Schedule for online gathering 18 June 2025

 Artistic Research Working Group PSi 2025

San Francisco, USA            Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 10:00 am PDT

Calgary, Canada              Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 11:00 am MDT

Chicago, USA          Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:00 noon CDT

Ottawa, Canada                Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 1:00 pm EDT

London, United Kingdom    Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 6:00 pm BST

Brussels, Belgium              Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 7:00 pm CEST

Helsinki, Finland     Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 8:00 pm EEST

Auckland, New Zealand      Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 5:00 am NZST 

[11am CDT Calgary is used for the 10 min. presentation schedule, please convert to your timezone]

11:00am - Greetings and Introduction to process – Bruce Barton

11:10 Denise Ackerl  RESPONDING TO Bhumi Patel

11:20 Jo Scott RESPONDING TO Bruce Barton

11:30 Jane Frances Dunlop RESPONDING TO / Ian Garrett

11:40  Pedro Andrés Pérez Rothstein  RESPONDING TO Jo Scott 

11:50  Antonio Ianniello  RESPONDING TO Jane Frances Dunlop

12:00 Barbara Heritage & Heather Carver RESPOND TO Pilvi Porkola 

12:10 am – 12:30 Conversation

12:30 Bruce Barton  RESPONDING TO Johanna Householder

12:40 Helene Lefebvre RESPONDING TO Antonio Ianniello

12:50 Ian Garrett RESPONDING TO Hélène Lefebvre

1:00 Beau Coleman RESPONDING TO Tonya M. Foster, Erica Hunt & Robin Tremblay-McGaw

1:10 Annette Arlander  RESPONDING TO Denise Ackerl

1:20 Colin Tucker RESPONDING TO Barbara Heritage & Heather Carver

1:30 Tonya M. Foster, Erica Hunt & Robin Tremblay-McGaw RESPONDING TO Alina Abraham

1:40 Break Discussion to 2:00

2:00 Pilvi Porkola RESPONDING TO Ellen Murray  

2:00 [NZST:Thursday June 19] Ellen Murray RESPONDING TO Annette Arlander

2:10 Pablo Alvez Artinprocess RESPONDING TO Beau Coleman 

2:20 [NZST] Alina Abraham  RESPONDING TO Jamie Davidson 

2:30 Bhumi Patel RESPONDING TO Pedro Andrés Pérez Rothstein 

2:40 Jamie Davidson  RESPONDING TO Colin Tucker

2:50 Johanna Householder RESPONDING TO Pablo Alvez Artinprocess

3:10 Discussion -  approx. 3:30 Close

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2025

Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group 2025

 

TWO GATHERINGS

·       Online: 18 June 2025

·       In-Person: 11-15 December 2025 (as part of PSi #30: Cruzo, Cruising, Crossroads)

 

The Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group (ARWG) welcomes proposals for its 2025 gatherings, which will take distinct formats over two separate timeframes.

 

Gathering #1 will be fully virtual and take place on Wednesday, 18 June 2025. 

Gathering #2 will be fully in-person as part of PSi #30: Cruzo, Cruising, Crossroads (https://www.psi-web.org/2024/09/23/psi-30-conference-call-for-proposals/), which will take place 11-15 December 2025 at the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil. 

 

We invite old and new members of PSi and the working group to join us at either or both of these crossroads.

 

The CFP for PSi #30 poses its “three X” theme in broad, complex and evocative terms, including all of the following: “secrecy, mystery, incognito, redaction, overwriting, an algebraic variable, an unknown value, non-binary gender, refusal, aphasia, disorder, error, intersectional pathways, intersecting diagonals, proliferating angles, multiplication, lack, blocked, out, hardcore sex, danger, a sacral point, a ‘something’, a ‘thing’, the unspecified, a target, a treasure, the vote, the kiss.”

 

Much of this territory is familiar and fertile for Artistic Researchers. For both of our 2025 gatherings, the ARWG will draw upon these diverse intersections to further experiment with our evolving framework of performative offerings and responses. We invite our members to meet, engage, reframe and rearticulate one another’s preoccupations. 

·       Each participant is invited to offer a current preoccupation: a problem, a dilemma, a puzzle, a conundrum, a ‘pickle,' a Gordian knot – a question that they are exploring through their Artistic Research practice.

·       These preoccupations will then be ‘swapped,’ with each participant taking on another participant’s offering to be reframed and rearticulated through their own mode(s) of practice. 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

·       19 January 2025: Expression of interest/intention to participate in ONE or BOTH of our gatherings. While this is, of course, not binding, please explicitly specify which gathering(s) you hope to join.

