Orpheus Institute welcomes Mareli Stolp as Visiting Researcher
Nieuws 1 oktober 2015Following on meetings with members of Orpheus Research Centre - at the 2013 PERFORMA Conference on Performance Studies in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the Limits of Control: Tradition, Experiment and the Imagination in Musical Performance seminar hosted by the Orpheus Institute in 2014 - South African pianist Mareli Stolp was thrilled to accept an invitation to take up a position as Visiting Researcher at the Orpheus Institute in October 2015.
While a Visiting Researcher at the Orpheus Institute, she will focus on finding resonances between her own work on subjectivity and consciousness in artistic research contexts, performer-perspectives applied to music analysis; site-specific performance approaches; and experimentalism in music performance and three of the currently active Research Clusters at Orpheus: Performance, Subjectivity, Experimentation(Principal Investigator Catherine Laws); MusicExperiment21(Principal Investigator Paolo de Assis); and Experimental Legacy (Principal Investigator Luk Vaes).
Mareli Stolp is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of South Africa (Unisa) in Pretoria, South Africa. A period of study in Amsterdam under the guidance of Norwegian pedagogue Håkon Austbø lead to a keen interest in contemporary music performance, an interest that she has nurtured since returning to South Africa in 2006. Mareli completed her doctoral studies in 2012 at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, supervised by Professor Stephanus Muller; her doctoral project was one of the first artistic research degrees to be completed in the country. Since completing her doctoral studies, artistic research has been her foremost academic and professional concern; as such, the opportunity to connect with scholars of the Orpheus Institute provides a prodigious opportunity for intellectual enrichment.