Recherche/Research Finland-Uniarts Helsinki
Sur L'ASYNCHRONIE en ART ASYNCHRONY in ARTS
Dans cette recherche, le terme asynchronie désigne la modification ou la perturbation de la perception produite par un léger changement dans l'espace et/ou le temps d'une œuvre. L'asynchronie décale, déphase, disjoint...
In contemporary art, asynchrony can be found in the details: a slight discrepancy between sound and image, or a sudden modification - for example an abrupt or stealthy gear change in an action. In my research asynchrony is more a working method than a hard concept.
PUBLICATIONS
The Almost Manual, On Asynchrony, Time Lapse, Choreography, and Extravagant Details in Life and Creative Process
Author: Lynda Gaudreau
PUBLICATION SERIES Nivel 16
Theatre Academy, Performing Arts Research Centre (Tutke), University of the Arts Helsinki, 2021
LINK: https://www.unicontent.fi/en/product/the-almost-manual/
The Almost Manual, On Asynchrony, Time Lapse, Choreography, and Extravagant Details in Life and Creative Process, is envisioned as a tool and a handbook. It is intended to be a useful to artists during their creative process, offering a reflection on the concept of asynchrony. This reflection stems from a choreographic practice and is applied to and analysed through the work of several different artists. The interdisciplinary, here, is situated at the junction of choreography, visual arts, and film. This manual does not teach one single, refined method, but rather offers a way to shake up methods that have become too rote or rigid.
Letter to Ludwig Wittgenstein
Author: Lynda Gaudreau
Peer-reviewed Article
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020): Dance Articulated, Special Issue: CHOREOGRAPHY NOW
Editors: Leena Rouhiainen and Tone Pernille Østern
LINK: https://doi.org/10.5324/da.v6i1.3615
The Letter to Ludwig Wittgenstein is a reflective
enquiry into the relation between space and language, and the mobile nature of
both.
Begun during the live screening of the American presidential election in 2016, the letter integrates various recollections and texts about space, movement and time. It carries the reader into a choreographic and asynchronic experience, from one place to another, and into different times (live stream, recorded...).
Practice Sharing I & II (2020, 2023)
Letter to Balthazar
Author: Lynda Gaudreau
As part of: Practice Sharing edition Editors: Emma Cocker, Alexander Damianisch, Cordula Daus, Lena Séraphin
Dates: October 2020 - onward
LINK on the Research catalogue:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/835089/1019931/634
'' In Letter to Balthazar, I chose writing a letter to the donkey Balthazar of Robert Bresson's film Au Hasard Balthazar (1966.) I analyze how desynchronization works through the presence of Balthazar. Writing is like a walking practice for me. The destination is unsure. The fictional conversation brings the reader to the work of film directors Miranda July, John Cassavetes and their warm and fragile characters, the underdogs. ''
Second
Letter to Balthazar
Author: Lynda Gaudreau
As part of: Practice Sharing edition Editors: Emma Cocker, Alexander Damianisch, Cordula Daus, Lena Séraphin
Dates: 2023 - onward
LINK
on the Research catalogue:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1538250/2338089/6005
'' The second letter to Balthazar follows the first letter published in Practice Sharing I to the donkey Balthazar of Robert Bresson's film Au Hasard Balthazar (1966). Actually, I had forgotten to thank Balthazar. Thanks to the sound of his presence in Bresson's film, I was able to edit my film Out of Mies. The sound of his steps and the movement of his little bell became sound material during the editing. It was as if Balthazar had dubbed Karina Iraola, the dancer of Out of Mies. This letter underlines the origin of my research subject, asynchrony, and of the working method which proceeds from it. ''
And a bit below on that page an excerpt of my film:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1538250/2338089/6005
KIRJEITA SUOMESTA / LETTERS FROM FINLAND
As part of the Duologie program organized by the artist-run center DARE-DARE, Lynda Gaudreau was paired with artist Michelle Lacombe. From Finland, Lynda Gaudreau documented the period of their exchange. Her project Kirjeita Suomesta / Letters from Finland brings together photographs, video recordings, drawings and writings around the body, the self-portrait and the still life. Three letters to three different women punctuate this document: Letter to Michelle, Letter to Helene Schjerfbeck, the painter, and the last one being addressed to the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin. Remoteness and the health crisis run through this film, which becomes a diary, a travel notebook and letters all at once. Here a 3 minute excerpt with one of the letter.
