11 Jul 2022

Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group 2022

The Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group welcomes proposals for its online gathering at PSi #27: Hunger. The annual conference takes place 6-9 July 2022, and the Artistic Research Working Group (ARWG) will convene over two days, 6-7 July 2022.

The primary focus of PSi #27 is corporeal hunger—the literal deprivation of food and nourishment. However, the conference theme also recognizes a range of emotional and psychological manifestations of hunger, and the ARWG is particularly aware of the desire for physical contact and embodied sharing experienced over two years of a global pandemic. In response, we have been exploring the potential for meaningful interconnection in virtual exchange. In 2022, our experimentation with possible forms and rhythms of online collaboration will take the following form.

We invite proposals related to a current, recent or envisioned artistic research project, to be submitted by 1 April 2022. Selected participants will be invited to submit a more detailed project description accompanied by links to online support materials (video, audio, photos, text, etc.), and to make a brief presentation on this work during the first day of our gathering.

Each participant will also be paired with one other working group member to create a collaborative response to one of the projects presented on day one. These ‘response conversations,’ which will occur on day two of our meeting, can take many forms. They may be either fully prepared and rehearsed or informal and impromptu, depending on the collaborators’ interest and capacity. In this manner, we hope to both showcase our community’s activities and foster generous, spontaneous and animated exchange in a format that can be modified to fit all participants’ circumstances.

250 – 300 word proposals should be sent to arwgPSi@gmail.com no later than 1 April 2022.
Full submissions are due 15 May 2022.
Notification of ‘response conversation’ pairing will be distributed by 1 June 2022.

Annette Arlander / Bruce Barton / Joanna Householder
PSi Artistic Working Group Convenors

21 Jul 2021

Perform – Respond – Extend 2021

A summary of the contributions (presentations, responses and extensions, with links) included in the Artistic Research Working Group online-meetings as part of Psi Constellate 6-9 July 2021

Annette Arlander: Adding text on video when writing to trees? --- Boehme responds to Arlander --- Kolliopoulou extends Boehme’s response to Arlander

Glenn D’Cruz: Maxims --- Sehic responds to D'Cruz --- Eatough extends Sehic's response to D'Cruz

Bruce Barton: Dramaturgies of Uncertainty: Collaborative Creation with Zoom --- D'Cruz responds to Barton --- Inston extends D’Cruz’s response to Barton

Andrew Clete: “Lockdown” --- Devabahktuni and Sentler respond to Clete --- Householder/Price extend Devabahktuni/Sentler’s response to Clete

Sony Devabhaktuni / Susan Sentler: Collaborative workings --- Griniuk responds to Devabahktuni/Sentler --- Lefebvre extends Griniuk’s response to Devabahktuni/Sentler

Pablo Alvez Artinprocess: Modelling a methodology for a dialogic articulation between Experimental Performance Art and Philosophy --- Clete responds to alvez artinprocess --- Griniuk extends Clete’s response to Alvez

Graham Eatough and Andre Dekker: Floating Worlds: towards an archipelagic dramaturgy --- Barton responds to Eatough --- Sehic extends Barton’s response to Eatough

Marija Griniuk: Eco-violence and performance art in Lithuania. --- Householder and Price respond to Griniuk --- Alvez extends Householder/Price’s response to Griniuk

John Boehme: Allyship, Intersections & how to acknowledge privilege. --- Daniel responds to Boehme --- Man extends Daniel’s response to Boehme

Danae Theodoridou: Languages of the Unheard, The Practice of Democracy --- Arlander responds to Theodoridou --- Daniel extends Arlander’s response to Theodoridou

Johanna Householder /Judith Price: Careful, Reckless, Selflessness --- Lefebvre responds to Householder/Price --- Clete extends Lefebvre’s response to Householder/Price

Camille Inston: Betweenspace/s: Towards a Transmedial Practice of Digital Intimacy --- Eatough responds to Intson--- D'Cruz extends Eatough's response to Intson

