Staging the Crisis; Structures of Feeling belongs to research on the affective qualities of a complex critical situation framed within the context of philosophy, mathematical physics and contemporary art practice. Investigation is on how a moment of crisis can impact an individual and create a force field or vectors that affect their body positionality, psycho structure and creative outlet.
The super 8mm film material proposed for Various Rehearsals was first directed for the Collisions festival 2019 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London, UK). It records individuals from different backgrounds responding, to a staged event through gestural schemata and non-verbal haptic articulation.  

The work views complex situations that refer to moments of crisis, silence and intensity, linked with circumstances both private and socio-political. As a form of resistance to the force field of a crisis, it seeks to address; how do hands move in a complex situation? Can the dynamic field of witnessing be heard? Can revisiting moments of tension with sound create new dynamic fields of affect and meaning?

Tijs Ham will create audible dynamic structures based on the sonic behaviours of chaos theory and non-linearity, that carry a sense of fragility and vulnerability due to the unstable nature of the chaotic processes. Changes may be irreversible, fuelling the tensions within the sound itself but also in relation to the video work with which it engages.

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