scholarly journals Letting Bodies be Bodies: Exploring Relaxed Performance in the Canadian Performance Landscape

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-208
Author(s):  
Andrea LaMarre ◽  
Carla Rice ◽  
Kayla Besse
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
British Council ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Legislative Changes

There is an increasing movement toward accessibility in arts spaces, including recent legislative changes and commitments at individual, organizational, and systemic levels to integrating access into the arts across Canada. In this article, we explore Relaxed Performance (RP) in the context of this movement. We present the results of a reflexive thematic analysis of interviews conducted with participants who completed RP training offered by the British Council to . understand the training’s effectiveness and impact. We explore the significance of the training, and of RP in general, and in relation to disability studies and cultural and political activism. We undertake this exploration against a backdrop of interrogating who RP is for and by. The themes we describe are: Committed to Access, Training is Critical, Inviting Bodies to be Bodies, and Imagining Audiences. These themes tell a story of how RP relates to broader access work, the importance of training grounded in and led by disability/difference, the need to consider the relationships between bodies and spaces, and the tensions inherent to billing RP as “for all.” We conclude with an exploration of possible modifications, enhancements, or theoretical imaginings that could help RP to become more radically open to difference as it emerges, shifts, and changes.

scholarly journals Veinte años de docencia de la fotografía. Estudio de caso: Escuela de Arte de Huesca (España), Twenty years teaching photography. Case study: The Art School of Huesca (Spain)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Espa Lasaosa ◽  
María José Gutiérrez Lera ◽  
María Cañas Aparicio ◽  
María Adelaida Gutiérrez Martín
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Audiovisual Communication ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
State Educational ◽  
Professional Occupation ◽  
European Training

ResumenEl Ciclo Formativo de Grado Superior en Fotografía pertenece a la familia profesional artística de Comunicación Gráfica y Audiovisual y forma parte del sistema educativo español público.Esta comunicación presenta un panorama de la evolución de los estudios sobre fotografía en las Escuelas de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, exponiendo, a través del ejemplo de la Escuela de Arte de Huesca, el caso de la Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón.La implantación del grado superior de fotografía en Huesca se incardinó en la estructura propicia que aportaba una ciudad acostumbrada a valorar este modo de expresión icónica: el Festival Huesca Imagen en su día, una Fototeca pionera en medios y procedimientos, o actualmente el programa Visiona demuestran un interés particular por la imagen fotográfica.Nuestra sólida trayectoria ha pasado necesariamente por cambios tecnológicos y legislativos que han marcado la adaptación de la docencia a continuos retos. Aspectos como la aplicación de metodologías activas; el aprendizaje basado en proyectos; las constantes referencias a cuestiones teóricas e históricas, así como a los debates contemporáneos en torno a la fotografía; la innovación en los procesos de evaluación y el seguimiento individualizado basado en tutorías se incorporan a nuestra didáctica cotidiana y facilitan la adquisición de competencias de acuerdo a las nuevas exigencias curriculares, profesionales y artísticas.La formación que impartimos insiste en la reflexión sobre el proceso fotográfico como un hecho consustancial a la sociedad actual. A través de la acreditación en el Programa Erasmus+, nuestros estudiantes tienen además la posibilidad de relacionarse con el espacio formativo europeo y ven favorecida su futura inserción en el mercado laboral.A lo largo de estos años hemos logrado contar con la presencia de figuras de reconocido prestigio en diversos campos de la fotografía, personalidades que han aportado su visión y su saber a la Escuela. Desde nuestra perspectiva, la fotografía no sólo es una disciplina artística o una ocupación profesional, sino que constituye globalmente un modo de vida. Eso es lo que intentamos transmitir año tras año en nuestras aulas.AbstractThe Professional studies of Higher Degree in Photography belongs to the artistic professional family of Graphic and Audiovisual Communication and it is part of the Spanish state educational system. This paper presents an overview of the evolution of these studies on photography in the Arts and Design Schools and explains the example of Aragón, through the case of the School of Art of Huesca.The implementation of the higher degree in Photography in Huesca took place in a suitable  background provided by a city used to value this iconic mode of expression:  The former Festival “Huesca Imagen”, an innovative Fototeca in procedures and resources;  or nowadays, the program “Visiona”,  all of them show a particular interest on the photographic image.Our well stablished professional career has necessarily come across technological and legislative changes that have marked the adaptation of teaching to continuous challenges. Aspects such as the application of active methodologies; Project-based learning; Constant references to theoretical and historical issues as well as to contemporary debates on photography; Innovation in evaluation processes and individualized monitoring based on personal tutoring are incorporated into our everyday teaching and facilitate the acquisition of competences according to upcoming curricular, professional and artistic requirements.The training we provide stresses thinking about photography as a process consubstantial to our current society. Through the accreditation in the Erasmus + Program, our students   have also the possibility to take part of the European training space and facilitate their future insertion in the labor market.Throughout these years we have had the opportunity to count on the presence of personalities of recognized prestige in various fields of photography, who have cast their vision and their knowledge to the School. From our own perspective, photography is not only an artistic discipline or a professional occupation, but conforms a whole way of life. That is what we try pass on in our classrooms year after year. Palabras clave: metodologías, evaluación, evolución, proyectos, experiencia docente, competencias, pública, Erasmus+, arte, tecnología.Keywords: methodology, assessment, progress, projects, teaching experience, skills, state school, Erasmus+, arts, technology.

