Artistic Research Performs and Transforms: Bridging Practices, Contexts, Traditions & Futures

CARPA6 attends to the practice of artistic research in the performing arts, inquiring specifically into its potentials for bridging gaps and shifting territorial borders. How does artistic research in the performing arts create interfaces between, interlink and challenge different themes, practices, media, conventions, disciplines and contexts that inform its generation and expression? What kinds of creative interstices are generated? How do these processes change specific performing arts such as dance, theatre, performance and live art? What does artistic research do to the performing arts, how does it transform them? What kinds of futures is artistic research in the performing arts generating?

These questions highlight that both the borders and nature of what constitutes performing arts exceeds simple definitions and are in a continuous process of transformation. In drawing upon and challenging previous artistic conventions, performing arts borrow from the past and project into the future. Other disciplines and life more generally play into creative processes and the material, artistic, social and institutional contexts that influence their specific unfolding are experimented with and contributed to.

Artistic research as a wider context deals with research in and through the arts that explores the epistemic potentials artistic practices involve. Artistic research strategies are developed to overcome representational approaches towards art, and artistic processes themselves are opened up as opportunities for research and knowledge creation. Through doing this, artistic research generates original insights into art and artistic practice and produces artwork as well as epistemic proposals. By extending artistic practice into new areas, artistic research questions and transforms both the performing arts and conventional conceptions of research. Artistic research has become to be understood as a transdisciplinary and even undisciplined venture that addresses that which is at once between the disciplines, across different disciplines, and beyond each individual discipline. With this background in mind, the conference aims at scrutinizing artistic research as a differentiating activity that both renews and confirms the performing arts and contributes to their aesthetic, critical, social, environmental and transformative potentials.

Doctoral students, doctoral graduates, independent researchers, artists and professors in the realm of the performing arts with a research focus in their work are invited to send in proposal and to attend CARPA6 Artistic Research Performs and Transforms.

This year’s CARPA conference is followed by the post-conference event Future Manifestos that closes the three-year project Artistic Doctorates in Europe: Third Cycle Provision in Dance and Performance (ADiE).

This Erasmus+ funded undertaking explored artistic doctoral education in dance and performance within Great Britain, Finland and Sweden and sought to substantiate and develop the relationship artistic doctorates have with the art field and the so-called creative industries. The post-conference event furthers the thematics of CARPA6 by focusing beyond the remits of ADiE. It presents, envisions and discusses utopian manifestos on future artistic research by artist-researchers working in collaboration with the ADiE network. The event is free of charge and open for CARPA delegates as well as artists, artist-pedagogues, artistic doctoral candidates, and artist-researchers engaged with the performing arts.

PROGRAMME (pdf - updated 28/08/2019)

Tuesday 27 August: Pre-conference

12.00-17.00
Kiasma Theatre
INFO Desk and registration are open. Get your free Kiasma Museum entrance clip from the INFO Desk.

14.00-17.30
Trip around places in Helsinki without a trip advisor. Something historical, something political, something beautiful, something emerging and maybe something to eat at the end? Come along and do the trip with Karolina Kucia!

Meet you at the Kiasma registration INFO Desk at 14.00. 8€ for a 1-day ticket (public transport) + food costs (optional).

18.00-19.30
Theatre Academy (Haapaniemenkatu 6)
Musical I Love You, You´re Perfect, Now Change. Free of charge, limited ticket availability. Please, get your free ticket on Tuesday by 17.30 at the Theatre Academy´s INFO Desk downstairs.

Wednesday 28 August: Conference Day 1
8.45-18.00
INFO Desk and the registration are open
Get your free Kiasma Museums entrance clip from the INFO Desk

9.15-9.30
Kiasma Theatre
Opening of the Conference
Leena Rouhiainen
Vice Dean (Research), Head of the Performing Arts Research Center,
Professor in Artistic Research

9.30 - 10.30
SESSION 1 (Kiasma Theatre)
Keynote Erin Manning: How Do We Repair?
Lecture performance

10.30-11.00
Pause with coffee

11.00 - 12.30
SESSION 2 (Kiasma Theatre)
Esa Kirkkopelto: Componential Bodies in Intermedial Settings
Lecture performance

Joonas Lahtinen
What Should the Body Do? On Artistic Research, Power and Perception
Paper presentation

11.00-12.15
SESSION 3 (Seminar Room and Outdoors)
Javier R. Casado: A Practice which is not Labour
Workshop

13.00-14.00
Restaurant Pääposti (next to Kiasma)
Lunch with coffee (Buffet available untill 13.45)
 

14.15-16.00
SESSION 4 (Kiasma Theatre)
Simo Kellokumpu, Vincent Roumagnac and Outi Condit: Q̶͈̬̿͝l̴̛̬̝̒o̵̰̍̔ǘ̴̼ḓ̷̟̓̅s̷̻̦̆Q̸̠̿͒u̷͓͚͊̽A̸̛̘͝r̷̖͈̀͝ṭ̶̏͘z̶̩̩͛re-opening
Performative experiment

