2 March 2016: research seminar on the location & performance of art-making

You are warmly invited to attend our next PEP Talk (the seminar series for the Performance. Experience. Presence research group at Plymouth University) 

Wednesday 2 March 2016
 ,16.30 – 18.00pm in Roland Levinsky Building room RLB 309, Plymouth University

There will be two papers, by Helen Billinghurst and Kayla Parker, who both research at the intersection of visual arts practice and performance – abstracts below.

Painting by Helen Billinghurst

 

Helen Billinghurst: 

“Flux within the studio space: exploring the rhythms and cycles of art-making in the art studio”

In this paper I explore how the studio operates as a space to perform the activities of art-making. I show how corporeal movement can be part of process in which a practitioner enters the state of ‘flow’, and discuss how artists such as Walter de Maria and Bruce Nauman have created artworks by intentionally framing these physical ‘pre-flow’ activities. Drawing from my own experience, I consider how embodied rhythms are part of the interplay between daily domestic cycles and those of studio practice, and the repercussions that these dynamics have had on some of the practical aspects of making artworks. Finally, I explore how the studio functions as a protected space where it is possible to move from a state of ‘not knowing’ to one of ‘making meaning’, via the physical activities of making in the studio.

Dr Kayla Parker:

“On location: (re)visiting the past”

This paper shares initial outcomes of my recent scoping trips to sites in the Devon landscape, for a new project that explores embodied feminisms in relation to the land, guided by the artist’s book, Escaping Notice, published by Annabel Nicolson in 1977. A significant figure of the British feminist avant-garde of the 1970s, who operated across a range of practices from performance to expanded cinema and experimental music, Nicolson put her female body and the performed tasks of domestic labour in an ‘other’ place, to create hybrid concepts and paradoxical notions that both reveal and conceal the feminine in and out of place.

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