{"id":1432,"date":"2016-10-30T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T09:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2016-10-29T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T11:00:17","slug":"2-november-2016-performing-arts-research-seminar-on-movement-touch-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/10\/30\/2-november-2016-performing-arts-research-seminar-on-movement-touch-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"2 November 2016: Performing Arts research seminar on movement, touch & collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please join us for the next PEP Talk,\u00a0the seminar series of the\u00a0Performance.Experience.Presence<\/a> research group at Plymouth University.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 2nd November 2016, 4.30 \u2013 6.00pm<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Roland Levinsky Building room 207, Plymouth University<\/p>\n

This session features the following two papers, one by Adam Benjamin and one by Abigail Jackson. Adam is a Lecturer in Theatre & Performance and Abigail is an AHRC-funded 3D3<\/a> PhD candidate in the Transtechnology Research Group, both at Plymouth University.<\/p>\n

\"open-state-11\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pulling back from being together:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/em>An ethnographic consideration of dance, digital technology and hikikomori in Japan and the UK<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

by Adam Benjamin<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u2018Access\u2019 etymologically reminds of \u2018that which approaches\u2019. The radical shifts in lifestyle heralded by the digital age and the ubiquity of tablet technology signals new fields of engagement that we are all moving toward in new and often exciting ways. Access however may not always be beneficial, and unquestioned access may pose threats to our ability to communicate. This paper\u00a0looks at the use of technology and raises issues about how we might use dance to sustain the fundamental human qualities that bind us together socially and culturally. As the anthropologist Paul Stoller suggests, we are never just working<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>with<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>the other, the other is constantly working on and with us. My experience and recent work in Japan has emphasized elements of access that will, I believe, increasingly shape the role that dance might play, both in Japan and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"a-jackson-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Collaboration through movement and touch<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

by Abigail Jackson<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

My practice-as-research PhD project draws on movement techniques\u00a0and\u00a0research within childhood studies, to\u00a0consider\u00a0the role of the arts\u00a0within education for children on the autistic spectrum. For some, my\u00a0practice is\u00a0mainly\u00a0performative, for others therapeutic, and to some people I am\u00a0\u201cjust dancing with kids.\u201d By\u00a0considering how these different aspects can\u00a0be discussed and framed theoretically, in this\u00a0seminar I raise questions around my roles as researcher, facilitator and participant and their implications for the\u00a0written element of my PhD.\u00a0Because m<\/span>y project crosses\u00a0arts and social science disciplines, I am faced with a multitude of decisions about how I position practice in writing,\u00a0especially as I try to articulate it as\u00a0a collaboration through movement and touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The PEP Talks organising team is Chris Green, Teri Bailie, James Harper,\u00a0Katheryn Owens &\u00a0Beth Emily Richards<\/p>\n

Twitter:\u00a0@PlymUniPEP<\/p>\n

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