choreo | graphy
2022 (English)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
The doctoral project choreo | graphy is an inquiry into the relationship between thinking through dance and thinking through written language, taking the notion of choreography literally as dancing-writing. Respecting that different media afford different thought processes, ideas, and concepts to be reached, this practice-based artistic research project has unfolded within artistic processes and experiments to explore and develop the relationship between dancing-thinking and writing-thinking. Investigating the media-specificity of thought in dancing together (khoreia) as it relates to the media-specificity of thought in writing (graphia), this project experiments with their relation in a way that serves both art forms and respects their differences, while challenging historical hierarchies between embodied sense-experience and the written word. Cycling through three areas of inquiry, the project asks 1. how dance thinks, 2. how dance writes, and 3. how a (re)considered relationship between dancing and writing might inform choreographic practice. Following these three areas of inquiry, the project’s contributions to artistic research are summarized as follows: articulating what is particular to dance-thought (how dance thinks), practicing and devising procedures for dancing-writing (how dance writes), and pursuing forms of exposition which invite observers to think with and through dance by applying the aforementioned insights to artistic creation (choreo | graphic outcomes). The separation of the word choreography into choreo | graphy signals the project’s intention to open space for consideration and reinvention of the poetics of choreographic practice and discourse.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Stockholms konstnärliga högskola , 2022.
Series
X Position, ISSN 2002-603X ; 19
Keywords [en]
dance, choreography, writing, dancing-thinking, dancing-writing, media specificity, artistic research, enactive cognition, aesthetic thought, sensual journalism, splace, modybind
National Category
Arts Performing Arts
Research subject
Third-Cycle Studies in Performative and Mediated Practices
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uniarts:diva-1149Libris ID: 1g3lm5xfzp3pg7bfISBN: 978-91-88407-31-3 (electronic)ISBN: 978-2-9563032-7-5 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uniarts-1149DiVA, id: diva2:1654773
Public defence
2022-05-25, Elverket, Linnégatan 69, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
Opponent
Supervisors
2022-04-282022-04-282025-09-10Bibliographically approved