scholarly journals In the Dark

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-257
Author(s):  
Charlie Hope Dorsey
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Performative Writing ◽  
Performance Poetry ◽  
Personal Performance ◽  
Political Form ◽  
The Times ◽  
Political Duty ◽  
Nina Simone

The artist’s duty is to “reflect the times,” said Nina Simone. Poets too, have this political duty. As a queer Black woman, I share my lived experience(s) as a political form of engagement and resistance, both in writing and onstage. Inspired by Audre Lorde’s (1984) text Sister Outsider, this piece of personal performance poetry explores Della Pollock’s notion that performative writing is citational. Blending references to white poets such Emily Dickinson with allusions to writers, artists, and theorists of color, this piece makes space for black culture in the academy and recounts my return home after a period of self-imposed exile. It surveys the liminal space between the dark of writing and the light of performance and also critiques the hierarchal academic structures that subjugate knowledge, people, and spoken word poetry. It was originally written and performed in a show entitled Greyscale: Performing Across Difference, in the Marion Kleinau Theatre, in March 2017.

Delhi in Transition, 1821 and Beyond

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
English Translation ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Original Manuscript ◽  
English East India Company ◽  
The Times ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Commissioned by the English East India Company to write about contemporary nineteenth-century Delhi, Mirza Sangin Beg walked around the city to capture its highly fascinating urban and suburban extravaganza. Laced with epigraphy and fascinating anecdotes, the city as ‘lived experience’ has an overwhelming presence in his work, Sair-ul Manazil. Sair-ul Manazil dominates the historiography of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century compositions on Delhi in Persian and Urdu, and remains unparalleled in its architecture and detailed content. It deals with the habitations of people, bazars, professions and professionals, places of worship and revelry, and issues of contestation. Over fifty typologies of structures and several institutions that find resonance in the Persian and Ottoman Empires can also be gleaned from Sair-ul Manazil. Interestingly, Beg made no attempt to ‘monumentalize’ buildings; instead, he explored them as spaces reflective of the sociocultural milieu of the times. Delhi in Transition is the first comprehensive English translation of Beg’s work, which was originally published in Persian. It is the only translation to compare the four known versions of Sair-ul Manazil, including the original manuscript located in Berlin, which is being consulted for the first time. It has an exhaustive introduction and extensive notes, along with the use of varied styles in the book to indicate the multiple sources of the text, contextualize Beg’s work for the reader and engage him with the debate concerning the different variants of this unique and eclectic work.

scholarly journals Translating performative mediated art into virtual reality: A case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Matthew Sansom ◽  
Zi Siang See
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Audio Video ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Health And Well Being

Park benches are distinctive public spaces that invite a temporary pause for thought and time out from everyday activities and worldly preoccupations. Park Bench Sojourn is a multimodal arts project that explores the uniqueness and universality of these spaces and the kinds of experiences they foster. It asks what it means to be human; surrounded, as we are, by computer technologies and digital media, living lives that are perpetually ‘connected’ and dispersed through the cloud. It reflects on how our technologically determined lives and lifestyles conspire against us to find opportunities to stop, reflect and be witnesses to lived experience. It is a conceptually playful creative work that shares concerns for health and well-being arising from the contemporary mindfulness movement and the traditional practices and worldviews upon which mindfulness draws. The project is based around a range of experiential sojourns, which require participants to find a bench to sit on and then take a sojourn, or a number of sojourns from the project’s website, which may include audio, video, spoken word, or just listening. Other iterations of the project have included a multimedia gallery installation juxtaposing content from a variety of sojourns. Regardless of the format, context or specific content, the project explores ways in which we ‘perform’ ourselves and mediate experience via digital technologies. In this article, we describe the process of translating this mediated and performative artwork into a VR prototype and directions for future work.

“Oh No! Not This Lesbian Again”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel L. Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
Sexual Fantasies ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Black Popular Culture ◽  
Performance Poetry ◽  
Movie Star

Propelled into black popular culture by their appearance on HBOs Real Sex 24 in 2000, Jessica Holter’s Punany Poets have been touring and performing erotic performance poetry, song and dance to bolster black female sexual agency for over twenty-five years. This critical performance analysis of “Cucumber Cu Cum Her,” a duet between veteran lesbian spoken word artist Lucky Seven and erotic dancer Punany’s Pearl reveals how their erotic condom demonstration literally and discursively propels lesbian sexuality and fantasy into commercial hip-hop’s hyper-masculinist sphere. The duet queer the reviled pimp-ho aesthetic to reimagine rapper-turned-movie star Ice Cube’s 1991 hit “Look Who’s Burnin.’ ” The erotic dancer’s body creates space for women to pleasurably explore their gender identities and sexual fantasies. As a skilled laborer Punany’s Pearl imbues the heretofore-imagined disempowered, objectified, erotic dancer with agency and challenges black respectability politics.

