Artigos selecionados pela Comissão Científica do DRIFTING BODIES/FLUENT SPACES. Os artigos são publicados na versão original. As opiniões expressas são da inteira e exclusiva responsabilidade dos seus autores.

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Artigos Audio & Artigos

Alan Dunning - Immaginary Drift

Alan Dunning

Independent Artist, Victoria, Canada 

alan [ ] degreezro.org 

Canadian/UK

 

Imaginary Drift

Audio paper summary (up to 300 words); 

The Imaginary Drift is a series of audio works that have arisen out of daydreams of travel to far off lands during the isolation experienced because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our seclusion indoors, is interrupted only by the briefest of walks outside for essentials such as food, through a world that seems familiar, yet is uncannily different. Using various online and compiled text generators based on OpenAI’s GPT-2 language model, texts are generated to describe various macroscopic and miscroscopic worlds. The AI, together with an initial human iput seeding the generated texts, produces scripts for spoken word descriptions of dreamlike spaces and imaginary walks.

> Listen Alan Dunning “Immaginary Drift” audio paper

Brief biography (up to 150 words); 

Alan Dunning is a new media and installation artist and founding member of the interdisciplinary art and science collaboration, the Einstein’s Brain Project. In partnership with the Project and individually he has an extensive Canadian and international exhibition record and is represented in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY and the National Gallery of Canada. Awards include grants from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, SSHRC, the Canada Council, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. References to his work and research include: Interartive 100: Walking Art/Walking Aesthetics, Caroline Langill’s project for Fondation Langlois, “Shifting Polarities”, Anna Munster’s “Materializing New Media”, and “Future Bodies”, Edward Shanken’s “Art and Electronic Media”, Ted Hiebert’s, “Digital Inflections” for CTheory, Kate Hayles’ “Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments”, “and Mark Hansen’s “New Philosophy for New Media”. He currently lives and works in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Aspasia Voudouri - Prespa-Ohrid 1848: A drifting walk of Edward Lear

Aspasia Voudouri 

Graphic Designer / Researcher / Educator 

avoudouri [ ] uowm.gr / avoudouri [ ] yahoo.com 

www.voudouri.gr

 

Prespa-Ohrid 1848: A drifting walk of Edward Lear

ABSTRACT: Images can trigger memories. They can be a form of  communication and revelation. They can be physical images as well as those existing in an artist’s imagination. An image can be a special tool for studying the evolution of culture. In the beginning of 19th century, during the growth of the Romantic movement, landscape became an autonomous form of art
expression. English painter and novelist Edward Lear condemned the antiquated view of his own peers by expressing a strong interest in wild, natural landscapes. In his distinctive way, Lear depicted the scenes he encountered as well as the intense emotions he experienced during his trip from Thessaloniki to Ohrid, in the period of the Ottoman rule, in September 1848. This journey
was partially a walking exploration of the landscape and the urban environment of the cities he encountered. In 19th century, he was the only Englishman who investigated and created a large collection of paintings, drawings and sketches of the landscapes of the wider area around the Prespa basin. He walked in those “primitive” places, at different hours of the day and sketched the form
of the mountains and the streetscapes of the cities he reached. In his own way he used the practice of “walking art”, in a primitive way, to share his knowledge of the topography of this region.
This paper presents Edward Lear’s travelogue and descriptive works in the wider area of the Prespa basin, as inspiration for aesthetic and historical knowledge; while simultaneously, creating “quick narrarive skethes”, which is an experiential landscape practice.

 

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Aurora dos Campos - Percursos-experiência: propostas para rever a cidade
 
Aurora dos Campos
auroradoscampos [ ] gmail.com
auroradoscampos.com
 
Percursos-experiência: propostas para rever a cidade
 
Resumo:
Neste audio-paper discorro sobre o projeto performativo “Três percursos e um desvio para um mesmo fim”, elaborado em 2019 com parte da investigação “Dramaturgias do Quotidiano: Especulações sobre a Dimensão Ficcional do Real” com orientação Prof. Doutora Sofia Ponte. Investigação realizada no âmbito do Mestrado em Arte e Design para o Espaço Público da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.
 
Partindo de minha experiência como cenógrafa em teatro, busquei pensar a dimensão daficção no quotidiano e em ambiente urbano. O projeto performativo tem por base os trajetos diários que utilizava para levar meu filho ao infantário, através de ruas situadas na freguesia do Bonfim, no Porto. A proposta é constituída por quatro “percursos- experiência” elaborados com instruções para serem vivenciados por um grupo de participantes”. Para cada percurso, usei procedimentos distintos para explorar questões, tais como: a co-existência de tempos distintos numamesma caminhada, o percurso pensado como narrativa, a multiplicidade de olhares sobre um mesmo trajeto e a ideia de desvio como um campo de possibilidades.
 
Na contramão do automatismo do quotidiano “Três percursos e um desvio para um mesmo fim” intenciona conectar os participantes a dimensão da experiência, da imaginação e a um
 
tempo subjetivo. O projeto cria territórios híbridos que sugerem algumas ficções, sem as determinar inteiramente, provocando lugares liminares na paisagem simbólica da cidade.
 
O texto que segue é a transcrição do audio-paper e foi adaptado para este formato especialmente para o Drifting Bodies-Fluent Spaces, pensado para ser escutado enquanto se caminha.
 
Palavras-chave:
Percursos-experiência, arte por instrução, dramaturgia, quotidiano, walking art.
 
