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Performing Consent: response to OPEN CALL VIS #16 (last edited: 2025)

Philippine Hoegen
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PERFORMING CONSENT Short abstract In 2024, the doctoral artistic research project Performing Working underwent ethical review. What might have been a procedural step became a site of shared inquiry: the researcher, collaborators, and ethics committee all deepened their understanding of research ethics. The review folded into the research itself, revealing how ethical understanding emerges through situated, collaborative practice rather than fixed protocols. A recent article co-authored by members of the review committee, the researcher, and a collaborator examined how artistic research challenges institutional ethical frameworks. Building on this, the Research Catalogue presentation Performing Consent explores the complexities of consent (Saketopoulou 2023) through practices drawn from activism (Kin Arts Almanac; State of the Arts 2023), performance (Jackson 2011; Anna Rispoli), and BDSM (Dunkley 2009). It also traces our ongoing, imperfect process of developing consent practices using tools such as manuals and scores (Folkerts 2017). In Sexuality Beyond Consent, Avgi Saketopoulou argues that affirmative consent paradigms overlook the power asymmetries and contradictions inherent in relational life. While we do not dismiss the possibility of consent, we align with critical discourses showing that forms and contracts cannot support consent as evolving and rooted in shared desires. Performing Consent will show how ethics and consent are being shaped within Performing Working, particularly in Illness ⇔ Work, a collaboration between people living with illness, informal carers, and professionals. The project makes visible the labour embedded in illness and care while proposing consent as ongoing, relational, and co-created. Through performative methods, collective reflection, and evolving agreements—including frameworks inspired by BDSM—participants develop flexible tools such as manuals, pacts, and scores, which hold space for shifting needs and desires.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsartistic research, artistic research methodology, consent, ethics of care, ethics in participation, participative practices, collaborative research, ethical review
date16/11/2025
last modified27/11/2025
statusin review
share statuspublic
affiliationHKU, University for the Arts, Utrecht
copyrightPhilippine Charlotte Hoegen
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3991712/3991713


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