Where ’Performance’ is normally understood as relating to an art practice or artefact, it can
also stand for a social interaction, a research process, or a philosophy. Enacting performance, these might creatively collide. There might be inherent tensions between making art and practicing research, as between performing and philosophising; but, we insist,
there are no impermeable boundaries. We are keen to seek out the porousness here — the cracks, the mutations, the cross-currents. In our interdisciplinary and international dialogues, we open new ways in which performance as art-making, research, social practice
and philosophy inform and enrich each other.
PeARL valorises
work on the Body across the project. Our research initiatives and intellectual enquiry are stimulated by contemporary art practices, with Guest Artists and thinkers joining us.
Following
our highly successful first Lab 2020 — 2021, next year’s programme will develop the Lab work towards purposeful questions of criticality. Each session will involve performance in practice and theorized critical discussion of this.
We invite artists and academics — at Masters, PhD and Post Doc levels — from different disciplines
to contribute on an equal basis to experiment, research, perform and engage in critical vocabularies during the course of the academic year 2021 — 2022 in developing the field of Practice-as-Research (PaR) from a specifically critical perspective.
PeARL is free
of charge. It will run from October 15th 2021 — June 15th 2022 in 10 week blocks x 3 hours per week online.
PeARL is Co-directed by Anna
Furse, Professor
of Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths,
University of London, Director: MA in Performance
Making, Co-Director Centre
of the Body and Departmental Research, and Artistic Director Athletes
of the Heart; and Liudmila
Alyabieva, Assistant
Professor, HSE
Art & Design School, Academic Director of the Doctoral
School of Arts & Design HSE, Editor-in-chief of the Russian
Fashion Theory: Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. Their Advisory Team is Irina
Sirotkina (IHST RAS) and Roger
Smith (independent
researcher).
SUBMISSION
DEADLINE: 15th September 2021.
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