 
Biografia:
Aurora dos Campos é cenógrafa e investigadora, bacharel em Artes Cénicas – cenografia pela Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e mestre em Arte e Design para o Espaço Público pela Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. Como investigadora, se debruça sobre os limiares entre ficção e materialidade em diferentes contextos, do espaço da cena ao espaço urbano. Tem vindo assim a desenvolver projetos híbridos que exploram relações entreespacialidade e dramaturgia.
Seu trabalho como cenógrafa é dedicado principalmente ao teatro, entre Brasil e Portugal.
Nestes dois países colabora, entre outros com: os Foguetes Maravilha (f.2008), a Cia dos Atores (f.1989), o Coletivo Improviso (f.2001); e os criadores Alex Cassal, Cristina Moura, Enrique Diaz,
 
Isabel Cavalcanti, Filipe Caldeira e Guilherme Leme Garcia. Por seus cenários recebeu importantes prêmios do teatro do Brasil. É membro da direção da APCEN- Associação Portuguesa de Cenografia.
 
Abstract:
In this audio-paper I intend to discuss the performative project “Three routes and a detour
towards the same end”, performed in 2019 as part of the research “Dramaturgies of the Everyday.
Speculations on the Fictional Dimension of the Real” developed at the Master of Art and Design
for the Public Space of the University of Porto.
 
Considering my set designer expertise, I developed a few hypotheses in order to unders-
tand and think about the borders between notions of fiction and reality in an urban environ-
ment.The performative project is based on the daily routes I used to catch, through the streets of
 
Porto, to take my son to his nursery – the proposal consists of four “walks” for a small group of
participants. For each path, I used different procedures to explore ideas, such as: the coexistence
of distinct time frames, the path as a narrative, the multiplicity of views about the same path and
the idea of deviation as a field of possibilities.
Against the automatism of everyday life the project intends to connect participants to the
 
dimension of experience, imagination and subjective time. That is, “Three routes and one deviati-
on towards the same end” create a hybrid territory that suggest some sort of fictions without fully
 
determining them, leading to liminal places in the city symbolic landscape.
The text that follows is the transcript of the audio-paper and has been adapted to this
format especially for Drifting Bodies-Fluent Spaces, designed to be heard while walking.
Key-words:
“Percursos-experiência”; art by instruction; dramaturgy; everyday Life; walking art.
Biography:
 
Aurora dos Campos is an active brazilian set designer and researcher, bachelor in Per-
forming Arts – Scenography by the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro and Master in
 
Art and Design for the Public Space by the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. As a re-
searcher, she focuses about the thresholds between fiction and materiality in different contexts,
 
from the scene to the urban space. Thus, she has been developing hybrid projects that explore
relations between spatiality and dramaturgy.
Her work as a set designer is mainly dedicated to theater, between Brazil and Portugal. In
these countries collaborates, among others with: the Foguetes Maravilha (f.2008), Cia dos Atores
 
(f.1989), Coletivo Improviso (f.2001); and creators Alex Cassal, Cristina Moura, Enrique Diaz, Is-
abel Cavalcanti, Filipe Caldeira and Guilherme Leme. For her works she received important
 
awards from the Performing Arts of Brazil. She is an APCEN – Portuguese Association of scenog-
raphy – member of directive board.
 
 
Bill Psarras - With objects, into sites, through bodies: Intermedia reflections on embodied prepositions
Bill Psarras
www.billpsarras.tumblr.com
Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Performing and Digital Arts, University of Peloponnese
vasillis.psarras [ ] gmail.com or v.psarras [ ] uop.gr
Presentation Type
Audio-paper
 
With objects, into sites, through bodies: Intermedia reflections on
embodied prepositions
 
Abstract
Prepositions are not only linguistic devices but also hold performative and
spatial potential. Since 1960s numerous walking performances and spatial practices are often accompanied and co-shaped by material or technological objects. Such performative narratives are co-shaped by chance, body encounters and/or technologies which extend poetics and politics. Objects have hidden lives and potential often embroidered into the everyday spatiotemporal fabric. Having as starting platform author’s art practice focused on walking/performance/site-specific arts, this paper aims to reflect on material, spatial and embodied entanglements that are informed by such prepositions (with, into, through) as well as on further intermedia translations of such repetitive, mobile and participatory actions across
expanded installations, audiovisual and digital media. How bodies, objects and sites resonate towards personal / participatory scores? How such performances highlight autoethnographical narratives?
 
 
Bio
Bill Psarras (Dr.) is an artist, academic and musician. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Performing and Digital Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Peloponnese. He has been a former adjunct lecturer at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of Ionian University (2016-2019) where he also conducted his arts-based postdoctoral around performance/site/technology (State Scholarship 2017-2019). He holds a Ph.D in Arts & Technology from Goldsmiths University of London (AHRC Scholarship), an MA in Digital Arts (University of the Arts London) and a BA/MA in Audiovisual Arts (Ionian University). His artworks include site-related walking performances, mixed media installations, video/digital art and poetry; exploring the (geo)poetics and politics of the urban experience. They have been exhibited in international festivals and group exhibitions across Europe and US (link). He has published across journals (LEA MIT Press) and conferences (ISEA) on the intersections of performance art, digital media and urban/cultural studies. He is the author of Tundra (Pigi, 2017), his first poetry collection. He is the Art Director of Primarolia Festival (Greece).
 
