Research Questions:
Layer 3: What do different media of presentation show about my research?
Layer 2: What potential do dialogues offer as a research method?
Layer 1: How can I consciously perform in a dialogue to create balance between the participants?
Exploring Balance in Dialogue – Parts of the book
Video: Mandarins, dance, and different roles of myself:
Book Cover: Image and text relations about balance in dialogue
Introduction: Structure of this book and thoughts about the presentation of research
Video: Mandarins, dance, and different roles of myself
Research Paper: Intrapersonal dialogue as a research method
Hidden Poster: The whole work in one picture
Written Dialogue: Looking for dialogue in balance
Failure Cards: What could have happened but never did!
Working Process Fragments
Project „Reenacting Stereotypes in Tango“
Giving space cards
Sketch of the structure of my research:
Images and text: Screenshots of the video-peformances and fragments of the lyrics
“De un Borges soñado por Borges (Of a Borges dreamed by Borges)”
Much Messi – very messy!
“I don’t know what’s playing deep in my emotions. […] I step on slippery sidewalks. I’m slowly moving along.”
Roberta y mares (here will probably be a quote of Roberta talking about friendship in distance)
“J´ai traversé le ciel y mil mares (I have crossed the sky and a thousand seas)”, but “es otra pajina otro cielo otro dìa hoy (it’s another page, another sky, another day today)”, “c’est la vie (that’s life)”.
“la hora de archivar el corazón (the time to archive the heart)” and “de matar los sueños (to kill the dreams)” beating “al compás del reloj; como una máquina fiel igual que un robot: sin piel! (to the rhythm of the clock; like a faithful machine, just like a robot: without skin!)“
Alfredo y Tango
“Porque puestos a sonar, fácil es imaginar esa humanidad en harmonía. Vibra mi mente al pensar en la posibilidad de encontrar un rumbo diferente. (Because when we dream, it is easy to imagine that humanity in harmony. My mind vibrates when I think of the possibility of finding a different path.)”
“Quitarse el cuerpo de a poco, sacar a brillar el alma (Removing the body little by little, bringing out the soul to shine)”.
Songs:
Bajofondo ft. Nelly Furtado: “Slippery Sidewalks”
Bajofondo, Luciano Supervielle: “Pulso (1000 mares)”
Electrocutango: “Sin Piel”
Gotán Project: “Diferente“
Otros Aires: “Amor o Nada”
Otros Aires: “Los Ojos de Borges”
Otros Aires: “Much Messi”
Live video performance
Example 1: A video in the background, and a green screen scene for hands which I use as an alpha mask
Example 2: A video, and a text scene which I can control with buttons of the midi
Decisions
>> Lyrics of songs as research material >> connection to video
>> The research question about „balance“ in dialogue instead of „equality“, inspired by, among other things, this animation:
>> At the beginning, I wanted to write a dialogue between different theorists and other characters. But that felt wrong, because I had to invent parts of what they say in the dialogue without knowing if they would say it like that. In the end, I wrote a dialogue between different roles of myself which felt much better.
>> discovery of „dialogical self theory“ for my research paper
>> Focus on image – text relation in the further work with the videos
What I learned
It is a good way of doing research for me to alternate between different methods and practices.
I made experiences in using live visuals to tell a planned story.
I am developing my skills in the live video program „Isadora“, for example working with midi or keyboard controlling or with text and live writing.
My research made me thinking about precise wording, because many words are already laden with concepts, theories and discourses.
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