[Fellowship] Thresholds of Performance: Between Body, Laboratory and Text.
Ente: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Scadenza: 2013-08-30
Importo max: 214.477 EUR
Paese: GB
Descrizione
Situated within the Department of Drama within Queen Mary University of London, this project proposes a weaving of research activities that allow for points of connection between performance, biosciences and writing to engage in and investigate a new poetics of the body. \n\nIt asks how can the fields of art, science and creative writing be refigured through performance and how are the intersections between art and the biological sciences is useful for rethinking the cultural body, especially in the intersections between or 'thresholds' of areas or types of knowledge. \n\nPerformance and live art are crucial to my research project, including the centrality of liveness and documentation in thinking about bodies, laboratories, and texts. My research aims to raise questions that have implications for scientific discourse, but also folds back upon the study of art and performance, troubling assumptions about the body, desire, power and knowledge.\n\nIt will develop strategies for making work along a continuum between performance, writing and the 'biological arts'. Central to this is the idea of the artist as the non-expert within science, getting their 'hands wet' with the stuff of life, working with living biological material and protocols and restaging these as art activities, performances and art works, rather than with scientific agendas. Appropriating biotechnical processes into the realm of art practice -- through the production and dissemination of 'biomedia' -- allows new relations to occur, readings to be made and meanings to evolve that depart from classical Western notions of the body and of life. I argue that performative actions within the laboratory produce unlikely poetics, including new conceptual spaces for critical thinking. This project will provide me with an opportunity to test out these imperatives through a range of research outcomes.\n\nThe outcomes will include writings, performances, visual and written documents, a series of interdisciplinary salons, and a book, all of which will reflect a rich, rigorous and innovative model for interdisciplinary practice. \n
Settori: Drama
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