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In the archival multiverse, the blubber decays but the fever increases. : A contribution to VIOLENCE: the fourth biennial PARSE Research Conference at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Under the "Archives and Witnessing" section of the conference. Moderated by Åsa Sonjasdotter
- 2021
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Konstnärligt arbete (film/video) (refereegranskat)abstract
- The presented work is composed by Marc Johnson — a memory worker — who is currently a Ph.D. candidate in performative and media-based practices at the Stockholm University of the Arts. The shared perspectives are engaging issues of violence from the center of an artistic practice-based research focused on archival practices and concerned with how a documentary heritage circulates, is formed, debated, shared, and re-interpreted.The lecture-performance starts by considering the “Rights of Nature” — from recent environmental litigations in Aotearoa (New Zealand), Bolivia, and Ecuador — which focus on the idea of legal standing. What does it take to enforce the legal personhood of a river or other natural entities?Marc Johnson investigates and reflects on some ways to deal with representations of murdered bodies — human and more-than-human (cellular life forms) — without replicating historical patterns of abuse? Under what conditions shall these documents, artifacts, or, images be seen?Marc Johnson collaborates with Hitomi Ohki 大木瞳 — Soprano singer — to expose how polyphony[1] and counterpoint[2] applied to cinema can be used practically to navigate the uncertain archive(s) of violence studies.Marc Johnson addresses the dynamics of archival silences[3] and archival amnesty[4] as an important reminder of the ways in which violence — despite its presence in the everyday life of most people mainly through paper-based, and online news media (including social networks) — can also be deeply buried and invisible through institutional and corporate powers and other means; nonetheless impacting the lives of ordinary people (as opposed to powerful people, military, political and business leaders).The proposal does not intend to resolve; but rather to expose and to put oneself in the presence of using the means of montage.Skepsis is the deployed strategy throughout the duration of the time-based work as defined by Jacques Derrida as a “vigilance, and attention of the gaze during an examination. […] One is on the lookout, one reflects upon what one sees, reflects what one sees by delaying the moment of conclusion.”[5] [1] A process of combining two or more voices so that they harmonize with each other but maintain their individuality.[2] A process of adding one or more melodies as an accompaniment to a given melody according to certain fixed rules; a composition in which melodies are thus combined.[3] Rodney G. S. Carter, “Of Things Said and Unsaid: Power, Archival Silences, and Power in Silence,” Archivaria, September 25, 2006, 215–33.[4] Tonia Sutherland, “Archival Amnesty: In Search of Black American Transitional and Restorative Justice,” ed. Michelle Caswell, Ricardo Punzalan, and T-Kay Sangwand, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, Critical Archival Studies, 1, no. 2 (2017): 1–23, https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i2.42.[5] Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
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- Johnson, Marc
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Dear Beloved Reader : 30% seminar lecture
- 2022
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Annan publikation (refereegranskat)abstract
- My 30% seminar is divided in 7 chapters.1. Labour of access2. Restricted by law3. Genealogical imagination4. We are cyborgs5. Plur1verse of genres6. Disclosure7. Future plansI have been conducting a series of experiments that all relate to finding ways to re-enact and re-enable an experience of the past in the present and into the future; excavating methods to repeat fragments of history whose importance might not have been fully understood or acknowledged.The seminar goes along the politics of access to the archive(s), artistic research strategies used, and the proposed ongoing works.I will be discussing with Jyoti Mistry (Professor of Film, Photography and Literary Composition Unit at the HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design, Gothenburg).
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- Grunditz Brennan, Kersti, 1966-, et al.
