thought piece – Researching (in/as) Motion

Adesola Akinleye Play‘ideas are statements not of what is or what has been but of acts to be performed.’¹

Adesola Akinleye Play‘ideas are statements not of what is or what has been but of acts to be performed.’¹
In this chapter I challenge the perceived divide between doing and thinking, inherited from a Western dualist divide between body and mind. I suggest playful acts of choreography to transgress the separation of physical and mental in the process of creating a theoretical framework for research study. Using what I am calling ‘choreo-thinking’ I offer possibilities of new methodologies for meaning making beyond the static of writing at a desk.
Fiona Bannon Mind the GapSteps Towards Ethical Practice (stEP)

Fiona Bannon Mind the GapSteps Towards Ethical Practice (stEP)
To embark on any discussion of ethics; an idea with no fixed identity, offering no universal givens, and existing in complex relations between people can encourage our use of doctrinary constructs. As we embark upon research projects we need to learn ways to accommodate the constancy of change in relation with the context we work in, the ideas we explore and those we work alongside. Ethical relations are lively; they exist beyond any written and approved plan and any institutional protocol for research. This is where ethics become interesting, this is where we have research practice and behaviour to explore.
Eleanor Bauer Documentation / Examination

Eleanor Bauer Documentation / Examination
In a rumination on artistic research processes and their documentation, Bauer addresses notions of memory, process, and preservation in the experimental form of “annotated poem.” Separating the articulation of an idea which considers its form from the explanation and unfolding of its connections to others through citations and anecdotes.
Eleanor Bauer No Time for Judgement / More Time for Judgement

Eleanor Bauer No Time for Judgement / More Time for Judgement
In conversation with colleague Ellen Söderhult, Eleanor Bauer discusses her PhD Artist Research Project, choreo|graphy, addressing the relationship between thought in language and thought in dance through various metaphorical operations regarding vocabulary, syntax, grammar, structure, and culture.
Franc Chamberlain Start SomewhereMemories, Sensations, Speculations, and Practice Research

Franc Chamberlain Start SomewhereMemories, Sensations, Speculations, and Practice Research
Starting ‘somewhere’ and modelling some of the things we might do at the beginning of a practice research project in order to put things in motion, this self-reflexive text draws on autobiographical memories to suggest ways in which these might be used in generating further lines of embodied inquiry.
Scott deLahunta The Confusing Evidence(evidence that confuses)

Scott deLahunta The Confusing Evidence(evidence that confuses)
talk on four topics, the publishing of choreographic ideas, communicating what happens in the studio in the absence of the body, annotation and process documentation, and dance becoming data.
Simon Ellis & Rebecca Hilton From Verb to Noun and Back AgainThoughts on Documenting Practice Based Artistic Research

Simon Ellis & Rebecca Hilton From Verb to Noun and Back AgainThoughts on Documenting Practice Based Artistic Research
Via a written conversation Becky and Simon discuss processes and practices of documentation in dance, artistic research and knowledge production, and experiences of working as artists both inside and outside of the Academy.
Carlos Alberto Ferreira da Silva Blind Flâneurs– the research laboratory of Cidade Cega (Blind City)

Carlos Alberto Ferreira da Silva Blind Flâneurs– the research laboratory of Cidade Cega (Blind City)
This text was written with the concern of how to understand methodological practices to proceed during an artistic/creative process with visually impaired performers. The creative process is described in its somatic influences, especially Authentic Movement and somatic-performative research. From this perspective, aesthetic principles of the somatic-performative urban event Cidade Cega are exposed in the context of its practical research laboratory. The main theme of the urban event is the potential of the other senses (touch, hearing, smell, and taste), beyond sight, as a means for the perception of the city of Salvador, in the state of Bahia, in Brazil, empowering the visually impaired as autonomous and able subjects who could guide others in a sensorial and collective exploration of the city.
Maipelo Gabang 10 Things to Considerif You are an Artist of Colour Entering an Academic Research Institution

Maipelo Gabang 10 Things to Considerif You are an Artist of Colour Entering an Academic Research Institution
These 10 Considerations are offered as a resource to anyone entering, or already ensconced in, an Academic Research Institution, a reminder that inclusion is something to work on together, all the time and in every way imaginable. The text has been informed by the written reflections of seven Southern African Academics/Artists of Colour, who prefer to remain anonymous. It was developed using the 10 Statements structure from Everybodys Toolbox. everybodystoolbox.net/index.php?title=STATEMENTS
Maipelo Gabang ANOTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY

