27 Jan 2024

CALL FOR PROPOSALS


Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group 2024

 

Online: 19 April and 3 May 2024

In-Person: 20 – 23 June 2024 (as part of PSi #29: Assemble)

 

The Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group (ARWG) welcomes proposals for its 2024 gatherings as part of PSi #29: Assemble. The annual conference takes place 20 – 23 June 2024 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK. The Artistic Research Working Group will hold two online sessions prior to the conference (19 April and 3 May) in addition to two in-person sessions in London at the time of the conference. We invite old and new members of PSi and the working group to join either or both of these assemblies.

 

As noted in the conference general CFP, “To assemble has multiple meanings: to gather in one place for a common purpose or to put together the parts of something … In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and global struggles for justice and recognition, we have to reconsider how to assemble, how to come together, to build, to imagine, to co-create in hostile conditions, and, conversely, what we need to disassemble, to take apart, to dismantle, to decenter, to unlearn.”

 

The ARWG invites artist-researchers from all corners of the globe to embrace this complex theme and join us for sessions that foreground interaction, participation and collaboration.

 

In-Person sessions will take advantage of the rich local artistic ecosystem and focus on opportunities for sharing with artists and artist-researchers from London and the surrounding area in the ARWG’s established format of the “Porous Studio.” (Details of these gatherings are still being put in place.)

 

Online sessions will follow the ARWG’s established “Perform/Respond” format, in which participants present/perform a current or recent artistic research project on the first day and then respond to another participant’s offering through their own practiceon the second day. The emphasis in this year’s iteration for both the initial presentations and the subsequent responses will be on opportunities for participation (including active physical participation) afforded by the offerings.

 

We invite proposals related to a current, recent or envisioned artistic research project, to be submitted by the deadline identified below. Selected participants will be invited to submit a more detailed project description accompanied by links to online support materials (video, audio, photos, text, etc.).

 

250 – 300 word proposals—as well as any questions about the process—should be sent to arwgPSi@gmail.com no later than 15 February 2024

 

Full submissions will be due 15 March 2024.

 

Annette Arlander / Bruce Barton / Joanna Householder

PSi Artistic Working Group Convenors

 

6 Aug 2023


Artistic Research Working Group of Performance Studies international (PSi)


PSi 28: Uhambo Luyazilawula (Embodied Wandering Practices)


Online Exchange: 30 June / 30 July / 30 August

Following the ARWG’s established “PERFORM/RESPOND/EXTEND” framework, three interconnected online gatherings are held, one month apart, between 30 June and 30 August, 2023
 
June 30 online gathering: participants make initial presentations/performances
July 30 online gathering: participants offer a performative response to designated presentations/performances
August 30 online gathering: participants offer a performative ‘extension' of designated presentations and responses. 

Below is a summary of the program

 

June 30 2023, presentations

 

ARLANDER, Annette : Walking in the Woods 

 

WOOD, Becca: a series of distributed site-based choreographic wanderings 

 

DAVIDSON, Jamie: “DESERTO”: itinerant wayfaring and performance writing 

 

ARTINPROCESS, Pablo Alvez: Dialoguing trajectories – from African philosophies to performance through Levinas 

 

BARTON, Bruce: Dragon 

 

BOEHME, John G.: The dérive 

 

CANNON, Sage: Collaborative creation with young adults who have experienced poverty 

 

COLEMAN, Beau: wherever you go, I will…. 

 

DISELE, Lebogong: The impact of environment on the human body during performance 

 

DIAS, Annalisa: The Invention of Seeds 

 

ERINCIN, Serap: Desire Paths: The Right to Wander in Precarious States 

 

FITZ-JAMES, Thea: Deep Play Artist Residency: Creative Research & Professional Development 

 

GRINIUK, Marija: The impact of environment on the human body during performance 

 

HALLIDAY, Tia: The Weight of The Word: Investigating Embodied Technologies of Care 

 

HOUSEHOLDER, Johanna: Thinking through Hodology 

 

KRUCHININA, Irina & Elvis Bendaña RIVAS: Mystinteriors 

 

LEFEVBRE, Hélène: To revisit and further inhabit the Japanese encounter 

 

LIU, Tingyu: Performing the Archive: Contemporary Curatorial Practices and Performance Art 

 

NEW, Sophia & Daniel Belasco ROGERS : A Drawing of Our Lives 

 

O’GORMAN, Roisin: Terminal VelocityHow can we remember that we are falling?

