Transpositions

Under the heading transposition, seventeen artists, musicians, and theorists explain how one thing may turn into another in a spatio-temporal play of identity and difference that has the power to expand into the unknown.

New modes of epistemic relationships in artistic researchResearch leads to new insights rupturing the existent fabric of knowledge. Situated in the still evolving field of artistic research, this book investigates a fundamental quality of this process. Building on the lessons of deconstruction, artistic research invents new modes of epistemic relationships that include aesthetic dimensions.

Under the heading transposition, seventeen artists, musicians, and theorists explain how one thing may turn into another in a spatio-temporal play of identity and difference that has the power to expand into the unknown. By connecting materially concrete positions in a way familiar to artists, this book shows how moves can be made between established positions and completely new ground. In doing so, research changes from a process that expands knowledge to one that creatively reinvents it.

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Contributors: Annette Arlander (University of the Arts Helsinki), Paulo de Assis (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University), Leif Dahlberg (Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm), Lucia D’Errico (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Mika Elo (University of the Arts Helsinki), Laura González (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Esa Kirkkopelto (University of the Arts Helsinki), Yve Lomax (Royal College of Art, London), Cecile Malaspina (CNRS-Université Paris 1/Université Paris 7), Tor-Finn Malum Fitje (independent artist, Oslo), Dieter Mersch (Zurich University of the Arts), David Pirrò (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Hanns Holger Rutz (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz), Michael Schwab (Orpheus Institute, Ghent/University of Applied Arts Vienna), Birk Weiberg (Zurich University of the Arts)

Introduction Michael Schwab Transformations Rosi Braidotti Abandoning Art in the Name of Art: Transpositional Logic in Artistic Research Esa Kirkkopelto Calling the Dragon, Holding Hands with Junipers: Transpositions in Practice Annette Arlander Aberrant Likenesses: The Transposition of Resemblances in the Performance of Written Music Lucia D’Errico Work of Art as Analyst as Work of Art Laura González Annlee; or, Transposition as Artistic Device Leif Dahlberg Transposing the Unseen: The Metaphors of Modern Physics Tor-Finn Malum Fitje Staging Collisions: On Behaviour David Pirrò Algorithms under Reconfiguration Hanns Holger Rutz
Speculations on Transpositional Photography Birk Weiberg
Transpositionality and Artistic Research Michael Schwab Transpositions: From Traces through Data to Models and Simulations Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Transposition Cecile Malaspina
Transduction and Ensembles of Transducers: Relaying Flows of Intensities Paulo de Assis
Alchemistic Transpositions: On Artistic Practices of Transmutation and Transition Dieter Mersch
Ineffable Dispositions Mika Elo
Without Remainder or Residue: Example, Making Use, Transposition Yve Lomax

Michael Schwab

Michael Schwab is the editor-in-chief of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR).

Michael Schwab

Michael Schwab is the editor-in-chief of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR).

Annette Arlander

Paulo de Assis

Paulo de Assis is artist researcher (pianist, composer, music philosopher) and research fellow at the Orpheus Institute.

Rosi Braidotti

Leif Dahlberg

Lucia D'Errico

Lucia D’Errico is a musician and artistic researcher. She is research fellow at the Orpheus Institute Ghent.

Mika Elo

Laura Gonzalez

Esa Kirkkopelto

Yve Lomax

Cecile Malaspina

Tor-Fin Malum Fitje

Dieter Mersch

David Pirró

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Hanns Holger Rutz

Birk Weiberg