Eleni Kolliopoulou: Choreographing encounters --- Man responds to Kolliopoulou --- Saner extends Man’s response to Kolliopoulou

Hélène Lefebvre: Horizons --- Alvez responds to Lefebvre --- Devabahktuni/Sentler extend alvez’ response to Lefebvre

Caitlin Main: Contextualizing the Body: Dramaturgies of Safety in Trauma-Based Performance --- Saner responds to Main --- Arlander extends Saner’s response to Main

Michelle Man: Mercurial Lights in the Ring: practising choreo-luminosity in contemporary circus ---Main responds to Man ---Theodoridou extends Main's response to Man

Goze Saner: Sharing is caring: solo performer pedagogy as artistic research --- Theodoridou responds to Saner --- Boehme extends Theodoridou’s response to Saner

Ivana Sehic: Embodying loss: art and mourning under the new biopolitical context --- Intson responds to Sehic --- Barton extends Intson's response to Sehic

Henry Daniel: Nomadic Movements --- Kolliopoulou responds to Daniel --- Main extends Kolliopoulou’s response to Daniel

5 Jul 2021

ARTISTIC RESEARCH WORKING GROUP: “Perform / Respond / Extend” 7-9 July 2021

Part of PSi 2021 Constellate Programming https://www.psi-web.org/constellate/

Observers welcome, register here: https://www.psi-web.org/constellate_arwg/

DAY 1: PERFORM 12:00 to 17:00 UTC

12:00 to 12:20 Welcome, Land Acknowledgements and opening remarks.

Co-convenors Annette Arlander, Bruce Barton, and Johanna Householder

12:20 Performances/Presentations of research materials

There are 22 presenters allotted 7 minutes each (with +1 minute for change over)

1. 12:20 Annette Arlander: Adding text on video when writing to trees?

2. 12:28 Glenn D’Cruz: Maxims

3. 12:36 Bruce Barton: Dramaturgies of Uncertainty: Collaborative Creation with Zoom

4. 12:44 Andrew Clete: “Lockdown”

5. 12:52 Sony Devabhaktuni / Susan Sentler: Collaborative workings

6. 13:00 Pablo Alvez Artinprocess: Modelling a methodology for a dialogic articulation between Experimental

Performance Art and Philosophy

7. 13:08 Graham Eatough and Andre Dekker: Floating Worlds: towards an archipelagic dramaturgy

8. 13:16 Marija Griniuk: Eco-violence and performance art in Lithuania.

9. 13:24 Jamie Harper: Authentic (Virtual) Spaces: Remote Intimacy, Prosthetic Agency, Colonial Empathy

10. 13:32 John Boehme: Allyship, Intersections & how to acknowledge privilege.

11. 13:40 Danae Theodoridou: Languages of the Unheard, The Practice of Democracy

14:00 – one hour break to 15:00

12. 15:00 Johanna Householder /Judith Price: Careless, Reckless, Selflessness

13. 15:08 Camille Inston: Betweenspace/s: Towards a Transmedial Practice of Digital Intimacy

14. 15:16 Eleni Kolliopoulou: Choreographing encounters

15. 15:24 Hélène Lefebvre: Horizons

16. 15:32 Caitlin Main: Contextualizing the Body: Dramaturgies of Safety in Trauma-Based Performance

17. 15:40 Michelle Man: Mercurial Lights in the Ring: practising choreo-luminosity in contemporary circus

18. 15:48 Katherine Mezur: Synchronized Devotion: Practicing Militarized Practices

19. 15:56 Jatun Risba: Be-coming ki-n

20. 15:04 Goze Saner: Sharing is caring: solo performer pedagogy as artistic research

21. 16:12 Ivana Sehic: Embodying loss: art and mourning under the new biopolitical context

