scholarly journals Meeting the Body-Space A Score

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Paola Lopez Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Performance Score ◽  
Living Space ◽  
A Performance

This score is an invitation for the improviser to attune themselves to the space they are in and enter into a relationship with what surrounds them. It can be used as a performance score or as an exercise to synchronize body, mind, and spirit before one. It was developed through many explorations during the year-long quarantine of COVID-19 as I sought to develop an active relationship to my living space.

scholarly journals Organisational readiness for introducing a performance management system

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ochurub ◽  
Mark Bussin ◽  
Xenia Goosen
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Change Readiness ◽  
Readiness For Change ◽  
The Body ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Performance Management System ◽  
Performance Management Systems ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
A Performance

Orientation: The successful introduction of performance management systems to the public service requires careful measurement of readiness for change. Research purpose: This study investigated the extent to which employees were ready for change as an indication of whether their organisation was ready to introduce a performance management system (PMS).Motivation for the study: Introducing system changes in organisations depends on positive employee preconditions. There is some debate over whether organisations can facilitate these preconditions. This research investigates change readiness linked to the introduction of a PMS in a public sector organisation. The results add to the growing literature on levels of change readiness.Research design, approach and method: The researchers used a quantitative, questionnairebased design. Because the organisation was large, the researchers used stratified sampling to select a sample from each population stratum. The sample size was 460, which constituted 26% of the total population. They used a South African change readiness questionnaire to elicit employee perceptions and opinions.Main findings: The researchers found that the organisation was not ready to introduce a PMS. The study identified various challenges and key factors that were negatively affecting the introduction of a PMS.Practical/managerial implications: The intention to develop and introduce performance management systems is generally to change the attitudes, values and approaches of managers and employees to the new strategies, processes and plans to improve productivity and performance. However, pre-existing conditions and attitudes could have an effect. It is essential to ensure that organisations are ready to introduce performance management systems and to provide sound change leadership to drive the process effectively. This study contributes to the body of knowledge about the challenges and factors organisations should consider when they introduce performance management systems.Contribution/value-add: This research adds to the knowledge about aspects of change readiness, change management and introducing change initiatives.

Nice Girls Gone Blue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Schwadron
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Jewish Woman ◽  
The Body ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Performance Ethnography ◽  
At Will ◽  
Jewish Mother ◽  
A Performance

This chapter foregrounds a performance ethnography among New York’s Jewish neoburlesque and cabaret spoofs on the Hanukkah circuit from 2011 to 2016. By looking at what the body does to mock and modify stereotypes of the Jewish woman, it frames the ways that performers utilize physical humor to critique harmful images of the unsexy hag, Jewish mother, and Jewish American princess, while posing new identity gags. Yet in performing Otherness from positions of race privilege, Jewish neoburlesquers distance themselves from the very epochs they evoke, securing their status as white women who can presumably put on and take off Otherness at will.

The costume of MoCap: A spatial collision of velcro, avatar and Oskar Schlemmer

Scene ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-232
Author(s):  
Matt Delbridge
Keyword(s):  
Motion Capture ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Form ◽  
Mathematical Properties ◽  
Victor Turner ◽  
Spatial Discourse ◽  
Screen Space ◽  
Contemporary Practice ◽  
A Performance

The rationale that governs motion of the organic in the cubical leans towards a transformation of the body in space, emphasizes its mathematical properties and highlights the potential to measure and plot movement – this is the work of a Motion Capture (MoCap) system. The translation in the MoCap studio from physical to virtual is facilitated by the MoCap suit, a device that determines the abstract cubical representation that drives first the neutral, and then the characterized avatar in screen space. The enabling nature of the suit, as apparatus, is a spatial phenomenon informed by Schlemmer’s abstract ‘native’ costume and his vision of the Tanzermensch as the most appropriate form to occupy cubical space. The MoCap suit is similarly native. It bridges the physical and virtual, provides a Victor Turner like threshold and connection between environments, enacting a spatial discourse facilitated by costume. This collision of Velcro, Avatar and Oskar Schlemmer allows a performance of space, binding historical modernity to contemporary practice. This performance of activated space is captured by a costume that endures, in Dorita Hannah’s words, despite the human form.