Spoken Word and Spirit’s Breath: A Theopoetics of Performance Poetry

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-306
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S Dodd
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Word ◽  
Rational Discourse ◽  
Performance Poetry

Abstract Stanley Romaine Hopper defined theopoiesis as a performative form of thinking that ‘effect[s] disclosure through the crucial nexus of event’. Unlike theology which seeks an explanation of the revelatory through the tools of rational discourse, this poetic and participatory activity is ‘a breathing with the inhale and exhale of Being … that “the god” may breathe through us’. Following Hopper, this article addresses the performative ‘event’ of the spoken word as a window into a discussion of creative breath, exploring its implications for a theology that seeks to ‘breathe with’ the Spirit. The use of breath in the work of contemporary poets Tony Walsh and Kate Tempest demonstrates a perhaps largely unacknowledged form of poetic ‘difficulty’ (one of Geoffrey Hill’s criteria for good poetry) in the spoken word. Their intriguing practices of creative breath may contribute to a theopoetics of the Spirit that takes poetic performance seriously as a means of revelatory disclosure.

Mathew and Me: A Musical Performance Autoethnography Exploring Same-Sex Attraction in Sport

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042097873
Author(s):  
David Carless
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Sex Attraction ◽  
Performance Poetry ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Textual Representation ◽  
Original Songs

Mathew and Me is a musical performance autoethnography that explores embodied experiences of same-sex attraction between men within heteronormative sport cultures. The performance comprises a layering of original songs, performance poetry, and personal narrative. Songwriting is used as a critical arts-based methodology to discover, interrogate, and communicate fragmentary, sensory, and embodied remembrances of lived experience. Alongside a textual representation of the performance, reflections are offered on the two methodological issues: first, the challenges of sharing music and songs within conventional academic publication and, second, the possibilities and nuances of songwriting as a methodology for critical qualitative inquiry.

Vā at the time of COVID-19: When an aspect of research unexpectedly turns into lived experience and practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leali‘ifano Albert Refiti ◽  
Anna-Christina (Tina) Engels-Schwarzpaul ◽  
Lana Lopesi ◽  
Billie Lythberg ◽  
Layne Waerea ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Initial Report ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Relational Space ◽  
The Times ◽  
Virtual Participation ◽  
Distinct Features

In 2019, the Vā Moana–Pacific Spaces research group at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) began to investigate how core Moana and Māori values can be translated from onsite, embodied engagements into digital environments. This was prompted by our wish to provide access to all those who could not travel to attend a conference in late 2021 for our Marsden-funded research project, ‘Vā Moana: Space and relationality in Pacific thought and identity’ (2019–22). The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally reframed this premise, as providing offsite access was no longer simply a ‘nice option’. The crisis challenged us to find out how virtual participation in events can uphold values of tikanga (correct procedure, custom) and teu le vā (nurturing relational space). In particular, our research examines practices foregrounding vā as the attachment to and feeling for place, as well as relatedness between people and other entities. We have observed an emerging conceptual deployment of vā as relational space and a mode of belonging, especially in diasporic constellations oriented by a cosmopolitan understanding of vā. Due to this focus, we noticed early on that simply moving meetings online is unlikely to create a supportive environment for Indigenous researchers in diaspora, who share principal values and a commitment to a kaupapa (agenda, initiative). This realization led us to interrogate how research collaboration and circulation are influenced by the distinct features of physical and online contexts, protocols and connectivity. To develop the alternative kind of vā we envisaged – together with strategies to sustain it through our online practices – thus became a much larger project in the times of rapid change under COVID-19. This is a very brief, initial report on our experiences.

scholarly journals ‘Paying our own way’: Application of the capability approach to explore older people’s experiences of self-funding social care

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Tanner ◽  
Lizzie Ward ◽  
Mo Ray
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Political Interpretation ◽  
Political Form ◽  
The Capability Approach

