Post-(C)-Art
Holle Haven 2.0
Research Log
About
General Introduction
Research Context
The doctoral research 'Connecting the Dots' focuses on the artistic process that (performing) musicians go through in non-traditional, collaborative contexts. As a standard starting point, this assumes a longer trajectory in which several phases are passed through, each taking up a certain period of time and organically flowing into the next. During this trajectory, both the artistic idea or concept and the performer(s) have the opportunity to grow, both under their own direction and due to external factors and actors.
Important focal points here are the communicative, the intuitive, the uncertain and the reflective, on the basis of which the different phases can be identified, as well as the conditions and concrete artistic, social contents.
The following questions led the performative and the qualitative research process:
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What exactly happens (musically) in this part, what are the differences between the musical and scenic performance, and (how) can they be explained?
=> Performance
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How is direct communication established to align actions between the actors?
=> Social
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What is the process that led to the final design of this part: based on what factors, through what type of communication, leading to what decision?
=> Process
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What impact does this have on individual process, perspective and actions?
=> Personal
Project Design
The project 'Holle Haven 2.0' is a research project founded in artistic praxis. The project design and, by extension, the focus of this report are therefore on both the artistic praxis and the reflection on and interpretation of that praxis, both in the moment and through retrospect.
Schematically presented, the process followed the following course:
The project has been extensively documented and investigated, and captured in a comprehensive research report. This report is part of a series of similar reports, each separately compiled in response to a specific artistic project, which together form the body of data and analysis of the doctoral research 'Connecting the Dots'. The ultimate goal is to design a theory through induction from the partial conclusions of all the reports in the form of a widely applicable creative-performative model in response to the overarching research question of the overarching doctoral project 'Connecting the Dots'. This requires a reliable and not purely subjective set of data, artistic and qualitative.
In order to document and make the process sharable on the one hand and increase its reliability on the other, a combination of research methods was made ('methodological pluralism', Borgdorff, 2012; see also Hubner & Vanmaele, 2020; Jensen, 2018) highlighting the artistic-performative on the one hand, and the personal and social on the other. Thereby, the use of 'performative research methods', in which artistic activity as practice-led research is central, focuses on documenting, analysing and intersubjectively sharing the emergent events, actions and outcomes that result from the artistic-research process (Gray, 1996; Haseman, 2006; Goddard, 2007). To complement this, qualitative research methods seek to uncover the underlying personal, social, communicative and (implicit or explicit) processes, on the one hand to support the performative, and on the other hand to enable discourse and dissemination (via the preconceived model) (Skains, 2018).
The complete research report, containing all information, can be accessed and downloaded below.