ARE THERE THINGS ONLY ARTISTS CAN DO? ARCHIVING THROUGH A TREADMILL

Carolina Felice Bonfim

doi:10.22456/2236-3254.112546

Abstract

This article seeks to share the methods and strategies of the practice-based research project Ninety movements on TECHNOGYM G6508D. The research dissects the act of running in all its dimensions by fragmenting, archiving, incorporating, and highlighting what is unique and personal in each gesture and each way of moving. Ninety movements is a continuation of Carolina Bonfim’s recent artistic practice, which explores the relationship between the body and the archive through a visual-arts approach. KeywordsArchive. Body. Embodiment. Methodology. Practice-based Research.

Highlights

Este artigo busca compartilhar os métodos e as estratégias do projeto de pesquisa baseado na prática artística Ninety movements on a Technogym G6508D
The present contribution offers a self-reflexive analysis of the creative processes of Ninety movements on TECHNOGYM G6508D, a project carried out within the framework of my doctoral research2
What does the act of archiving the body mean? How does this operation differ from archiving objects and/or documents? How should we approach archives that draw their content from the body, from a set of operations and methods that do not necessarily aspire to authenticity or fidelity? How can the other be embodied, archived, and transmitted? How can the visual arts help to articulate intangible archives?

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Este artigo busca compartilhar os métodos e as estratégias do projeto de pesquisa baseado na prática artística Ninety movements on a Technogym G6508D. The present contribution offers a self-reflexive analysis of the creative processes of Ninety movements on TECHNOGYM G6508D, a project carried out within the framework of my (practice-based) doctoral research2. I have developed three artistic projects: Ninety movements on TECHNOGYM G6508D; Not Himself, not herself, not itself; and Laboratory on ways to search, destroy, invent, be and perform the archive.

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