Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Description
This talk presents my research into the evolving practices of free improvisation, using the TIAALS software to map thematic connections across a wide range of interviews, performances, and archival materials. I explore how improvisers collectively build, share, and transform their practices through overlapping networks of influence, collaboration, and aesthetic exchange. By treating these materials as ingredients in a living “cookbook,” the research reveals how improvisation functions as both an artistic method and a social assemblage, where ideas, gestures, and stories circulate, mutate, and sustain a global improvisation community.