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

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group 2024

 

Online: 19 April and 3 May 2024

In-Person: 20 – 23 June 2024 (as part of PSi #29: Assemble)

 

The Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group (ARWG) welcomes proposals for its 2024 gatherings as part of PSi #29: Assemble. The annual conference takes place 20 – 23 June 2024 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK. The Artistic Research Working Group will hold two online sessions prior to the conference (19 April and 3 May) in addition to two in-person sessions in London at the time of the conference. We invite old and new members of PSi and the working group to join either or both of these assemblies.

 

As noted in the conference general CFP, “To assemble has multiple meanings: to gather in one place for a common purpose or to put together the parts of something … In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and global struggles for justice and recognition, we have to reconsider how to assemble, how to come together, to build, to imagine, to co-create in hostile conditions, and, conversely, what we need to disassemble, to take apart, to dismantle, to decenter, to unlearn.”

 

The ARWG invites artist-researchers from all corners of the globe to embrace this complex theme and join us for sessions that foreground interaction, participation and collaboration.

 

In-Person sessions will take advantage of the rich local artistic ecosystem and focus on opportunities for sharing with artists and artist-researchers from London and the surrounding area in the ARWG’s established format of the “Porous Studio.” (Details of these gatherings are still being put in place.)

 

Online sessions will follow the ARWG’s established “Perform/Respond” format, in which participants present/perform a current or recent artistic research project on the first day and then respond to another participant’s offering through their own practiceon the second day. The emphasis in this year’s iteration for both the initial presentations and the subsequent responses will be on opportunities for participation (including active physical participation) afforded by the offerings.

 

We invite proposals related to a current, recent or envisioned artistic research project, to be submitted by the deadline identified below. Selected participants will be invited to submit a more detailed project description accompanied by links to online support materials (video, audio, photos, text, etc.).

 

250 – 300 word proposals—as well as any questions about the process—should be sent to arwgPSi@gmail.com no later than 15 February 2024. 

 

Full submissions will be due 15 March 2024.

 

Annette Arlander / Bruce Barton / Joanna Householder

PSi Artistic Working Group Convenors

 

Artistic Research Working Group of Performance Studies international (PSi)

PSi 28: Uhambo Luyazilawula (Embodied Wandering Practices)

Online Exchange: 30 June / 30 July / 30 August

Following the ARWG’s established “PERFORM/RESPOND/EXTEND” framework, three interconnected online gatherings are held, one month apart, between 30 June and 30 August, 2023. 
 
June 30 online gathering: participants make initial presentations/performances
July 30 online gathering: participants offer a performative response to designated presentations/performances
August 30 online gathering: participants offer a performative ‘extension' of designated presentations and responses. 

Below is a summary of the program

 

June 30 2023, presentations

 

ARLANDER, Annette : Walking in the Woods 

 

WOOD, Becca: a series of distributed site-based choreographic wanderings 

 

DAVIDSON, Jamie: “DESERTO”: itinerant wayfaring and performance writing 

 

ARTINPROCESS, Pablo Alvez: Dialoguing trajectories – from African philosophies to performance through Levinas 

 

BARTON, Bruce: Dragon 

 

BOEHME, John G.: The dérive 

 

CANNON, Sage: Collaborative creation with young adults who have experienced poverty 

 

COLEMAN, Beau: wherever you go, I will…. 

 

DISELE, Lebogong: The impact of environment on the human body during performance 

 

DIAS, Annalisa: The Invention of Seeds 

 

ERINCIN, Serap: Desire Paths: The Right to Wander in Precarious States 

 

FITZ-JAMES, Thea: Deep Play Artist Residency: Creative Research & Professional Development 

 

GRINIUK, Marija: The impact of environment on the human body during performance 

 

HALLIDAY, Tia: The Weight of The Word: Investigating Embodied Technologies of Care 

 

HOUSEHOLDER, Johanna: Thinking through Hodology 

 

KRUCHININA, Irina & Elvis Bendaña RIVAS: Mystinteriors 

 

LEFEVBRE, Hélène: To revisit and further inhabit the Japanese encounter 

 

LIU, Tingyu: Performing the Archive: Contemporary Curatorial Practices and Performance Art 

 

NEW, Sophia & Daniel Belasco ROGERS : A Drawing of Our Lives 

 

O’GORMAN, Roisin: Terminal Velocity: How can we remember that we are falling?

 

 

July 30 2023, responses

 

ARLANDER, Annette – responded to Becca Wood 

WOOD, Becca – responded to Jamie Davidson 

DAVIDSON, Jamie – responded to Bruce Barton 

 

ARTINPROCESS, Pablo Alvez – responded to Roisin O’Gorman 

BARTON, Bruce – responded to Pablo Alvez Artinprocess 

BOEHME, John G. – responded to Annette Arlander 

CANNON, Sage – responded to Annalisa Dias 

COLEMAN, Beau – responded to Lebogang Disele 

DISELE, Lebogang – responded to Sage Cannon 

DIAS, Annalisa – responded to John G. Boehme 

ERINCIN, Serap – responded to Beau Coleman 

FITZ-JAMES, Thea – responded to Serap Erincin 

GRINIUK, Marija – will respond to Thea Fitz-James 

HALLIDAY, Tia – responded to Marija Griniuk 

HOUSEHOLDER, Johanna – responded to Tia Halliday 

KRUCHININA & RIVAS – responded to Johanna Householder 

LEFEVBRE, Hélène – responded to Irina Kruchinina & Elvis Rivas 

NEW Sophia & Daniel Belasco ROGERS – responded to Tingyu Liu 

O’GORMAN, Roisin – responded to New & Rogers 

 

