Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network

This channel is intended to both be a place where JAR’s content that is relevant to the Asia Pacific region can be highlighted, and a space where other kinds of submissions can be hosted that illustrate the diversity of artistic research practices in the region

Spotting A Tree From A Pixel (With Remote Sensing Researchers)

Sheung Yiu

This exposition contemplates the collaboration between me, a photographer, and remote sensing researchers from the Department of Geoinformatics at Aalto University, in an ongoing artistic research collaboration called Ground Truth. Ground Truth is a photography project about ‘seeing something when there’s nothing there’.

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keywords: OPEN EXPOSITION

Structures for Freedom: In-performance Communication in Traditional Musicians in Scotland

Lori Watson

This exposition articulates tacit knowledge in processes associated with contemporary Traditional music practice in Scotland. Using a case study experiment and a series of workshop performances recorded in 2008, I examine the processes, communication and performance strengths of four leading Traditional and cross-genre creative musicians. In particular, examples of in-performance communication and collaboration emerge.

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keywords: OPEN EXPOSITION

Cajón desastre: notas sobre una investigación artística desordenada

Paola Villanueva

This text is a reflection on Cajón desastre, an exhibition that collected around fifty drawings made between 2011 and 2020. This text, together with the exhibition, assembles an artistic research unfolded in time and developed in three layers: the making of the drawings and conceptual openings; 2) the gathering and conceptualization of the drawings under the exhibition project; 3) the text development and consequent assembly of this artistic research.

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keywords: OPEN EXPOSITION

Experiments in Aural Attention: Listening Away & Lingering Longer

Rebecca Collins

This exposition puts forward ‘lingering longer’ and ‘listening away’ as potential means to remain with non-semantic possibilities, resisting the tendency to know immediately or to classify — to get lost, albeit momentarily in a more messy moment of being. At stake in this investigation is the recognition that our experience of the world, characterized through a depth of engagement, is not limited to how relations operate on the surface.

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keywords: OPEN EXPOSITION