Maipelo Gabang ANOTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY
Curated by Maipelo Gabang, ANOTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY is compiled from the reference lists generated by seven Southern African dance and performance scholars during the course of their artistic research studies. ANOTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY is offered here with the hope that in sharing references and perspectives from the Southern African research we are contributing to an international artistic research future that is adaptable and inclusive, one that incorporates Artists of Colour as producers of knowledge. It is also offered as a prompt or a challenge to readers to consider their own references, their bibliographies, and to question who/what it represents.
Sara Giddens Some Thoughts about Writing…for Those about to Embark on a Practice-Based PhD

Sara Giddens Some Thoughts about Writing…for Those about to Embark on a Practice-Based PhD
A PhD demands languaging. As makers and researchers, we must find ways that speak of, alongside and out of the body, particularly within such a text-based academic economy. As such, this writing is intended as an invitation. An invitation to consider the need to write about and from practice, from a makers’ point of view. To wrestle with and adequately articulate experiential somatically based practices, so that the body doesn’t simply disappear.
Hanna Järvinen & Liisa Pentti On Writing as a PracticeCollaboration and Collaborative Processes

Hanna Järvinen & Liisa Pentti On Writing as a PracticeCollaboration and Collaborative Processes
Written as a dialogue between two collaborators in a choreographic project re-imagining a past dance, this text addresses the role of articulations in collaboration and in the aftermath of collaboration pertinent to doctoral research in the arts.
Thomas Kampe Body-Soma-SelfRe-embodying Dance Research

Thomas Kampe Body-Soma-SelfRe-embodying Dance Research
This chapter discusses possibilities and workings of critical somatic arts research from a practitioner perspective. The author debates questions, processes and problems concerning his research towards the integration of somatic processes within performance- making and training contexts. The chapter gives an insight into issues arising from the application of Feldenkrais Method®, a key twentieth century somatic modality, as preparatory, enactive tuning and emancipatory ethical process within performing arts research.
Kate Marsh This much I knowIdentity and Experience in Auto-Ethnographic Dance Research

Kate Marsh This much I knowIdentity and Experience in Auto-Ethnographic Dance Research
What does it mean when a researcher locates themselves as indigenous to a particular community or collective of people? This chapter outines the auto-ethnographic research of a disabled artist-researcher exploring her own position in the contemporary dance sector and the position of others identifying within a community of disabled artists.
Chrysa Parkinson Art Practice as Eco-System Questionnaire

Chrysa Parkinson Art Practice as Eco-System Questionnaire
A questionnaire designed to research and document the ecology of sense-making in an ongoing artistic practice.
Amaara Raheem Speaking Dancer in-residence

Amaara Raheem Speaking Dancer in-residence
Speaking Dancer is a ‘persona’. She emerged from my practice, from years of moving, and speaking, and perhaps she also emerged from my art/life relations. As a female, brown, immigrant, independent, dance artist I am of multiple belongings. I have strong allegiances with more than one place, inhabit more than one ‘home’, more than one social, cultural, disciplinary belonging. My experience of ‘home’ and ‘identity’ – as a person, as a dancer – is not fixed, rather continually made and unmade by relations.
Amy Voris Forming and ReturningDance-Making with Authentic Movement

Amy Voris Forming and ReturningDance-Making with Authentic Movement
This article reviews the methodological concerns of my doctoral research which was concerned with articulating the experience of forming movement material within a solo, contemporary dance-making practice. In order to do this in a way that best expressed and communicated the uniqueness of the practice itself, I adopted certain aspects of Authentic Movement (Adler 2002) as the basis for my methodology. As I am also a practitioner of Authentic Movement, the deep synergies it already has with my dance-making practice allowed me to develop out of it a reflective framework that still speaks directly from the voice of the dance-maker. The making of a solo dance work called perch and the development of the methodology by which I communicated the experience of making it became two sides of the same process.
John-Paul Zaccarini A writing practice

John-Paul Zaccarini A writing practice
This practice has its roots in psychoanalytic procedure. It posits creative writing as a useful way to situate the artist with the field of research, specifically using memoir to trace the genealogy of the research question.
Marisa Zanotti Scores, Stills and ScreensDocumentation in Artist Doctorates

Marisa Zanotti Scores, Stills and ScreensDocumentation in Artist Doctorates
This reflective essay considers how documenting might be made to work strategically in the doctoral process. The writing explores three functions of screen documentation: Documentation as a research practice; documentation as evidence of a performance or process; and documentation as an integral strategy in the final presentation/ defence of a thesis. The essay draws on thinking about documentation and subjectivity by artists and documentarians such as Babette Mangolte (1978) and Becky Edmunds (2007) and cites examples of documentations of different kinds of live events. The essay includes original scores that link recording technologies to creative process, these scores are designed to open up thinking about documenting in both studio research and recording final performances.