 

June 18 Gathering:

·       18 March 2025: submission of 250 – 300 word description of a current Artistic Research preoccupation

·       1 April 2025: redistribution of submitted preoccupations by ARWG convenors

·       18 June 2025: online sharing of reframed preoccupations

 

December 11 – 15 Gathering:

·       26 September 2025: submission of 250 – 300 word description of a current Artistic Research preoccupation

·       10 October 2025: redistribution of submitted preoccupations by ARWG convenors

·       11-15 December 2025: in-person/onsite sharing of reframed preoccupations in Fortaleza, Brazil

 

 All expression of interest and submission of preoccupations should be sent to arwgpsi@gmail.com.

 

Please note: 

·       Participation in the June 18 gathering requires current membership in PSi.

·       Participation in the December 11-15 gathering requires membership and conference registration.

 

Annette Arlander / Bruce Barton / Johanna Householder

PSi Artistic Working Group Convenors

 

 

Realised program of meetings of the Artistic Research Working Group at Psi #29 Assemble 2024

 

Friday June 21: 10 am to 1 pm

Hoxton Hall – Main Stage

 

Short introduction 

 

Presentations (5-10 min):

 

1 Marisol Vargas: Agua Azul / KalfuCo. 

 

2  Negar Tahsili: Interplay: Using the gendered crying body to co-create an alternative space of connectivity and resistance through performance

3 Dr Natalie Garrett Brown: Encountering the Processual Body; dancing with the ‘more than human’ in site responsive dance practice

4 Sophia Lycouris: Performance research as rehearsal of political action

 

5 Emily Orley: The Echo, the Ear and the Opening

                                     

6 Pilvi Porkola: Conversations on the sofa - performance, public space and utopias

 

7 Vale Prosper: Living Past Liminal Hours: A Practice-Experiment in Feeling Real

 

8 Dr. Michelle Man: Dancing Cabbages 

 

9 Göze Saner: Inhabiting Nudibranch

10 Serap Erincin: When Minoritized Bodies Assemble: “52 Hertz: The World's Loneliest Whale”

 

 

Saturday June 22: 10 am to 1 pm

Hoxton Hall – Palmer Room

Presentations (5-10 min):

 

11 visit by Jorge Lopes Ramos

12 Dr Denise Ackerl: Trans-Species Embodiment _ How to perform Mermadeness

 

13 Sinibaldo De Rosa: Contemplating Alevi Ritual Traditions through a Choreographic Score: 4Kapı 40Makam (2011) 

 

14 Giulia Casalini in collaboration with Niya B and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT]: I Am Here (2022)

 

15 Annette Arlander: Pondering with a Pine near You

 

16 Bruce Barton: Imagining Dragon

 

17 Marija Griniuk: Announcement

 

Discussion

Program for the Meeting of the Artistic Research Working Group of PSi in London 21 and 22 June 2024

Friday 21 June 10 am to 1 pm

Hoxton Hall – Main Stage

 

Short introduction 

 

Presentations (5-10 min):

 

1 Dr Natalie Garrett Brown: Encountering the Processual Body; dancing with the ‘more than human’ in site responsive dance practice

 

2 Sophia Lycouris: Performance research as rehearsal of political action

 

3 Emily Orley: The Echo, the Ear and the Opening

                                     

4 Pilvi Porkola: Conversations on the sofa - performance, public space and utopias

 

5 Serap Erincin: When Minoritized Bodies Assemble: “52 Hertz: The World's Loneliest Whale”

 

6 Dr. Michelle Man: Dancing Cabbages 

 

7 Göze Saner: Inhabiting Nudibranch

 

8 Vale Prosper: Living Past Liminal Hours: A Practice-Experiment in Feeling Real

 

9 Negar Tahsili: Interplay: Using the gendered crying body to co-create an alternative space of connectivity and resistance through performance

 

10 Dr Sara H Wookey: The Absent, Detached and Present Dance Artist 

 

Discussion

 

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Saturday June 22: 10 am to 1 pm

Hoxton Hall – Palmer Room

 

Short introduction (for new guests)

 

Presentations (5-10 min):

 

11 Dr Denise Ackerl: Trans-Species Embodiment _ How to perform Mermadeness

 

12 Sinibaldo De Rosa: Contemplating Alevi Ritual Traditions through a Choreographic Score: 4Kapı 40Makam (2011) 

 