LIU, Tingyu – responded to Hélène Lefebvre

 

August 30 2023 extensions

John BOEHME extends Pablo Alvez ARTINPROCESS’s response to Roisin O’Gorman 

Beau COLEMAN extends BOEHME’s response to Annette Arlander 

Roisin O’GORMAN extends Hélène LEFEVBRE’s response to Kruchinina & Rivas 

Tingyu LIU extends KRUCHININA & RIVAS’ response to Johanna Householder 

Hélène LEFEVBRE extends Johanna HOUSEHOLDER’s response to Tia Halliday 

Thea FITZ-JAMES extends Beau COLEMAN’s response to Lebogang Disele 

Johanna HOUSEHOLDER extends Marija GRINIUK’s response to Thea Fitz-James 

Marija GRINIUK extends Serap ERINCIN’s response to Beau Coleman 

KRUCHININA & RIVAS’ extend Tia HALLIDAY’s response to Marija Griniuk 

Tia HALLIDAY extends Thea FITZ-JAMES’ response to Serap Erincin 

Serap ERINCIN extends Lebogang DISELE’s response to Sage Cannon 

Lebo DISELE extends Sage CANNON’s response to Annalisa Dias 

Sage CANNON extends BARTON’s response to Pablo Alvez Artinnprocess 

Becca WOOD extends Roisin O’GORMAN’s response to NEW & ROGERS 

Annette ARLANDER extends Tingyu LIU’s response to Hélène Lefevbre 

Pablo Alvez ARTINPROCESS extends WOOD’s response to Jamie Davidson 

Jamie DAVIDSON extends ARLANDER’s response to Becca Wood 

Sophia NEW & Daniel ROGERS extend DAVIDSON’s response to Bruce Barton 

Bruce BARTON extends NEW & ROGERS response to Tingyu Liu 

DISCUSSION 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2023

Artistic Research Working Group of Performance Studies international (PSi)

PSi 28: Uhambo Luyazilawula (Embodied Wandering Practices)

Online Exchange: 30 June / 30 July / 30 August
In-Person: 2-5 August

The Artistic Research Working Group (ARWG) of Performance Studies international (PSi) invites proposals to its 2023 gatherings. Following the ARWG’s established “PERFORM/RESPOND/EXTEND” framework, three interconnected online gatherings will be held, one month apart, between 30 June and 30 August, 2023. 

The ARWG in-person gathering will be held onsite in conjunction with PSi 28 in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 - 5 August 2023.

 

The PSi 28 theme — Uhambo Luyazilawula (Embodied Wandering Practices) — is particularly well-suited to the ARWG’s preoccupations. The conference Call for Proposals (https://www.psi-web.org/2022/11/28/call-for-proposals-psi28-johannesburg-2023/) explicitly emphasizes “performative ‘wanderings’: creative journeys and intersections between past, present, and future, digital and in-person” and “alternative epistemologies: explorations of undiscovered performances, pedagogies and practices.” In this, it clearly shares the ARWG’s priorities of "mobility, wandering, and fluidity” in terms of subject matter and process design.

 

Online Gatherings:

 

April 15 / deadline for proposals

April 30 / acceptances announced and ‘perform/respond/extend’ partnerships established 

June 30 / online gathering #1: participants make initial presentations/performances

July 30 / online gathering #2: participants offer a performative response to designated presentations/performances

August 30 / online gathering #3: participants offer a performative ‘extension' of designated presentations and responses

Onsite Gathering:

As noted, above, the ARWG in-person gathering will emphasize artistic research exchange with South African artists and artist-researchers new to the ARWG. It will be held onsite in conjunction with PSi 28 in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 - 5 August 2023.

 

Notes: 

• a detailed description of the ‘perform/respond/extend’ framework will be provided to all accepted participants
• participants are strongly encouraged to contribute to all three online stages of the perform/respond/extend framework
• all presentations and responses are limited to a maximum of 10 minutes in length
• participation at the onsite gathering in Johannesburg during PSi 28 is welcomed but not a requirement; more information about the in-person gathering will be shared as details are confirmed

 

Please send proposals for the online sessions no later than 15 April 2023 to arwgpsi@gmail.com. All proposals should adhere to the following guidelines: 

• 250 - 300 word description of artistic research project, question or area of focus, including relationship to conference theme
• include name, affiliation (if any), and preferred email address
• Indication of commitment to all three online events (June 30, July 30 & August 30)
• Indication of interest in attending the ARWG session in Johannesburg

 

Questions can also be sent to arwgpsi@gmail.com. 

 

Annette Arlander / Bruce Barton / Johanna Householder
Convenors, Artistic Research Working Group
Performance Studies international (PSi)
http://psi-artistic-research-working-group.blogspot.com/