Sharelly Emanuelson

Sharelly Emanuelson is a filmmaker & visual artist. Through her lens-based work and research, Emanuelson is interested in documenting and using a multisensorial vocabulary to reflect on heritage in contemporary everyday life. She presents her reflections and research through film, photography, and multimodal arrangements & compositions in space.

Her art practice is informed by decolonial thought to evoke curiosity and reflection about how we have arranged and moved ways of living, thinking, and being in our world. Each work or project is a personal journey to learn, unlearn, and reconnect to the pieces of knowledge that have been forgotten, transmuted, or discredited by the forces of modernity/colonialism. 

Sharelly Emanuelson holds a BA in Audiovisual Media from the School of the Arts Utrecht and a MA in Artistic Research from the Royal School of the Arts in The Hague. Currently, she began her Ph.D. research called “Biba Dushi den Mal Tempoe” as part of the NWO Caribbean Research Program “Islander(s) at the Helm” Emanuelson’s work in the past has received international attention. Her first film won an Audience Award, Category: Best Student Film, at the 2012 Africa Film Festival. Her documentaries have been screened at CIFFR, TTFF, NYCFF, and Cinelatino. In 2014 she received the Master Award from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and, in 2018, the Black Achievement Spotlight Award. Recently she was nominated and won the audience Volkskrant visual arts award 2020, and that same year she won the “Charlotte Kohler prize.” In addition to her practice, she founded Uniarte, an artist-run foundation that promotes the visibility and development of artists in the Caribbean.

Charles Rouleau

Charles Rouleau is an artist and researcher from Canada based in Luxembourg, whose practice is divided into two main areas: sound art and collaborative research. 

His sound art practice focuses on what he calls "Speculative Sonic Ecologies", field-recording compositions exploring possible polyphonic modes of listening emphasizing the plurality of non-anthropogenic conceptualization of sound. 

He is currently project coordinator at Casino Display, the research-oriented division of Casino Luxembourg, where he has instigated a program of artistic research labs based on collaborative research. These artistic research labs seek to create forums where artists, academics, scientists and thinkers meet to ponder together, work and experiment in and with the space. 

Woven in Vegetal Fabric: On Plant Becomings was the first of these labs and was exploring the concept of “becoming” from a phytocentric perspective. A book was published following the project and acted as a sort of Research Report to restitute on paper the ideas that were explored and developed by the participants. 

The current cycle is titled Experimental Re(é)[flex|ct|ion] Expérimentale which started in September 2022 and will continue until March 2023. It reflects on the unknown, on how vagueness and intuition can lead experimentation in art-based research. 

General Information — ARRG 22-23 

Dates: October 7th, December 2nd (2022); February 3rd, April 14th, June 3rd (2023)

Coordinators: Colin Sterling, Marta Pagliuca Pelacani (marta.pagliucapelacani@hotmail.it)

Credits: on request (up to 2 ECTS)

The Artistic Research Research Group focuses on Artistic Research as an approach to tackling research questions. It aims at promoting the exchange of ideas between artists and scholars from a wide range of fields and disciplines. As a discipline itself, Artistic Research develops a discursive form of communicating research results in parallel with a non-discursive, artistic practice. This enables researchers/makers coming from fine arts, design, dance, film, performance art, theatre and music to share and compare processes of production, methodologies and results with the scientific community, while working as practicing autonomous artists. It allows autonomous artists to delve deeper into scientific disciplines their work is already concerned with. Furthermore, Artistic Research contributes to existing scientific disciplines by way of its discursive/non-discursive processes and outputs, while at the same time presenting work within the context of existing art institutions. The outcomes of artistic research actively contribute to bridging the gap between science and art, and strive to make its body of knowledge visible in a societal context. Bringing together academia and the art world, artistic forms of research change the social status of both and introduce a potential array of practice-oriented methodologies that challenge institutionalized forms of knowledge production.

A series of five seminars will be organized to promote the exchange of ideas and experiences among artistic researchers and those interested in the field, during the seminars members of the group will present their research and receive feedback from their peers. One or two artistic researchers who have recently completed their PhDs will be invited to share their process with the participants of the seminars. The participants include PhD Candidates, but also those who have already completed their PhDs and would like to keep discussing their artistic research within a community of like-minded artists/scholars. Those interested in maybe pursuing such an academic study are also welcome to join, including Research Master students who wish to attain first-hand knowledge about the discipline.

The sessions take place on the first Friday of the month, every two months, between 13:00 and 16:00. You can find the programme of our next sessions and some general information about ARRG below. Please note that you will need to register before every session, as the number of seats is limited due to Covid-19 containment measures. This year, Marta Pagliuca Pelacani will be assisting Colin Sterling with the organization of ARRG, to receive information about registration and credits, do not hesitate to contact her. To receive a reminder three weeks before sessions, together with the materials provided by the participants, register via Marta on ARRG’s mailing list.

ARRG 2022-2023 Programme

The programme will take place in VOX-POP (University of Amsterdam, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, Amsterdam), on Fridays from 13:00 to 16:00. 

7 October - Charles Rouleau & Sharelly Emanuelson

2 December - Brian McKenna and Anika Schwarzlose & belit sag

3 February - Greg DeCuir & Ester-Eva Damen

14 April - Isabel Cordeiro & Rosie Heinrich

3 June - TBA