Artistic PRACTICE AS Research

In here I exercise thinking along with some key theories and concepts related to my research…
… and also do some meta-reflection on doing artistic research on XR choreography.

Artistic research is a complex mesh of theory and practice. The research involves a lot of thinking and writing but also artistic practice, the actual making of art, through which I gather knowledge on what is it to make choreography with interactive technologies.
As my artistic work is mainly focused on real-time interactive environments, the work is much dealing with the lived, perceptual body. Therefore the intellect of the body is at the center of my research, as it is in my artistic practice. I work with and theorise the living thinking body, the emerging embodied experience agency with the technological system.
Creating technological systems for the body to engage with, is much about perceiving and observing what happens with and within the body, perceptually, affectively, and performatively. To create a performative piece for a body or multiple bodies to enact in, is to think of the potentialities of the body and allow the sensorial knowledge to guide the compositional process. To think-through-the-body in the act of making choreography and in the act of performing.