- Sher Doruff is an artist, writer and theorist. She supervises 3rd cycle artist researchers in several European univer... moreSher Doruff is an artist, writer and theorist. She supervises 3rd cycle artist researchers in several European universities including Stockholm Uniarts, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam, Leiden University/PhDarts, Roehampton University. She is a member of several editorial boards.edit
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This article traces the lived occurrence of a spontaneous, improvisatory event. Using choreographer Jeanine Durning’s performance ofingingas both a touchstone and a springboard, the affects of spontaneity are transversally mapped through... more
This article traces the lived occurrence of a spontaneous, improvisatory event. Using choreographer Jeanine Durning’s performance ofingingas both a touchstone and a springboard, the affects of spontaneity are transversally mapped through a variety of generative operations. This diagrammatic approach reveals a topology of entangled concepts that convolve to abiogrammatichypothesis on thein situfielding of composition. Concepts such as the quasi-cause, counter-actualization, the concresence of prehensions, middling, stuttering, thermodynamic entropy, proprioception, far from equilibrium states, risk-taking, and machinic autopoiesis are folded into a speculative proposition on the forces that potentially excite an affective event through the practice of improvisational composing.
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In deze teksten kijken de kunsttheoretici Jeroen Boomgaard en Sher Doruff op tweeledige wijze door een ‘dingpolitieke’ lens naar de kunstpraktijk in de publieke ruimte. Langs twee aparte lijnen, de ene speculatief en de andere meer... more
In deze teksten kijken de kunsttheoretici Jeroen Boomgaard en Sher Doruff op tweeledige wijze door een ‘dingpolitieke’ lens naar de kunstpraktijk in de publieke ruimte. Langs twee aparte lijnen, de ene speculatief en de andere meer praktisch, onderzoeken en ‘transduceren’ zij de huidige situatie van het maken van kunst in het publieke domein en de relevantie van het ding zoals het tot stand komt en tot stand blijft brengen. Wat gebeurt er tegenwoordig met het affectieve voorafgaand aan het kunstwerk, wat gebeurt er achteraf en hoe zit het met de praktijken die het in-formeren? Onder verwijzing naar concepten die centraal staan in het werk van Bruno Latour (‘instauratie’, zaken van belang, dingen publiek maken), Isabelle Stengers (‘ecologie van praktijken’) en Gilbert Simondon (‘transductie’), worden onderwerpen aangaande de huidige stand van zaken in de praktijk van de kunst in de openbare ruimte in perspectief geplaatst, overwogen en besproken, met de nadruk op een dynamische wisse...
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In the Netherlands it is not possible for art schools to offer a PhD trajectory as they belong to the Universities of Applied Sciences. Existing PhD’s for artists tend to put the main emphasis of method and outcome on research for and... more
In the Netherlands it is not possible for art schools to offer a PhD trajectory as they belong to the Universities of Applied Sciences. Existing PhD’s for artists tend to put the main emphasis of method and outcome on research for and writing of the dissertation. In 2016 Gerrit Rietveld Academy started a pilot project that wants to find out what it means for artistic research on a PhD or so called 3rd cycle level to put the art practice central in the method and outcomes of the research. For this pilot a new title was chosen: Creator Doctus (CrD). It involves a paid position for an artist for three days per week for a period of three years. And it involves the collaboration with a societal partner that offers the frame for the research project in the form of urgent issues, location and financial support. Yael Davids was selected to be the first pilot’s candidate, the Van Abbemuseum functioning as the first societal partner. Sher Doruff (on behalf of Gerrit Rietveld Academy) and Nick Aikens (on behalf of Van Abbemuseum) were appointed as supervisors to Yael’s research. An international coalition of art schools from Glasgow, Stuttgart, Paris, Vilnius, Athens and Copenhagen is exploring, together with the organization EQ-Arts and the support of an Erasmus+ Grant, the international possibilities of the CrD.
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A quirky diagrammatic storytelling of light and sound througha zigzagging research creation practice.
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Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: An Actual Occasion is the third in a series of three novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. An Actual Occasion revisits the viral... more
Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: An Actual Occasion is the third in a series of three novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. An Actual Occasion revisits the viral transitioning of the becoming rat-woman from Last Year at Betty and Bob's: A Novelty (vol. 1 in the trilogy). The adventure focuses on the Gritta’s, a gang of artists on retreat in the Dolomite Mountains, as they engage with the idiosyncratic, keeper of the keys, Roberta. Her other-worldly Café Arcadia, a magical cathedral of voluminous aphorism, is an archival refuge and durational homage to Benjaminian storytelling. This futurist fairy-tale is tinged with a curious mix of 19th-century feminist idioms and a queer, post-pandemic sanguinity.