Typethought piece

Adesola Akinleye Play‘ideas are statements not of what is or what has been but of acts to be performed.’¹

Adesola Akinleye Play‘ideas are statements not of what is or what has been but of acts to be performed.’¹

Fiona Bannon Mind the GapSteps Towards Ethical Practice (stEP)

Fiona Bannon Mind the GapSteps Towards Ethical Practice (stEP)

Eleanor Bauer Documentation / Examination

Eleanor Bauer Documentation / Examination

Eleanor Bauer No Time for Judgement / More Time for Judgement

Eleanor Bauer No Time for Judgement / More Time for Judgement

Franc Chamberlain Start SomewhereMemories, Sensations, Speculations, and Practice Research

Franc Chamberlain Start SomewhereMemories, Sensations, Speculations, and Practice Research

Scott deLahunta The Confusing Evidence(evidence that confuses)

Scott deLahunta The Confusing Evidence(evidence that confuses)

Simon Ellis & Rebecca Hilton From Verb to Noun and Back AgainThoughts on Documenting Practice Based Artistic Research

Simon Ellis & Rebecca Hilton From Verb to Noun and Back AgainThoughts on Documenting Practice Based Artistic Research

Carlos Alberto Ferreira da Silva Blind Flâneurs– the research laboratory of Cidade Cega (Blind City)

Carlos Alberto Ferreira da Silva Blind Flâneurs– the research laboratory of Cidade Cega (Blind City)

Maipelo Gabang 10 Things to Considerif You are an Artist of Colour Entering an Academic Research Institution

Maipelo Gabang 10 Things to Considerif You are an Artist of Colour Entering an Academic Research Institution

Maipelo Gabang ANOTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY

Maipelo Gabang ANOTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sara Giddens Some Thoughts about Writing…for Those about to Embark on a Practice-Based PhD

Sara Giddens Some Thoughts about Writing…for Those about to Embark on a Practice-Based PhD

Hanna Järvinen & Liisa Pentti On Writing as a PracticeCollaboration and Collaborative Processes

Hanna Järvinen & Liisa Pentti On Writing as a PracticeCollaboration and Collaborative Processes

Thomas Kampe Body-Soma-SelfRe-embodying Dance Research

Thomas Kampe Body-Soma-SelfRe-embodying Dance Research

Kate Marsh This much I knowIdentity and Experience in Auto-Ethnographic Dance Research

Kate Marsh This much I knowIdentity and Experience in Auto-Ethnographic Dance Research

Chrysa Parkinson Art Practice as Eco-System Questionnaire

Chrysa Parkinson Art Practice as Eco-System Questionnaire

Amaara Raheem Speaking Dancer in-residence

Amaara Raheem Speaking Dancer in-residence

Amy Voris Forming and ReturningDance-Making with Authentic Movement

Amy Voris Forming and ReturningDance-Making with Authentic Movement

John-Paul Zaccarini A writing practice

John-Paul Zaccarini A writing practice

Marisa Zanotti Scores, Stills and ScreensDocumentation in Artist Doctorates

Marisa Zanotti Scores, Stills and ScreensDocumentation in Artist Doctorates

Adesola Akinleye Play‘ideas are statements not of what is or what has been but of acts to be performed.’1

Fiona Bannon Mind the GapSteps Towards Ethical Practice (stEP)

Eleanor Bauer Documentation / Examination

Eleanor Bauer No Time for Judgement / More Time for Judgement

Franc Chamberlain Start SomewhereMemories, Sensations, Speculations, and Practice Research

Scott deLahunta The Confusing Evidence(evidence that confuses)

Simon Ellis & Rebecca Hilton From Verb to Noun and Back AgainThoughts on Documenting Practice Based Artistic Research

Carlos Alberto Ferreira da Silva Blind Flâneurs– the research laboratory of Cidade Cega (Blind City)

Maipelo Gabang 10 Things to Considerif You are an Artist of Colour Entering an Academic Research Institution

Maipelo Gabang ANOTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sara Giddens Some Thoughts about Writing…for Those about to Embark on a Practice-Based PhD

Hanna Järvinen & Liisa Pentti On Writing as a PracticeCollaboration and Collaborative Processes

Thomas Kampe Body-Soma-SelfRe-embodying Dance Research

Kate Marsh This much I knowIdentity and Experience in Auto-Ethnographic Dance Research

Chrysa Parkinson Art Practice as Eco-System Questionnaire

Amaara Raheem Speaking Dancer in-residence

Amy Voris Forming and ReturningDance-Making with Authentic Movement

John-Paul Zaccarini A writing practice

Marisa Zanotti Scores, Stills and ScreensDocumentation in Artist Doctorates

Adesola Akinleye Play‘ideas are statements not of what is or what has been but of acts to be performed.’¹