Artistic Research as a Seminal Series (ARSENAL)
ARSENAL: Making Meaning of Artistic Research
10 February 2021
Professor Tone Pernille Østern
NAFA inaugurated the first session ARSENAL (Artistic Research is Seminal) series with Professor Tone Pernille Østern, an active Artist/Researcher/Teacher with a special interest in socially engaged (dance) art, dance in dialogue with contemporary contexts, choreographic processes, performative research, and bodily learning. In this session, Professor Østern shared her perspective of artistic research, its key characteristics, and defined the paradigm of performative research with reference to a forthcoming publication. Building on the writings of Haseman, Bolt and Arlander, Professor Østern discussed at length about performative research as a paradigm, challenging the traditional ways of qualitative and quantitative research. This led Professor Østern to share her own choreographic self-study which culminated in two outputs – one artistic, by way of a
toddler performance called “Oranges and Lemon"(2001), and the other, a reflection based on the choreographic self-study conducted. As the inaugural kick-off to ARSNEAL, the broad strokes in this seminar would set an intonation for the performative paradigm to provide a space and framework for subsequent sessions that would explore the different facets of artistic research.
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