22. 16:20 Henry Daniel: Nomadic Movements

16:28 to 17:00 Closing remarks and discussion: Overview of Day 2 and Day 3

12 May 2021

Call for proposals 2021

PSi Artistic Research Working Group: Summer Session 2021

PERFORM/RESPOND/EXTEND

Constellations of Engagement Through Artistic Research

Part of the PSi Constellate Program

7-9 July / On Zoom / Shifting Time Zones (to accommodate international participation)

EVENT DESIGN

Day 1: Perform. Each participant will offer an artistic research presentation/performance. The presentations can take a wide variety of forms, including performances, text, video, audio, images, scores, etc. In order to allow for the maximum number of participants, presentations will be no more than nine minutes in duration.
Day 2: Respond: Each participant will present a response to another participant’s abstract and presentation/performance from Day 1. The response can likewise take a variety of forms, and will be no more than eight minutes in duration.
Day 3: Extend: Each participant will presentan extension to another participant’s response from Day 2, further extending a specific idea, question or problem of interest to them. The extension should include a shareable object (such as a document, recording, etc.) that can be disseminated and archived online at the ARWG blog. Presentations will be no more than seven minutes in duration.

EVENT SCHEDULE

We propose a 5 hour session each day: two 2 hour sessions with a one hour break. In principal, the start time of each successive day will shift by six hours.

Day 1: 04:00 GMT

Day 2: 10:00 GMT

DAY 3: 16:00 GMT

Modest adjustments to this schedule may be made, based on the global locations of the participants. However, the basic model of accommodating broad international participation will be maintained.

PROPOSALS

Proposals should include a written description or abstract of 200-300 words that establishes the conceptual context of an original artistic research project or performance (at any stage of development). The abstract should be accompanied by online access to documentation for the project. This material may involve a wide range of formats (images, audio, video, text, etc.). It should be possible for another participant to experience (read, view, listen to, etc.) the submitted materials within a period of 60 minutes.

The 200-300 word abstracts and accompanying URL(s) for all selected proposals will be shared with the other participants approximately one week before Day 1. The abstracts will be distributed to all others in attendance on the day of the presentation.
At the beginning of Day 1, each participant will be assigned another participant’s presentation to respond to on Day 2.
On Day 2, each participant will be assigned another participant’s Day 2 response to extend on Day 3.
On Day 3, each participant will submit the shareable object included in their extension presentation.

Please send the abstracts, along with the URL(s) for the artistic research materials and a brief bio (max. 200 words), in an email with the subject title “ARWG 2021” to the convenors at the address given below. Please do not send the materials as documents or audio/visual files. If you don’t have access to online storage capacity (such as Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.), please contact us directly and we will try to advise/support you in this regard.

A total of 12 proposals will be selected for full participation in the Working Group session. Selection will be based on demonstrated levels of theoretical innovation, methodological reflection, and critical engagement of the artistic research project.

All proposals must be received no later than 15 May 2021. The selection of participants will be announced by 30 May 2021. All members of PSi are invited to attend the Working Group session and to contribute questions and reflections via the Zoom platform “Chat” function.

PARTICIPATION

While we understand that unanticipated obligations may make it impossible for all individuals to attend all three sessions, the integrity of the Perform/Respond/Extend framework relies upon continuity of participation. We therefore ask that all individuals explicitly confirmtheir intention to participate in all three days with submission of their proposal.

All participants in the ARWG Summer Session must be current members of Performance Studies international. PSi membership rates remain both tiered and modest. In addition, due to the unique pandemic circumstances of 2020-21, PSi is offering a Pay-What-You-Can annual membership option for individuals who are unable to afford the fee that usually applies to them.

Full membership information can be found here: https://www.psi-web.org/membership/

ARTISTIC RESEARCH is meant as an elastic umbrella concept that includes a range of approaches that use art, creative practice or performance as a primary means and method of inquiry. These include the distinct approaches ‘performance as research’ (PAR), ‘practice as research’ (PaR), ‘practice-based research’ (PBR), ‘practice-led research, ‘creative arts research’, ‘research-creation’, ‘arts-based research’, and numerous other associated practices. In many cases, the subject of study is artistic practice itself, as in ‘artistic inquiry.’ In others, creative practice is used as a way of investigating non-artistic (or not exclusively artistic) subjects. Our aim is to invite a broad spectrum of these approaches, drawn from within and beyond academic and institutional contexts, to reflect the diverse and vital abundance of interrelated orientations, perspectives, and approaches to research in contemporary art.