Adult social care policy in England is premised on the concept of personalisation that purports to place individuals in control of the services they receive through market-based mechanisms of support, such as direct payments and personal budgets. However, the demographic context of an ageing population and the economic and political context of austerity have endorsed further rationing of resources. Increasing numbers of people now pay for their own social care because either they do not meet tight eligibility criteria for access to services and/or their financial means place them above the threshold for local authority-funded care. The majority of self-funders are older people. Older people with complex and changing needs are particularly likely to experience difficulties in fulfilling the role of informed, proactive and skilled navigators of the care market. Based on individual interviews with older people funding their own care, this article uses a relational-political interpretation (Deneulin, 2011) of the capability approach (CA) to analyse shortfalls between the policy rhetoric of choice and control and the lived experience of self-funding. Whilst CA, like personalisation, is seen as reflecting neo-liberal values, we argue that, in its relational-political form, it has the potential to expose the fallacious assumptions on which self-funding policies are founded and to offer a more nuanced understanding of older people’s experiences.

scholarly journals Reflections on Care: Older People Speak about Experiences of Nursing Care in Acute Medical and Surgical Wards

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christine Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Older People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Excellent Care ◽  
The Times ◽  
Hospital Wards

<p>This phenomenological study describes what it is like for people over 74 years to experience nursing care in acute medical and surgical wards, and relates their insights to implications for nursing practice. The six people who took part responded to newspaper stories inviting older people who had been in hospital recently to speak with a nurse researcher about the times they spent with nurses. They included eight episodes of hospitalisation in seven acute care public hospital wards. All chose to be interviewed in their own homes. The approach followed van Manen's (1990) method for researching lived experience. Their stories are contained in this thesis as individual chapters. The analysis moved from description largely in the respondents' own words, to the researcher's portrayal of the "free act of seeing" resulting in explication of salient features or structures of each story, and then to hermeneutic reflection using the four existentials of lived body, lived space, lived time and lived relation to others. Aggregation of the concerns revealed in each story illuminates the commonalities and differences of each and uncovers aspects of lived care for these people. Notions of care may be experienced negatively, as when care is absent or deficient in meeting patient need and expectation, or positively as when care is fully realised in the nurse-patient encounter. Nursing which includes negotiating the systems, mediating interpersonal issues, and practical help was excellent care for these patients. Value was given to the ability to quickly evaluate a patient's life ways of being and acknowledge these as of equal importance to the expected health outcomes from the particular medical diagnosis and intervention. The description of older people's experience of nursing care is useful for the potential to increase understanding of the needs and expectations of older people in acute wards. Through the phenomenological practice of reflecting and re-writing new perspectives on nursing are developed. These are expressed through myth and metaphor as one means of enhancing the caring work of nursing toward older people. The study offers some implications for nursing education, practice and the organisation of health (illness) care.</p>

scholarly journals Reflections on Care: Older People Speak about Experiences of Nursing Care in Acute Medical and Surgical Wards

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christine Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Older People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Excellent Care ◽  
The Times ◽  
Hospital Wards

<p>This phenomenological study describes what it is like for people over 74 years to experience nursing care in acute medical and surgical wards, and relates their insights to implications for nursing practice. The six people who took part responded to newspaper stories inviting older people who had been in hospital recently to speak with a nurse researcher about the times they spent with nurses. They included eight episodes of hospitalisation in seven acute care public hospital wards. All chose to be interviewed in their own homes. The approach followed van Manen's (1990) method for researching lived experience. Their stories are contained in this thesis as individual chapters. The analysis moved from description largely in the respondents' own words, to the researcher's portrayal of the "free act of seeing" resulting in explication of salient features or structures of each story, and then to hermeneutic reflection using the four existentials of lived body, lived space, lived time and lived relation to others. Aggregation of the concerns revealed in each story illuminates the commonalities and differences of each and uncovers aspects of lived care for these people. Notions of care may be experienced negatively, as when care is absent or deficient in meeting patient need and expectation, or positively as when care is fully realised in the nurse-patient encounter. Nursing which includes negotiating the systems, mediating interpersonal issues, and practical help was excellent care for these patients. Value was given to the ability to quickly evaluate a patient's life ways of being and acknowledge these as of equal importance to the expected health outcomes from the particular medical diagnosis and intervention. The description of older people's experience of nursing care is useful for the potential to increase understanding of the needs and expectations of older people in acute wards. Through the phenomenological practice of reflecting and re-writing new perspectives on nursing are developed. These are expressed through myth and metaphor as one means of enhancing the caring work of nursing toward older people. The study offers some implications for nursing education, practice and the organisation of health (illness) care.</p>

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