 

 

July 30 2023, responses

 

ARLANDER, Annette – responded to Becca Wood 


WOOD, Becca – responded to Jamie Davidson 


DAVIDSON, Jamie – responded to Bruce Barton 

 

ARTINPROCESS, Pablo Alvez – responded to Roisin O’Gorman 


BARTON, Bruce – responded to Pablo Alvez Artinprocess 


BOEHME, John G. – responded to Annette Arlander 


CANNON, Sage – responded to Annalisa Dias 


COLEMAN, Beau – responded to Lebogang Disele 


DISELE, Lebogang – responded to Sage Cannon 


DIAS, Annalisa – responded to John G. Boehme 


ERINCIN, Serap – responded to Beau Coleman 


FITZ-JAMES, Thea – responded to Serap Erincin 


GRINIUK, Marija – will respond to Thea Fitz-James 


HALLIDAY, Tia – responded to Marija Griniuk 


HOUSEHOLDER, Johanna – responded to Tia Halliday 


KRUCHININA & RIVAS – responded to Johanna Householder 


LEFEVBRE, Hélène – responded to Irina Kruchinina & Elvis Rivas 


NEW Sophia & Daniel Belasco ROGERS – responded to Tingyu Liu 


O’GORMAN, Roisin – responded to New & Rogers 

 

LIU, Tingyu – responded to Hélène Lefebvre


 

August 30 2023 extensions



John BOEHME extends Pablo Alvez ARTINPROCESS’s response to Roisin O’Gorman 

Beau COLEMAN extends BOEHME’s response to Annette Arlander 

Roisin O’GORMAN extends Hélène LEFEVBRE’s response to Kruchinina & Rivas 

Tingyu LIU extends KRUCHININA & RIVAS’ response to Johanna Householder 

Hélène LEFEVBRE extends Johanna HOUSEHOLDER’s response to Tia Halliday 

Thea FITZ-JAMES extends Beau COLEMAN’s response to Lebogang Disele 

Johanna HOUSEHOLDER extends Marija GRINIUK’s response to Thea Fitz-James 

Marija GRINIUK extends Serap ERINCIN’s response to Beau Coleman 

KRUCHININA & RIVAS’ extend Tia HALLIDAY’s response to Marija Griniuk 

Tia HALLIDAY extends Thea FITZ-JAMES’ response to Serap Erincin 


Serap ERINCIN extends Lebogang DISELE’s response to Sage Cannon 

Lebo DISELE extends Sage CANNON’s response to Annalisa Dias 

Sage CANNON extends BARTON’s response to Pablo Alvez Artinnprocess 

Becca WOOD extends Roisin O’GORMAN’s response to NEW & ROGERS 

Annette ARLANDER extends Tingyu LIU’s response to Hélène Lefevbre 

Pablo Alvez ARTINPROCESS extends WOOD’s response to Jamie Davidson 

Jamie DAVIDSON extends ARLANDER’s response to Becca Wood 

Sophia NEW & Daniel ROGERS extend DAVIDSON’s response to Bruce Barton 

Bruce BARTON extends NEW & ROGERS response to Tingyu Liu 


DISCUSSION 



2 Apr 2023

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2023

Artistic Research Working Group of Performance Studies international (PSi)

PSi 28: Uhambo Luyazilawula (Embodied Wandering Practices)

Online Exchange: 30 June / 30 July / 30 August
In-Person: 2-5 August


The Artistic Research Working Group (ARWG) of Performance Studies international (PSi) invites proposals to its 2023 gatherings. Following the ARWG’s established “PERFORM/RESPOND/EXTEND” framework, three interconnected online gatherings will be held, one month apart, between 30 June and 30 August, 2023


The ARWG in-person gathering will be held onsite in conjunction with PSi 28 in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 - 5 August 2023.

