Digesting performance: An embodied-environmental approach to food pedagogy

Food and food systems are distinct from many other areas of study, in part because of the material, experiential, and affective elements they comprise. Teaching about food can therefore benefit from pedagogical approaches that acknowledge, account for, and activate intersubjectivity, emotions, and relationships to both physical space and food matter. A pedagogy of performance responds to these needs with both theoretical and practical tools, as well as an inherently systems-based perspective and opportunities for experiential and interdisciplinary learning. This article presents the processes and observed outcomes of an intensive food and performance course taught at Quest University Canada during the Fall of 2019. [Course Name] brought together critical discussions of food studies and performance texts, analysis of food-related performances and artworks, bodywork and affect exercises, and practical experience in performance creation. The result was an experiment in mixing discursive and embodied learning that raised and examined complex food issues, activated individual investment in these issues, and brought about student success and transformation.

INTERMEDIAL RECODING OF GEO SHKURUPII'S WORKS IN THE VIDEO PERFORMANCES AT THE SEMINAR OF CREATIVE YOUTHS 2020

The paper focuses on poetry-based video performances conducted by the participants of the “Creative Youths Seminar” (CYS), which was founded in 1995. Adaptability is one of the most essential features of all seminar clusters. It leads to constant transformations in a general program and within poetry performance laboratory (existing as a part of CYS since 2015) in particular, due to socio-cultural and political context. In 2020, because of the quarantine restrictions, CYS for the first time changed its regular face-to-face form to a remoteone and took place online. Live performance cluster transformed into a three-day marathon of video performances. During that time 24 participants made over 70 video performances that lasted for more than 100 minutes in total (there was a record number in every category of a CYS performance cluster). Nearly half of the performances were poetry-based. Almost a third part was based on the poems by Ukrainian Futurist writers Oleksa Vlyzko, Mykhail Semenko, Oleksa Slisarenko, Andrii Chuzhyi, Geo Shkurupii, and Yulian Shpol. The article analyzes five poetry-based video performances that refer to the poems by Geo Shkurupii as pretexts: “A Talk with a Future Self ” by Yaroslav Boruta, “I Want to Be a Furniture” by Vladyslava Demianchuk (Dadi), “Oh Little Boy” by Natalia Matsybok-Starodub, “Czech Scotch Tape” by Iryna Pavlenko (Ira Pamiatai), and “The Future of Cherry Orchards” by Viktoriia Feshchuk. The pretexts, poetry performance texts (if any), and their intermedial connections with video performances have been examined. The researcher concludes that poetry-based performances let the artists not only experience the text traditionally but also ‘live through the text’, or, in other words, create a personal physical experience of the pretext and offer the audience another perspective on the pretext with the help of non-literary media.

Poetics

This review examines three books published in the field of poetics in 2020: Candice Amich’s Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas; Ren Ellis Neyra’s The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics; and Anthony Reed’s Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production. I show that these three books, which discuss poetry in connection with other art forms, each call for a reordering of the senses through which we perceive and analyze poetry (and other texts). While Ellis Neyra advocates multisensorial listening and Reed calls for a mode of listening attentive to what remains unnamed within current perceptual and political schema, Amich shows the importance of paying attention to the embodied rhythms and tactility of poetry and performance texts. For all three authors, these alternatives to individualized, detached, and indeed deadened linguistic contemplation proffer strategies for remaking not only common sense, but the common itself. The chapter is structured under the following headings: 1. Introduction; 2. Poetics; 3. Sensoria; 4. Politics.

Die Psalmen als „verbale Bühnen“

Many psalms display characteristics that are – in literary theory – associated with performance texts like “dramas”. The criteria for this are that texts feature a “lexis” (direct speech out of the mouth of a discernible character), an “opsis” (elements evoking a scenery etc., often presented in direct speech), and plot structures (not only story plots, but also character development and the like). Many psalms fit this criterology, even though some more than others, as well as partially with some very unique characteristics. Still, this allows for understanding several psalms as miniature “verbally presented stages”. The implications of this basal communicative structure are explored in this contribution, a major of which pertains to the recent discussion on identification potentials: In some psalms the lyrical subject is an offer to identify with, whereas in others – the ones discussed here – it is better understood as opposite to the recipient.