Semiotics of the Protest

2019 ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Maria Paschalidou
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Public Space ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Street Protest ◽  
A Performance

In the Semiotics of the Protest performed video, I visually examine the key significance of the body and its language for the materialization of the street protest, the vital tool by means of which people reclaim public space and activate it as a political terrain. The video is based on a performance for which I invited a volunteer dancer to “rehearse” public gestures of resistance against oppression. Challenging dominant representations of protestors as “mobs” and protestors’ bodies as irrational and uncontrollable entities, in this performed video, I visually analyse the political demonstration as choreographic tactics executed by bodies which are meaningful and purposeful and which, through their gestures, move forward to social change. Keywords: participation, performed video, Phantasmagoria, politics and aesthetics, protest as choreography

Measuring the success of a performance measurement system in Thai firms

2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 548-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nopadol Rompho ◽  
Sakun Boon‐itt
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Measurement System ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
The Body ◽  
Performance Measurement System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
A Performance

PurposeThis study aims to identify what managers involved in the design of a performance measurement system (PMS) perceive are the attributes of a successful PMS.Design/methodology/approachA total of 85 managers from Thai firms were interviewed to develop the proposed model to measure the success of a PMS. Results from 269 returned questionnaires from Thai managers were analysed by second order confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).FindingsBased on the study's findings, success of PMS was categorised into two aspects: design success and implementation success. Using CFA the empirical data demonstrate a good fit with the proposed measurement model.Research limitations/implicationsThe results of this study are based on the opinions of managers and therefore their accuracy is open to question. Adding non‐managerial perspectives might demonstrate another picture.Practical implicationsThe findings could well be useful for managers in any organisation. They can assist the manager in judging whether or not the company's PMS is successful according to the discovered criteria. Use of these criteria could lead to better decision‐making in the design and implementation of a PMS framework in any organisation.Originality/valueThis study enhances the body of knowledge by defining what a successful PMS means to managers in Thai firms. The results of this study can be applied to any country, but perceptions of what is important could vary from country to country.

scholarly journals Performatywne rozpoznania medialności polityki w myśli Judith Butler

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (55) ◽  
pp. 212-225
Author(s):  
Marcin Sanakiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Visibility Politics ◽  
A Performance

Judith Butler, an American philosopher and performance theorist, sees the transformations of public sphere and democracy in the possibilities of making visible the human bodies. Butler interprets a performance as a setting boundary for belonging to a community. Public appearance requires the existence of the body and media technologies. In this way, the performative nature of political activities acquires the characteristics of biopower, according to Michel Foucault: control over the coupling of social and biological existence of man, taking into account his public visibility. Politics, by merging with what is media, obtains a performative (discursive/event) character.

scholarly journals “ANALISIS KINERJA ISLAMIC HUMAN RESOURCES” BERDASARKAN METODE MASLAHAH SCORECARD (STUDI KASUS PADA PT. INALUM)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Dewi Sundari
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Measurement Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Performance Score ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
A Performance

This study discusses the effectiveness of performance based on the Maslahah Scorecard measurement method and reveals the influence of aspects of Maqasid Al-Syariah on the performance of Muslim employees of PT. INALUM. The population in this study were Muslim employees who worked at PT. INALUM which amounted to 1622 employees with a total sample of 94 people responded and then in determining and selecting a sample of researchers using the Convenience Sampling technique. ased on the approach of this study using the Mix Method method. Based on the results of the study it can be concluded that aspects of Maqasid Al-Sharia have a positive and significant effect of 80.8% on performance while the remaining 19.2% is influenced by variables outside of this study and based on statistical calculations that the performance of Muslim employees PT. INALUM has a performance with an effective category with a performance score of 89.9%.

scholarly journals Making my bed : Tracey Emin's hysterical confessions of the abject

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Chantelle VanDeWeghe
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Alternative Representation ◽  
Traumatic History ◽  
The Status ◽  
Personal Trauma ◽  
A Performance

Tracey Emin's My Bed (1998) presents an alternative representation to normative notions of the body, offending hegemonic propriety so greatly that it caused a tabloid media sensation when it was shortlisted for the 1999 Turner Prize. Emin applies certain feminist notions as she continues the motif of the reclining nude, offering semiotic gestures that indicate evidence of the body rather that the body itself. My Bed is the site of trauma and disgust, with all of the abjection left intact, and above all, a self expressionist piece documenting her personal trauma. The expressionist qualities harkens back to cultural discourse of hysteria, reinforcing the legitimacy of the feminist lens. Hysteria is a performance that Emin represents through confessing her traumatic history. Like the archetypal reality television star, she confesses personal emotions and histories, but breaks the status quo by offering an alternative representation with the abjected authenticity of the bed.

Analogy, Proportion, and Death in Donne’s Anniversaries

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith H. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heaven And Earth ◽  
The Erotic ◽  
A Performance

The term proportion, a variant of analogy, occurs repeatedly in Donne’s two Anniversaries, epic commemorations of a young woman’s death. In The First Anniversarie, this word-concept extends to the loss of cosmic coherence, form, harmony, correspondence, and even comprehension. Donne’s dramatized speaker stages a performance that shows him to be stuck in the past, the Old Testament, the body, and this ruined world. In The Second Anniversarie, Donne’s speaker has a new lease on life, and he offers a dynamic renewal of vision that is fundamentally analogous. In this Anniversarie, unlike The First, the very physicality of death, captured in analogy, enables redemption. At its end, desire returns as the erotic, Christian-Neoplatonic connector between heaven and earth, between the soul’s longing for God and God’s for the soul. Desire has become the affective realization of analogical construction.

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