SCORES IN THE LIBRARY: COMPOSITION AND SENSE-MAKING AMONG BOOKS

About the project

“Scores in the library: composition and sense-making among books” is a development research project within Den Danske Scenekunstskole, funded by the Danish Ministry (2024–2026). This KUV project explores how the library can become a fertile ground for reflection and practice — a site where sense-making unfolds in critical and speculative ways. Documentation plays a constitutive role in Artistic Research, and this project insists on its potential as an intrinsic part of artistic work. It questions notions of order, tendency, and orientation, and considers how documentation can actively support artistic processes. Since documentation is integral to the academic environment, it is crucial to keep reflecting on its procedures and implications, and to explore practices that operate in the intersection between creation and documentation.

The research consists of a score given to participants. This score — that lasts for 3 hours and 30 minutes — invites participants to browse and inhabit the library while composing a panel. The process involves engaging with the books in the library, as well as movement or somatic practices and writing. Inspired by Aby Warburg’s approach in the Mnemosyne Atlas, the score aims to provide a ground for reflecting on how we generate ideas, work with images (also considering text as image), and imagine alternative ways of world-making. This research becomes a great ground, for stage arts, to reflect and put into practices modes of opening intuitive and experiential relations and working with sense-making.

Behind the project

This is a project initiated and led by

Quim Bigas Bassart

Practitioners

Alice Martucci, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Marc Villanueva Mir, Carla Zaccagnini, Sophie Grodin, Kai Merke, Monia Sander Haj-Mohammed, Max Wallmeier, Naja Lee Jensen, Frida Billeskov Olesen, Carme Torrent & Marina Dubia