tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54501795295731463902024-02-19T02:54:15.858+00:00Anderson & StansfieldThis blog collates collaborative ideas, thoughts and processes generated by visual artists, Steven Anderson and Kirsty Stansfield. We have been working together since 2009 and share an interest in site-specificity, performance practice and theory, and in collaborating with non-artists.Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-20177191077295739972018-01-12T14:21:00.001+00:002020-08-02T13:12:17.853+01:00Examined Life - Judith Butler & Sunaura Taylor <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-64501783387619569912018-01-12T14:15:00.002+00:002020-08-02T13:12:26.991+01:00Our tumblr pagehttps://andersonstansfield-aim.tumblr.com/Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-56619975061492413402018-01-12T14:12:00.003+00:002020-08-02T13:12:35.753+01:00Include Me Out, Dave Beech<b>This piece by Dave Beech from 2008 has been very helpful to think through the ethics of the invitation to participate.</b><br />
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"...... participation always involves a specific invitation and a
specific formation of the participant’s subjectivity, even when the
artist asks them simply to be themselves. The critique of participation
must release us from the grip of the simple binary logic which opposes
participation to exclusion and passivity. If participation entails its
own forms of limitations on the participant, then the simple binary
needs to be replaced with a constellation of overlapping economies of
agency, control, self-determination and power..."<br />
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"One way of getting a handle on the limitations and constraints imposed
on the participant is to contrast participation with collaboration. It
is the shortfall between participation and collaboration that leads to
perennial questions about the degree of choice, control and agency of
the participant. Is participation always voluntary? Are all participants
equal and are they equal with the artist? How can participation involve
co-authorship rather than some attenuated and localised content? The
rhetoric of participation often conflates participation with
collaboration to head off such questions. Collaborators, however, are
distinct from participants insofar as they share authorial rights over
the artwork that permit them, among other things, to make fundamental
decisions about the key structural features of the work. That is,
collaborators have rights that are withheld from participants.
Participants relate to artists in many ways, including the
anthropological, managerial, philanthropic, journalistic, convivial and
other modes. The distinction between them remains."
Dave Beech<br />
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http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/article/include-me-out-by-dave-beech-april-2008
Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-41330250615539009102018-01-12T12:51:00.000+00:002020-08-02T13:12:44.107+01:00Yvonne Rainer's No Manifesto Reconsidered<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-70359069534602734872016-02-01T09:30:00.000+00:002020-08-02T13:12:54.441+01:00Objects & Movement, collaborative workshops with hospice patientsThe aim of this session (2/3 at the hospice) was to explore movement in relation to an object, as a way of bringing different awareness to an everyday object, beyond its function.<br />
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We used an exercise "Conversations with An Object" p117 from<b> Body Space Image: Notes Towards Improvisation and Performance</b> by Miranda Tufnell and Chris Crickmay as inspiration for a group warm up exercise. This involved improvising a movement or action as we passed a cup between us without using words. We investigated function, material, surface reflection, the object in motion and body shape in relation to the object. These improvisations grew to consider the physical transition or handing over as the object passed between one person to the next. This was really inventive and continued for about 15 minutes.<br />
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We had a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY8y_bSpVc0" target="_blank">video by Ivo Dimchev based around Franz West's objects</a> as a possible example to show, but felt we didn't need this after such a good warm up process.<br />
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The session progressed to working in pairs and improvising movements in relation to a glass vase and a round fish bowl, chosen at the last session by the two people we were working with. The emphasis was on gesture or shape rather than 'doing' something with the object.<br />
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Through a process of doing we came to realise that the scale of our improvised movements where determined by the size of the objects we were working with, as we were seated at a table with only so much that we could reach. Also, a continuation of a group exercise, rather than breaking off into pairs, might have offered a bit more freedom to fully explore the range of what was possible.<br />
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The third workshop (3/3) focused on movement in space in relation to the architectural space and furniture within it. The intention was to explore whether by moving through space with a different intention we experienced the room differently?</div>
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We each took turns to make three shapes within the room and repeated this three times. We took turns to re-enact each other's sequence of actions, through a process of remembering and improvising what wasn't remembered. We then returned to our own sequence and simultaneously 'performed' this together, negotiating the points where our paths crossed as they occurred. We experimented using a metronome to unify our movements. It was a really enjoyable and playful session with lots of laughter.</div>
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At the end we had a quick look at Trio A by Yvonne Rainer as this resonated closely with the simple range of repeated movements we had been working with during the session.</div>
