How exercises matter as a dramaturgical approach in performance art education
This article addresses a university course in performance art at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. The aim of this article is to discuss how the exercises and the dramaturgy of the exercises in the course matter. The author is the teacher of the course and thus the diffractive analysis is infor...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:b18a892c183344249605d733176bf24e 2023-05-15T18:49:26+02:00 How exercises matter as a dramaturgical approach in performance art education Kristina Junttila Valkoinen 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.23865/jased.v5.2649 https://doaj.org/article/b18a892c183344249605d733176bf24e DA EN NO dan eng nor Cappelen Damm Akademisk NOASP https://jased.net/index.php/jased/article/view/2649/5550 https://doaj.org/toc/2535-2857 2535-2857 doi:10.23865/jased.v5.2649 https://doaj.org/article/b18a892c183344249605d733176bf24e Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 57-72 (2021) agential realism open dramaturgy performance art pedagogy Arts in general NX1-820 Sports GV557-1198.995 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.23865/jased.v5.2649 2022-12-31T04:15:22Z This article addresses a university course in performance art at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. The aim of this article is to discuss how the exercises and the dramaturgy of the exercises in the course matter. The author is the teacher of the course and thus the diffractive analysis is informed by her role as a teacher and artist-researcher. The study uses new material feminist theory and the theory of agential realism from physicist and feminist theorist Karen Barad. The study investigates how the exercises become agents and get constitutive power. The exercises are material-discursive, in intra-action and entangled with the entire teaching environment, and they compose a dramaturgical structure that allows the unpredictable to happen. The analysis describes three examples of exercises from the course and highlights three aspects that matter in the mediation of the exercises – embodiment, materiality, and site. The results of the study point toward the importance of mediating exercises that activate the student-participants to experiment and redefine what the ever-changing field of performance art can be. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic University of Norway UiT The Arctic University of Norway Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Norway Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education 5 2 57 72 |
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This article addresses a university course in performance art at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. The aim of this article is to discuss how the exercises and the dramaturgy of the exercises in the course matter. The author is the teacher of the course and thus the diffractive analysis is informed by her role as a teacher and artist-researcher. The study uses new material feminist theory and the theory of agential realism from physicist and feminist theorist Karen Barad. The study investigates how the exercises become agents and get constitutive power. The exercises are material-discursive, in intra-action and entangled with the entire teaching environment, and they compose a dramaturgical structure that allows the unpredictable to happen. The analysis describes three examples of exercises from the course and highlights three aspects that matter in the mediation of the exercises – embodiment, materiality, and site. The results of the study point toward the importance of mediating exercises that activate the student-participants to experiment and redefine what the ever-changing field of performance art can be. |
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