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Take an urban hike. Drift awhile. Follow the scent of freshly baked bread. Or cross a narrow street to avoid a trail of dog shit. Stop to read a café menu. Turn right to scan a shop window. Turn left and tag a kiosk ad. Jump a fence.... more
Take an urban hike. Drift awhile. Follow the scent of freshly baked bread. Or cross a narrow street to avoid a trail of dog shit. Stop to read a café menu. Turn right to scan a shop window. Turn left and tag a kiosk ad. Jump a fence. Search for a surveillance camera. Wave. Reflect on this encounter. The psychogeographic1 [1] experience of drifting through an urban landscape without purpose, guided by the shifting rhythms of random and selective attraction is a well-known subversive aesthetic initiated by several artist/activist groups in France, Belgium and The Netherlands in the 1950’s. They merged for a short time to become the Situa-tionist International (SI) in 1957. Their drifting practice was called a dérive2 [2] and it has subsequently become a common referent in contemporary locative media projects that mix performance strategies with new media technologies in predominantly urban set-tings. The connotations of an urban dérive were then, political and affective, alluding to b...
ii This thesis identifies and analyses the key creative protocols in translocal perform-ance practice, and ends with suggestions for new forms of transversal live and me-diated performance practice, informed by theory. It argues that... more
ii This thesis identifies and analyses the key creative protocols in translocal perform-ance practice, and ends with suggestions for new forms of transversal live and me-diated performance practice, informed by theory. It argues that ontologies of emer-gence in dynamic systems nourish contemporary practice in the digital arts. Feed-back in self-organised, recursive systems and organisms elicit change, and change transforms. The arguments trace concepts from chaos and complexity theory to virtual multiplicity, relationality, intuition and individuation (in the work of Berg-son, Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon, Massumi, and other process theorists). It then examines the intersection of methodologies in philosophy, science and art and the radical contingencies implicit in the technicity of real-time, collaborative composi-tion. Simultaneous forces or tendencies such as perception/memory, con-tent/expression and instinct/intellect produce composites (experience, meaning, and intuition- resp...
Dialogue between Sher Doruff and Lucy Cotter, exploring the potential of artistic writing to open experimental new forms of enquiry.
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Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: A Novelty is the first in a series of novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. A storyline, or genealogy, tinted a shade of RGB blue, is... more
Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: A Novelty is the first in a series of novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. A storyline, or genealogy, tinted a shade of RGB blue, is fashioned by thinking through the felt unthought of this between space. A fabulation, an anarchive of what passes through. Lucid dreaming of this type is rife with allusions to conceptual and material goings-on, manifesting in awkward imaginaries. The dream personas are rendered as complex character amalgams with nomadic ages, sexes, genders and phenotypes. Occurrences of lived “fact” elide with a hallucinatory real as speculation.
In A Novelty, Bette B, an ageing quasi-academic artist researcher, and BØB, attuned urban rodent, are palindromic variants of a generic cast of Betty’s and Bob’s. The happenstance of their meeting on the super slick POMOC (PostOffice MotionCorridor) affects a trans-special contagion. These are the facts of the matter. The matters that come to concern both B’s are more slippery and elusive.
In A Novelty, Bette B, an ageing quasi-academic artist researcher, and BØB, attuned urban rodent, are palindromic variants of a generic cast of Betty’s and Bob’s. The happenstance of their meeting on the super slick POMOC (PostOffice MotionCorridor) affects a trans-special contagion. These are the facts of the matter. The matters that come to concern both B’s are more slippery and elusive.
Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: A Novelty is the first in a series of novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. A storyline, or genealogy, tinted a shade of RGB blue, is... more
Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: A Novelty is the first in a series of novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. A storyline, or genealogy, tinted a shade of RGB blue, is fashioned by thinking through the felt unthought of this between space. A fabulation, an anarchive of what passes through. Lucid dreaming of this type is rife with allusions to conceptual and material goings-on, manifesting in awkward imaginaries. The dream personas are rendered as complex character amalgams with nomadic ages, sexes, genders and phenotypes. Occurrences of lived ‘fact’ elide with a hallucinatory real as speculation.
In A Novelty, Bette B, an ageing quasi-academic artist researcher, and BØB, attuned urban rodent, are palindromic variants of a generic cast of Betty’s and Bob’s. The happenstance of their meeting on the super slick POMOC affects a trans-special contagion. These are the fact of the matter. The matters that come to concern both B’s are more slippery and elusive.
In A Novelty, Bette B, an ageing quasi-academic artist researcher, and BØB, attuned urban rodent, are palindromic variants of a generic cast of Betty’s and Bob’s. The happenstance of their meeting on the super slick POMOC affects a trans-special contagion. These are the fact of the matter. The matters that come to concern both B’s are more slippery and elusive.