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There's a lot of potential to develop the range of movements we came up with, particularly at the points where our paths crossed, to consider structures for unifying the floor space as a compositional tool and with regards to tempo. </div>
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We came across a choreographic toolkit <a href="http://www.d-lab.org/toolbox" target="_blank">D-Lab: a Virtual Commons for Choreography and Collaboration </a>by Dance Exchange in association with Liz Lerman. This is a really useful toolkit.</div>
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Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-7728185007607291732016-01-13T11:17:00.002+00:002020-08-02T13:13:11.922+01:00collaborative movement workshop with hospice patients<div class="s4">
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Yvonne Rainer's Hand Movie (1966) is used to demonstrate how small everyday movement can be choreographed to create a 'dance'.<br />
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Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-52083202802882145892015-11-23T11:51:00.000+00:002020-08-02T13:13:21.685+01:00breath, voice & text with Nadine George, Voice Studio International, <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Since 2008 Steven and Kirsty have been regular participants of Nadine George's professional development training for senior arts and health practitioners with her company <a href="http://www.voicestudiointernational.com/" target="_blank">Voice Studio International</a>.<br />
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In November 2015 both took part in a 3 day workshop exploring breath, voice and text, using a scene from <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Marlowe's <i>Doctor Faustus.</i></span><br />
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This was a hugely valuable experience, once again, and provided new insights into how the body speaks of so much more than what is said.<br />
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We used performance-based exercises, techniques adapted from Anne Bogart and Tina Landau's Viewpoints technique, group reflection and feedback, and general discussion to explore the issues, ethics and practice of working as an artist in this field.</div>
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Students prepared scores in advance of working with patients at the hospice.</div>
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The score below involved patients generating text, improvising hand movements
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<br />Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-46711846317910246562014-03-18T14:39:00.000+00:002014-07-27T19:53:01.909+01:00observational drawing, Arts & Medicine Module, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland<br />
An exercise in close observation and heightened looking involved drawing from a range of objects used in a neonatal ward. Students were asked to draw the space around the object, to do a blind continuous line drawing and to enlarge a small detail of the object.<br />
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condensed form so that it could be re-performed elsewhere. The students watched the waiting room scene in Jacques Tati's film "Play Time" and notated whatever caught their eye or they felt was significant to the scene. They could use whatever visual or written style felt appropriate. Some chose to notate colour, hand movement and sounds.<br />
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The students then chose someone else's notation and worked in pairs / threes to re-interpret and re-perform that scene. The results were extremely playful and completely different to the scene they had just watched. <br />
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This exercise was informed by Ray Lucas' research project "Getting Lost in Tokyo".<br />
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Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-76253951300688268712013-03-12T11:56:00.000+00:002014-07-27T20:28:01.801+01:00object invesitigation workshop, Communicating Medical Materialities, Medical Museion, Copenhagen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<a href="http://www.lucylyons.org/" target="_blank">Lucy Lyons</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/SciTechCurator" target="_blank">David Pantalony</a> guided a <a href="http://www.museion.ku.dk/2013/06/hands-on-and-sometimes-off-in-object-investigation-session/" target="_blank">object investigation workshop</a> exploring objects from the museum's collection using drawing, the senses and imagining. This was one of the highlights from the conference, and also the most challenging. Four tables were laid with objects from the collection categorized as body matter, chemical, metal and seeing/touching. Both Steven and I were at the body matter table, and were moved to work with the face of a young boy who had been deformed by disease, preserved in formaldahyde. On seeing this for the first time I wanted to cry and chose this object to work with out of respect for the young boy and to work through this strong emotional response. Initially, we were asked not to focus on the boy, but to draw the glass vessel he was suspended in, imaging how this might have been manufactured and the circumstances around this. We later learned from the museum technician that the boy had suffered from a cancer that is caused by extreme poverty and malnutrition, and that is very very rare these days. Discussion also covered the ethical questions of how human tissue is sourced for museum and academic research, but also the issue of how to exhibit this kind of material.<br />
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Another exercise involved feeling an object with one hand and doing a blind drawing what you felt with the other.<br />
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<br />Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-42254596515165077422013-03-01T21:00:00.000+00:002014-07-27T20:03:52.350+01:00rehearsals for Communicating Medical Materialities, Medical Museion, Copenhagen<br />
