Programme


CARPA8 includes three different orientations: Transitions and transgressions, Thresholds and frictions, and Algorithmization and automated movement.

Day 1, Colloquium:
Presentations exploring the three main areas of investigations (indoors).

Day 2, Laboratory:
Presentations exploring the three main areas of investigations (indoors).
Researching shared questions in working groups through walkabouts and movement practices* (indoors and outdoors).

*We understand movement to be both physical and mental. The practices we share will be developed in ways that are accessible to all.

Day 3, Commons:
Bringing together findings and reflecting on them together (indoors). The lengths of the presentations are from 30 minutes to 90 minutes.

LOUNGE
Throughout the conference days, there is our Commons located in Auditorium 2 at TeaK Tori that is a space to slow down or even take moments of stillness and rest when need. We encourage you to be at a different tempo in this space and allow information (cognitive, abstract, kinaesthetic) and questions (theoretical, artistic) you are receiving to find their own motion and forms of expression.

POP-UP VR WORK TRY OUT
There will be an opportunity to try out the VR work presented by Tomi Humalisto, Nanni Vapaavuori and Meri Ekola at a pop-up point at Tori in the entrance hall of the Theatre Academy on Thursday 24th during the pause at 11:30–12:00 as well as Friday 25th at 9:00-9:45 and during the pause at 11:30–12:00.
 

WEDNESDAY 23 August 2023

REGISTRATION
 

10:00-16:00
Registration and information desk is open
Theatre Academy, entrance hall (Tori), Haapaniemenkatu 6 (Sörnäinen Campus) Helsinki
 

THURSDAY 24 August 2023

COLLOQUIUM

8:00–18:00
Registration and information desk open at Tori
Coffee and snacks

T.
9:00–9:45
Opening of the conference by the conference committee
TeaK Tori and Stage
 

CONFERENCE PARALLER STRANDS AND PRESENTATIONS
Sessions 1–13


10:00–11:30

Strand 1
Transitions and transgressions

Session 1
Theatre Hall (90 min)

Moderator

Kaleidoscopic dramaturgies: building fluidity for decolonial artistic research
Maria Jose Contreras (30 min)

Performance Différée: Renewing the Temporalities of Artistic Action
Léa Martin (30 min)

Microdramaturgy: researching artistic practices from a co-creative position in search of evental utopias
Jonas Schnor (30 min)


10:00–11:30

Strand 2
Thresholds and frictions

Session 2
Auditorium 1 (90 min)

Moderator

How can dramaturgy and artistic research programmes create alliances within a university and society?
Kasia Lech, Ricarda Franzen & Kati Röttger (30 min)

Dramaturgy and Artistic Research
Mads Thygesen (30 min)

The curatorial and financial narratives disrupting art
Tero Nauha (30 min)


10:00–11:30

Strand 3
Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 3
Auditorium 1 (90 min)

Moderator

Scores as social spaces: Dramaturgies of scores in multimodal music performance
Hild Borchgrevink (30 min)

Moving in Ensembles
Klaus Maunuksela (30 min)

Framed by a Robot - filming with robotic cinematographic device
Karolina Kucia (30 min)


11:30-12:00 Pause
During the pause:  Pop-up  VR work try out at Tori.
 

12:00–13:00

Strand 1
Transitions and transgressions

Session 4
Theatre Hall (60 min)

Moderator

Feel free to take a nap
Petros Konnaris, Mirko Guido, Rodia Vomvolou & Evagoras Vanezis (60 min)

 

Strand 2
Thresholds and frictions

Session 5
Studio 4 (60 min)

Moderator

Listening to Listening as Dramaturgical Approach and Parallel Play Project
Katariina Numminen & Maarit Rankanen (60 min)


12:00–13:00

Strand 3
Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 6
Auditorium 1 (60 min)

Moderator

Digital Intervention Into Dramaturgical Thoughts
Bilge Serdar Göksülük (30 min.)

