The Matter of Habit. Experimenting with the Affects of Emergent Media, Material and Movement Practices

2017

Creator Nicole De Brabandere

Supervision Giaco Schiesser

Erin Manning

Participating Institution ZHdK, Departement Kunst & Medien, DKM, Zürich, CH (ZHdK, gegründet 2018)

Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung, Linz, AT (gegründet 1947)

MediumBroschüre, Fotoprints, DVD

Titles

beschreibender TitelDissertation zur Erlangung des PhD an der Kunstuniversität Linz in Kooperation mit der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

DescriptionWerkdokumentation bestehend aus Textbuch, Bild- und Tonmaterial (Fotoprints, Video, Audio) in Kunststoffmappe.
Abstract: The subjects of my PhD are habit, emergent corporeality, affect and media and material experimentation. Since the way we recognize and perceive form is inhabited as much as it is material and mediated this research considers the dynamic ways that emergent thought and feeling informs process and recognition. Central to this are the virtual affects associated with emergent abstraction, affects that modulate the material qualities, durations, dimensions and tensions of inhabited experience. In turn, this research develops with the pragmatic and conceptual themes of line, surface and tone.
This research has the aim of generating new modes of practice to help identify and articulate how inhabited tendencies that often remain below the register of conscious attention are modulated in experimental media and material practice. What terms of practice and perceptibility emerge in an experimental media process where empirical modes become insufficient to account for the dynamics of felt thought? What kinds of transversal resonances can emerge between and across different media such that acoustic and durational qualities amplify the affects of material form, and vice–versa?
The results of the research process are series of diverse media inscriptions that constitute a consistency where one can analyse how emergent form informs tendencies of thought, feeling and perception. The analysis becomes increasingly differentiated and articulable as formal and affective continuities emerge across the series. Since this research process evolves as it co-composes with an emergent corporeal, it is not fixed to pre–designated subjects and objects or modes of objective recognition but evolves as a transversal and non-linear critical practice.
The artefacts of the research results are: a PhD thesis that elaborates concepts associated with affect and habit and modes of writing that demonstrate the generative quality of writing with media and material experimentation and a proposition. The proposition consists of video, audio and photographic renderings of diverse movement and material inscriptions and invites readers of the PhD thesis to activate them with their own inhabited tendencies of movement and recognition. These propositions were developed based on my experience hosting workshops that activate these media inscriptions as openings for co-composition in diverse group settings.

Object numberDKB-2017-C02-001

DepartmentArchiv ZHdK

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Credit LineZürcher Hochschule der Künste / Archiv