Those were the first words I wrote after it happened. Rob N.A.You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.Mark Campbell: “ Mashed Up: Music, Technology, and The Rise of Configurable Culture, Aram Sinnireich”.Aldon L Nielsen: “ The Last Holiday: A Memoir, Gil Scott-Heron”.This issue also includes three book and media reviews: Christopher Williams, Martin Sonderkamp: “Where You End and I Begin: Cognition and Continuity in Experimental Improvised Music and Dance”.Andrew Sneddon: “The Act of Improvisation within the work of Tacita Dean”įurthermore, this issue contains one notes and opinions piece:.Gary Peters: “Certainty, Contingency, and Improvisation”.Gaelyn Aguilar, Gustavo Aguilar: “Fuzzy Frontiers: A Performative Materialization of Intentionality”.Anne Douglas: “Altering a Fixed Identity: Thinking through Improvisation”.Kathleen Coessens: “Humans, Heroes and Artists: (Re)Creating the Unexpected Situation”.Amanda Ravetz: “Sipping Water: Reverie and Improvisation”.Nayanee Basu: “Improvising Freedom in Prison”. This issue features the following articles and authors: They construct a conversation between different improvisational attitudes in life and art, affording the opportunity for deeper scrutiny and creative exploration.” All three positions-failure, doubt, and certainty-offer different discursive and artistic tactics. The interval between art and life, within which doubt emerges, prompts new forms of experimentation, risk, and possible failure. Conversely, failure in life challenges fixed ideas within art about what improvisational forms should be. In the editorial, co-written by Ravetz, Douglas, and Coessens, the issue is summarized in the following way: “The formal preoccupations of art encounter failure in life as a generative opportunity. This special edition is guest edited by Amanda Ravetz, Anne Douglas, and Kathleen Coessens. Special issue editors Amanda Ravetz, Anne Douglas, and Kathleen CoessensĬritical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation is honoured to present Issue 8.2.
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