“I Thought I Knew You, Two”: A Performative Response to Norman Denzin and Tami Spry’s Wild West Show at ICQI 2018

For the 2018 Autoethnography Special Interest Group at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), Norman Denzin and Tami Spry did an integrative co-performance of each other’s autoethnography linked with a western motif. Each of the originating pieces of their performance texts were pre-published in Special Issues edited by this author. The author of this piece was invited to engage a performative response to the performance, and ostensibly entered the textual and embodied performance as a third companion on a western journey discovering new insights of both presenters in the performance of each as the other.

“Connecting Mind to Pen, to Eyes, to Face, to Arms and Legs”: Toward a Performative and Decolonial Teaching Practice

The push to sustain online learning platforms that have been established in the wake of Covid-19 at South African universities raises a number of concerns. Apart from highlighting the stark and ongoing social inequities in terms of access, the need to ensure that there is still scope in our teaching practice for affective and performative encounters has also been thrown into sharp relief. I draw on two teaching contexts, the one dealing with a literary text, and the other a live performance in order to explore the decolonial potential of affective encounters. In addition to illustrating the complex and unpredictable workings of affect in teaching contexts, I also hope to show how these two incidents offer insight into the interface between sensorial and cognitive knowledge in relation to both literary and performance texts. The aim is to demonstrate how student responses to affective encounters resonate with, rather than directly address, some of the “everyday” processes of decoloniality.

John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer

The viewing of opera begs the question of how operatic text (music and libretto) becomes constrained and absorbed by the performance medium. Especially in contexts where the filmic projection of images creates additional layers to the actions taking place on stage, the visual field becomes semantically overloaded and requires negotiation on its own terms. This chapter argues that Tom Morris’s production of John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer preserves the integrity of the operatic text by interjecting visual images that set the broader allegorical themes into relief. Themes implicit in the operatic text, while being absorbed into the performance text, become integrated into the overall narrative that balances the mythic dimension with realism. More specifically, this chapter examines the intersection between the operatic and performance texts in Morris’s productions in three analytical stages and introduces a theoretical framework for categorizing intermedial relationship based on Nicholas Cook’s models of conformance, contest, and complementation.

Interaksi Sosial Tradisi Bagurau Saluang Dendang Minangkabau di Sumatera Barat

Penelitian ini mengkaji tentang komunikasi pertunjukan tradisi bagurau saluang dendang di Minangkabau sebagai kontak sosio-kultural dan identitas kelompok pagurau. Bagurau merupakan pertunjukan seni tradisi saluang dendang yang melibatkan kelompok-kelompok pagurau untuk berinteraksi dalam pertunjukan. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah komunikasi pertunjukan yang terbagi pada dua bentuk, yakni komunikasi sebagai proses dan komunikasi sebagai produksi makna. Data penelitian bersumber dari teks-teks pertunjukan berupa dendang, pantun-pantun, dan perilaku interaksi pagurau dalam pertunjukan dan keterhubungannya dengan realitas sosio-kultural masyarakat setempat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada tiga pola interaksi antara penyaji dan pagurau pertunjukan, yaitu satu arah (interaksi antara pendendang dengan satu kelompok pagaurau), dua arah (interaksi antara pendendang dengan antar dua kelompok pagurau) dan multi arah (interaksi pendendang dengan banyak kelompok pagurau). Interaksi dalam pertunjukan ini sebagai wadah kontak sosial pagurau untuk berintegrasi yang berfungsi sebagai penyangga kelangsungan pertunjukan dan perwujudan eksistensi kelompok antar komunita pagurau.Social Interaction of Bagurau Saluang Dendang Minangkabau Tradition in West Sumatra. This study examines the performance communication of bagurau saluang tradition of Minangkabau as a socio-cultural contact and the identity of pagurau groups. Bagurau is a performance of saluang dendang tradition which involves pagurau groups to interact during the show. Therefore, the study applies communication performances approach which is divided into two forms, namely communication as a process and communication as the production of meaning. The research data based on performance texts in form of dendang, pantun and pagurau interaction behavior in performance and its relation with the socio-cultural reality of the local community. The research finding shows three patterns of interaction between performer and the pagurau, namely: one-way interaction (between the pendendang with one group of pagaurau), two-ways interaction (between the pendendang with two groups of pagurau) and multi-ways interaction (between pendendang with many groups of pagurau). Finally, the interaction in this performance is a medium of pagurau social contact to integrate that serves as a buffer of the continuity of the performance and the realization of group existence among pagurau communita.Keywords: interaction; bagurau; saluang dendang