Research project, ECAL 2015
in PROJECTS / R&D RESEARCH PROJECTS (R&D)
Process of improvisation: performance and situated action, from social sciences to artistic practices
This
transdisciplinary research project aims to elaborate a critical and
collaborative reflexion, between social sciences and artistic practices (i.e.
visual arts, performance arts, music and film) upon the function of
improvisation, as a theoretical model and a creative process, related to
situated action and performance. Based on recent researches in social sciences
around improvisation through different modes of actions (conversations, urgency
situations, etc.), the stakes is to understand how artistic models inform
social theories and render legible their interpretative process. At the same
time, the ambition of this research project is to demonstrate that these same
models are at the core of artistic practices and can shade a new light on the creative
process. During the first year, the research resolves around four
workshops-laboratories led by an artist and involving Bachelor students in each
art school: Oscar Gomez Mata at the HETSR, Véronique Goël at ECAL, Yan
Duyvendak at HEAD and Rudy Decelière at HEMU. During the second year, the
workshop-laboratory will be led in common with the four art schools and will take
shape through a collaborative research and experimental form, presented to the
audience at the end of the project. A colloquium in May 2015 and a special
issue of the anthropological magazine Gradhiva
will conclude this research project.
Main applicant
Manufacture - HETSR,
Frédéric Plazy, with Serge Margel and Claire de Ribaupierre
Co-applicants
Ecole
cantonale d’art de Lausanne
(ECAL), François Bovier
Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design - Genève (HEAD-GE), Christophe KihZ
Haute Ecole
de Musique (HEMU), Angelika Güsewell with Bastien Gallet
Period
From September 2013 to September 2015
Funded by the Swiss National Fund (SNF)
Workshop with Véronique Goël
© Laurent Valdès
Workshop with Véronique Goël
© Laurent Valdès
Workshop with Véronique Goël
© Laurent Valdès