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

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

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