Carlos Queiroz & Rafael Borges - Ver de ouvir ao caminhar

Antônio Carlos Queiroz Filho

queiroz.ufes [ ] gmail.com 

Rafael Henrique Meneghelli Fafá Borges

rafaelfafaborges [ ] gmail.com

 

Ver de Ouvir ao Caminhar

mapear narrativo dos lugares e paisagens de um corpo sonoro polifônico (experimentações em binaural audio)

Resumo 

Nosso trabalho toma como amparo e inspiração conceitual as reflexões postas pela “estética do caminhar” (Francesco Careri), pela “polifonia da comunicação urbana” (Massimo Canevacci) e pela filosofia da experiência (Jorge Larrosa), articuladas por uma cartografia e narrativa do/pelos afetos produzidas por um corpo “multissensorial” (Pallasmaa, 2011) e “poético” (Gil, 2001) . Assumimos como nossa principal baliza a ideia de que a experiência que temos com o mundo se dá de corpo inteiro. Ao caminhar, ouvimos, sentimos cheiros, esbarramos, tocamos, e também, vemos. Foi com esse entendimento que produzimos experimentações corpo-sonoro- polifônicas. Utilizamos técnicas de multidimensionalidade sonora (binaural audio) para potencializar a imersão do espectador-ouvinte e, assim, promover, pelo “ver de ouvir” de cada um, a criação de mapas, também narrativos, de lugares e paisagens alinhavados pela ativação de suas sensações e memórias de um caminhar que é, sobretudo, para dentro de si e que compõem, não somente a experiência de seus autores, mas também, a nossa experiência com o mundo. Buscamos, nesse sentido, contribuir com as questões levantadas por diversas áreas do conhecimento e pelo campo da arte, especialmente aquelas que lidam com a experiência contemporânea do habitar as cidades, sobretudo, a partir da perspectiva das narrativas urbanas produzidas pelas grafias do corpo e seus sentidos estético-políticos. 

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> Escutar/ Listen CIDADE-SONHO [BINAURAL AUDIO]

> Escutar/ Listen COM VERSO: CIDADE EM TEXTO E CONTEXTO [BINAURAL AUDIO]

> Escutar/ Listen CIDADE EM DIFERENÇA E REPETIÇÃO [BINAURAL AUDIO]

Bio

Carlos Queiroz

Pesquisador-Artista. Professor da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo – UFES no Curso de Geografia, no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia – PPGG e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo – PPGAU. Atuou como Professor Visitante no Earth Institute, em colaboração com a School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy da University College Dublin – UCD (Irlanda). Pós-doutorado pela Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal) realizado em 2017/2018. Líder do Grupo de Pesquisa RASURAS – Geografias Marginais (Linguagem, Poética, Movimento) e do GRAFIAS – Laboratório de Geografia Criativa.

Rafael Borges

Doutorando em Geografia pela Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia – PPGG da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo – UFES. Integrante do Grupo de Pesquisa RASURAS – Geografias Marginais (Linguagem, Poética, Movimento) e do GRAFIAS – Laboratório de Geografia Criativa. Bolsista da Fundação CAPES – Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.

Dilar Pereira - Deriva no Estúdio: Transitus e Pensamento de William Kentridge

Dilar Pereira (FBAUL, CIEBA)

dilarcpereira [ ] gmail.com

 

Deriva no Estúdio: Transitus e Pensamento de William Kentridge

Resumo 

A ação motora de caminhar, como deriva no estúdio, é uma forma de pensar 

através do corpo e é fundamental para William Kentridge (1955-). 

No estúdio, o transitus, além de deriva é também passagem, animado pela transposição intermedia e multidisciplinar regida pelo desenho. Através de um processo  cognitivo, reúne pensamento e perceção, que tem no caminhar a vitamina que atravessa e enforma a hibridação da prática de Kentridge: “It is only when physically engaged on a drawing that ideas start to emerge. There is a combination between drawing and seeing, between making and assessing, that provokes a part of my mind that otherwise is closed off” (Kentridge, citado em Tone, 2012). 

Estuda-se, pois, o quiasma entre o andar e o pensamento, no lugar orgânico e central de criação artística, o estúdio – contexto de uma prática intermedia fluída, concretizada através do desenho. Propõe-se a análise do estúdio como o lugar onde o desenho, por meio do caminhar, é, por natureza, o cruzamento entre possibilidade e impossibilidade, definido pela particularidade de ser pensamento em potência e pensamento prático, traduzido em  distintas e originais materializações intermedia

Palavras-chave: Pensamento/ Caminhar/ Estúdio/ William Kentridge/ Desenho. 

Abstract 

The physical action of walking, as drift in the the studio, is a way of thinking through the body, and it is fundamental for William Kentridge (1955-). In the studio, the transitus besides drift it is also passage, animated by the intermedia and transdisciplinary transposition guided by the drawing. Through a cognitive process, which brings together thought and perception, that has in the physical action of walking, the vitamin that crosses and forms the hybridization of Kentridge’s practice: “It is only when physically engaged on a drawing that ideas start to emerge. There is a combination between drawing and seeing, between making and assessing, that provokes a part of my mind that otherwise is closed off” (Kentridge, as cited in Tone, 2012). 

In this paper, we study the chiasm between walking and thought, as the organic and central place of artistic creation, the studio – the context of a fluid intermedia practice, realized through drawing. We propose the analysis of the studio as the place where drawing, through walking, is by nature the crossing between possibility and impossibility, defined by the particularity of being, thinking capacity of thought and act, translated into distinct and original intermedia materializations. 

Key Words: Thought/ Walk/ Studio/ William Kentridge/ Drawing. 

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Bio

Dilar Pereira

Investigadora | Professora | Artista Visual
Bolseira de Doutoramento da Universidade de Lisboa, Ref.ª da Bolsa C00305O.
Doutoranda em Belas-Artes, Especialidade Desenho, na Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Universidade de Lisboa.
Investigadora do Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA), desde 2018.
Pós-graduação em Arte Sonora (2019), pela Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa.
Mestre em Desenho (2013) e Mestre em Teorias da Arte (2006), pela Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa.
Licenciatura em Ensino de Educação Visual e Tecnológica (2001), pela Escola Superior de Educação, Instituto Politécnico de lisboa.