CREDITS
1. A 3-minute excerpt out of 9 minutes, a film directed by Lynda Gaudreau
Year: March 2021
Color and Black & White
Length : 09'11 "minutes
Language : French, English, Finnish
Producers: DARE-DARE, Montreal, Uniarts Helsinki
With : Michelle Lacombe, Lynda Gaudreau
Meeting in Asynchrony
at the Metal Shop and at Teurastamo
Nanni Vapaavuori and Lynda Gaudreau met few times in the Metal Shop of Uniarts Helsinki and at the fireplace at Teurastamo in Helsinki, looking at Lynda' s Almost Manual - that was in progress, as an asynchronical device for making, writing and reading. April 16, 2021, Helsinki, Finland
Laboratories and Meetings
Meeting in Asynchrony is a series of practical research experiments conducted between 2019-2022 at Uniarts Helsinki in a lab setting, with performing arts, dramaturgy and fine arts artists-researchers.
A project by Lynda Gaudreau and Kenneth Siren
As part of the event: Winter Symposium: February 28 - March 1, 2020, Riga, Latvia
Urban Studies: Between Creativity and Power (Circle 1)
Representation of the City: Imagining and Reimagining Cityscape 1/6
''In this performative and participatory workshop artists and researchers Lynda Gaudreau and Kenneth Siren investigate the following crime scene: the city. By framing a fictional version of Riga as the scene of a detective series, we're asking, what do the people inhabiting the city do wrong? Is the everyday wrongdoing of individuals somehow ruining the well-intended city? Or is wrongdoing the means to resist societal norms and reimagine the city in a pluralistic way? Do people in fact, desire to do more wrong in the urban landscape and what possibilities could that open up? The performative workshop uses absurdity, detective series aesthetics, and autobiographical excerpts to inquire into the participant's ways of doing wrong in the city."
A meeting moment proposed by Lynda Gaudreau in the context of the Spring Breaks research meetings in April 2020 at Uniarts Helsinki.
"In these days of confinement, I am interested in the ways we each manage our home space. What spot have we chosen for working from home? Details and specific objects can make a difference to our concentration and attention.
INSTRUCTIONS
- Take a photo of your space without you in the frame
(from the camera of your cellular phone it is fine).
- Send me the photo. It could be a photo showing the spot you occupy at home, or the view you have from that spot. You can consider this as a portrait of your day. Emotional space, survival space, and experimental space.
- Your photo will remain anonymous and will be seen by the participants of the Spring Breaks of Uniarts Helsinki."
DJ Re-Sisters for Tutke Spring Night
On 24th April, 2023 Tutke Spring Night took place at Dance studio KO-702, Uniarts Helsinki.
Presentations avoiding the light, diminishing the dominance of vision, moving through bodies and occupying hearing we encouraged by this year committee, Juli, Jamie and Hanna. Listening to research as if a good dance was the idea.
From Montreal, I proposed doing a musical set. I needed an avatar in Helsinki who could perform the playlist for me. Juli Reinartz generously offered to be my avatar as a DJ, it then became our duet.
Musician and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti inspired the name of the avatar Re-Sisters, the eponymous title of Tutti's book, which brings together three artists who were free spirits: 15th century writer Margery Kempe, musician Delia Derbyshire, a pioneer in electronic music, and Cosey Fanni Tutti, a founding member of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey. Lynda Gaudreau and Juli Reinartz like to think of themselves as re-sisters while playing the set.