Concerned with the subjects of space, community and possibilities of meeting, interacting and existing in different environments, I meet Andreas Liebmann in Tårnby Park, location of his artistic practice and research, which involves performing workshops, an arts festival, artistic residencies, and his own artistic responses to the work he’s been developing in this area.

Listen to the podcast, read the article, and learn more about Liebmann’s work HERE.

AN INTRODUCTION:

Welcome to “worldthreading”, the online homebase of my artistic investigation project “The Ecology of Artistic Research”, which lately I’ve been referring to as an introductory, interdisciplinary investigation.

This is the starting point of a project in progress, and ideally an ongoing investigation that will expand through time, but in its first phase, what I envision is a submersion in the field of artistic research through conversations with those currently involved in the field, both for the purposes of acquiring this knowledge for my own skillset, as well as to serve as a “mapping” of sorts, which will allow for the visualization of current trends, practices, terminology, methods and concerns in the field, concretely in the Nordic countries, but in the future possibly expanding to other parts of Europe and the world. This project is done with the support of Den Danske Scenekunstoskole and the International Center for Knowledge in the Arts in Denmark, Bokens Hus in Finland, and Kultivera in Sweden.

To give you a bit of background of why we find ourselves here, I can share with you that I’m a multimedia artist, writer and cultural organizer, often documenting the communities around me through my arts & culture magazine Red Door, my arts & culture podcast Red Transmissions, and my activities in the Nordic countries with various organizations, where I help with the curation of festivals, book publications, workshops, talks and other activities… all of which often feeds back into my artistic practice, self-actualizing my writings and other art projects. This means that a great part of my artistic practice is often closely related to the gathering of intel and feedback of the communities around me. Which is why artistic research felt like such a natural next step in my practice. Although the field is quite modern and “in”, a search online will show that there’s not much to facilitate the understanding of artistic research, who it serves, its mechanisms, structures and purposes. So my attempt, with this project, is to visualize the learning structures, put together a glossary, and identify the systems and creative mechanisms, as well as the patterns that are common in the field, so that artistic research becomes a relatable territory for myself and others interested in the field but not directly connected with academia.

WHAT I AM SEEKING:

I am also always interested in mental wellness and sustainability, (environmental means also our own creative ecosystem) especially when it comes to our art practice, because I do not believe in chain-line production of art, but in purpose and matter, in circular processes, in interconnectedness, so I will be focusing my interviews on two subjects:

1- Embodiment of knowledge: What shifts, expands, is modified, in the creative process of those doing the research.

2- Sustainable practices: How artistic research influences / benefits / affect an artistic practice.

3 – The circular processes that allow for those communities researched to benefit from the artistic research taking place in each project.

This project has received Erasmus support, and counts with the supervision of Rikke Lund Heinsen Sarah Woods, but otherwise it is quite an underfunded, DIY investigation (which is already uncommon in artistic research, from what I hear) so if you’d like to give your support as I embark on this investigation, please join my PATREON.

In the following links above you will begin to find videos, podcasts, articles and documentation of the process as I evolved into it. If you are an artistic researcher in the following areas: Helsinki, Turku, Fiskars, Malmö, Stockholm, Tranås, Copenhagen, please contact me so I can come to you and learn about your project / institution / artistic research.
If you’re not in these areas but interested in collaborting, please write via the contact form.

HOW THIS LOOKS:

The output from this project manifests itself in 3 forms:

DOCUMENTATION:

-A series of short film interviews with artistic researchers, which you can enjoy on this website as they appear, as well as on my youtube channel.

-A series of audio interviews, which you can listen to as they’re released, through Red Transmissions Podcast.
You can subscribe via Spotify, Apple, Deezer and most other podcast providers.

-A series of articles, which you can enjoy on this website.

ARTISTIC RESPONSE:

-My artistic response is always multimedia, which results in poetry / performance / film, music and visual arts combined together to create immersive installations that allow my audience to “feel” and “embody” the subjects I am investigating. If you’d like to learn more, please visit the PERFORMANCES link on this website. I am always open to collaborations, so feel free to contact me if this subject is of interest to you.

REFLECTIONS:

-A series of talks on the subject online, via this website and a youtube channel.

-A book publication. (TBA)

Looking forward to embarking in this voyage with you,

Madam Neverstop.
http://www.madamneverstop.com

Stare into the eye of the universe and ask:
What do you see?