Atividade docente, em Portugal, no Ensino Básico e no Ensino Superior (2001-2012; 2016-2018) e no estrangeiro (em Timor-Leste, 2012-2015), no Ensino Superior e, no âmbito da Formação de Professores, área de Educação Artística.
Atividade no âmbito das Artes Visuais, com participação em exposições individuais e coletivas, em Portugal e no estrangeiro, desde 1990.

Gerald Gordon - Drifting Through Bodies and Auguring Spaces: Terminalian Drift

Gerald Gordon (USA)
Baika Women’s University, Osaka, Japan
g-gordon [ ] baika.ac.jp

Drifting Through Bodies and Auguring Spaces: Terminalian Drift

Abstract:
In my experimental novel Terminalian Drift, the narrating voice has recently started living in André Cadere’s used skin. It’s not going well. A foreign resident of Osaka, Japan, the voice decides to wanders through a particular district in Osaka, searching for ways to facilitate a collaborative acceptance between the residential skin and the occupying skeletal/innards that the voice associates with. In its city drift, the narrator reveals shifting self-associations with locations and events that occur. The voice becomes embodied by the locations embodying its borrowed body as it interacts with what co-exist in those places, each entangling the other in ways which alter the relationship between skin and guts, internal workings and external surfaces, here and there, past and present, etc. Bodies drift in spacial/self fluidity. Layering summaries and quotes, this paper analyzes of how this pseudo-fictional/pseudo-documentary story works to facilitate similar fluidities for me, the author. By using a fictional character to tell a story of factual and fantasized happenings in actual locations, I can wear the city like a personal skin. I can take it personally. I can claim it as a pseudo-self, weaving/entangling fictional layers with historical portrayals that layer and co-inhabit the locations. Documented snippets of past happenings are used as an
armature onto which imaginary events attract, co-occupy, conflict and mitigate belief. The novel replaces the trend of generalization that rolls through history with specific occurrences, even if false—putting focus on the undeniable fact that nothing general has ever actually taken place. The novel is used as a way to perform a ritual of actualization, to nurture speculative seeds of specificity and let them germinate as half-truths, rumors, lies or whatever. The novel is used to auguristically increase the city by enfolding my poetics into its layers, letting it function as a Geopoetic machine.

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> ler/ Read Drifting through Bodies

Bio
Gerald Gordon is a writer, poet, scholar and improvising musician residing in Osaka, Japan. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he has lived the last 26 years in Osaka. He is an associate professor in the International English Department at Baika Women’s University. His research focuses on improvisation, particularly in relation to music, dance, poetry and other arts practices. Gordon’s ongoing research project is interviewing improvising musicians regarding collaborative aspects of instrument/player physicality and improvisation. Since 2011, Gordon has served as the director of MIIT House, a small former-factory in the Konohana district of Osaka City which has been repurposed as a venue for improvised and experimental music, dance and performance. As well, Gordon is an avid bike rider and cook.

Georgios Giannopoulos - The Peripatetic Photography of Georges Salameh

Georgios Giannopoulos

Undergraduate student of Photography and Audiovisual Arts,
University of West Attica,Athens, Greece.

fo17111 [ ] uniwa.gr

 

The Peripatetic Photography of Georges Salameh

Abstract
Georges Salameh is a Greek-Lebanese artist. In photographic projects such as
“Hear you, Athens” (1998-2006) and “Spleen” (2009-2017) he engages with peripatetics to create a psychogeography of contemporary Athens, the author’s home city. Salameh writes that the idea of peripatetics for him “revolves around experimental, direct non-conceptual photography, the quiet side of urban or landscape photography, during which attention is given primarily to the state of mind.” By creating images containing signifiers that also evoke the sound-scape of the city, he expresses his direct experience of the chaos he encounters
around him whilst walking, and somehow finds in it an echo of the intimate space of his own apartment. 
This paper examines Salameh’s work in comparison with that of other contemporary artists walking across urban landscapes such as Iain Sinclair (“London Overground”) and Patrick Keiller (“London”, “Robinson in Space” and “Robinson in Ruins”) in the UK, Daido Moriyama (“Daido Tokyo”) in Japan and Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (“Elegy for Bangalore”) in India. It explores their use of photographs to make soundscapes, soundscapes to make images, and the employment of fictional travellers and autobiographical travel writing to recreate a psychogeographic experience of the city through the evocation of images and
sounds which alternately alienate them and draw them in.
Keywords: psychogeography, photography, peripatetics, wandering, flaneur
 
 
Short Bio
Georgios Giannopoulos is Greek and was born on 21 October 1975. He holds a diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He currently teaches computing at a state high school. Since 1994 he has been practising photography and in 2018 he became an undergraduate student in Photography and Audiovisual Arts at the University of West Attica (UNIWA). Georgios enjoys a lot of walking.
He has twice completed the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal and has also been twice along the Camino de Santiago in Spain (Camino Primitivo and Camino Frances).
Johanna Reichart - Sensing Body and City

Johanna Reichhart
johannareichhart@gmail.com

Sensing Body and City

Abstract:

The Audio format works as an audio walk and is also based of the same named film Sensing Body and City (2020). In a 12-minute inner stream of consciousness, elements from different times, reflections and personal memory mesh together with a soundscape. As a poetic introspective a female* voice is moving through a mosaic of her present perception and memory that arise in certain places in Berlin.
The protagonist seeks for new images and representations of personal memories that are non-visible for others, written in the body just as the city.