 

The PSi 28 theme — Uhambo Luyazilawula (Embodied Wandering Practices) — is particularly well-suited to the ARWG’s preoccupations. The conference Call for Proposals (https://www.psi-web.org/2022/11/28/call-for-proposals-psi28-johannesburg-2023/) explicitly emphasizes “performative ‘wanderings’: creative journeys and intersections between past, present, and future, digital and in-person” and “alternative epistemologies: explorations of undiscovered performances, pedagogies and practices.” In this, it clearly shares the ARWG’s priorities of "mobility, wandering, and fluidity” in terms of subject matter and process design.

 

Online Gatherings:

 

April 15 / deadline for proposals

April 30 / acceptances announced and ‘perform/respond/extend’ partnerships established 

June 30 / online gathering #1: participants make initial presentations/performances

July 30 / online gathering #2: participants offer a performative response to designated presentations/performances

August 30 / online gathering #3: participants offer a performative ‘extension' of designated presentations and responses


Onsite Gathering:


As noted, above, the ARWG in-person gathering will emphasize artistic research exchange with South African artists and artist-researchers new to the ARWG. It will be held onsite in conjunction with PSi 28 in Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 - 5 August 2023.

 

Notes

  • a detailed description of the ‘perform/respond/extend’ framework will be provided to all accepted participants
  • participants are strongly encouraged to contribute to all three online stages of the perform/respond/extend framework
  • all presentations and responses are limited to a maximum of 10 minutes in length
  • participation at the onsite gathering in Johannesburg during PSi 28 is welcomed but not a requirementmore information about the in-person gathering will be shared as details are confirmed

 

Please send proposals for the online sessions no later than 15 April 2023 to arwgpsi@gmail.com. All proposals should adhere to the following guidelines: 

  • 250 - 300 word description of artistic research project, question or area of focus, including relationship to conference theme
  • include name, affiliation (if any), and preferred email address
  • Indication of commitment to all three online events (June 30, July 30 & August 30)
  • Indication of interest in attending the ARWG session in Johannesburg

 

Questions can also be sent to arwgpsi@gmail.com

 

Annette Arlander / Bruce Barton / Johanna Householder
Convenors, Artistic Research Working Group
Performance Studies international (PSi)
http://psi-artistic-research-working-group.blogspot.com/


11 Jul 2022

 

ARWG online meeting 5-6 July 2022 at PSI #27

summary of presentations and collaborative responses


DAY 1 (5 July): Individual Projects

Natalie Garret Brown (with Amy Voris) - Gelbezeit

 

Bruce Barton - Dramaturgies of Uncertainty: Collaborative creation with zoom 


John Boehme - MANIFESTO How to be a better ally

Beau Coleman - Birth of the Decay: A Performance for Dogs

Marija Griniuk - ”I understand the term hunger…”

Pablo alvez artinprocess - Where hunger bites – or the value of hunger 

Serap Erincin - Atrocity Boulevard



Annette Arlander - Pondering with Pines  


DAY 2 (6 July): Collaborative Responses

Kit & Annette respond to Natalie (with Amy) - ‘Plants meeting people’ – a dual perspective 
 
Kit & Annette respond to Michelle - ‘Glitchgesture’ – acrobatics in context

Serap & Maurice respond to John - Response to John 

Serap & Maurice respond to Hélène - Response to Hélène

Pablo responds to Beau - Response to Beau 

Pablo responds to Marija - Response to Marija

Beau & Marija respond to Serap - Silhouette Memories 

Beau & Marija respond to Maurice - Rethinking Stones



Jo & Bruce respond to Kit - Response to Kit 

Jo & Bruce respond to Annette - Collaborative response to Pondering with Pines

Michelle & Natalie respond to Pablo - Response to Pablo 




26 Feb 2022

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2022

 


Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group 2022

The Performance Studies international (PSi) Artistic Research Working Group welcomes proposals for its online gathering at PSi #27: Hunger. The annual conference takes place 6-9 July 2022, and the Artistic Research Working Group (ARWG) will convene over two days, 6-7 July 2022.

