The project's 'what' and 'how'
The project investigates how conditions in the body, mind and emotions affect improvised artistic results, and whether or how these influences transcend genres and disciplines. One touchpoint could be to investigate how states hinder or trigger other meta-competencies in one's own performance, in interaction with ensemble members and in encounters with other external factors. It is understood that the artistic result can also influence states in a recurring process.
Research Question:
How can we develop and challenge our personal performing practice, meeting different states of body, thought and emotion, and how will this process affect improvised artistic results across style, genre and medial framing?
The research question will be explored by examining improvised performance in three improvisational projects involving musicians and artists of a high international standard.
Key concepts for the investigations
- Meta-competence (Dillan, 2008).
Improvised meta-competence deals with how to improvise, not over what. This can, for example, include a person's behaviour, expression, communication processes, the way the senses work in an improvised interaction. - States.
"States" is linked to three variables: body, thought and emotion. This can be affected by internal or external influences, such as surroundings, other ensemble members, rooms, acoustics, audience and more.
Funding
The project is funded by NMH, with support from the Fund for Performing Artists, CREO and Kjerringøy Kulturbruk.