14.15-15.15
SESSION 5 (Seminar Room)
Barbara Kremser: Leo - About the Disappearance of Escapist Places in Reality and Imaginations
Other artistic research arrangement

16.15 - 17.30
SESSION 6 (Kiasma Theatre)
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay: Unperforming Sound: from the Margins of Artistic Research
Lecture performance

Elina Saloranta: Letter-writing as Artistic Research
Performative experiment
   
16.15-17.30
SESSION 7 (Seminar Room and Outdoors)
Sebastian Adams and Jools Gilson: Drench: Raining on the Radio and Other Stories
Transdisciplinary dialogue

17.30-19.00
Kiasma Theatre Foyer
CARPA6 Conference Reception
Jaana Erkkilä-Hill, Vice Rector (research), University of the Arts Helsinki

Thursday 29 August: Conference Day 2
8.45-18.00
INFO Desk and registration are open
Get your free Kiasma Museum entrance clip from the INFO Desk.

9.15-9.30
Kiasma Theatre
Opening of the Day 2

9.30-10.45
SESSION 8 (Kiasma Theatre)
Keynote: Sibylle Peters: Performing the Right to Research

10.45-11.15
Pause with coffee

11.15-13.00
SESSION 9 (Kiasma Theatre)
Annette Arlander, Hanna Järvinen, Tero Nauha and Pilvi Porkola: The Transformative Potential of Performance
Lecture demonstration 

11.15-12.45
SESSION 10 (Seminar Room)
Dominique Rivoal: Dyadic: Encounter Between
Workshop

13.00-14.00
Restaurant Pääposti (next to Kiasma)
Lunch with coffee (Buffet table is availanble untill 13.45)

14.15-16.15
SESSION 11 (Kiasma Theatre)
Anna Nazo: Granulas Silt
Performative experiment

14.15-16.15
SESSION 12 (Seminar Room)
Karolina Kucia: Parasite; Monster and Exit - Mutation Exercises
Workshop  

Susanna Hast: Walking with Soldiers: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cadets
Lecture performance

16.15-16.30
Pause

16.30-17.45
SESSION 13 (Kiasma Theatre)
Elpida Rikou and Katerina Konstantinou: Doing Artistic: Research in Greece Today: Cases in Point
Paper presentation 

Falk Hübner: Against Method? Common Groud?
Paper presentation 

16.30-17.45
SESSION 14 (Outdoors, gathering at the Kiasma registration INFO Desk)
Ajauksia group: Sensory Experiences: An Articulating Encountering and Perceiving Body in Urban Space
Workshop

Friday 30 August: Conference Day 3
8.45-17.00
INFO Desk and registration are open
Get your free Kiasma Museum entrance clip from INFO Desk.

9.15-9.30
Kiasma Theatre
Opening of the Day 3

9.30-10.45
SESSION 15 (Kiasma Theatre)
Keynote: Adrian Heathfield: Little Nothings

10.45-11.15
Pause with coffee

10.45-17.00
SESSION 17 (Seminar Room, no registration)
Jana Unmussig: Keep on Threading or: TITLE
Performative experiment

11.15-12.45
SESSION 16 (Kiasma Theatre)
Lucie Strecker: Applied Microperformativity: Report on Experimental Symposium
Lecture demonstration

Janhavi Dhamankar and Martin Rumori: I am here: Facing taxt, becoming text
Lecture performance

13.00-14.00
Restaurant Pääposti (next to Kiasma)
Lunch with coffee (Buffet table is available untill 13.45)
 

14.15-15.15
SESSION 18 (Kiasma Theater)
Verena Lercher, Sharma Gerriet Krishna and Denzel Russell: pasdedeuX - linguistic research installation, using discarded media, for 16 turntables and 2 performers
Performative experiment

15.15-15.30
Pause

15.30-16.30
SESSION 19 (Kiasma Theatre)
Opening of the post-conference event FUTURE MANIFESTOS that closes the three-year project Artistic Doctorates in Europe: Third Cycle Provision in Dance and Performance (ADiE):

Keynote: Vida Midgelow: Making a Difference via Sensuous Knowledge: The Artistic Doctoral Space

17.30-20.00
Zodiak – Center for New Dance Helsinki (Kaapelitehdas, Tallberginkatu)
Bye-Bye CARPA6 & Welcome FUTURE MANIFESTOS
Salad Buffet and wine

18.30-19.30
Zodiak - Center for New Dance Helsinki
Art and Love performance by Maija Hirvanen, limited availability of places.

Saturday 31 August
9.30-18.00
Zodiak - Center for New Dance Helsinki
Post-conference event FUTURE MANIFESTOS

Read more about and the program for post-conference event FUTURE MANIFESTOS.