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Kent Embodied Research Collective
Embodied research training with Dr Ben Spatz (Huddersfield)
Making a Laboratory: Theory and Practice of Embodied Research
Monday February 24, 10:00-15:00
Jarman Building, University of Kent
This workshop explores the application of practice research methods from theatre and dance to other fields — such as anthropology, psychology, engineering, and social work — and demonstrates how dynamics of embodied exchange that have been developed for many years in the performing arts can be used to structure rigorous research methods that may extend far beyond those contexts.
Specifically, the workshop introduces a new audiovisual embodied research method that is designed to unfold and trace radically diverse types of knowledge through the generation of a new type of video data. Participants will explore the basic elements of the method “Dynamic Configurations with Transversal Video” (DCTV), including the distribution and circulation of roles and powers; the feedback loop between lab design and experimental moment; and the analysis of richly open-ended video material. In addition to practical experience of the new research method in its most basic form, the workshop will include a multimedia presentation, showcasing video works created with this method during the 2017 AHRC-funded Judaica Project lab and introducing the videographic Journal of Embodied Research. We will also look at how the DCTV method can be implemented at a larger scale, through sustained experimentation in a rigorously structured but post-scientific laboratory, and consider its implications for the nature of laboratoriality itself.
Ben Spatz is a nonbinary researcher and theorist of embodied practice. They are Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and the author of What a Body Can Do (Routledge 2015), Blue Sky Body (Routledge 2020), and Making a Laboratory (Punctum 2020), as well as editor of the videographic Journal of Embodied Research and co-convener of the Embodied Research Working Group. Ben has more than two decades of experience as a performer and director of contemporary performance, working mainly in New York City from 2001 to 2013, and is now an internationally recognized leader in embodied research methods, having presented at nearly thirty institutions in more than ten countries over the past five years. For more information, please visit: www.urbanresearchtheater.com
The Kent Embodied Research Collective (KERC) draws together researchers from across the disciplines with interests in embodied ways of knowing and learning. We believe that the visceral-intellectual nature of embodied research offers enhanced means to approach knowledge acquisition and generation, while simultaneously questioning the ingrained dichotomies of body/mind and theory/practice. Our approaches range across historical, anthropological, cultural, political, psychological, technological, artistic, and spatial/ecological areas of inquiry. By bringing these into dialogue with one another and with extant research in phenomenology, philosophy, cultural and cognitive studies, somatic and artistic approaches, critical theories of the body, and other areas, we aim to ask and answer new questions and to develop innovative research methods and pedagogies.
Lunch will be provided (12:00-13:00). Suggested workshop contribution: £8.00.
Please register at https://tinyurl.com/KERC-RESEARCH-TRAINING
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KERC blog: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/kerc/
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