In the past week, we have begun the in-situ work in Graz, meeting at Reagenz, Studio KI, and Neue Technik.
The photo was taken at lunch break, from left to right: Charlotta Ruth, Daniele Pozzi, Franziska Hederer, Hanns Holger Rutz, Nayarí Castillo, Ludvig Elblaus.
The materials we are currently developing will be available under a Creative Commons license, but for now we keep the process internal to the group. In the coming week, we will
plan our intensive retreat at the Schrattenberg compound, in which the group will be joined by Emma Cocker from our advisory team. Some initial results will be presented at
the IEM’s Signale Soirée on 24 April at 6 pm (Inffeldgasse 10, Graz).
At the end of 2022, we concluded our open call for participation in the first in-situ research interval. We were honoured by receiving many thrilling applications, emphasising the breadth
that current collaborative practices have. After talking to several of the people who sent their proposals, not only were we able to finish the composition of our first interval’s team,
but we also put together the teams of the second and third interval, which take place next year.
The guest artist-researchers coming into the project will be Ludvig Elblaus and Charlotta Ruth (first interval), Yucef Merhi and Elena Redaelli (second interval),
Andrea Bakketun and Sophie Fetokaki (third interval).
For now, you can read up on Ludvig and Charlotta on the people page. Ludvig is a Stockholm-based composer and sound artist, Charlotta is a Vienna-based choreographer and interdisciplinary artist.
Since the beginning of the year, we have begun a bi-weekly online exchange, in which we share our practices and perceptions and develop a common understanding of the scope and strategies of the project.
The first in-situ research interval with invited artists-researchers will take place in April and May 2023, and for this interval we have opened a call for applications.
We have been preparing simularr for 2 1/2 years now, and we are finally ready to go! In March 2022, the decision board of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), following two peer reviews with excellent rating of our application, gave green light to the funding within its renowned Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK).
The roots of simularr are longer than our project formalisation, including various collaborative projects we have engaged in within the past six years—such as Sublim (Daily Rhythms Collective 2016), Chain Reaction (Daily Rhythms Collective, Rutz 2016), swarming + networking (Castillo, Grossegger, Rutz 2017), Meanderings (Castillo, Hofmüller, Raggam, Rutz 2017–2019), Iterations (2017–2020), or Through Segments (Kang, Pirrò, Pozzi, Rutz 2020), to name only a few. Collaborative practices have been at the heart of many endeavours, including duos and participatory projects, and in the past two years we have worked out and published the draft for the research agenda, for instance with Three Spaces (xCoAx 2021) and Simultaneous Relaying as a Transformative Mode of Artistic Research (SAR Conference 2021).
