Taking Care Taking: Capturing disruption within narratives of flow in artistic research

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ADPRex 2025 - Capturing Practice
ADPRex – Arts & Design Practice Research Exchange
NAFA – Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
University of the Arts Singapore

Live online presentation including sharing of video essay as part of two day conference. Abstract: This video essay discusses the artistic research project House Services, led by Nicola Conibere. House Services uses an expanded approach to the choreographic to explore embodied potentials of excess, in relation to a UK context of political austerity.
The video essay focuses on qualities generated by unplanned events of interval and disruption to the normative production schedules on which this project was dependent, during the creation of the live choreographic work caretakers (SWT, London, 2021) and video installation holding-still-holding-still-holding (Fest en Fest, London, 2024). Unplanned intervals occurred during this research process through mostly embodied encounters with systems of support including multiple pregnancies, Covid-19 lockdown, cancellation of research leave by a UK HEI, delays in arts funding results, and individual illnesses. The video essay re-purposes documentation as process, record and promotional material, interweaving them with cuts from the final version of video portraits. It includes strategies of glitch, layering and jump cuts to capture qualities of disruption as inherent and essential to a practice-as-research processes. It is one way in which we seek to experience the multifarious disruptions to this practice-as-research process, not as blockages but as critical tools for examining the intersection of institutional support, care in practice and artistic research – all of which pertain to the central enquiries of this project, whilst being applicable to most research processes. Through the formal approaches to interruption used in the video essay, it captures and extends our questions about the modes of knowledge production generated through these characteristics of the process.

Estimated audience numbers (if applicable)

80

Period	7 Aug 2025
Event title	ADPRex 2025 - Capturing Practice: ADPRex - Arts & Design Practice Research Exchange, Southeast Asia
Event type	Conference
Location	Singapore, SingaporeShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International