NEW FUGUE – visualization of soundscapes in Artistic Research
Visual Artist Charlotte Pannicke defends her Ph.D. project NEW FUGUE – visualization of soundscapes in Artistic Research on Monday 1 September at the Faculty of Performing Arts, University of Stavanger.
NEW FUGUE refers to soundscapes in which artistic expression through analog drawing evolves, questions itself, transforms, and renews. The project explores the relationship between sound and image at the core of artistic expression, raising questions about how knowledge emerges, is used, reused, and transformed in unknown contexts.
The work is based on the graphic translation of acoustic environments through drawing in two selected soundscapes with contrasting Hi-Fi and Lo-Fi qualities - one in a remote area and the other in an urban setting. Parallel to the artistic development, the project investigates underlying/inherent processes in artistic work. The focus lies on exploring how present and past experiences interact, the role of intuition, imagination, reflection-in-action, and, not least, bodily knowledge within the artistic space for action.
It sheds light on the active moment of creation when artistic expression takes form and manifests. Approximately 200 analog drawings form the core of the work. Through the project, a deeper understanding is sought of how artistic knowledge develops through creative processes, both in Pannicke’s own artistic case and in the creative processes of other artists. The research aims to clarify the complexity of experiential fields present in an open artistic process and includes the use of imagination, various forms of reflection and intuition in artistic practice.