PhD in the Arts
at LUCA School of Arts and KU Leuven
By Mariske Broeckmeyer
Migraine is a chronic condition affecting 11% of the world’s population. Many artists and musicians have turned to their migrainous sufferings as a source of inspiration. As a singer, sound artist and migraine patient, Mariske Broeckmeyer researches Migraine Art and Migraine Music. Combining these findings and her own experiences, she engages in a compositional practice, developing musical pieces, which are both highly personal statements and universal reflections on this intriguing condition. This doctoral project aims for an aesthetic of failure and focuses on the existential, symbolic and phenomenological aspects of the migraine condition. In addition, a profound insight in the neurological and physical implications of an attack will be obtained and used to attain the artistic objectives.
Supervisors:
Duration: 2017 - 2022
at LUCA School of Arts and KU Leuven
By Mariske Broeckmeyer
Migraine is a chronic condition affecting 11% of the world’s population. Many artists and musicians have turned to their migrainous sufferings as a source of inspiration. As a singer, sound artist and migraine patient, Mariske Broeckmeyer researches Migraine Art and Migraine Music. Combining these findings and her own experiences, she engages in a compositional practice, developing musical pieces, which are both highly personal statements and universal reflections on this intriguing condition. This doctoral project aims for an aesthetic of failure and focuses on the existential, symbolic and phenomenological aspects of the migraine condition. In addition, a profound insight in the neurological and physical implications of an attack will be obtained and used to attain the artistic objectives.
Supervisors:
- Dr. Jeroen D'hoe (supervisor, KU Leuven/LUCA)
- Dr. Anneleen Masschelein (co-supervisor, KU Leuven)
Duration: 2017 - 2022
Publications
Contribution to Ongehoord,
a book composed by dr. Leni Van Goidsenhoven:
"De Migraine Parel - Of het Wangedrocht dat Zelfbescherming Heet"
March 2021
Impulsive Incatations - Voicing Migraine
When migraine arrives, not only the body suffers. The voice too is impacted by a condition that introduces itself with such great force. As a migraine-suffering singer I notice these changes and become fascinated by the aesthetics of a failing voice in a failing body. This exposition reflects upon the relevancy of Migraine Music as an aesthetic phenomenon and by focusing on the specific area of the vocal and the sonant, I project the issue into a broader context of language, speech and communication. First, I find the migraineur’s voice to be missing as it is silenced by society. Then, I study the failing of the voice when constricted by intense physical pain and I turn to the voice as it is transformed by migraine-specific symptoms. I study these deficiencies of the voice on a theoretical level in order to approach them through my artistic practice as a migraining singer. The artistic work accompanying this research is entitled Impulsive Incantations, and aims at voicing the migraine body through evocative text, vocal improvisations and a migrainous singing technique.
21 dec 2020 Journal For Artistic Research
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Presentatie als methode. Naar een geïntegreerde benadering van disseminatie in artistiek onderzoek.
The artistic researcher, just like his or her more traditional academic scientific colleagues, is often supposed to clarify his or her methodology. Both a linguistic and an artistic flexibility are required to be able to resonate with a diverse audience from different contexts. Yet methodological explanations usually result in abstract retrospective reflections that sometimes bear no relation to the actual work. Drawing on her own experience as a young researcher in the arts, Mariske Broeckmeyer makes a case for a natural integration of methodology into the artistic work – a goal that can only be achieved when the artist’s flexibility is used to its full potential and when the many and various moments of dissemination become the guiding principle, or even the essence, of the development of the research and the artistic practice.
21 Oct 2020 in Forum+
When migraine arrives, not only the body suffers. The voice too is impacted by a condition that introduces itself with such great force. As a migraine-suffering singer I notice these changes and become fascinated by the aesthetics of a failing voice in a failing body. This exposition reflects upon the relevancy of Migraine Music as an aesthetic phenomenon and by focusing on the specific area of the vocal and the sonant, I project the issue into a broader context of language, speech and communication. First, I find the migraineur’s voice to be missing as it is silenced by society. Then, I study the failing of the voice when constricted by intense physical pain and I turn to the voice as it is transformed by migraine-specific symptoms. I study these deficiencies of the voice on a theoretical level in order to approach them through my artistic practice as a migraining singer. The artistic work accompanying this research is entitled Impulsive Incantations, and aims at voicing the migraine body through evocative text, vocal improvisations and a migrainous singing technique.
21 dec 2020 Journal For Artistic Research
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Presentatie als methode. Naar een geïntegreerde benadering van disseminatie in artistiek onderzoek.
The artistic researcher, just like his or her more traditional academic scientific colleagues, is often supposed to clarify his or her methodology. Both a linguistic and an artistic flexibility are required to be able to resonate with a diverse audience from different contexts. Yet methodological explanations usually result in abstract retrospective reflections that sometimes bear no relation to the actual work. Drawing on her own experience as a young researcher in the arts, Mariske Broeckmeyer makes a case for a natural integration of methodology into the artistic work – a goal that can only be achieved when the artist’s flexibility is used to its full potential and when the many and various moments of dissemination become the guiding principle, or even the essence, of the development of the research and the artistic practice.
21 Oct 2020 in Forum+
