Improvisation - an Impossibility?
A talk by David Ryan
Date: Wednesday 29 February 2012
Time: 14.00
Venue: Ruskin 110
This talk will examine the status of improvisation, in the visual arts and music, as well as philosophy. While at various historical junctures (the 1950s for example) improvisation appeared vital and central to the 'creative act', more recently it been viewed with suspicion. Ambiguously reliant on memory in forming 'the new', it has been generally sidelined by self-conscious pre-planned tactics and analytical strategies. In 1977 Jacques Attali, putting the emphasis back on improvisational procedures, asked, 'is improvisation possible today?' This is a question still to be asked in the present; but this also involves an investigation into what improvisation actually is, and what it does.
Date: Wednesday 29 February 2012
Time: 14.00
Venue: Ruskin 110
This talk will examine the status of improvisation, in the visual arts and music, as well as philosophy. While at various historical junctures (the 1950s for example) improvisation appeared vital and central to the 'creative act', more recently it been viewed with suspicion. Ambiguously reliant on memory in forming 'the new', it has been generally sidelined by self-conscious pre-planned tactics and analytical strategies. In 1977 Jacques Attali, putting the emphasis back on improvisational procedures, asked, 'is improvisation possible today?' This is a question still to be asked in the present; but this also involves an investigation into what improvisation actually is, and what it does.
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