> Escutar/ Listen Sensing Body and City

> Ler/ Read Sensing Body and City

Short bio
Johanna Reichhart is a visual artist working and living in Berlin. With Stop Motion, textiles, objects, video, poetry and care work she is weaving her artistic practice. As a workshop teamer and filmmaker she is active in collective structures with city planners and artists, researching about city perception and education. Johanna grew up in West Germany and studied Cultural Science and Fine Arts in Brunswick and Istanbul. She is interested in poetry, mental well-being in the city, queer- feminist perspectives, embodied knowledge and various kinds of movement.
Johanna Steindorf - Street Haunting
Johanna Steindorf
 
Street Haunting: Reflections on staying at home and walking the city
 
 
Content
Taking Virginia Woolf’s essay “Street Haunting” and the book “A Journey Around My Room” by Xavier de Maistre as a starting point, in this audio paper I talk about how sheltering in place during the global pandemic has transformed our experience of staying at home and of walking the city.
These are two interconnected aspects of our experience in the world that also play a major role in my artistic practice. Many of my works deal with mediated presences, with the real-and-imagined presence of bodies in space. In the video series “present views of past streets” you are taken along imaginary walks in Google Street View. In audio walks such as “still here, sometimes there” a voice
speaks over headphones and accompanies you on an actual walk outside. In this paper, I will present these and other works, look at them from the perspective of 2020 and propose a discussion on the impact that the mediated experience has on our lives and what possible futures we can imagine.
 
 
Short Bio
Johanna Steindorf is a German- Brazilian media artist. She holds a bachelor’s degree from PUC-Rio de Janeiro in Visual Communication (2005), a diploma from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (2009) and a Ph.D. from the Bauhaus-University (2019). Johanna has been teaching regularly at
different universities since 2015 including the University of Cologne and the University of Siegen. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences HMKW in Cologne.
In Germany since 2006, she has been working with participative performances, audio, photography and video. Often using narrative and mobile strategies, her work deals with the subject of migration, nomadism, gender and walking.
Joseph Chaves - The Unfamiliar City in Christina Kubisch’s Five Electrical Walks

Joseph Chaves

University of Northern Colorado

joseph.chaves [ ] unco.edu

 

The Unfamiliar City in Christina Kubisch’s Five Electrical Walks

Abstract
This paper examines Christina Kubisch’s Five Electrical Walks, a piece of sound art in which participants don special headphones that sonify electromagnetic waves emanating from any electric sources in the proximate environment, from automatic banking tellers and cell phones to neon signs and streetcar cables. As the peripatetic auditor traverses this normally hidden, newly manifest urban sound-world, her experience is defamiliarized in ways that I suggest are fundamentally ambiguous. On the one hand, FEW reveals the city’s organic order through what Kubisch calls the “surprisingly musical” sounds actuated by the walker’s presence. Unintended patterns coordinate, sometimes harmoniously, beyond the strict control of the artist and even, to some extent, the walker-auditor. On the other hand, in revealing the city’s “hidden sounds,” FEW may be said to discover the inorganic essence at the core of urban life. Alien-sounding screeches, aperiodic buzzes, and inscrutable whirs index a potentially terrifying ‘infra-world’—noisy, unreal, chaotic, inhuman—beneath the city’s apparent sense and normalcy. The function of FEW, I suggest, is less to endorse either of these urban visions than to play them off one another as continuously and as variously as possible.
While much of the presentation will consist of a traditional scholarly analysis of Kubisch’s FEW, this voice will be joined by two others. THE NAVIGATOR will direct the audio paper’s listener on a walk, which will of course vary according to the listener’s location. In turn, THE COMMENTATOR will compare the sonic world created in Five Electrical Walks to that of the walking listener of this audio paper. The commentator will introduce subtle background sounds generated by sampler and analogue synthesizer, to be heard as examples of the sonic phenomena the paper discusses.

> Escutar/ Listen Kubish (ENG/PT)

Bio
I am currently Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Northern Colorado, where I work on literature, cultural studies, and literary and media theory, while increasingly introducing material and techniques from musicology and sound studies into my classes. A lifelong musician, I have become ever more interested, over the past two decades, in techniques that derive from tape music and electronic music—both as means of practice and objects of study. These interests are reflected in recent conference
presentations on electroacoustic musicians and sound artists such as Francisco López and Alvin Curran. My approach to this material draws on ideas I first developed in working on eighteenth-century literature, which explore the ancient genre of the pastoral and ask the question of the separability of nature and culture in modernity.
Judith Franke - Let's go

Judith Ph. Franke (MA);

Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)

judith.ph.franke [ ] gmail.com

Let’s go – On the concept, literature and practice of female* flanery

Abstract 

„We have to rebuild a world from the rustles of paper. Or we could put on our shoes and go out the door.“1 – Theory und practice of female* flanery A contemporary trend of walking cities has been emergent during the last years – more and more done by people other than the cis-male person, by women*. In this paper I would like to examine the female* flaneuse both in theory and practice. The assumption I am making here is that the double male gaze has an impact on all layers of historic and contemporary flanery – concept, literature and physical practice. Yet female* flaneuses are, and have been, walking the cities and making appearances in literature. I will lay the focus on how the female flaneuse – now and in future – has to be understood as fundamentally transgressive – not only in delimitation of the male flaneur. As claiming space and the freedom to one’s own pace is a emancipatory and feminist act. In a third step, looking at my own practice as a performative researcher and artist working in the field of strolling I will look at how flanery can re-imagine and re-shape cities both in our minds and through our bodies. 

Keywords: flaneur / flaneuse; feminism; performative research 

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Biography 

Judith Ph. Franke is a performative researcher and performance artist interested in on creating intimate spaces of shared experiences and grasping the ephemeral – both in public and private spaces. She holds a BA in Performative Arts (University of Hildesheim, Germany) and a MA in Performative Research (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany).