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THE BLOD METHOD : CASE STUDY OF AN ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECT IN FILM
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Film and Media Arts. - Lisboa : Film and Media Arts Department / Lusófona University Campo Grande. - 2183-9271. ; 7:1, s. 48-74
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The BLOD project aims to create multivocal cinematic experiences through embodied practices. The research explores relation-building through a feminist methodology of creating gaps and friction – between audience, story, time, matter, and co-creators. The project asks, how to tell multifaceted, non-exploitive stories of womb-related states of life and death, rarely depicted in cinema? And how to disturb film industry hierarchies through a collaborative practice that maintains individual artistic integrity and promotes collective authorship? The BLOD method is articulated as a Manifesto, written to accommodate a multitude of contents, forms, and modes of collaboration, while demanding cross-disciplinarity, honesty and risk-taking. The method is non-linear, looping, and embedded in the manifestations of the research: films, performances, presentations, etc. Through this paper, different aspects of the BLOD method are tossed around in relation to BLOD research activities; making cinematic building blocks that allow and induce multiplicity, improvisation, and fluidity of form; sharing personal experiences through fictionalized documentary processes; dealing with ethics in interpersonal and ecological relations. The paper proposes that critical reflection and vulnerability are integral to film production and offers this case study as an example for method development in other research projects or films – especially ones that sprawl, tangle, and defy categorization by field or discipline
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Frankenstein re-mix fragment (after Whale)
- 2022
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Konstnärligt arbete (film/video)abstract
- A narrative film using a Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization that reinforces the uncanny of a 1931 movie — where an obsessed scientist creates a living being from body parts, not realizing it has a madman's brain. Who is the madman here?
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- Moe, Jon Refsdal, 1974-
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Curating Time-Based Art in Oslo
- 2017
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Ingår i: International journal of aesthetics and philosophy of culture. - Bucuresti. - 2501-9929. ; 2:2, s. 55-60
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reflects some experiences of being a curator of live art in a black box theatre,like the Black Box Teater in Oslo. It touches upon the question of curating as such andhow it influences the notion of what theatre is when it is applied to such a context. Therelational aspect of theatre is being examined, using references to Michael Fried andAntonin Artaud.
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- Nemer, Marcia
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Walks in an absent city : a diy guide
- 2022
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Konstnärligt arbeteabstract
- "Walks in an anbsent city" invites participants to go for a walk in a city of their choice following poetic directions given by a handmade guidebook. It is an experience that can only happen in physical contact with both the city and the guidebook. There is no digital option.This DIY guide was made to allow people in different parts of the world to take part in the walks. A homemade guidebook can be made by following simple instructions."Walks in an absent city: a diy guide" is part of the PHD project "Staging Absence".
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- Sonderkamp, Martin
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Approximations : Approximations #1-4
- 2015
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Approximations, Visual and performance artist Darko Dragičević and dancer and choreographer Martin Sonderkamp investigate the simultaneity of two processes: the unfolding of existing and absent space into a bodily interior and the expansion and drawing of an inner space into a spatial exterior. Space and body are situated as equal-ranking actors, and movement and visual language are disassembled into elementary, choreographic particles. Via reciprocal inscriptions, the performers negotiate their potential scope of action. Affective-sensory feedback loops generate the concrete form of their visceral and visual dialogue. Each performance leaves its distinct marks in space; each consecutive performance uses the preceding one as a starting point and superimposes new layers of marks and traces.
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- Persson, Lina, 1978-, et al.
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Perceiving non-human subjectivity: between theory and practice : Presented by A Researching Bastard
- 2018
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Ingår i: Multispecies Storytelling in an Intermedial Perspectives. - Växjö.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This panel will present different ways of conceptualizing multispecies and storytelling. It aims at investigating the rhetoric of nonhuman subjectivity and thereby highlighting a specific form of interaction that takes place while detecting organic multitude. We hold that through assenting a nonhuman subjectivity, we are able to identify, recognize and reify multitude. While human subjectivity is created through inter-human actions, such as communication, narration and storytelling, we cannot assume that nonhuman subjectivity is formed in the same way. In order not to see only our human-selves in nonhuman interaction, we will propose an investigative, dialectic and inclusive platform for perceiving nonhuman subjectivity. Understanding any form of discourse as a process of dialectics, we can only reach an understanding for nonhuman subjectivity by merging different artistic as well as academic practices. We believe this process to be interdisciplinary, reaching over into activism, politics and ideology, and thus forcing a future-orientated discourse into being that includes nonhuman subjecthoods. Our theoretical base is founded on thinkers such as Judith Butler, Louis Althusser and Donna Haraway, while our practices include fine art, still photography, digital video and computer games. The presentation will be performed as one organic body comprised of three researching organs producing a two limbs and appendage creature.
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