TOUCH :
FILM SCREENINGS AND DEBATE ON ARTISTIC RESEARCH PRACTICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
IF ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ค๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ. ๐๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐น ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด.
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A series of workshops, launching points for exploring filmic research methodologies with the drone and on-ground filming has resulted in five cinematic chapters with five different voices that together makes up a short film on the landscape around Gl. Holtegaard, on transistions, on cyborgs, on drone filming, on on-ground filming, on caretaking and about experimental research methodologies.
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It culminates at the screening and panel event TOUCH: FILM SCREENINGS ANDDEBATE ON ARTISTIC RESEARCH PRACTICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE on October 12th at the CAFx festival: https://www.cafx.dk/event/touch-film-screenings-and-debate-on-artistic-research-practices-for-a-sustainable-future
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Film and sound creates awareness through tangible or imaginary visions and can thereby suggest alternative forms of knowledge and action in architecture. This event combines an introduction to artist Jakob Kirkegaardโs work, screenings of recent co-creative film work and a conversation about the film medium โincluding drone footage โ as a means for exploration, collaboration and reflection.
Participants include artists and researchers from Denmark and abroad: ๐๐๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ค๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐, ๐๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ค ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ง, ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ (IR), ๐๐ง๐ง๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ง (USA) and ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ข๐๐ง๐ข (UK). The session is a collaboration between CAFx, Surroundings lab and the University of Copenhagen.
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๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง-๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ค ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก: https://www.facebook.com/events/569701887582170/
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_Background
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Using Film as an Affective Resonance Medium to Explore Changing Landscapesof Care, Use and Exploitationโ
Explorative Workshops at Gl. Holtegaard and IGN August-October 2021 in collaboration with CAFx 2021โLandscapes of Careโ
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The film and workshop experiments are done by Rikke Munck Petersen, Hongxia Pu, Kent Pรธrksen, Henriette Steiner, Sofie Stilling, Kristin Veel, and Kassandra Wellendorf, all researchers, landscape architects, media and cultural theorists, filmmakers, photographers at University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the IGN International Academy 2021Professors Anne Whiston Spirn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and Hugh Campbell, University College Dublin, Ireland.
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Feminist scholars have long addressed the possibility of a different ethics of care, one that cannot be untied from oneโs bodily or cultural context, or from the constraints on ability and opportunity that this context imposes. This includes care for nonhuman realms, thereby challenging anthropocentric notions of care. The work of scholars such as Maria Puig de laBellacasa, Karan Barad and Donna Haraway, which we draw on this workshop, expresses an interest in care for non-human worlds and systems - what could also be called a posthuman interest in the relationship between humans and nature. This line of thinking is an opportunity to think about sustainable development in a more holistic and less anthropocentric way, but it also raises some dilemmas in relation to whether we want / can level out the relationship between humans and nature ontologically, or whether we should seek some more differentiated models, and what responsibilities we as human beings posit in this context (more specifically as part of a Western, modernized and industrialized context). In a series of workshops, we use Gl. Holtegรฅrd and the area around the former estate, now a contemporary art museum, as a vehicle to explore these issues. The areas allow us to back in history and investigate different models for the relationship between humans and nature / landscape, because it is a place where people have lived with and related spatially to nature on different ways through 7000 years.
Using drone filming as a tool, combined with on-ground filming, we can explore this interaction on a large scale with different points of impact, such as
1) looking for traces in the landscape of the now disappeared Vedbรฆk Fjord and the settlement structure in the warm climate of the Stone Age,
2) examine the Baroque Garden's symbolic topography as a landscape cosmological and political power statement and form of representation,
3) the surrounding welfare landscape as an expression of industrial culture's flat and resource-intensive welfare city 'for people' โ i.g. a humanistic project, but also a project where other species and systems pay the price for human welfare so to speak, and
4) the present landscape treatment and management of the protected lake, stream and forest landscape around Attemosevej appointed as Sรธllerรธd Naturpark, where Mรธlleรธen is connected over Sรธengen to Sรธllerรธd Sรธ. The forest developments stretch into a denser forest in relationship with the wet low-lying meadows along Mรธlleรฅen leading to Sรธllerรธd Sรธ. The dense and intense forest experience embeds and connects one to living matter and history.
_Cinematic explorative research format
We use film as an affective resonance medium to explore changing forms of care, use and/or exploitation of the landscape through onsite filming followed with postproduction. Our aim is to create an explorative cinematic research format and a temporal and spatial narrative about these changing conditions visible in the landscape around the site and ask questions about how this narrative about human activity in the area provides an opportunity to formulate alternative visions for or statements about how we should show care for the landscape - animals, humans, plants, ecosystems - in a more sustainable way in the future.
The explorative cinematic research format combines our filming onsite at Gl. Holtegaard, with statements brought together in a filmic output in an interaction / counterplay with the selected literature and with Jesper Just's exhibition 'Seminar' (in Latin: nursery, educational institution, seminar where new knowledge is gained) which explores interactions between body, plant and artificial life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC-PvlBiK-A
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The focus is on relationships between different scales (from micro to macro) that characterize the site and the landscape context, and the human experience of it through media: the baroque garden, the urban and nature/landscape surroundings and a sensory and affective experience of it.
_Output
We aim to produce a final exploratory (research) film with a raw, quickly clipped aesthetics.
_Three working meetings and three workshops
We prepare film, text for overlay and soundtracks with text reading and drafts a rough guideline based on selected themes at and between our three work meetings (June 15th., August 10, and August 23 3, towards workshop 1, Monday August 30 in order to plan our filming and postediting.
Monday the 30th of August at workshop 1 we sense and experience the surroundings and place through hiking and filming onsite with drones and film cameras.
The Gl. Holtegaard footage we may combine with voice over of text readings or text overlay on the moving images.
After workshop 1, we have 1.5 days to cut together material for a 1st raw explorative film, which we then show and discuss with Hugh Campbell and Anne Spirn at workshop 2, Wednesday September 1st. We record workshop 2. After workshop 2 we sum up and make plans for the postproduction.
Then we cut the first raw film into a 2nd raw cut film. Statements can also be added as text on the moving images, if that supports the explorative visual film.
At workshop 3, October 4 at workshop 3 the new films(film) are discussed with Anne Spirn and Hugh Campbell. ย After final editing the film is shared with event and panel participants artist Jacob Kirkegaard and researcher Igea Troiani.
It culminates at the CAFxTOUCH: FILM SCREENINGS ANDDEBATE ON ARTISTIC RESEARCH PRACTICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE on
screening and panel debate October 12 2021
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The research format of the work, the cinematic product, and the affective and mediating approach to awareness of the impact of landscapes and technology and their significance for future understanding and action are discussed as care practice and world embedding approaches in (landscape architecture) artistic practice, research and teaching.