Professor Tony Wall, Visiting Professor Stockholm University

As an aesthetic research practice committed to bodily experimentation and liberation, performance art embodies levels of symbolism and ambiguity that can simultaneously irritate as well as transform our sensibilities. It invites us to (re)think our performances – the rituals, habits, everyday acts – as well as what they embody and how they implicate. It foregrounds and amplifies the normalised acts in ways which activate our imaginative sense-making and provokes us to ask whether these imaginations are actually the material reality of our wider sociocultural structures. It sits uncomfortably between art, activism, research, and pedagogy, and as such requires multi-layered and non-linear sense-making. This research seminar draws from a 4 year-long ‘practice-as-research’ study exploring performance art and sustainability. It focuses on the ‘performance score’, an artistic device to capture behavioural instructions to be performed, and in this case, a novel interpretation as a ‘haiku’ (a Japanese form of poetry with the structure of 5-7-5 syllables on each line). The research seminar will be performed online (we will type into the document together, without any guidance or discussion). It asks participants to perform the “Kursplan: we have 3 mins” performance score below at the start of the event for 3 minutes (using the links in the haiku below), and will be followed by an opportunity to explore the aesthetic, theoretical, and behavioural embodiments and implications.

We’ve 3 mins to write
A “Climate Action” kursplan.
Doodle when you’re free.

Notes:
(1) Please be ready to use the A “Climate Action” kursplan link at the start of the session. We will all be typing into the document without guidance or discussion – so please test your access before the session.
(2) The second link may or may not be as it should be.
(3) This is an online event. The link for the event will be sent soon.

Reading:
(1) Wall T., Österlind E., Fries J. (2019) Art-Based Teaching on Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. Download: Wall (2019) Art-Based Teaching On Sustainable Development (233 Kb)
(2) https://publicdelivery.org/yoko-ono-wish-tree/ 

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