13 Giulia Casalini in collaboration with Niya B and Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [crazinisT artisT]: I Am Here (2022)

 

14 Marisol Vargas: Agua Azul / KalfuCo. 

 

15 Annette Arlander: Pondering with a Pine near You

 

16 Bruce Barton: Imagining Dragon

 

Possibly:

 

17 Greetings from Pablo Alvez Artinprocess & Satadru Sovan Banduri

 

18 Beau Coleman: What Lies Beneath     

 

19 Elvis Bendaña Rivas

 

New members presentations

 

Discussion

 PSi ARTISTIC RESEARCH WORKING GROUP

Online Exchange: 3 May  2024

Response pairs for 3 May^*

PORKOLA, Pilvi  / LYCOURIS, Sophia

SANER, Goze / MCCOMB, Vale

DAVIDSON, Jamie / MEANA, Asia

LEFEBVRE, Hélène / DE ROSA, Sinibaldo (Baldo)

ARLANDER, Annette / ACKERL, Denise

COLEMAN, Beau / SARDASHTI, Zoya, Carolina Truzzi, and Fatehmeh Takhtkeshian

ALVAREZ, Pablo and BANDURI, Satadru Sowan / MAN, Michelle

08:00 MDT INTRODUCTION

RESPONSES

08:10        PORKOLA, Pilvi 

08:20        ARLANDER, Annette

08:30        SANER, Goze 

08:40        MCCOMB, Vale

08:50        DAVIDSON, Jamie 

09:00        MEANA, Asia

09:10        ACKERL, Denise

09:20        LEFEBVRE, Hélène 

09:30        DE ROSA, Sinibaldo (Baldo)

09:40 BREAK [10 min.]

9:50          MAN, Michelle

 

10:00        LYCOURIS, Sophia

 

10:10        SARDASHTI, Zoya

10:20        ALVAREZ, Pablo and Satadru 

10:30        SEITA, Sophie

10:40 DISCUSSION 

11:10 MDT:  CLOSE

PSi ARTISTIC RESEARCH WORKING GROUP

Online Exchange: 19 April/ 3 May  2024

Preliminary response pairs for 3 May

PORKOLA, Pilvi  / LYCOURIS, Sophia

SANER, Goze / MCCOMB, Vale

DAVIDSON, Jamie / MEANA, Asia

ERINCIN, Serap / ORLY, Emily

LEFEBVRE, Hélène / DE ROSA, Sinibaldo (Baldo)

ARLANDER, Annette / ACKERL, Denise

COLEMAN, Beau / SARDSHTI, Zoya, Carolina Truzzi, and Fatehmeh Takhtkeshian

ALVAREZ, Pablo and BANDURI, Satadru Sowan / MAN, Michelle

ARTISTIC RESEARCH WORKING GROUP

Online Exchange: 19 April, 2024

08:00 MDT      INTRODUCTION

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

08:10   PORKOLA, Pilvi: At home with Izzy

 

08:20   ARLANDER, Annette: Pondering with a Pine near You

 

08:30  SANER, Goze: Inhabiting Nudibranch

 

08:40  MCCOMB, Vale: Trans studies …

 

08:50   DAVIDSON, Jamie: An Assemblage of Site-based Movement Experiments in Embodied Listening

09:00   MEANA, Asia: Non-Human Animal Grief / Ritual Creation

09:10   ERINCIN, Serap : When Minoritized Bodies Assemble: “52 Hertz: The World's Loneliest Whale”

 

09:20   ORLY, Emily: The Echo, the Ear and the Opening

 

09:30   LEFEBVRE, Hélène: “Since then, and now.” 

 

09:40   DE ROSA, Sinibaldo (Baldo): Contemplating Alevi Ritual Traditions through a Choreographic Score: 4Kapı 40Makam (2011)

09:50   BREAK [10 min.]

10:00   MAN, Michelle: Dancing Cabbages

 

10:10   LYCOURIS, Sophia: Performance research as rehearsal of political action

10:20   ACKERL, Denise: Trans-Species Embodiment _ How to perform Mermadeness?

 

10:30   COLEMAN, Beau: What Lies Beneath

 

10:40   SARDSHTI, Zoya, Carolina Truzzi, and Dr. Fatehmeh Takhtkeshian: The Performativity of Nonviolence in Translation

10:50   ALVAREZ, Pablo and Satadru Sovan Banduri: … assemble…

 

11:00   SEITA, Sophie: Score for Verbs

 

11:10   DISCUSSION 

 

11:40 MDT:  CLOSE