Happy is the image that moves
Harri Laakso (30 min)

13:00–14.30 Lunch


14:30–16:00

Strand 1
Transitions and transgressions

Session 7
Studio 4 (90 min)

Moderator

Moving with Ghosts
Lois Brown & Thea Patterson (45 min.)

Intermedial Dramaturgies: Staging Play, Modes of Liveness, and Social Engagement
Bertie Ferdman, Peter Eckersall & Erika Latta (45 min.)


14:30–16:00

Strand 2
Thresholds and frictions

Session 8
KO-525 (90 min)

Moderator

Performing intraconnections: dramaturgies of response in artistic research
Maija Hirvanen (60 min)

Skinspace: Agency and friction of spatial dramaturgy
Elena Peytchinska (30 min.)


14:30–16:00

Strand 3
Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 9
Theatre Hall (90 min)

Moderator

A somatic REACh. (research in expanding awareness through algorithmic choreography)
Klaas Freek Devos (45 min.)

REHEARSING WITH NON-HUMANS, Performance Installation as a Research Tool
Irena Kukric (45 min.)

16:00-16:15 Pause


16:15–17:45

Strand 1
Transitions and transgressions

Session 10
Studio 4 (90 min)

Moderator

body/word Performance Writing as a communal dramaturgical practice for artistic research promoting a collectively more desirable being.
Christos Polymenakos (45 min.)

How to undo things with dramaturgy
Anastasio Koukoutas (45 min)


16:15–17:45

Strand 2
Thresholds and frictions

Session 11
Theatre Hall (90 min)

Moderator

Drama Spaces
Lynda Gaudreau (45 min.)

Cloudings: Spooky action at a distance
Lee Miller & Joanne "Bob" Whalley (45 min.)


16:15–17:45

Strand 3
Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 12
Auditorium 1 (90 min)

Moderator

The Dripping Web
Alex Viteri Arturo & Cory Tamler (90 min.)

17:45-18:00 Pause


18:00–19:00

Strand 1
Transitions and transgressions

Session 13
Studio4 (60 min)

Moderator

Corporeal Dramaturgy as a Medium of Artistic Research
Esa Kirkkopelto, Pauliina Hulkko, Marketta Tikkanen & Mikko Kauppila (60 min)


FRIDAY 25 August 2023

WALKABOUTS
 

9:00–14:00
Information desk open at TeaK Tori

9:00-9:45
Pop-up  VR work try out at Tori
 

CONFERENCE PARALLER STRANDS AND PRESENTATIONS 
Sessions 14–22
 

9:30–11:30

Strand 1
Transitions and transgressions

Session 14
Studio 4 (120 min)

Moderator

Comparative Dramaturgy and/as performance research
Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Sophie Osburg, Mads Thygesen, Katalin Trencsényi & Karel Vanhaesebrouck (60 min)

Dramaturgy of Practice: a slow togethering
Miranda Laurence & Sara Živkovič Kranjc (60 min)


9:45–11:30

Strand 2
Thresholds and frictions

Session 15
KO-525 (105 min)

Moderator

On Coalitional Research
Duska Radosavljevic (30 min)

Me to play? On co-creating epistemic practices
Rolf Hughes (30 min.)

A purple, pink, rose, fluffy octopus: The adventures of a dramaturg-researcher
Rodia Vomvolou (45 min)


10:00–11:30

Strand 3
Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 16
Theatre Hall (90 min)

Moderator

Does Pasolini perceive fireflies in the balcony of the universe?
Tomi Humalisto, Meri Ekola & Nanni Vapaavuori (60 min)

Interdisciplinary Research in European Extended Reality Labs
Adnan Hadzi (30 min)

11:30-12:00 Pause
During the pause:  Pop-up  VR work try out at Tori


12:00–13:00
Sessions 17–19

Introduction to the Setting things in motion sessions:
The Laboratory part of CARPA8 begins with this workshop. Each of the three working groups of the conference (that is to say, participants of the three strands) will come together for a short workshop to look at the questions found and generated during the first day of the conference, matching ideas with ‘explorers’, and preparing people to work on them in pairs (or small groups) outdoors in the afternoon. Each workshop is facilitated by the Host of that strand. Come with a curious mind and ideas – and you’ll leave with a special quest (tailor-made to your aims and abilities) and a small team to explore with outdoors in the afternoon.
 

