Description
This issue of Performance Research explores the idea of knowledge in relation to performing arts practices. Its concern, however, is not to simply revisit academic debates about practical knowledge but to offer new contexts and insights. From academic truth claims to claims of ownership, from epistemic objects to multiple epistemologies the topic of knowledge is everywhere. This issue aims to build on the foundations laid by previous work in the field, first by attending to the knowledge generated within the performing arts — specifically the types of knowledge involved in creation, training, production, performance and spectatorship — and second by inviting further critical interrogation of what the recognition of this knowledge achieves in the frame of evolving cultural and political contexts. The issue also calls into question the use of the term in itself, interrogating methods, analysis and languaging in order to offer various conceptualizations of knowledge and the (un)known.
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CONTENTS
1 Editorial: On (Un)Knowns
HETTY BLADES, SCOTT DELAHUNTA AND LUCÍA PIQUERO ÁLVAREZ
4 Dancing in Car Parks [artists’ pages]
‘FUNMI ADEWOLE, JONATHAN BURROWS AND KATYE COE
9 [xxxxx]: A video-documented performance study [artists’ pages]
ALEN AGARONOV AND HY FLORENCE LAM
11 Ibn ‘Arabi and the Shadhiliya of Tunisia: Exploring knowledge as embodied practice in the hadra rituals of Sidi Bin-Hasan
DIA BARGHOUTI
18 Blind Spots [artists’ pages]
MEGHAN MOE BEITIKS AND JOEL FOSTER
24 Choreography as Concept, Dancing as Material
ERIN BRANNIGAN
32 Unfolding Images: Notes on image analysis and choreography in the frame of Ad Extra
BEATRIZ CANTINHO AND TÚLIO ROSA
37 What about Knowledgefied Discourse in Artistic Research? Reflections from Brazil
SUSANA CASTRO GIL
46 The Anatomy of Knowledge: On The Dead/The Undead by Mobile Akademie Berlin
JASPER DELBECKE
54 A Bodily Mental Lexicon: Documenting a choreographer’s method through a multimodal archival resource [artists’ pages]
CARLA FERNANDES AND FRANCISCO HENRIQUES
58 ‘Papiers Voisins’, Stories of Entangled Documentations [artist’s pages]
EMILIE GALLIER
63 [Dis]rupting, [mis]understanding, [un]learning and [re]membering—Lerato Shadi, Hamedine Kane and Euridice Zaituna Kala
KATJA GENTRIC
71 ‘And then again, I draw myself to the detail’: Capturing experiential states in contemporary dance making through Expanded Fields
RUTH GIBSON AND JENNY ROCHE
78 A Trilogy of Getting Stuck: Methods of (un)knowing
SEPIDEH KARAMI
83 Forming Blank, Performing Form [artist’s pages]
JONDI KEANE
90 Magicking possible futures: Vivências by Grupo Cultural Balé das Iyabás
PAOLA MARÍA MARUGÁN RICART
95 Dancing with Epistemic Borders: Knowledge and unknowns in mixed-methods Practice-as-Research (PaR) collaborations between dance and social science
AOIFE MCGRATH, VICTORIA DURRER AND PETER CAMPBELL
104 (De)composing the Mongrel: Improvisation and the (un)known
MATTHEW JAMES NOONE
110 Scoring Enquiry, Unsettling Ignorance: Moving with racialized cancer uncertainties
CARO NOVELLA
118 Meeting on Paper: Dramaturgy as a practice of lateral movement [artists’ pages]
EFROSINI PROTOPAPA AND KONSTANTINA GEORGELOU
124 ‘To all my friends, known and unknown, close and distant’: Or how to think about thinking about performance art
JONAS RUTGEERTS
128 The Artful Agile Atypical Octopussy [artist’s pages]
KAI SYNG TAN
130 Kinesthetic Empathy as Embodied Research: A case study
CELIA VARA
137 Qualic monsters in corridors: Reading Mette Ingvartsen’s ‘Manual Focus (solo version for camera)’ [artists’ pages]
JOANNE ‘BOB’ WHALLEY AND LEE MILLER
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REVIEWS
142 At last we were offered a glass of champagne!’: A study of live art
TOMAŽ KRPIČ
143 A Mercurial Mirage: Seascapes as event, logic and method
ZIHAN LOO
144 Remixing the Movement: Spirit, Sound and Flesh
JADE POWER-SOTOMAYOR
146 US Dance and Globalism at Mid-Century
EMILY WILCOX
