scholarly journals How exercises matter as a dramaturgical approach in performance art education

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Kristina Junttila Valkoinen
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Teaching Environment ◽  
Agential Realism ◽  
Karen Barad ◽  
New Material ◽  
University Course

This article addresses a university course in performance art at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. The aim of this article is to discuss how the exercises and the dramaturgy of the exercises in the course matter. The author is the teacher of the course and thus the diffractive analysis is informed by her role as a teacher and artist-researcher. The study uses new material feminist theory and the theory of agential realism from physicist and feminist theorist Karen Barad. The study investigates how the exercises become agents and get constitutive power. The exercises are material-discursive, in intra-action and entangled with the entire teaching environment, and they compose a dramaturgical structure that allows the unpredictable to happen. The analysis describes three examples of exercises from the course and highlights three aspects that matter in the mediation of the exercises – embodiment, materiality, and site. The results of the study point toward the importance of mediating exercises that activate the student-participants to experiment and redefine what the ever-changing field of performance art can be.

scholarly journals Exercises in intra-acting: A zone of potential

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Junttila
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Agential Realism ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Karen Barad ◽  
Arts Festival ◽  
Participatory Performance

This article is about the participatory performance event Speak for yourself (Snakk for deg sjøl) performed mainly for teenagers at schools through the Norwegian Cultural Schoolbag program (Den kulturelle skolesekken), but also for an open audience at Hålogaland Theatre and the Arctic Arts Festival. The center of the discussion concerns what has agency to initiate various ways of participation and produce a zone of potential in this performance event. The author is one of the artists of the performance and thus the diffractive analysis is informed by her role as artist-researcher. The study’s theoretical framework is inspired by the theory of agential realism from physician and feminist theorist Karen Barad. The analysis suggests that the initiation of participation is a complex process influenced by both human and non-human performative agents in intra-action with each other. This study will especially focus on the formulation of exercises, performance objects, social media, multiplicity and affect t as performative agents in this performance event. The study indicates that being attentive to the performative agents at play and the kind of participation they produce can potentially create a space where there is room for inclusion, diversity, and unpredictability. This kind of zone of potential also has value for other participatory projects in the intersection between pedagogy and art.

scholarly journals Videography as Refrain

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-137
Author(s):  
Theresa Giorza
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Agential Realism ◽  
The World ◽  
Karen Barad

A public park adjacent to an inner-city preschool invites children and their teacher into new encounters with the world, literacy and themselves. The park and preschool are situated in the inner-city of Johannesburg, South Africa. In this article, the researcher performs as mutated-modest-witness of events that unfold in lively materialdiscursive encounters between children, grass, friendship, a pen, cement table, sand, sticks, the alphabet and daylight. The agential realism of Karen Barad and the nomadic thinking of Deleuze and Guattari offer ways of re-imagining ‘the child in the park’. Diffracting with repeated viewings of video clips the researcher finds that forward and reverse movement and stops in different moments throughout repeated viewings of the same video footage produces different and new ‘stories’ about the events and the children involved. Conceptions of ‘child’ as literacy learner and of researcher-as-writer mutate through this diffraction which instantiates a non-representational videography practice.

Arts-Based Action Research in the North

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Jokela
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Art Educators ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Education Project ◽  
The North ◽  
Research In Education

The art-based action research (ABAR) method has its roots in action research, particularly in participatory action research (PAR) and action research in education and is clearly linked with international artistic research (AR) and art-based educational research (ABER). The ABAR methodology was developed collaboratively by a group of art educators and researchers at the University of Lapland (UoL) to support the artist-teacher-researcher with skills and professional methods to seek solutions to recognized problems and promote future actions and visions in the changing North and the Arctic. On the one hand, the need for decolonizing cultural sustainable art education research was identified in multidisciplinary collaboration with the UoL’s northern and circumpolar network. On the other hand, the participatory and dialogical approach was initiated by examining the pressures for change within art education stemming from the practices of relational and dialogical contemporary art. ABAR has been developed and completed over the years in doctoral dissertations and art-based research projects on art education at UoL that are often connected to place-specific issues of education for social and cultural sustainability. The multi-phased and long-term Winter Art Education project has played a central role in the development of the ABAR methodology. During the Winter Art Education project, ABAR has been successfully used in reforming formal and informal art education practices, school and adult education, and teacher education in Northern circumstances and settings. Winter art developed through the ABAR method has supported decolonization, revitalization, and cultural sustainability in schools and communities. In addition, the ABAR method and winter art have had a strong impact on regional development and creative industries in the North.

The Return of the Body: Performance Art and Art Education

Art Education ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Gaye Leigh Green
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
The Body

scholarly journals The Arts and New Materialism: A Call to Stewardship through Mercy, Grace, and Hope

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Nicholas Leonard
Keyword(s):  
New Materialism ◽  
Agential Realism ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
Karen Barad ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Materialist Theory

During highly polarized times, issues are quickly addressed in ways that emphasize divisions. To support the healing of our polarized culture through art, new materialist theory as presented by Karen Barad and Rosi Braidotti will be entangled with art and artmaking according to Dennis Atkinson and Makoto Fujimura to argue for art as an act of environmental and cultural stewardship, creating new possibilities and differences in the virtual that are merciful, graceful, and hopeful. To form this argument, first a summary of new materialism and ethics through Agential Realism and Affirmative Ethics is addressed. Next, a cartography including scientific and theological perspectives is presented for a diffractive reading regarding the concepts of mercy, grace, and hope to develop a new materialist understanding through a philosophy of immanence to counter the circular perpetuation of violence. These concepts are then individually addressed through the proposed new materialist framework to further break from material-discursive dualistic thought. This approach is then explored through various artworks to investigate the co-constructing material-discursive nature of art to create new relations and possibilities in the world. Finally, an in-depth study of the artworks Becoming Us by Megan Constance Altieri and Teeter-Totter Wall by Ronald Rael are addressed to detail how a new materialist approach to art that focuses on the concepts of mercy, grace, and hope can position art as an act of stewardship.

