[-empyre-] collective capture, distributed identity - extension

[k.woolford at surrey.ac.uk]

Dear Johannes, 

Here’s a response I started for you last Saturday, but have only today found time to continue:

You’ve picked up on the  issues I’ve been wrestling with the past few years as a creative practitioner (artist?) functioning within traditional research-led universities. The Moments in Place documentation was created as a REF submission and attempts to demonstrate the links between the underlying Arts and Humanities Research and the Creative Practice.. In trying to address both, I don’t believe I’ve addressed either sufficiently, and am in the process of writing new documentation for both. 

The archaeological or heritage work we addressed through the Motion in Place Platform (MiPP) attempted to explore debates around embodiment and bodily practices to inform our understanding of past cultures. In short, we attempted to look at landscapes and archeological records not as sculptures or illustrative records, but as traces of lived spaces, aka, places. We attempted to place embodied researchers in human-scale (re)constructions, build according to archeological evidence. These (re)constructions were made from bits and photons as well as wood and mud. We had no desire, or interest, to “virtualise” existing experiences. Quite the contrary, we’re trying to find ways of using physicality or “embodiment” to better understand experiences in which we can no longer directly participate. 

In a similar manner, the Moments in Place installations aren’t trying to replace live performance. In many of sites, the presence of an audience changes the reception of the site, so we perform to limited numbers of people. The Moments project is an experiment asking whether it’s possible to leave a performance in a location for an audience to experience intimately, over a long period of time. I found “augmented reality" techniques to do link 3D recordings of performances to elements in the site, but this process questions the relationship between the original and (re)created performance similar to the way we’ve questioned the relationship between our 21st century (re)constructions of Iron Age sites.

Best regards, 
Kirk





On 29 Jul 2014, at 14:23, Johannes Birringer <Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

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> hello all, hello Sue and Simon
> 
> can we continue our discussion until the end of the month?  it would be great to have a few more comments coming from all those who particpated and listened in, as I don't think we have fully extended the debate yet
> and I was quite looking forward to hearing replies from Susan, Sue, Sally Jane and Kirk.
> here in Germany it's only the 29th of July, so we got a few days left...
> 
> regards
> Johannes
> 
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