Section H: Research Process 2: Spaces for Reverie & Live Research

Research Process: 2

Research Process 2: SPACES for REVERIE & LIVE RESEARCH

Research Imperatives: To create staged spaces that facilitate experiences of reverie and a poetics of thinking. To explore a creative process itself as a distinctive system of reading and writing.

This section outlines approaches that address the consideration and development of spaces for reverie. Experiments were conducted in relation to duration, concentration and attention; exploring models of ‘hang-out’ spaces; the Reading Room events functioning as real-time research labs and staging the creative process itself as a system of reading & writing; and the studio space and the creative process as a place for encouraging states of reverie for both the artists/researcher and the audience.

These experiments in creating Spaces for Reverie & Live Research are organized under the following headings:

Live Studio Lab
Mapping Spaces for Reverie
The Hive Party

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Live Studio Lab

Live Studio Lab

The Reading Room Events as sites for live research; performative studios for making, examining & testing alternative practices of reading & writing; laboratories for real-time investigations into creative process as a space of reverie; invitational spaces for Artist & Audience for generative acts of rewriting and re-reading.

Mapping Space for Reverie

Mapping Space for Reverie

The physical spaces of each Reading Room event are organised and mapped to offer another ‘reading’ of the book by ‘rewriting’ the book in the form of physical space. Inside each Reading Room the audience have access to the spoken text and to a simultaneous spatial text

the Hive Party

the Hive Party

Clubs, DJ parties and sleepovers as structures that encourage relaxed states for reverie, riffing and convivial hanging-out for both artist and audience.