CISA–Creativity and Research

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The creativity of my project “Life flash” demonstrates in the improvisation between the actress and the dancer. I have a 45 mins soundscape mainly built up with 100 layers of voices of reading poems. But how are we able to proceed that? We divided them in to four parts owing to the poems meaning and the understanding of us:

ACT 1: LEARNING THE UNKNOWN (SCARY)

  • Ayisha & Virgi pick up the props
  • Only Virgi can see Ayisha
  • Ayisha pronounces words from the poem (My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love)
  • Happiness, angry, grief, acceptance (simple but dramatic)

– Virgi reacts to these emotions

TRANSITION I

  • Fire alarm

– Ayisha & Virgi look at each other

ACT 2: LOVE & DEATH (INTIMATE)

  • Virgi tries to take over Ayisha
  • Ayisha tries to resist
  • Ayisha & Virgi separate and come together

– The movements alter between fast & slow, intense & sensual

TRANSITION II

– Crew puts props

ACT 3: WISH IN THE SKIP (GRIEF)

  • Ayisha & Virgi interact with the props

– Ayisha & Virgi become a clock (on the wall)

TRANSITION III

– Crew puts jackets

ACT 4: BURNING IN THE ASHES (KEEP BURNING) (10 minutes)

  • Ayisha slowly gets up & reads the monologue
  • Virgi spins by herself & around Ayisha
  • Virgi takes poems from the wall and give it to Ayisha
  • Ayisha reads the poem
  • Ayisha and Virgi sit down and wrap together

– End

“Create came into English from the stem of the past participle of […] creare, – make
or produce. This inherent relation to the sense of something having been made,
and thus to a past event, was exact, for the word was mainly used in the precise
context of the original divine creation of the world: creation itself, and creature,
have the same root stem.”
How can we think about creativity?
(Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. New edition. Oxford ; New York: Oxford
University Press, 2014., p45)

What constitutes an original work?
• The notion of creativity is burdened with the cult of the ‘genius’
• Idea of ‘originality’ is tied in with creativity as ‘invention of the new’
• Such ideas have been historically and culturally considered an elite
domain
• The idea of ‘homage’, ‘citation’ or ‘imitation’ brings us away from
‘creation’ of the new and towards re-creation
• -> Can it be liberating to be freed from ideas around creative
geniuses?

Fluxus “celebrates participation in a non-hierarchical density of experience” – Owen Smith
• “Fluxus aesthetics are grounded in social connections as the product of multiple
personalities, pressures, opportunities and even failures that were the product of
all its participants.” (Smith 2005, p223)
• “the meaning of Fluxus experiences lies in their simultaneous engagement with
and withdrawal from everyday life, in their substitution of art and anti-art with
life (as art).” (Higgins 2002, p103)
• John Dewey: art “enables us to forget ourselves by finding ourselves in the delight
of experiencing the world about us in its varied qualities and forms.” (ibid., p104)
• “Fluxus experiences sensitize the perceiver to the life world by creating a
special place—called art—for the sensitization to occur.” (ibid., p104)

I have a book called The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin which i think it represents the definition of creativity.