We encourage submissions from all interested individuals, and are eager to engage with brand new members, as well as the rich ongoing community of ARWG members.

Annette Arlander / Bruce Barton / Johanna Householder
Convenors, Artistic Research Working Group
Email: arwgPSi@gmail.com

27 Jun 2020

Summer Meeting of PSi Artistic Research Working Group: July 7th, 2020

To past and present participants in the PSi Artistic Research Working Group.

As we announced back when we received word that the 2020 PSi conference had officially been postponed to next year, we would still like to bring the members of the ARWG together virtually this summer. We initially considered an online version of the “Perform/Respond/Extend” format originally intended for Rijeka; however, the ongoing demands of navigating the current social and political challenges most of us are facing at the moment have led us to a change of plans.

We propose that we hold a focused gathering on Zoom of the Artistic Research Working Group during the originally planned conference period. We are proposing Tuesday, July 7th, at the following time(s):

Melbourne, Australia: 12:00 am

Manila, Philippines: 5:00 am

California, USA: 7:00 am

Toronto, Canada: 10:00 am

London, UK: 3:00 pm

Stockholm, Sweden: 4:00 pm

Delhi, India: 7:00 pm

Beijing, China: 10:00 pm

Tokyo, Japan: 11:00 pm

This gathering will be open to everyone who was planning to attend PSi #26 this summer, as well as all past members of the Working Group for whom we have contact information.

No doubt that the restrictive conditions resulting from the current pandemic, as well as the potentially transformative cultural tensions associated with Black Lives Matter, will not be far from our minds. As such, we'd like to organize the gathering with a specific focus on the following questions:

1) "What Artistic Research are you currently working on/dreaming about at this moment?"

2) "What specific impacts are current social, cultural and political dynamics having on your Artistic Research motivations, interests, and practices?"

All participants will be asked to share for 3 - 5 minutes (maximum) on this topic. Speakers will have access to screen sharing, and short documents/images/video links can be shared in advance (through the convenors). The presentations can be entirely informal, but can also be more formally structured, providing they do not exceed the allotted time.

Note: depending on the strength of response to this invitation, we may also schedule a second session.

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See the program of the meeting that took place here

6 Mar 2020

‘Perform, Respond, Extend: Engaging the Crisis of Care Through Artistic Research'

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Performance Studies international #26 / Rijeka, Croatia / July 7 - 11, 2020
‘Perform, Respond, Extend: Engaging the Crisis of Care Through Artistic Research'
A project of the Artistic Research Working Group of PSi

Inspired by the announced theme for PSi#26: Crises of Care: Act, Respond, Engage— the Artistic Research Working Group will continue to develop a way of working explored over the past two years, and specifically last year’s “Performance, Response, Extraction: the Elasticity of Artistic Research” gathering in Calgary, Canada at PSi#25. Our “performance-response-extraction” approach last year was the most recent adaptation of our established “Porous Studio” model of interaction. Developed several years ago, the Porous Studio was an ambitious but contained invitation to PSi member artists and local practitioners from the constantly changing conference locations to join the Artistic Research Working Group in a space of intermixing, contamination, and multiplicity. While this gathering has traditionally been restricted to the annual conference event, over the past 2 years we have experimented with a new mode of working that involves online pre-conference contributions, exchange and creative research. Last year we added to the established process of “performance and response" a third aspect or phase: the extraction of a research problem or research question, that can then be fed back into future discussion. (The program and submitted extracts from PSi#25 are available on our blog: http://psi-artistic-research-working-group.blogspot.com.) At this year’s gathering, we are shifting the emphasis of this final phase to one of extension, which we believe will provide for greater agency and independence for participants.