Validity and composition of the Silurian trilobite genera Borealarges and Dicranogmus, with new species from the Canadian Arctic

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 749-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan M Adrain
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cladistic Analysis ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Reasonable Doubt ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Canada ◽  
New Information ◽  
Cape Phillips Formation ◽  
New Material ◽  
Three New Species

New silicified material from Arctic Canada demonstrates that the lichid trilobite genera Borealarges and Dicranogmus, recently claimed to be synonyms, are independent groups with no close phylogenetic connection to one another. Dicranogmus has been known mainly from cranidia alone; prior association of librigenae and pygidia with the Arctic Canadian species D. skinneri has been queried. This association is correct beyond reasonable doubt, based on description of new material of both D. skinneri and a new species. Three new species of Borealarges are related to B. tuckerae Adrain 1994. Cladistic analysis supports the monophyly of this species group. Pending further new information, however, the group is retained within the genus Borealarges. The stratigraphic range of the species group is extended from the lower Wenlock (Sheinwoodian) to upper Ludlow (Ludfordian) by the discovery of a rare species in the Douro Formation of Cornwallis Island, Arctic Canada. New taxa from the Wenlock of the Cape Phillips Formation, Arctic Canada, include Dicranogmus wynni, Borealarges nicoae, B. warholi, and B. yulei.

Performance Art as Critical Pedagogy in Studio Art Education

Art Journal ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Garoian
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Studio Art

scholarly journals KUASA PENDIDIKAN ERA GLOBAL PADA SENI TRADISI GENGGONG DI DESA BATUAN, STUDI KASUS SENI PERTUNJUKAN GENGGONG

WIDYANATYA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-68
Author(s):  
I Nyoman Winyana ◽  
I Made Sugiarta ◽  
I Putu Gede Padma Sumardiana
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Depth Data ◽  
The People ◽  
Direct Data ◽  
The Village ◽  
A Performance

ABSTRAK             Salah satu penyebab keberadaan kesenian Genggong menjadi tidak populer dalam kehidupan masyarakat masa Global adalah peran pendidikan yang diduga tidak berpihak pada seni Genggong seperti di Desa Batuan. Seni pertunjukan Genggong Batuan di era tahun 1973 sempat menjadi karya seni pertunjukan yang mengundang perhatian khususnya pada pertunjukan seni hiburan. Kekhasan dan keunikan bentuk karya ternyata tidak cukup mampu mempertahankan populeritasnya di panggung hiburan.             Kajian tulisan ini berangkat dari metode kualitatif yang dirancang guna memperoleh jawaban secara lebih mendalam. Analisis data dilakukan dengan memperhatikan keabsahan data langsung di lapangan selain dokumentasi tersimpan. Teori yang dipakai membedah persoalan kuasa adalah diambil dari teori kuasa yang menekankan pada ranah kuasa dan juga habitus yang terjadi di masyarakat.             Hasil akhir kajian ini adalah temuan yang berhubungan dengan proses pendidikan seni tradisional Genggong nyatanya tidak terkait dengan aktivitas kegiatan yang hiburan. Keterlantaran yang diakibatnya oleh perubahan gaya hidup dan struktur yang kurang berpihak pada seni Genggong Desa Batuan. ABSTRACT One of the causes of the existence of Genggong art became unpopular in the lives of the people of the Global period was the role of education which was allegedly not in favor of Genggong art such as in the Village of Batuan. The performance of Genggong Batuan in the 1973 era had become a performance art work that drew attention especially to entertainment art performances. The peculiarity and uniqueness of the form of work turned out to be not enough to maintain its popularity on the entertainment stage. The study of this paper departs from qualitative methods designed to obtain answers in more depth. Data analysis is done by paying attention to the validity of direct data in the field besides the stored documentation. The theory used to dissect the issue of power is taken from the theory of power which emphasizes the realm of power and also habitus that occurs in society. The final result of this study is that findings related to the process of traditional Genggong art education are in fact not related to entertainment activities. The negligence that was caused by changes in lifestyle and structure was not in favor of Genggong Desa Batuan art.

scholarly journals The introduction of the problem of personal identity in the university course of philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Olena Olifer
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Topical Issue ◽  
Traditional Structure ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Course ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The article considers the introduction of the problem of personal identity in the structure of the course of philosophy. The introduction of new material is the attempt to redesign the academic course of philosophy, simultaneously keeping its traditional structure. The problem of personal identity is a topical issue in analytic philosophy. However, it is not much learnt in Ukraine, where academic circles mostly orient to continental philosophy. The paper analyses the subject area of personal identity: its metaphysical status, the nature and conditions of personhood, the possible criteria, and the method of though-experiment. Then, it shows the steps of introducing personal identity in the course of philosophy. The novelty of the article is in the fact that the problem of personal identity is introduced for non-philosophy students for the first time at Ukrainian university course of philosophy.

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