‘Chemical Free (?)’ Video/music performance - is a video in three parts for a multidisciplinary project in collaboration with the University of Padua in connection with an award from the Italian MUIR (Italian Ministry of Research)
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 904
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Teatro Pollini, Padua, Italy 2014; Biennale di Venzia, Piccolo Teatro Arsenale, Italy 2015; Musica Nova, Halles Theatre, Brussels, Belgium 2018
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2014
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/0406d5812e4792f009f5
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Chemical Free (?) is a video in three parts for a multidisciplinary project directed by composer Nicola Sani. It was initiated by the University of Padua in connection with an award from the Italian MUIR [Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca] (Project: Dissemination of scientific research through art). Research Questions included, how to develop a visual
poetic/aesthetic approach exploring the science of chemistry; how to investigate visualizing a given set of materials/environments (in ‘non-narrative’ fragmented form – in that it isn’t an ‘explanatory’ or documentary video); to intertwine both representational and abstract elements, material and immaterial representations (micro-macrocosmic relations) in science via a set of video images in spatial dialogue with image/music and text.
The methodology and research process included: developing a set of visual parameters for each part of the three parts of the piece (laboratories/microscopic imagery/landscape); Also responding to given scientific materials in order to create animations using Cartesian XYZ co-ordinates provided by scientists developed using Maya. Site visual research included the research labs at Padua, its equipment, materials and experiments; the volcanic landscapes in southern Italy; the video’s form developed ideas around ‘affective’ video and composition (Attali, for example – composition as intertextuality).
Insights from the project included questions around time, pacing, fragmentation, in order to form a new expression for interdisciplinary theatre via its material references; the relationship of screen and ‘environment’ for performance – a form of expanded video. New approaches to developing fragmented (non)-narrative structure between sound/image and text have since informed other aspects of my practice (Recitativo etc.).
The work was performed at Padua Pollini Theatre (2014); Piccolo Teatro Arsenale, Venice Biennale (2015), and Musica Nova, Brussels (2018); it was published as a DVD (2015) by Stradivarius publishers, and a three part TV broadcast was presented on Sky HD Classica (Italia) (2015).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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