{"id":356,"date":"2016-03-30T10:20:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=356"},"modified":"2016-04-01T07:51:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T07:51:32","slug":"report-on-p-e-p-practice-research-symposium-5-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/03\/30\/report-on-p-e-p-practice-research-symposium-5-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on P.E.P Practice Research Symposium, 5 February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY TERI BAILIE AND JAMES HARPER<\/p>\n

We arrived at Plymouth University on 5th February 2016 for a postgraduate Practice Research Symposium, organised by Natalie Raven<\/a> and Steven Paige<\/a> who are PhD students in the Performance.Experience.Presence research group<\/a>. We were excited to attend our first ever symposium and we were full of questions. How is a symposium laid out? Is everyone going to be intimidatingly intelligent?<\/p>\n

The day kicked off with a keynote address by\u00a0Dr Rachel Hann<\/a>, lecturer in scenography at the University of Surrey. She spoke about Practice Research and how for years artist-researchers have been hung up on the micro-politics of terms like practice-as-research, practice-led-research and practice-based research. Hann made the argument that “first wave”\u00a0practice-researchers had to argue the legitimacy of their processes and methodologies. They fought administration and demonstrated that\u00a0their artist-research projects could be held within the academy.<\/p>\n

\"Presenters<\/a>
Presenters at the Practice Research Symposium, with Dr Rachel Hann (on the floor), 5 February 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hann posited\u00a0that we may be in a \u2018second wave\u2019 of Practice Research now. We no longer have to negotiate the administrative boundaries of the academy but instead can push at\u00a0what can be achieved. This was a great message to hear as masters students: that there is a generation of practice-researchers ready to support and engage with the work that we are producing or may produce in the future.<\/p>\n

The day was sectioned thematically into \u2018bodies that matter\u2019 and \u2018between the digital and the analogue\u2019. Two performance-presentations were given, one by Frederico Visi<\/a> and one by\u00a0Eve Wedderburn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Federico<\/a>
Federico Visi, Practice Research Symposium, 5 February 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Visi is a researcher, composer and performer conducting his doctoral research at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music\u00a0Research (ICCMR)<\/a> at Plymouth. His\u00a0performance saw him negotiate the sound production between an analogue synthesiser and digital motion sensors which capture biologic signals to create sound. His aim was to \u2018explore the constraints that both interface paradigms impose on the gestural behaviours of the body and to use such constraints as constitutive expressive elements.\u2019<\/p>\n

Wedderburn is a PhD student in Performing Arts at Middlesex University, undertaking practice research into Kung Fu as actor training. Her\u00a0presentation included\u00a0Kung Fu sequences from her training practice to \u2018contextualise the critical concerns that working with martial arts has raised.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Eve<\/a>
Eve Wedderburn, Practice Research symposium, 5 February 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although these performance-presentations were from different subjects, the methodological use of Practice Research bridged the gaps in understanding subject specific terminology.<\/p>\n

The symposium featured\u00a0a great variety of speakers, not only in terms of subject but also their location within the research process. Davina Kirkpatrick<\/a> from the University of West England is due to complete her doctoral research very soon. In her paper, ‘Stories, lost voices and absence through loss of people and landscapes,’ she discussed\u00a0interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives on bereavement, grief, memory studies and collaborative practices.<\/p>\n

On the other end of the scale we heard from Gemma Chatwin of Plymouth University who is in the midst of her ResM research. Her\u00a0project, ‘Creating Gemella’, explores relationships between character and female celebrity in social media by making an alter ego. Although these\u00a0artist researchers are at different points in their processes – and every other other stage of research was represented at the symposium – there was a great sense of support and camaraderie.<\/p>\n

\"Steven<\/a>
Steven Paige and Natalie Raven, organisers of the Practice Research symposium (Plymouth University, 5 February 2016)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The symposium offered a fantastic opportunity to recognise the exciting work happening all over the UK and to make\u00a0contacts with other postgraduate researchers from many different institutions.\u00a0We left feeling excited and invigorated to start contributing to the eclectic field that it is Practice Research.<\/p>\n

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\"11226569_10153051888716491_6071843537416933957_n\"<\/a>Teri Bailie and James Harper are ResM candidates in Theatre & Performance at Plymouth University.<\/em><\/p>\n

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