Sensing Otherwise; in the absence of land(scape)
You are cordially invited to session #10 of In the Making, a public series by the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) and Art Institute West Den Haag. In this series, different practices of research in the arts are presented.
Our fascination with landscape led to a series of conversations about this subject in our individual work and research. Since then, we have come to observe the varied conditions of landscape as a multiplicity of non-constants – or a polyphony of harmonious dissonance – that burrows itself into our practices as artistic researchers. We understand it as something that isn’t a static image, but rather something like a portal into seemingly infinite and dynamic ‘elsewheres’ which are always maintained in relation to very immediate ‘being-heres.’
We would like to invite you as we continue to investigate these ‘elsewheres’ by guiding you to, and through, three different landscapes, each transporting you to dimensions specific to our research; the ideal landscape and its impossibility, the sonic landscape of intimate immensity, and the landscape caught within bureaucratic maelstrom. What processes occur when we interact with them? What do they give us access to, if at all? What sorts of knowledges are summoned in their unfolding?
Presenters
Ilaria Biotti
Artist and researcher Ilaria Biotti is a PhD candidate at PhDArts, Leiden University and the Royal Academy The Hague. Biotti's practice explores possible relationships between imagination and landscape through and in the spatial montage of moving images. Biotti has participated in international exhibitions and residencies including the 5th Athens Biennial OMONOIA, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Goethe Institut Bogota, Istituto di Cultura Italiano Cape Town, NSK State Pavilion - 57th Venice Biennale, Tate Exchange London and Transmediale CAPTURE ALL Berlin.
Ilaria Biotti
Artist and researcher Ilaria Biotti is a PhD candidate at PhDArts, Leiden University and the Royal Academy The Hague. Biotti's practice explores possible relationships between imagination and landscape through and in the spatial montage of moving images. Biotti has participated in international exhibitions and residencies including the 5th Athens Biennial OMONOIA, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Goethe Institut Bogota, Istituto di Cultura Italiano Cape Town, NSK State Pavilion - 57th Venice Biennale, Tate Exchange London and Transmediale CAPTURE ALL Berlin.
Alexander Cromer
Alexander Cromer is a spoken word performance artist currently pursuing his PhD in artistic research at the PhDArts program at Leiden University x KABK. Together with his long time collaborator, Darius, he centers his research on voice within the contexts of performance theory, ancestral healing, and radical imagination. Using a combination of poetry/fiction, sonic acts, and performance, his work attempts to intimate a performance space with speculative pasts, presents, and futures as a means of investigating the nonlinearity of Blackness. By doing so, he aims to establish new relationships between human bodies which exist here and elsewhere in time and space in order to produce energies which disrupt and transform colonial systems.
Alexander Cromer
Alexander Cromer is a spoken word performance artist currently pursuing his PhD in artistic research at the PhDArts program at Leiden University x KABK. Together with his long time collaborator, Darius, he centers his research on voice within the contexts of performance theory, ancestral healing, and radical imagination. Using a combination of poetry/fiction, sonic acts, and performance, his work attempts to intimate a performance space with speculative pasts, presents, and futures as a means of investigating the nonlinearity of Blackness. By doing so, he aims to establish new relationships between human bodies which exist here and elsewhere in time and space in order to produce energies which disrupt and transform colonial systems.
Donald Weber
Prior to photography, Donald Weber was originally educated as an architect and worked with Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Much of Weber’s work is concerned with making visible the technological, spatial, legal and political systems that shape our current condition – the infrastructures of power. He has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lange-Taylor Prize, the Duke and Duchess of York Prize, and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Photography Prize, amongst other citations. His diverse photography projects have been exhibited as installations, exhibitions and screenings at festivals and galleries worldwide including the United Nations, Museum of the Army at Les Invalides in Paris, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum. He is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Photography at Aalto University, Finland, and co-founded the Master Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. His practice-based PhD is on the logistical landscape and how this particular land formation structures vision as bureaucratic.
Donald Weber
Prior to photography, Donald Weber was originally educated as an architect and worked with Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Much of Weber’s work is concerned with making visible the technological, spatial, legal and political systems that shape our current condition – the infrastructures of power. He has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lange-Taylor Prize, the Duke and Duchess of York Prize, and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Photography Prize, amongst other citations. His diverse photography projects have been exhibited as installations, exhibitions and screenings at festivals and galleries worldwide including the United Nations, Museum of the Army at Les Invalides in Paris, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum. He is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Photography at Aalto University, Finland, and co-founded the Master Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. His practice-based PhD is on the logistical landscape and how this particular land formation structures vision as bureaucratic.
Alice Lagaay
Alice Lagaay, professor of theory in the Design Department of HAW Hamburg (University of Applied Sciences Hamburg), is a founding member and core convener of the international performance philosophy network (www.performancephilosophy.org). Her research focuses on “negative performance” (not doing, passivity, silence…), the philosophy of creative indifference (Friedlaender/Mynona), and on practices of speculative design (with a focus on “magical expertise”). She seeks to explore non-standard formats for the generation and communication of philosophical content - often in collaboration with artists and designers, and increasingly inspired by the lessons of horses. Co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (2020) and of the Performance Philosophy book series at Rowman & Littlefield International.
Alice Lagaay
Alice Lagaay, professor of theory in the Design Department of HAW Hamburg (University of Applied Sciences Hamburg), is a founding member and core convener of the international performance philosophy network (www.performancephilosophy.org). Her research focuses on “negative performance” (not doing, passivity, silence…), the philosophy of creative indifference (Friedlaender/Mynona), and on practices of speculative design (with a focus on “magical expertise”). She seeks to explore non-standard formats for the generation and communication of philosophical content - often in collaboration with artists and designers, and increasingly inspired by the lessons of horses. Co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (2020) and of the Performance Philosophy book series at Rowman & Littlefield International.
