2010 - 2013
The artistic practice underlying this project is primordially Calendar Variations (by Douglas a.o.) and its iterations. Calendar Variations (2010 onwards) is a new body of visual artwork that takes as its starting point Calendar, a score for an activity developed in 1971 by the artist Allan Kaprow, as well as observations made in The Artistic Turn (Coessens, Crispin & Douglas 2010).
By understanding the different stages of its creation, we aim at the articulation of improvisation in arts that draws on the writings of artists (Cage, Harrisons, Kandinsky, Kaprow, Klee, Kurtag) as well as anthropologists and cultural theorists (Hallam & Ingold, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl). The human capacity of improvisation is a precondition for experimentation, as this capacity expects a flexibility and adaptation towards unexpected situations. We will inquire into the subtle move from improvisation towards experimentation, when unexpectedness does not happen by chance but is searched for by the artist.