The primary focus of PSi #27 is corporeal hunger—the literal deprivation of food and nourishment. However, the conference theme also recognizes a range of emotional and psychological manifestations of hunger, and the ARWG is particularly aware of the desire for physical contact and embodied sharing experienced over two years of a global pandemic. In response, we have been exploring the potential for meaningful interconnection in virtual exchange. In 2022, our experimentation with possible forms and rhythms of online collaboration will take the following form.

We invite proposals related to a current, recent or envisioned artistic research project, to be submitted by 1 April 2022. Selected participants will be invited to submit a more detailed project description accompanied by links to online support materials (video, audio, photos, text, etc.), and to make a brief presentation on this work during the first day of our gathering.

 Each participant will also be paired with one other working group member to create a collaborative response to one of the projects presented on day one. These ‘response conversations,’ which will occur on day two of our meeting, can take many forms. They may be either fully prepared and rehearsed or informal and impromptu, depending on the collaborators’ interest and capacity. In this manner, we hope to both showcase our community’s activities and foster generous, spontaneous and animated exchange in a format that can be modified to fit all participants’ circumstances.

250 – 300 word proposals should be sent to arwgPSi@gmail.com no later than 1 April 2022.
Full submissions are due 15 May 2022.
Notification of ‘response conversation’ pairing will be distributed by 1 June 2022.

Annette Arlander / Bruce Barton / Joanna Householder
PSi Artistic Working Group Convenors

21 Jul 2021

Perform – Respond – Extend 2021

A summary of the contributions (presentations, responses and extensions, with links) included in the Artistic Research Working Group online-meetings as part of Psi Constellate 6-9 July 2021

 

Annette Arlander: Adding text on video when writing to trees? --- Boehme responds to Arlander --- Kolliopoulou extends Boehme’s response to Arlander

 

Glenn D’Cruz: Maxims --- Sehic responds to D'Cruz --- Eatough extends Sehic's response to D'Cruz

 

Bruce Barton: Dramaturgies of Uncertainty: Collaborative Creation with Zoom --- D'Cruz responds to Barton --- Inston extends D’Cruz’s response to Barton

 

Andrew Clete: “Lockdown” --- Devabahktuni and Sentler respond to Clete --- Householder/Price extend Devabahktuni/Sentler’s response to Clete

 

Sony Devabhaktuni / Susan Sentler: Collaborative workings --- Griniuk responds to Devabahktuni/Sentler --- Lefebvre extends Griniuk’s response to Devabahktuni/Sentler

 

Pablo Alvez Artinprocess: Modelling a methodology for a dialogic articulation between Experimental Performance Art and Philosophy --- Clete responds to alvez artinprocess --- Griniuk extends Clete’s response to Alvez

 

Graham Eatough and Andre Dekker: Floating Worlds: towards an archipelagic dramaturgy --- Barton responds to Eatough --- Sehic extends Barton’s response to Eatough

 

Marija Griniuk: Eco-violence and performance art in Lithuania. --- Householder and Price respond to Griniuk --- Alvez extends Householder/Price’s response to Griniuk

 

John Boehme: Allyship, Intersections & how to acknowledge privilege. --- Daniel responds to Boehme --- Man extends Daniel’s response to Boehme

 

Danae Theodoridou: Languages of the Unheard, The Practice of Democracy --- Arlander responds to Theodoridou --- Daniel extends Arlander’s response to Theodoridou

 

Johanna Householder /Judith Price: Careful, Reckless, Selflessness --- Lefebvre responds to Householder/Price --- Clete extends Lefebvre’s response to Householder/Price

 

Camille Inston: Betweenspace/s: Towards a Transmedial Practice of Digital Intimacy --- Eatough responds to Intson--- D'Cruz extends Eatough's response to Intson