Maria Miranda & Marisa Lambert - Andarina
Maria Fernanda Miranda & Marisa Lambert
 
Andarina
 
 
Resumo
 
Quem não caminha não conhece, dizem os geraizeiro. Nesse sertão do cerrado do norte e noroeste de Minas Gerais, o “Grande Sertão” do escritor João Guimarães Rosa, trocamos a mão pelos pés no melhor dos sentidos, já que a travessia, o movimento errante do caminhar, constitui também matéria prima essencial da experiência de vida e prática geraizeira. Andarina foi o nome que recebi de Dona Lili, de Ribeirão de Areia, porque, segundo ela, quem caminha por esse sertão cantando e dançando sabe o jeito de não cansar. E é pelos pés de caminhante, que me vesto de veredas e voos de araras vermelhas, me conectando com as fiandeiras, tecelãs, tingideiras e bordadeiras da região. Mulheres de Linhas. Compartilhamos aqui essa estória sobre o caminhar vinda desse Brasil profundo como um convite a “entestar viagem mais dilatada”, como diz Guimarães Rosa, em Grande Sertão Veredas, num desafio para “dar corpo ao suceder” do caminhar de andarina por meio de sua ação performativa. Como parte integrante da pesquisa de doutorado no Programa em Artes da Cena da Unicamp tal ação foi elaborada a partir do conceito de Programa Performativo de Eleonora Fabião e da Pesquisa Performativa segundo María Jose C. Lorenzini. Vista como um dispositivo performativo que transita por esse contexto cerratense recolhendo e colocando em movimento elementos do cotidiano ligado ao trabalho dessas mulheres de linhas, Andarina tece uma multiplicidade em linhas de errância, contrapondo-se ao pensamento monocultural que vem desequilibrando nosso ecossistema socioambienta de cerrado nos últimos anos. Neste encontro queremos reverenciar os deslocamentos/encontros/deslocamentos, num ambicioso desejo de narrar para organizar as experiências desse corpo de andarina. 
 
Palavra-chaves: bioma Cerrado; caminhar; andarina; mulheres de linhas; corpo
Keywords: cerrado biome; Walk; andarina; threads women; body
 
Rabeca:Mestre Sebastião Rodrigues Pereira. Cantiga Saudade Ai Ai: Fiandeira Dona Conceição Lourenço Leite (in memória) Edição: Paulo Miranda
 
Bio
Maria Fernanda C. Miranda é mãe, bailarina, performer, ativista ambiental pelo
cerrado e doutoranda no Programa em Artes da Cena/Unicamp com a pesquisa
“Andarina: nos rastros e ruídos das mulheres de linhas”, orientada por Marisa Lambert. Na região do Norte e Noroeste de Minas Gerais, é condutora ambiental no projeto O Caminho do Sertão ( https://caminhodosertao.com.br/ ) e uma das produtoras do Cine Baru – Mostra Sagarana de Cinema ( https://cinebaru.wordpress.com/ ) . Ganhou o Prêmio Funarte Klauss Vianna de Dança 2015 com o projeto Mulheres de Linhas, também desenvolvido na região entre os anos de 2015 e 2017. Atualmente desenvolve o projeto “Fiandeiras do Sertão Mineiro – por uma cartografia de treição” em parceria com o Instituto Estadual do Patrimônio Histórico e Artistico (IEPHA) de MG.
 
Marisa Lambert é artista, professora e pesquisadora da Dança. Doutora em Artes pela Unicamp, com investigação sobre expressividade cênica. Certificada como Analista do Movimento (CMA) no método Laban/Bartenieff, New York, USA. Bacharel em Pedagogia, PUC-SP e em Artes Integradas, Concordia University, Canada. Há 17 anos é docente do Departamento de Artes Corporais e desde 2014 membro permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes da Cena, Instituto de artes, Unicamp. Trabalhou como colaboradora artística e interprete-criadora na Silvia Geraldi Cia de Dança de 2012 a 2017. É membro líder do grupo Prática como Pesquisa: processos de produção da cena contemporânea (CNPq). Orienta continuamente pesquisas que entretecem a arte e a dimensão humana, indagam o gesto dançado e a percepção-ação na criação em dança, investigam a antropologia do movimento e as relações sujeito-mundo, com olhar atento às questões sociais da contemporaneidade.
Mikhail Peppas - Walking in LifePlace

Dr Mikhail Peppas

Walking in LifePlace

Abstract
The paper for the ‘Drifting Bodies – Fluent Spaces’ Conference is focused on the theme ‘Walking Stories, Looking into Walking Narratives.’
I have originated three activations around walking narratives that are outlined below:
1) Ways of Seeing, Walks of Life

A student exploratory visual, sensory and photojournalistic experience about the streets, structures and neighbourhoods of the multicultural city of Durban.

The ‘living experience’ aims to improve their skills and heighten their observational faculties of ‘life place’ through ‘walking in the making’ of interpretations and pictures.
Through a series of 10 themed walks spanning out across the city, a sense of social cohesion unfolds through support, friendship, protection, and camaraderie.

2) KulturKonneKt – Walking Tours of X-ploration
A series of walks through the inner city of Durban that connect citizens with the social heritage, cultural geography, fractured origins and growth of the city into the new democracy of the Rainbow Nation.
The walks aim to develop a sense of tolerance and acceptance of the ‘other’ from widely different cultures.

3) The Labyrinth – Walking Journeys for Writers, Poets and Artists
‘LifePlace’ routes from maps of Durban guide groups of literary creatives through streets, buildings and recreation centres that are textually rich in aspects of the five senses. After the walk the writers gather in memory and sensory recall sessions where they ‘finger walk’ through the route on a map whilst dramatising what they have seen and felt. 
An extension project involves combining elements from the three walks into a heritage arts
exploration that ends up at a community-built Labyrinth in a central city park.
The plan is to connect local with global in a synchronised experience that reaches to fellow
Labyrinth walkers in other countries.
Each walker will carry a compass to fix the locational point of view of interactions with the
spatial-scape.