Ordinary Extraordinary Activism: Student-led filmmaking in disability studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Chelsea Temple Jones ◽  
Kim Collins
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Online Pedagogy ◽  
Disability Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract In this article, we, as disability studies educators in Toronto, Canada, reflect on our interpretations of a student group's call to 'people' disability culture. This request tasked us with mapping disability culture in Canada, and representing it through the arts-based approach of new disability documentary. We produced five student-directed films, Ordinary Extraordinary Activism, that bridge theory with lived experience by profiling activists whose lives involve participating in disability culture. Here, we describe how our work supported and transcended the affirmative model by drawing on intersectionality and Disability Justice. We critically consider the aesthetic and representational tensions of producing films under crip time. Through this writing, we reflect on the three-year process of filmmaking as a gesture of online pedagogy and analyse three out of five films.

scholarly journals The Notion of Arts in STEAM Concept: A Semi-Systematic Literature Review

Pedagogika ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 155-171
Author(s):  
Rūta Girdzijauskienė ◽  
Gražina Šmitienė
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Arts Integration ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Programme Implementation ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Steam Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Integration

STEAM education has been developed in search of ways how to prepare students to live and build their lives in the knowledge society of the future. The paper, by applying to the methodology of a semi-systematic literature review, aims to reveal the notion of arts in the STEAM concept. Thirty-three articles published from of 2010 to 2019 were selected for the performance of a thematic analysis of the notion of arts in the concept of STEAM education in five aspects: Purpose of Arts, Notion and Inclusion of Arts, Arts Integration Process and Results, Arts Integration Models, and Arts Integration Contexts.A review of the literature demonstrated that the inclusion of arts in STEAM education is ambiguous because of the diversity of both the notions of the arts and interpretations of the purpose of arts integration. Arts in STEAM education are associated with the improvement of students’ academic results, the development of students’ creativity, critical thinking, and cooperation skills, and thus highlighting the instrumental significance of arts education. The instrumental and internal concepts of the purpose of the arts are to be related to the equivalent and arts-supplemented integrative STEAM models. Therefore, research with the aim at deepening the notion of interdisciplinary integration in terms of diversity of the inclusion of the arts, substantiating the effectiveness of arts-integrating STEAM programmes with the identification of the process and result evaluation variables, and analysing specific cases of the STEAM programme implementation through revealing forms and ways of arts inclusion are especially relevant.