 

Eleni Kolliopoulou: Choreographing encounters --- Man responds to Kolliopoulou --- Saner extends Man’s response to Kolliopoulou 

 

Hélène Lefebvre: Horizons --- Alvez responds to Lefebvre --- Devabahktuni/Sentler extend alvez’ response to Lefebvre

 

Caitlin Main: Contextualizing the Body: Dramaturgies of Safety in Trauma-Based Performance --- Saner responds to Main --- Arlander extends Saner’s response to Main

 

Michelle Man: Mercurial Lights in the Ring: practising choreo-luminosity in contemporary circus ---Main responds to Man ---Theodoridou extends Main's response to Man 

 

Goze Saner: Sharing is caring: solo performer pedagogy as artistic research --- Theodoridou responds to Saner --- Boehme extends Theodoridou’s response to Saner

 

Ivana Sehic: Embodying loss: art and mourning under the new biopolitical context --- Intson responds to Sehic --- Barton extends Intson's response to Sehic

 

Henry Daniel: Nomadic Movements --- Kolliopoulou responds to Daniel --- Main extends Kolliopoulou’s response to Daniel

5 Jul 2021

ARTISTIC RESEARCH WORKING GROUP: “Perform / Respond / Extend” 7-9 July 2021

Part of PSi 2021 Constellate Programming https://www.psi-web.org/constellate/

Observers welcome, register here: https://www.psi-web.org/constellate_arwg/



DAY 1: PERFORM 12:00 to 17:00 UTC


12:00 to 12:20 Welcome, Land Acknowledgements and opening remarks.

Co-convenors Annette Arlander, Bruce Barton, and Johanna Householder


12:20 Performances/Presentations of research materials

There are 22 presenters allotted 7 minutes each (with +1 minute for change over)


1. 12:20 Annette Arlander: Adding text on video when writing to trees?

2. 12:28 Glenn D’Cruz: Maxims

3. 12:36 Bruce Barton: Dramaturgies of Uncertainty: Collaborative Creation with Zoom

4. 12:44 Andrew Clete: “Lockdown”

5. 12:52 Sony Devabhaktuni / Susan Sentler: Collaborative workings

6. 13:00 Pablo Alvez Artinprocess: Modelling a methodology for a dialogic articulation between Experimental

Performance Art and Philosophy

7. 13:08 Graham Eatough and Andre Dekker: Floating Worlds: towards an archipelagic dramaturgy

8. 13:16 Marija Griniuk: Eco-violence and performance art in Lithuania.

9. 13:24 Jamie Harper: Authentic (Virtual) Spaces: Remote Intimacy, Prosthetic Agency, Colonial Empathy

10. 13:32 John Boehme: Allyship, Intersections & how to acknowledge privilege.

11. 13:40 Danae Theodoridou: Languages of the Unheard, The Practice of Democracy


14:00 – one hour break to 15:00


12. 15:00 Johanna Householder /Judith Price: Careless, Reckless, Selflessness

13. 15:08 Camille Inston: Betweenspace/s: Towards a Transmedial Practice of Digital Intimacy

14. 15:16 Eleni Kolliopoulou: Choreographing encounters

15. 15:24 Hélène Lefebvre: Horizons

16. 15:32 Caitlin Main: Contextualizing the Body: Dramaturgies of Safety in Trauma-Based Performance

17. 15:40 Michelle Man: Mercurial Lights in the Ring: practising choreo-luminosity in contemporary circus

18. 15:48 Katherine Mezur: Synchronized Devotion: Practicing Militarized Practices

19. 15:56 Jatun Risba: Be-coming ki-n

20. 15:04 Goze Saner: Sharing is caring: solo performer pedagogy as artistic research

21. 16:12 Ivana Sehic: Embodying loss: art and mourning under the new biopolitical context

22. 16:20 Henry Daniel: Nomadic Movements

16:28 to 17:00 Closing remarks and discussion: Overview of Day 2 and Day 3