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Bio

Dr Mikhail Peppas
Media entrepreneur and film historian Mikhail Peppas holds a PhD in Visual Anthropology. He is an Honorary Research Associate in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the Durban University of Technology.
His interests cover graphic narratives, comic book production, photography, board games, streets as living texts, city identity and sustainable living activations. Peppas was awarded the 2017 Simon ‘Mabhunu’ Sabela Film and Television Award for Lifetime Achievement. Firsts for Africa originated by Peppas include: a film school called the Free Film School and a community television station, Greater Durban Television (GDTV).
His photograph entry, ‘Equus with Warrior: Ancient Intersections’ was selected as a finalist in the 2018 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition and was featured in the Exhibition of Winning Works at Pretoria Art Museum.
Peppas was selected as a participant in the 2019 American Arts Incubator – South Africa at KZNSA Gallery.
He is Vice-Chairman of Durban Central Tourism.

Rui Filipe Antunes, Daniel Tércio & Sérgio Bordalo Sá- Sincroni-cidades – Um percurso partilhado em confinamento

Rui Filipe Antunes, Daniel Tércio, Sérgio Bordalo e Sá.

TEPe – Technologically Expanded Performance (PTDC/ART-PER/31263/2017) INET-md Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa

 

Sincroni-cidades – Um percurso partilhado em confinamento

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Ficha técnica: 

Sincroni-cidades aconteceu em Abril de 2020 no âmbito do projecto TEPe [PTDC/ART- PER/31263/2017]. 

Concepção: Daniel Tércio, Rui F. Antunes e Sérgio Bordalo e Sá. 

Participação: Allan Diniz, Ana Macara, Ana Mundim, Ana Pais, André Guedes, Beatriz Cantinho, Carlos Antunes, Catarina Canelas, Cecília Lima, Daniel Tércio, Elisabete Monteiro, Ivani Santana, José Carlos Costa, Jonas Runa, Luca Aprea, Luísa Roubaud, Maria Baderna, Maria João Alves, Rita Vilhena, Rui F. Antunes, Sophie Coquelin, Sara Gebran, Sérgio Bordalo e Sá, Sofia Soromenho, Sílvia Pinto Coelho, Thaís Gonçalves e Thembi Rosa 

O projecto de investigação TEPe – Technologically Expanded Performance é financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. 

Locução: Rui Filipe Antunes e Sílvia Pinto Coelho 

Montagem: Rui Filipe Antunes 

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Bio

Rui Filipe Antunes 

Investigador do projecto TEPe (Technologically Expanded Performance) no INET-md | FMH. Nos últimos anos tem trabalhado sobretudo nas áreas da animação gerada por computador e da realidade virtual. Foi Fellow Marie Skłodowska-Curie (Individual Global Fellowship) no MIRALab, da Universidade de Genebra, e BioISI da Universidade de Lisboa trabalhando na área da simulação do comportamento humano em grupos e multidões. Doutorou-se em arte e ciências computacionais no Goldsmiths College da Universidade de Londres com o apoio da FCT. O seu trabalho artístico foi premiado por duas vezes no certame de arte e inteligência artificial VIDA (edições 12 e 13). 

Daniel Tércio 

Daniel Tércio possui um bacharelato em Filosofia (UL), uma licenciatura em Artes Plásticas (ESBAL), o mestrado em História da Arte (UNL) e o Doutoramento em Dança (FMH). Actualmente é Professor Associado na Faculdade de Motricidade Humana da Universidade de Lisboa, onde leciona, ao nível da licenciatura e do mestrado, cursos de História da dança, Estética, Movimento e expressão plástica, e novas tecnologias aplicadas à dança. Integra a direção do INET-MD e coordena o grupo de investigação sobre estudos da dança. Coordena também a especialidade de dança no programa doutoral em motricidade humana. É investigador responsável por projectos competitivos, como o projecto Technologically Expanded Dance, desenvolvido entre 2004 e 2007. Para além de numerosos artigos publicados em Portugal e no estrangeiro, é autor de obras de ficção e tem participado em projectos performativos e de formação artística, numa perspectiva transdisciplinar. Enquanto crítico de dança, tem colaborado regularmente com a imprensa desde 2004. 

Sérgio Bordalo e Sá 

Sérgio Bordalo e Sá, nascido em 1976, é licenciado em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1998), tem um mestrado em Film Studies pela The University of Iowa (2001) e um doutoramento em Estudos Artísticos – Estudos do Cinema e Audiovisual pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (2013). A sua tese de doutoramento intitulou- se: “Triunfos e Contradições da Vontade: Para uma Releitura de Lopes Ribeiro e Leitão de Barros no Contexto do Cinema de Propaganda” (Riefenstahl, Eisenstein e cinema mussoliniano). Depois de terminar o doutoramento, teve uma bolsa de investigação durante um ano para trabalhar num projecto académico do CRIA (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia) relacionado com filmes turísticos. Em Junho de 2015, começou a trabalhar no projecto de investigação do INET-md – polo FMH, primeiro como bolseiro e desde Abril de 2019 como investigador auxiliar, onde pesquisa a relação entre a dança e o cinema. 

