The Sculptor as Rhythm Analyst
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A sculptor is a practitioner, and in this study, the sculptor's practice as a process is focused. Through this study, the practitioner as a rhythm analyst also becomes a researcher of his own practice. The work process is linked to a sculpture of the football trainer Nils Arne Eggen. The study's analytical question is: How can a sculptor's process with form, movement, material, and timespace be understood in a rhythm-analytical perspective? The term rhythm is understood as the philosopher Henri Lefebvre has described the term as a tool in rhythm analysis. An analysis is carried out by intertwining extracts from the sculptor's thinking texts, conversations, image collages, and theoretical-philosophical reading of concepts related to rhythm as well as to agential realism. There is rhythm in form, movement, and material, rhythm in the sculptor's bodily intra-action with the sculpture, as well as the site-specific rhythm and the timespace created by placing the sculpture on a plinth outdoors. By reading the rhythmic aspects of the sculptor's thinking texts and in conversations with him, through concepts from agential realism, choices in the work process are analysed. The analytical points are collected in four braids. Rhythm as 'meta-sense' makes visible performative potentials articulated as intertwinings comprising the sculptor's thinking, bodily affects, and energy, as well as the materiality of the timespace of the working process.
Cover photo: Ole Martin Wold/ NTB
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