From the abstract describing the Collaborative's focus for 2015-16:
The Improvising Ecosystems Research/Creative Collaborative has been developing
new modalities for activating aesthetic, empathetic, and inquiring relationships with
particular ecosystems at specific moments in time. Our creative collaborations have
been sparked by intensive ecological research site visits led by scientists.
Subsequently, our group, comprised of artists, musicians, and landscape architects,
newly aware of these perspectives, seeks to know these ecosystems directly. We
explore the land attuned to sensory experience and intuition, enhanced by a
receptive state of mind and critical stance towards the perspectives that inform our
varied disciplinary knowledge.
We are expanding our approach to embrace local Twin City Metro spaces of feral, interstitial, transitional, urban ecologies that we perceive to be spontaneous and improvisational unto themselves. We intend to continue collaborations begun with local musicians and artists who have introduced us to cultural perspectives and practices that are inherently ecological. Our unifying quest into this subsequent year is to delve deeply into varied practices of improvisation and relationships between improvisation and receptivity. Inviting Pauline Oliveros, composer and founder of the Deep Listening Institute, will be central to our creative investigation of this relationship. Awareness of creative and ecological improvisation will inform the public presentation of our creative work.
We are expanding our approach to embrace local Twin City Metro spaces of feral, interstitial, transitional, urban ecologies that we perceive to be spontaneous and improvisational unto themselves. We intend to continue collaborations begun with local musicians and artists who have introduced us to cultural perspectives and practices that are inherently ecological. Our unifying quest into this subsequent year is to delve deeply into varied practices of improvisation and relationships between improvisation and receptivity. Inviting Pauline Oliveros, composer and founder of the Deep Listening Institute, will be central to our creative investigation of this relationship. Awareness of creative and ecological improvisation will inform the public presentation of our creative work.
