana is a theatre director and research- er. His doctoral artistic research, Theatre Enters!, exam- ined the playful manifestation and political application of the play within the play in post-dramatic theatre. His post doc artistic research, The Imagination of Violence, recon- sidered the potential and limits of the representation of violence on stage. He is Honorary Professor of the Latvian
Culture Academy, he has been visiting professor of artistic research at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki and he is cur- rently lecturer in acting at the Tampere University.
Mikael Brygger is a poet and a visiting Professor in Writ- ing at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Mikael is known for his interest in media-sensitive, conceptual, digital and gamified approaches to writing. In addition to writing three books of poetry, Mikael has been involved in several collaborations between poets and visual artists. Co-found- er of the Finnish publishing house Poesia.