Wednesday 19th of June

1.30-4pm

Studio 2, ARC Building

Beth Cross

Beth has been exploring embodied and performative methods to decolonise co-producted research for several years. Michael engages in Practice as Research into how somatic practice can allow the experience of an interdependent, porous and ecological apprehension of self in the context of the Anthropocene. My methods include solo studio Butoh dance sessions, stage performances and video art. Caitlin's research explores the critical intersections of arts management, policy, and education, focusing on the notion of whose knowledge is considered “professional” or granted “legitimacy” within the arts management sector. Utilising creative research methods and exploring how I can continue to disrupt my thinking, I seek to agitate 'traditional' academic methods and ways of writing for research.

About this Session

This session grows out of a recent Embodied Writing Retreat held in March. At its close one participants noticed: “I didn't do a lot of writing, but I know things in my body that will come into my writing in important ways that will happen over time." We would like to explore this embodying that enriches writing further with a wider group of participants through exercises that attune us to how sense surrounds script. Activities are based on ludic theory in which playful activities can sometimes prompt serious insights and discoveries at depth. The embodied and imaginative stretching is intended to create a space to let us be surprised by what we can articulate and recognise in each other's sense-making.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session, participants will:

• considered how to tap into embodied awareness and its role in bringing intuited thought into articulation
• considered how embodied knowledge and the living landscape are interactive and the relational import this has.
• be engaged in discerning how they can incorporate embodied practices into their ongoing reflective and productive practices.
• have experienced possibilities of peer support that they can sustain.

Who might be interested?

This session will be of particular interest to PhD candidates in a stage of demanding writing, whether that be as they face annual review or within the writing up phase. The project is not only for candidates who are implementing embodied methods within their research design, rather, it is an opportunity for candidates, no matter their research focus or design, to explore how their writing practice can benefit from embodied practices.

Event contact: beth.cross@uws.ac.uk 

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First published: 5 May 2023