Artistic Research is meant as an elastic umbrella concept that includes a range of approaches that use art, creative practice or performance as a primary means and method of inquiry. These include the distinct approaches 'performance as research' (PAR), ‘practice as research’ (PaR), 'practice-based research' (PBR), ‘practice-led research, ‘creative arts research’, 'research-creation', 'arts-based research', and numerous other associated practices. In many cases, the subject of study is artistic practice itself, as in 'artistic inquiry.’ In others, creative practice is used as a way of investigating non-artistic (or not exclusively artistic) subjects. Our aim is to invite a broad spectrum of these approaches, drawn from within and beyond academic and institutional contexts, to reflect the diverse and vital abundance of interrelated orientations, perspectives, and approaches to research in contemporary art.

Through the ‘performance, response, extension’ model of exchange, participants will have the opportunity to respond to presentations, performances and articulations through presentations, performances and articulations and then extend the examination of a key question (problem, principle, provocation…) that they find interesting for further discussion. Ultimately, we hope these three phases effectively parallel the explicit priorities of PSi#26—act, respond, engage—through a direct, generous and extended engagement with the most urgent of issues emerging out of the ARWG members’ research practices. As well, this year we are working to arrange a one-day pre-conference gathering; more information will be made available about this session as soon as the details are in place. When submitting your proposal, please indicate whether you would be able to join us for the day prior to the formal start of the conference.

Model of Engagement for PSi#26

In Brief:

• All participants make an artistic submission prior to the conference gathering. The submissions can take a wide variety of forms, including text, video, audio, images, etc.

• All participants prepare a response to another participant’s initial submission for presentation at the conference event in Calgary.

• All participants are assigned one of the above paired sets of ‘submission and response’ that will be experienced at the conference, and tasked with identifying a key question or problem that they find interesting, based on the discussion in Calgary. Participants then prepare an original extension of this key question for dissemination through their own practice (in the form of a document, recording, object, etc.) to be shared and preserved after the conference.

The Details:

Confirmation of participation by 1 February 2020.

Stage One: Each participant submits an artistic research project (at any stage of development) or performance documented in some manner, supported by images, audio, video, text, etc., together with a written description or abstract of 100-300 words that introduces the general idea of the project. It should be possible to experience (read, view, or listen to) the submitted materials within a period of 60 minutes. All proposals must be received no later than 15 March 2020. Please send the abstracts (with links to the artistic research materials) in an email with the subject title “ARWG 2018” to the three Working Group conveners (emails below). All accepted abstracts will be posted to a dedicated online folder. Participants will then be able to submit additional materials to individual sub-folders, either directly or via links to existing online platforms (such as Vimeo, Youtube, etc.).

Stage Two: Each participant is assigned another participant’s submission by 31 March 2020, and is invited to prepare a presentational response to that submission, using their own preferred mode of practice to critically engage with the submission. The response can take the form of a performance, a participatory research exercise, a written document to be read aloud, etc. The respondents will submit the title and duration of their response (from 5 min to 20 min.) to the group no later than 31 May 2020.

Stage Three: Participants present their responses at the working group sessions during the conference in Rijeka. The 100-300 word abstracts are made available in advance for the other participants and onsite for all other attendees at the open session who have not had access to online materials.Stage Four: Each participant is assigned one of the ‘submission and response’ pairings witnessed in Rijeka and asked to extract a question or problem out of that exchange, leading to the preparation of a shareable object (document, recording, etc.). These ‘extensions’ are based on the witnessed exchange but also reflect the third participant’s original contribution to the exchange in a form that can be both shared and archived online. The extensions should be uploaded to the participant’s individual sub-folder no later than 1 September 2020.

On behalf of the working group convenors:

Annette Arlander: annette.arlander@uniarts.fi
Bruce Barton: bruce.barton@ucalgary.ca

Johanna Householder: jhouseholder@ocadu.ca