Cultural and Deliberative Public Ecologies
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author(s): Adelheid Mers
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From 2008 - 2010, I served as an embedded artist with the Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) at the City of Chicago, accompanying the development of the Digital Access Agenda, and the Smart Chicago Recovery proposal.
In 2012, a new mayor initiated a Cultural Plan process for Chicago. Invited by the director for Cultural Planning for the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, I conducted a Cultural Plan open house for attendees of the Chicago Creative Expo.
This opened a door, locally, for organizations to consider more formal inclusion of art inflected perspectives in community and urban planning processes. Between 2012 and 2014, I was invited to work with the Foundation for Homan Square, the South East Chicago Commission, the Evanston Art Center, and the arts funding organization, 3Arts. SAIC graduate students participated in all Deliberative Cultural Ecology projects.
15th International Conference on Artistic Research
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author(s): Society of Artistic Research
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This is the official website of the SAR Forum 2024.
PSi 29: Working Group Performance and Pedagogy
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author(s): Adelheid Mers
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Schedule, updates and resources for the Working Group Performance and Pedagogy at PSi 29: Assembly, London, UK.
Organized by Vanessa Damilola Macaulay, Leigh Anne Howard and Adelheid Mers (coordinator)
Facilitating Now
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author(s): Adelheid Mers
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A Workshop at PSi29 Assemble
Micro-practices for a New Gentleness - PSi 2021
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author(s): Adelheid Mers
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Micro-practices for a New Gentleness is a score of 18 prompts, each presented as a statement and as a pose. Stewarding randomly assigned statements/poses, participants in a workshop engage in focused conversation on a topic of their choice. The name, Micro-practices for a New Gentleness, was inspired by diagram artist and philosopher Félix Guattari, who in The Three Ecologies asks to “organize new micropolitical and microsocial practices, new solidarities, a new gentleness, together with new aesthetic and new analytic practices.” The prompts and poses were developed through a co-creation process, working through what it is that happens when we enact affirmative critique.
PSi Performance and Pedagogy Working Group 2021
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author(s): Adelheid Mers, Rumen Rachev
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This site will support the working group's online workshops, in June and July 2021.
The new Performance Studies international (PSi) working group Performance & Pedagogy (P&P) offers a forum for sharpening questions and workshopping models that arise from the PSi membership. P&P opens conversations spanning embodied being, doing and knowing across multiple dimensions of pedagogy, such as learning, teaching, and institutional contexts of delivery. Our goal is to discover and expand on urgent topics in dialogue with PSi membership across positionalities. This working group can serve as one support system through which to assess existing and imagine new topologies of P&P practices and methods.