The Ram’s Horns: Reflections on the Legacy of Abdias Nascimento

2021 ◽  
pp. 002193472110064
Author(s):  
Elisa Larkin Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Racial Conflict ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Firsthand Experience

Abdias Nascimento’s legacy is timely in a world experiencing exacerbated racial conflict and setbacks in public policy addressing inequality. This essay addresses two dimensions: on one hand, Nascimento’s life and work, and the tools he used to combat racism in the diverse realms of social and political activism as well as culture and the arts; on the other, IPEAFRO’s efforts and initiatives to make his legacy a living one, current with the needs of our time. My sources are my firsthand experience as Nascimento’s translator, co-author, and co-worker for 36 years; and his archives, the contents of which IPEAFRO is in the process of organizing, microfilming, digitizing, and making available via internet, a project that I coordinate.

scholarly journals Editorial Introduction to VIBE Special Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Ash McAskill ◽  
Kim Sawchuk ◽  
Samuel Thulin
Keyword(s):  
International Symposium ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Concordia University ◽  
The Relationship

This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies is a result of the activity surrounding VIBE: Challenging ableism and audism through the arts, a 3-day international symposium exploring the existing and potential contributions of the Deaf/disability arts to aesthetic innovations, research-creation and cultural change in attitudes towards the capacities of the Deaf/disabled. The symposium, which took place at Concordia University from November 30 - December 2, 2018, brought together Deaf/disabled academics, emerging scholars, post-doctoral researchers, activists, artists, and students – and their allies – for vibrant exchanges on the relationship between disability arts research and disability arts practice.

Memorialization and Presence: Capturing the Legacies of the Young Lords in New York

ARTMargins ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-90
Author(s):  
Arnaldo Manuel Cruz-Malavé
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Young Lords

This essay reviews the three-venue exhibition ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York, which opened in July of 2015 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio and the Loisaida Center in the Lower East Side. It assesses the three significantly different approaches of these institutions to capturing the visual and performative legacy of the Young Lords, a radical decolonial Nuyorican group of the early 1970s whose political activism engaged communities to transform space through artistic practices. In critically surveying these three approaches, this essay means to explore the cultural, art-historical, and political stakes of exhibitions like ¡Presente!, in which different kinds of loyalty and conceptions of legacy come into contact.

scholarly journals ‘They don’t quite understand the importance of what we’re doing today’: the young people’s climate strikes as subaltern activism

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Step Change ◽  
Environmental Activism ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Global Context

Abstract Background Youth-led movements like #FridaysforFuture and the school strikes for climate (henceforth referred to as the climate strikes) are leading calls for action on climate change worldwide. This paper reports on a thematic analysis of protest signs, and interviews with young climate strikers, at a climate strike in Manchester, UK, in 2019. Results This paper explores the ways in which dominant, adult-centred frameworks for conceptualizing young people’s environmental activism tend to obscure the complexities of the climate strike movement. In contrast, this study examines the complex political activism of climate strikers as a ‘subaltern group’, who take political action in a wider context of intersecting categories of oppression and marginalization – including youth as a category of marginalization – and in the historical context of environmental racism, the enduring legacies of colonialism, and global inequality during contemporary capitalism. Conclusions The article develops a theoretical model for future research, based on a model of two constraining frames that limit analysis of the climate strikes in particular and young people’s environmental activism in general. This paper contributes to a step change in methods for the study of this remarkable movement in a global context.

scholarly journals Adapting to Political Activism in Destination

Tourism ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-380
Author(s):  
Toney K. Thomas ◽  
Diya Jose
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Visitor Experience ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Media ◽  
Online Texts ◽  
General Strike ◽  
The Way

The way of protest through hartal (general strike) has sparked heated debates about its impact on the tourism industry in Kerala. This paper is aimed in the viewpoint that political activism has adverse consequences on tourism in the state of Kerala which is seamlessly propagated through the Media. Through a thematic analysis of online texts published on trip advisor, this paper explores tourists’ perceptions and opinions of the implication of hartal on tourism in Kerala. Overall, our analysis reveals that hartal would not discourage tourists to visit Kerala, although many regarded that certain level of challenges at the destination will enhance the visitor experience. Importantly, our study also contends that the narratives about the ‘hartal’ produced and propagated online were often representative of political structures of power, which linked tourism to hartal irrespective of the real impact on tourism.

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