One Day on the Long Beach...
is a field-research focused on collecting data for an immersive environment designed as for my postdoctoral project Conversations with Landscapes: The Ocean, Weather, and the Atmosphere.
Research for One Day on Long Beach initiated during my visiting scholar session with the University of Victoria in British Colombia. Parts of this research were presented at the University of Antwerp - The Antwerp Research Institute conference on Research Methods in February 2020. The project has been funded by the FRQSC (Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Culture (FRQSC) - put on hold due to COVID-19.
Abstract:
One Day at the Long Beach
The question of how to engage the audience in artistic research is an ongoing challenge of every research-creation project. As authors and as makers we are constantly faced with the challenge of how to invite our audiences to fully participate in our objectives and become a part of the experience by being immersed “in it”. At the same time, in the pursuit of our research objectives, we ask them to step back (from the actual experience) and evaluate the work, present their own reflection, and share their experiences. Does the actual experience of the artwork collide with the research objectives? In my project: One Day at Long Beach I engage the community of local surfers at, Long Beach in Tofino, BC in the issues of performance by means of active participation in my project. By engaging in an informal conversation with them and by allowing the work to intuitively evolve step by step through observation and reflection I let the creative process unfold. In my presentation, I will share how the creative processes take place through methodologies based on observation, reflection, and action and elaborate on my experience of pursuing research trough these strategies.
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