How to stay alive?
(2023)
author(s): Man Huen Christy Ma
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
This research exposition is part of my MA research in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research in Theater Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki and Goethe University. The other part is the artistic work “how are we still alive here? what about there?” consisting of a performance and exhibition which took place in Studio 1, Theater Academy in February 2023. The research is a response as well as an investigation on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on contemporary dance, how it affects my corporeality and my creative process in consideration to changes in spectatorship in the mediatized post-pandemic society. The literature review is an exploration of how different disciplines of knowledge intersect with my artistic practice, this exposition is best to be viewed along the artistic part for a better understanding.
Decolonial Listening and the Politics of Sound: Water, Breathing and Urban Unconscious
(2023)
author(s): Rodrigo Toro and Donovan Hernández Castellanos
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
This essay is based in the urgency of questioning the coloniality of being and power (Quijano, 2014), present in the hegemonic aural regime. It is based on two pieces: Wet Season / Dry Season (2021), a sound installation by the collective of Cuban visual artists Celia-Yunior that was presented at the Jakarta Biennial, Indonesia; and Breathe (2020), an interdisciplinary piece combining dance, literature, sound and video.
SAR 2021 presentation - Dawn Woolley
(2022)
author(s): Dawn Woolley, Jonas Howden Sjøvaag
published in: SAR Conference 2020
What happens to queer community, bodily expression & identity when queer spaces are closed & communities move online? This workshop critically reflects on, & invites participation in, the collaborative project Bois of Isolation: An Instagram platform for people of marginalised genders to share selfies of their spaces & processes of queering gender binaries in the pandemic. The project uses hashtag commons & selfies to challenge the hegemonic visual culture social media can perpetuate: Binarised gender stereotypes, exclusion of bodies deemed ‘other’, & hierarchies of value in which white, able-bodied, heterosexual, young & ‘healthy’ are supreme. Bois of Isolation contributes to communal aesthetic spaces in which bodily & gender plurality & fluidity are expressed & celebrated.
The Many and the Form - reflection and reference materials
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Edit Kaldor
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Reflection text and reference materials of the research project The Many and the Form
by Edit Kaldor
An account and reflection of the processes, phases and outcomes of the research project The Many and the Form, which explored in different contexts how lived experiences can be articulated in and through live performance. The text brings together the various strands within the research and some of the underlying connections between the different components. It aims to communicate about practices and provide insights that can be useful for those who are interested in contemporary theatre making, participation and social imaginaries, as well as for those who have or are curious about immigrant experiences and knowledges.
Reference and documentation materials created as part of the research:
- Digital online archive Inventory of Powerlessness
To accesss, click on http://inventoryofpowerlessness.org/
Interactive digital online archive that was made as part of the research, processing the accounts of lived experiences of 300 participants in the long-term theatre work that preceded and prompted this research project. As part of the preparation for the workshops I wanted to gather and organize these stories in a sharable format which reflected the processes within the performance project. It was important for the current research because it gave me a chance to touch base with its core motivation for creating working methods that allow people to translate lived experiences into live performative situations. Revisiting and reworking the range of experiences that were articulated during the Inventory not only recalled the particular context and the sense of purpose that the research originated in, but also the kinds of procedures I was working with in the Inventory, some of which served as basis for the working methods I have been developing during this research, which were shared in a range of workshops.
I collaborated on the archive with dramaturg intern Joseph Anderson, theatre maker Jurrien van Rheenen and computer programmer Joris Favie. The work consisted of bringing together recorded materials, transcribing them, translating them from one of the five original languages (Dutch, German, Polish, Czech, Greek), making a single version that most closely reflected the different oral versions, and placing them into the digital archive with the connections and categories.
The online archive is an important reference for the research project, as it situates the research in terms of the kinds of lived knowledges that it aims to bring into performance-making.
- Edited video documentation of workshop Ghost in the Machine, December 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAxdAD4kEv4&t=1429s
The video gives an idea of the new strand of the research within the project after Covid made physical presence workshops impossible and the focus of my investigation shifted to exploring situations of digital intimacy and presence through moblie devices. This strand of the research led to the development of the site-specific interactive performance Parallel Life, one of the practical outcomes of The Many and the Form.
Although it’s a short, edited version of a longer series of workshops, the video gives a glimpse of the practice-oriented working processes typical for my workshops.
Jobba hemifrån. Erfarenheter från en pandemi.
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Maja Willén
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
I en dokumentär fotoserie publicerad i Svenska Dagbladet hösten 2020 visar fotografen Daniel Nilsson upp hur en grupp svenskar löste sin arbetssituation i hemmet under våren och sommaren 2020 när kraven på att arbeta hemifrån var nya och framtiden osäker. På de nio fotografierna syns människor som arbetar från sängen, från en pall vid barnens skrivbord, lutad över ett trädgårdsbord på uteplatsen eller vid ett sminkbord i vardagsrummet (SvD 15/10–20). Dessa bilder skildrar på ett uttrycksfullt sätt den akuta och omvälvande fasen som det inledande skeendet av pandemin innebar när det krävdes snabba omställningar och kreativa lösningar för de som skulle börja arbeta hemifrån. Sedan dess har hemarbetet i större utsträckning permanentats för många av de hemarbetande grupperna och förutsättningarna för att kunna sköta sitt arbete från hemmet förbättrats. Men vad har egentligen hänt med bostaden som fenomen och funktion under tiden med hemarbete?
Sedan våren 2021 har jag samlat in material om hur människor har upplevt situationen med hemarbete under pandemin. Jag har dels genomfört en kvalitativ intervjustudie med människor som arbetat hemifrån, dels samlat in visuella medieringar av hemarbetssituationen från diverse olika medieplattformar. Texten som här publiceras är ett första försök att samla mina tankar om vad hemarbetssituationen under pandemin innebar för människor vardagsliv.
Till texten hör ett antal bilder som jag fotade i mina egna hemmakontor under pandemin. Dessa visar de olika platser som jag och min sambo arbetade ifrån under de två årens hemarbete i två olika lägenheter i Stockholm.
Om hur hemmakontoret utmanat de materiella förutsättningarna i bostaden går att läsa i denna text: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1742649&dswid=-6963
This research exposition is part of my MA research in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research in Theater Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki and Goethe University. The other part is the artistic work “how are we still alive here? what about there?” consisting of a performance and exhibition which took place in Studio 1, Theater Academy in February 2023. The research is a response as well as an investigation on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on contemporary dance, how it affects my corporeality and my creative process in consideration to changes in spectatorship in the mediatized post-pandemic society. The literature review is an exploration of how different disciplines of knowledge intersect with my artistic practice, this exposition is best to be viewed along the artistic part for a better understanding.open exposition comments (0)
What happens to queer community, bodily expression & identity when queer spaces are closed & communities move online? This workshop critically reflects on, & invites participation in, the collaborative project Bois of Isolation: An Instagram platform for people of marginalised genders to share selfies of their spaces & processes of queering gender binaries in the pandemic. The project uses hashtag commons & selfies to challenge the hegemonic visual culture social media can perpetuate: Binarised gender stereotypes, exclusion of bodies deemed ‘other’, & hierarchies of value in which white, able-bodied, heterosexual, young & ‘healthy’ are supreme. Bois of Isolation contributes to communal aesthetic spaces in which bodily & gender plurality & fluidity are expressed & celebrated.open exposition comments (0)