In preparation for the workshop we were invited to give at Communicating Medical Materialities conference at the Medical Museion, we developed some of the exercises we had devised with material from our residency in the Neonatal Unit. We experimented applying the cut ups texts from interviews with parents, consultants and midwives to objects, (in this case a medical training baby doll) and furniture, and asked two friends to deliver these lines to each other, moving the objects as necessary and orientating themselves around the furniture, directing their voice and attention to the other person, each using breath as a meter.<br />
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One person applied cut up texts to the other person's body and then delivered these lines, using breath as a meter and moving the person's body when necessary.<br />
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<br />Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-10215968304023663842011-07-15T18:00:00.000+01:002014-07-27T20:06:27.220+01:00The Drama of Medicine: All the Ward's a Stage, Association of Medical Humanities Annual Conference, Leicester<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kirsty presented a paper on our residency at the Neonatal Unit, called "Her Head is Turned Towards The Window" at 8th annual conference of the Association of Medical Humanities, "<a href="http://centreformedicalhumanities.org/amh-cf/" target="_blank">The Drama of Medicine - All The Ward's a Stage</a>, University of Leicester. Our paper was presented under the theme, The Stage (settings and environments). Other themes includedDramatis personae (people) and Plays and Plots (stories).<br />
<br />Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-48205124857630193032010-12-21T19:34:00.000+00:002014-07-27T19:59:46.681+01:00Live Propositions, a series of one-to-one performances, Moore Street, GlasgowDuring November and December 2010, we were offered an unused flat as a space to work with by Molendinar Housing Association. We used this as an opportunity to explore some of the processes we had developed during our residency working with parents of premature babies the Neonatal Unit, Southern General Hospital (2009-10).<br />
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We each literally brought elements of our own practice into the space: paintings, found objects and a number of photographs from our own personal collections. Ideas evolved around what made that particular space distinct in terms of architecture, neighbours and neighbourhood, and what it might mean to invite someone into this temporary studio space, and what form that invitation might make.<br />
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<br />Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-8638867448981297692010-09-17T11:01:00.009+01:002014-07-27T20:07:43.245+01:00research & development for Neonatal project, Phase 2 with Director, Rachel CliveIn September 2010 we asked writer and performance director Rachel Clive to work with us for a day to develop some techniques for working with the cut-up texts made with material from parents, midwives, doctors and consultants during Phase 1 of our residency in the neonatal unit. The intention was to test on ourselves some of the approaches we may develop for use with parents and medical staff during a second phase of the project. In particular during a workshop encouraging parents and staff to reflect on their own experience and perspective of the unit.<br />
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Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-65924660992103804222010-07-29T22:06:00.000+01:002014-07-31T22:06:19.796+01:00Day 3, text / voice and image, Research & Development, Phase 2, Neonatal ProjectWe experimented speaking the words of the cut up texts made from the transcriptions of interview material with parents. Photographs taken by ourselves while in residence in the neonatal unit were used as a backdrop for the voice, opening up interesting juxtapositions and new meaning from the material.<br />
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A link to an audio file of Kirsty speaking one of the Parent's cut-ups can be heard <a href="https://soundcloud.com/kirstystansfield/parents-cut-up-phase-2" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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<br />Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-23744199358407540432010-07-16T16:37:00.011+01:002014-07-27T20:11:04.466+01:00Day 2 - voice & space, research & development, Phase 2, Neonatal Project, with Susan Worsfold <b>Day 2 with Susan Worsfold exploring voice and space </b><br />
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The aim of the day was to explore the voice, cut-ups in relation to the physical space.<br />
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<li>Exploring archetypes: 3 zones (parents on a chair at the side, consultants on stool elevated, baby on floor facing projected slideshow of images from unit). Rules: to deliver one line at a time and then to move to different zone. The baby zone was to be non-verbal and continuous tone or choose not to make a sound at all; parents could choose any line from parents' cut up; consultants could choose any of artists' questions. You could choose where the or to whom the text could be directed to.</li>
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<li>Repeated above but introduced nurses cut up, consultant's cut up and artists questions. The artists zone was in centre and the parents' zone at the side, and the other zones were as above. The rule for the nurses was to be continually moving while reading the texts. Then changed the zones, so artist were at side and parents zone was in the middle.</li>
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<li>give camera to them and ask them to each photograph an aspect of the unit, eg reflections, a space they are comfortable with, spend longest time. This may help represent their role.</li>
<li>Axel Venvoordt - curator creates a whole to present art and antiques in a domestic type space, the way you can relate to art could be from a well designed couch, how your body's position relates or effects your experience of an art work or a creative space.</li>
<li>dialogue important, nurses & nurses, nurses & parents.</li>
