15.00-17.00 CET, The Royal Academy of Music & Online
Venue: Kammermusiksalen, Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Skovgaardsgade 2C, Århus
Streaming link will be announced here: https://artisticresearch.dk/en/?po=4780
The presentation will be in English.
Moderated by Kristoffer Gansing (International Center for Knowledge in the Arts)
(see danish version below)
We warmly invite you to the sixth Knowledge in the Arts event which this time will be hosted by The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus.
How and when do musicians reflect about their artistic knowledge? Artistic Research is the field where the focus is on the development of new knowledge and directions in and through artistic practice. In this lecture, the composer and researcher Paul Craenen discusses the delicate balance between musical flow, reflection and criticality.
Flow, interruption and reflection in musical artistic research
Performing music requires an immersion and dedication that is different from talking or writing about that experience. Nevertheless, without words it is very difficult, if not impossible to conceptualize or integrate musical experience as a central locus of artistic research. Thus, artistic research in music usually relies on an alternation of positions inside and outside musical time. Relying on the first-person perspective of the researching musician, transfer of knowledge and experience from in-time to off-time positions and back is often taken for granted.
In this presentation, Craenen explore limitations and possibilities of artist-researchers to combine positions of artistic proximity and reflective distance. He proposes the concept of musical artistic research as an interruptive practice, in which the systematic and conscious alternation of time positions relative to the musical flow can create the conditions for reflection and criticality.
Bio Paul Craenen
Paul Craenen is a researcher, composer and a frequently demanded expert at the intersection of artistic practice, education and research. He studied piano and chamber music at the Lemmens Institute, Leuven and received a PhD from Leiden University (2011) for artistic research on the status of the performing body in contemporary composed music. His book “Composing under the Skin. The music-making body at the composer’s desk” (2014) has been published by Leuven University Press. He taught piano and experimental music at various music schools and intermedia studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. He has been director of Musica, a Flemish organisation for art education, from 2012 to 2018. In early 2018 he was appointed Research Professor and head of the lectorate Music, Education and Society at the Royal Conservatory The Hague. He is also a staff member at The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) at Leiden University, where he teaches as a guest lecturer and is involved as a supervisor for artistic research.
About Knowledge in the Arts
In spring 2021, the International Center for Knowledge in the Arts, launched its lecture series, ”Knowledge in the Arts”. The focus is on transdisciplinary themes and current debates in Artistic Research, both within the Center institutions and in relation to artistic research’s wider relevance in society. The lectures will mainly be given by artists with a research-oriented practice, but also by other voices, relevant to the knowledge of art. This series features speakers and topics that will be of interest across the center’s institutions as well as for a wider public.
You can see examples of previous presentations in our Media Archive: https://artisticresearch.dk/medie-arkiv
DANSK
15.00-17.00 CET, Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium & Online
Venue: Kammermusiksalen, Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Skovgaardsgade 2C, Århus
Streaming link vil blive annonceret her: https://artisticresearch.dk/?po=4774
Præsentationen er på engelsk
Modereres af Kristoffer Gansing (Center for Kunstnerisk Viden og Udviklling)
Hvordan og hvornår reflekterer den udøvende musiker over sin kunstneriske viden? Kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed (Artistic reesearch i international kontekst) er det felt, hvor kunsten som erkendelsesform står i fokus, og hvor undervisere på de kunstneriske uddannelser afsøger nye retninger inden for deres praksis. I dette foredrag diskuterer den hollandske komponist og forsker Paul Craenen den svære balance mellem musikalsk flow og kritisk refleksion.
Flow, afbrydelse og refleksion i musikalsk artistic research
Musikudøvelse kræver en fordybelse og dedikation, som er anderledes end det at tale og skrive om oplevelsen. Ikke desto mindre er det uden ord svært, hvis ikke umuligt at konceptualisere og integrere den musikalske oplevelse som en central del af artistic research. Derfor forudsætter artistic research indenfor musik en bevægelse mellem at være indenfor og udenfor den musikalske tid. Med udgangspunkt i den undersøgende kunstners førstehåndsperspektiv tages overførelsen af viden og erfaring fra bevægelsen mellem dette indenfor og udenfor ofte for givet.
I denne præsentation undersøger Craenen begrænsninger og muligheder for, hvordan artistic-researchers kan kombinere kunstnerisk nærvær og refleksiv distance. Han foreslår et koncept for den musikalske artistic research, en ”afbrydelsens praksis”, hvor bevidst og systematisk bevægelse mellem tidslighederne i forhold til det musikalske flow kan skabe vilkår for refleksion og kritik.
Biografi, Paul Craenen
Paul Craenen er forsker, komponist og efterspurgt ekspert i feltet mellem kunstnerisk praksis, uddannelse og forskning. Han har studeret klaver og kammermusik på Lemmens Instituttet, Leuven. I 2011 fik han sin Ph.d. fra Leiden Universitet i artistic research om den performative krops status i samtidsmusik. Hans bog “Composing under the Skin. The music-making body at the composer’s desk” (2014) er udgivet ved Leuven University Press. Han har undervist I klaver og experimenterende music ved bla. Amsterdam Konservatorium. Han har været leder af Musica, en flamsk organisation for kunstuddannelser fra 2012-2018. I 2018 blev han udnævnt til Research Professor og leder af Music, Education and Society på Royal Conservatory The Hague. Han er desuden ofte gæsteprofessor på Leiden University.
Knowledge in the Arts
I foråret 2021 påbegyndte Center for Kunstnerisk Viden og Udvikling den nye samtale- og forelæsningsrække Knowledge in the Arts. Her sætter vi fokus på temaer og begivenheder indenfor KUV/Artistic Research og på aktuelle samfundsdiskussioner i forhold til feltet. Oplæggene afholdes primært af kunstnere, danske såvel som internationale, med en research-orienteret praksis, men også af andre relevante stemmer omkring kunstens viden. Præsentationerne arrangeres på centrets forskellige institutioner, streames live og arkiveres på centrets hjemmeside.
Se tidligere Lectures i vores mediearkiv: https://artisticresearch.dk/medie-arkiv
