Hi all, Your Fibrecultural friends across the Tasman have a new call for essays out.
You can find it here. It is fairly general. It has very tight deadlines. We will publish this year. http://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp-contemporaryissuesevents/ best wishes to all. Su ________________/\_______________________________/\___________ Dr. Su Ballard | Senior Lecturer | Art History and Contemporary Arts | University of Wollongong office: +61 242392545 ____/\______________/\___/\____________________________________ On 18/06/2014, at 10:22 AM, melissa laing wrote: > Hi, I'd like to share with ADA the recently completed Performance Ethics > Working Group Podcasts. Enjoy listening. > > The Performance Ethics Working Group has been talking to people about ethics > and performance for the last two years and now we've gone public with the > results in a series of podcasts that look at what ethics has to do with > performance. Investigating the legacy of transgressive performance art, the > ethics of working with communities, traditional knowledges and audiences, not > to mention the ethics of how performers are treated and paid the podcasts > address some of the most complex issues confronting contemporary theatre, > dance and visual arts practitioners today. > > Drawing from their direct experiences of making, commissioning and viewing > performance work, the participants discuss these complex questions using > concrete examples, exposing their failures to secure the wellbeing of > audiences, communities and performers alongside their successes. > > There are nine podcasts in total bringing together the voices of 23 different > creators, directors, curators, producers, and researchers including: Hadleigh > Averill, Stephen Bain, Sally Barnett, Chris Braddock, Carol Brown, Craig > Cooper, David Cross, Sean Curham, Alison East, Murray Edmond, Brent Harris, > Mark Harvey, Mark Jackson, Alys Longley, Rose Martin, Sally J Morgan, Moana > Nepia, Tru Paraha, Val Smith, Louise Tu’u, Kalisolaite ‘Uhila, Alexa Wilson, > and Becca Wood. > > Listen via the University Without Conditions website: > universitywithoutconditions.ac.nz/?page_id=201 > Subscribe on itunes: > https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/performance-ethics-working/id846935903 > > Episodes include: > > Episode 1: What is ethics? (launched at the Festival of Uncertainty, 23 March > 2014) > This first podcast introduces the idea of ethics as a daily practice and > philosophical enquiry, exploring what we think the broad concept of ethics > covers. > > Episode 2: How we treat our audiences (published April 8, 2014) > The second podcast asks what responsibilities performers and producers have > towards their audiences and talks about how these can conflict with the > conceptual integrity of the work. We raise the question of how we determine > what is offensive and who gets to decide that. > > Episode 3: Reviewing performance art and ethics historically (published April > 11, 2014) > During the interviews a number of historical examples from performance art > were reviewed such as Marina Abramovic’s Rhythm 0 (1974), along John Duncan’s > Blind Date (1980), along more contemporary works like Pania Lincoln and > Hadleigh Averill’s Lunchtime Scrabble (1996), in which a shooting was too > effectively simulated and Mike Parr’s Kingdom Come and/or Punch Holes In The > Body Politic (2005) at Sydney Artspace. All of these works have challenged > the performers and the audience to identify what their limits are, and when > they will say stop. > > Episode 4: The ethics of community engagement (published April 16, 2014) > The fourth episode explores the issues which research in and with communities > brings up. Consent, collaboration, going undercover and the imbalances of > power between the artist and community are all talked about while we > investigate how community arts projects and relational aesthetics projects > can be ethically approached > > Episode 5: Ethics of working with traditional and indigenous knowledges > (published April 24, 2014) > Recognising that the performing arts in Aotearoa New Zealand are structured > and understood through dominantly western paradigms the fifth podcast > examines the complexities of decolonising performance exploring the > strategies we can employ to work intelligently work across cultures. > > Episode 6: How we manage the ethics of money (Published April 30, 2014) > Episode six turns to the vexed question of money in the economically marginal > field of performance. Discussing neoliberalism and cultures of exploitation, > internships, alternative economies, unequal financial distribution and the > decommodification of art the participants speak frankly of the ways they have > approached the issue of equitable sharing funds and enabling work to be > created. > > Episode 7: Working relationships within the performance community (Published > May 8, 2014) > The seventh podcast deals with ethical labour relationships between > performers and institutions, festivals, curators, directors and > choreographers. It addresses the issue of protecting of the performer from > real physical risks as well as ensuring they have the psychological > resilience necessary to make specific works before moving into the history of > poor treatment and sometimes outright abuse of performers in the field of > dance. > > Episode 8: The University ethics process (Published May 22, 2014) > The eighth episode turns to the University, an institution which has long > addressed the issue of applied ethics in research. However, these processes > were initially developed for medical, sociological and anthropological > research. Drawing from the participants experiences at Universities across > New Zealand, Australia and the UK this podcast explores the positive benefits > and negative effects of submitting work in development to the ethics > committee. > > Episode 9: Authorship in collaboration (Published May 28, 2014) > This bonus episode focusses on how we handle authorship in collaborative > processes. It brings together the participants thoughts on the topic from > debunking the myth of solo authorship and recognising the positivity of > influence, to adequate programme credits and audience or community > participation. > > The Performance Ethics Working Group is research cluster in the University > Without Conditions, a free university and self-organising collective, without > ties to Government or corporations. We exist not to produce ‘degrees for > jobs’, but to enable a human being to improve themselves and the society in > which they exist. > > > Melissa Laing > [email protected] > > www.melissalaing.com > www.universitywithoutconditions.ac.nz > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://ada.net.nz/ > > > Manage your list membership (Subscribe, Change to digest, Unsubscribe) > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list
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