Sophie Cabot - Errer du point A au point B
Sophie Cabot
Artist, art educator, mediator
Doctorant, Études et pratiques des arts,
Université du Québec à Montréal
 
Errer do point A ou point B
 
In September and October 2019, I walked a distance of 300 kilometers over 25 days. I had a basic route, from point A to point B. I want to live this walked performance without predicting too much how it will unfold, that is to say letting myself live in the situations encountered without trying to organize them.
I wanted to wander.
How to live a mode of wandering in a walking project whose route I have traced? Is this really consistent? I cannot live a wandering such as the itinerant lives (and I do not wish it). My wandering takes place mentally and emotionally. It becomes an attitude in my journey on the road. In theories about the creation process, wandering can correspond to the incubation period of a new idea, it is a period of latency. This period, in the creative process, allows the artist to see something new emerging in their creative work.
So which word to choose ? Wander ? Itinerary (or roaming) ? Wandering etymologically means going here and there. Roaming has a slightly different meaning because it introduces the idea of ​​the route, in the sense that the route is planned and, from which the walker deviates. Itineraire (itinerare) would be closer to the idea of ​​travel, of displacement. On the other hand this word is strongly connoted and refers to the marginalized itinerant on the street. Which is not my situation. The term wandering is more appropriate when talking about an attitude, a process, because it refers to a state. The article will addresses these dimensions of wandering in the itinerary, and wich attitudes make it possible, such as the presence of the artist and listening to bodily sensations.
 
 
Bio
Based in Montreal, Quebec (Canada). My creative approach is interdisciplinary integrating relational art, photography, textuality, sound and drawing. I am motivated by collaboration with other artists and community groups from all horizons, in education and health. My work has been presented in Montreal, New York, France and Greece.
Viv Corringham - Shadow-walks

Viv Corringham

vivcorringham [ ] gmail.com

Shadow-walks

Abstract
key words: walking, sounding, communities, memory, narrative, In this audio paper I describe my ongoing Shadow-walks project, which has occurred in Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas. The process is straightforward. I arrive in a new place and ask local inhabitants to take me on a special walk, one that has been repeated many times and has meaning or significance for that person. While walking together, I record our conversations and their stories. I then go back along the same route alone, attempting to get a sense of my previous companion’s traces on the walk, and I sing what I feel using wordless  improvisations.
An idea attributed to James Joyce is that places remember events and I find this idea very engaging – as if everything that happens leaves traces that we might be able to sense. If a person walks through certain places repeatedly, along the same route, does that act of walking impose a trace that can be mapped across time and space? In a sense Shadow-walks is an attempt to make a person’s traces, their shadow, audible through my singing, improvising voice.
During the Covid 19 pandemic I have adapted the project to become Shadow-walks (at home), in which I gather recorded descriptions of walks and my singing reflects how I imagine them.
Examples of these and other Shadow-walks are played, including one in the
borderlands of the Greek Prespes area and another with two women who discuss their fear of femicide in Mexico City.

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Short bio
VIV CORRINGHAM is a British singer, walker and listener, who studied
and worked with Pauline Oliveros for many years, and holds a Certificate to teach Deep Listening. She facilitates workshops in listening and sounding, most recently in Hong Kong, Mexico, London, Bangalore, New York, Kolkata and Manila.
Her work includes concerts, soundwalks, radio and audio installations, exploring
people's sense of place and the link with personal history and memory. She received an MA in Sonic Art from Middlesex University London and awards include two Composer Fellowships from McKnight Foundation, through American Composers Forum. Her work has been presented in twenty six countries in venues including Hong Kong Arts Centre, Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, Issue Project Room New York, Onassis Centre Athens, ICA London, Serralves Museum Portugal, Ohrenhoch Berlin, Arts University Taiwan, Shantou University China and Tempo Reale Florence.

http://vivcorringham.org/

Posters

Sant'Anna & Gonzales - Sensibilize: um projeto de ensino

SENSIBILIZE: UM PROJETO DE ENSINO

SANT’ANNA, CAMILA ; GONÇALVES, NAYARA

 

Resumo

O presente pôster trata da disciplina “Sensibilização da Paisagem” ofertada pelo curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal de Goiás, Regional Cidade de Goiás(UFG).  Essa disciplina propõe, através de um olhar sensível aos fatores cotidianos urbanos, a descoberta ou [re]descoberta da paisagem da Cidade de Goiás (GO), para além do seu centro histórico mais turístico. Além de ser conhecida como cidade patrimônio histórico e de nascimento da poetiza Cora Coralina, ela desponta como uma cidade universitária, abrigando três instituições públicas, com alunos, técnicos e professores, muitas vezes, originários de outro lugar, que possuem pouca familiaridade com o Bioma Cerrado e com o patrimônio cultural de Goiás. O objetivo da disciplina é apresentar e desenvolver métodos de estímulo de vivências paisagísticas tanto individuais (diário da paisagem) quanto coletivas (debates, leituras e walkscapes), desde a apreensão até a atuação no território da cidade. Este pôster descreve e analisa os resultados desse projeto de ensino e avalia quais seriam os próximos passos. 

Palavras-chave: Ações de sensibilização, Paisagem, Ensino, Participação e Goiás.

Keywords: Awarenesse-raising measures, Landscape, Teaching, Participation, Goiás.

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Biografia 

Camila Gomes Sant’ Anna – é professora brasileira assistente de Teorias e Projeto da Paisagem Urbana do Curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal de Goiás. Nos últimos anos, vem desenvolvendo metodologias de ensino de projetos em Arquitetura da Paisagem, as quais estimulam a comunicação e a integração entre alunos, professores e atores sociais; promovendo novas formas de aquisição de conhecimento em Arquitetura da Paisagem. 

Nayara Cristina Gonçalves bacharela brasileira em Artes Visuais, com habilitação em Design de Interiores, pela Universidade Federal de Goiás, atualmente discente do curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo pela mesma universidade. Ilustradora, aquarelista e pesquisadora nas áreas de habitação social, paisagem e moradia camponesa.