Strand 1
Transitions and transgressions

Session 17
Theatre Hall (60 min)

Setting things in motion: a preparatory session with Jess Applebaum


12:00–13:00

Strand 2
Thresholds and frictions

Session 18
Studio 4 (60 min)

Setting things in motion: a preparatory session with Katalin Trencsényi


12:00–13:00

Strand 3
Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 19
KO-525 (60 min)

Setting things in motion: a preparatory session with Otso Huopaniemi

13:00–14:00 Lunch at TeaK Tori

14:00–18:00
Sessions 20-22
Outdoors

Introduction to the Walkabout sessions:
Put on your (real or virtual) walking shoes (bring your sunglasses, raincoat, drinking water and light snacks), and explore your questions generated during the morning workshop and Helsinki the way you haven’t explored before! Solvitur ambulando (solved by moving) – how does walking contribute to emerging ideas about dramaturgies of artistic research? We’ll find out in action.


Strand 1
Transitions and transgressions

Session 20
Outdoors

Walkabout in groups


14:00–18:00 

Strand 1
Thresholds and frictions

Session 21
Outdoors

Walkabout in groups


14:00–18:00 

Strand 3
Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 22
Outdoors

Walkabout in groups

19:00–21:30
Conference Dinner at TeaK restaurant

 

SATURDAY 26 August

COMMONS
 

9:00–13:00
Information desk open at TeaK Tori
 

CONFERENCE STRANDS, SHARING FINDINGS AND KEYNOTES

Sessions 23-25

Introduction to the Commoning sessions:
This workshop, facilitated by the Host of the strand will bring together each working group (each strand) for sharing and discussing the findings of Walkabouts. Bring along your quest documentation and get ready to present your discoveries in any way that is suitable.

In the second half of the session, together with one of the Keynote Speakers we’ll discuss the findings and see in what way they move our thinking forward on the questions of our working group. These findings will also be taken to the Keynote Lectures later this afternoon, to be shared with the all the conference participants.


9:30–11:00

Strand 1
Transitions and transgressions

Session 23
Theatre Hall (90 min)

Facilitated by Jess Applebaum

Overview: Sharing and discussing the findings of the Walkabout with Marcela A Fuentes
 

9:30–11:00

Strand 2
Thresholds and frictions

Session 24
Auditorium 1 (90 min)

Facilitated by Katalin Trencsényi

Overview: Sharing and discussing the findings of the Walkabout with Synne Behrndt


9:30–11:00

Strand 3

Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 25
Studio 4 (90 min)

Facilitated by Otso Huopaniemi

Overview: Sharing and discussing the findings of the Walkabout with Hanns Holger Rutz
 

11:00-11:30 Pause
 

11:30–12:30

Strand 1
Transitions and transgressions

Session 26
Theatre Hall

Plenary Session
It ends, but not before: Constellative dramaturgies at the end of the world
Keynote Marcela A. Fuentes

Moderator Jess Applebaum

12:30–13:30 Lunch at TeaK restaurant


13:30–14:30

Strand 3
Algorithmization and automated movement

Session 27
Theatre Hall (60 min)

Plenary Session
Beyond self and other: Shifting research from automation to endomation
Keynote Hanns Holger Rutz

Moderator Otso Huopaniemi

14:30–15:00 Pause
 

15:00–16:00

Strand 2: Thresholds and frictions

Session 28
Theatre Hall (60 min)

Plenary Session
Dramaturgy, devising and artistic research
Keynote Synne Behrndt

Moderator Katalin Trencsényi

16:00–16:15 Pause

16:15–17:15
Session 29
Theatre Hall

Moderated by the Conference committee

Closing Session Presentation