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Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-54112070652620711562010-06-27T18:06:00.000+01:002014-07-27T20:00:54.511+01:00Infant Journal article, Creative Bonds artist-in-residence<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9gDX8pfX6Kkw-gbzqR3haydR2zH7DdqeyoWFpfPHoueng1j0BaOi9z7eSBQsk_y6Z5fr8_xXokiz4ZJ39iSGkeB_SBdqw-4WSX7nhFePpot_-fuF4gGYZmKoY9pdYkgongq3yjeq1vE1M/s1600/frontpage.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9gDX8pfX6Kkw-gbzqR3haydR2zH7DdqeyoWFpfPHoueng1j0BaOi9z7eSBQsk_y6Z5fr8_xXokiz4ZJ39iSGkeB_SBdqw-4WSX7nhFePpot_-fuF4gGYZmKoY9pdYkgongq3yjeq1vE1M/s1600/frontpage.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a>Together with Dr Madeleine White, we published an article on the Creative Bonds artist-in-residence in <a href="http://www.infantgrapevine.co.uk/journal_article.html?RecordNumber=6108" target="_blank">Infant Journal</a>, <span class="body">"Parental participation in a visual arts programme on a neonatal unit". <i>Infant </i>2010; Vol 6 (Issue 5) pp 165-69. </span><br />
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<br />Kirstyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03047983244164101045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5450179529573146390.post-2431115843846879022010-06-15T20:42:00.000+01:002014-07-27T20:01:18.846+01:00"Creative Bonds": a practical performance-based workshop for 3rd year medical students, Special Studies Module, Glasgow Medical School.<link href="file://localhost/Users/kirsty/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>437</o:Words> <o:Characters>2493</o:Characters> <o:Company>University of Dundee</o:Company> <o:Lines>20</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>4</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>3061</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Courier New"; panose-1:2 7 3 9 2 2 5 2 4 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:150%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} /* List Definitions */ @list l0 {mso-list-id:225456548; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:973492134 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l1 {mso-list-id:757100611; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:867189180 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;} @list l1:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; margin-left:54.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt; font-family:Symbol;} @list l2 {mso-list-id:825780882; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:806521278 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715;} @list l2:level1 {mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; margin-left:18.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l2:level2 {mso-level-number-format:alpha-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; margin-left:54.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l3 {mso-list-id:2090425568; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:1631359136 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715;} @list l3:level1 {mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} @list l3:level2 {mso-level-number-format:alpha-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt;} ol {margin-bottom:0cm;} ul {margin-bottom:0cm;} </style>
On 14th June 2010 we gave a joint presentation with Dr. Madeleine White to
third year Medical students at the University of Glasgow as part of
their module in the Medical Humanities. This was followed by a
half day practical performance-based workshop.
workshop outline:-
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use of practical exercises drawn from performance and improvisation
exercises and group critique, as developed through our
own art practices.<br />
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We used the cut-ups of parents' texts as the basis for several days working with Director, Susan Worsfold. Our aim was to open up the process of working with the parents' text and to begin to relate this to some of the issues raised so far, including: the role and challenges of being the artist - facilitator, relating the texts to the physical space, both real or imagined.<br />
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We used <a href="http://www.voicestudiointernational.com/" target="_blank">Nadine George</a>'s voice technique as the basis for the practical research using voice, delivering lines of text to each other, while moving around the space, positioning ourselves in an imagined space of the neonatal unit, and using breath in between shifts in focus and orientation.<br />
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<li>How do we treat the texts? Do re work and tidy up the cut-ups, or are they were work in progress after all? </li>
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<li>Space and the gaze as mediator. </li>
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<li>Video and audio recordings as mediators.<br /> </li>
<li>Phrases on the wall and clear instructions or set of behaviours for delivering and selecting those phrases. Place these around a space.<br /> </li>
<li>Would a "closed" performance be an appropriate format to explore?<br /> </li>
<li>Develop techniques and approaches to help explore with parents and medical staff, to help them separate themselves from their words. <br /> </li>
<li>What other material do we have which we haven't explored so far?<br /> </li>
<li>Could we make something for them and present this back to them and invite them to develop aspects of this through performance? This approach worked while we were on the unit, but would it work now?<br /> </li>
<li>In Phase 1 of project we created a context and situation and invited others to experience, shape and comment on this, ie. conversation, questionnaire, photographs. Could we develop this in Phase 2. Could the parents provide the "rules" / behaviours and we read / deliver a text or vice versa? This could combine interrupt / press pause / interject into this to shape what that becomes.</li>
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<li>How text can effect movement, and how space effects movement and text.<br /> </li>
<li>Find specific spaces? Combine video material? Concern not to make too specific to one space. Find what is general to be able to apply this and make specific. Consider the question: What is the opposite of this space?</li>
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