Introducing Augusto Boal’s ideas about performance as a creative space for experiential learning.
Solway Walk – How to Perform a Walk
Solway Walk – The Experience
About the actual experience of walking an image of an idea on a beach on the Solway Firth.
Walking Poem
https://youtu.be/Gx8G84ZPrps I wanted to bring together poetry and place by embedding words in landscape. Much of my art making involves walking and exploring boundaries between the digital and the analogue, online and offline, words as performance and as text. I am interested in art as research, art as adventure and the outdoors as art. This …
Performing Distancing
Social distancing was introduced to the UK around March 17, 2020 On the basis that art and performance can be used as research, to explore and express personal experience, I wondered what would happen if I walked through Carlisle town centre maintaining 2m social distancing, but do it as performance, choreographed like a dance or …
About that stroboscope in the attic.
Creating an image showing thinking, doing and making art.
How dancing helps me think, and thinking helps me dance
A good article about dance as embodied cognition, the idea that we think with our bodies as much as with our minds, or that they are one and the same.
Performance and Adventure Learning
Exploring ideas from performance studies in relation to outdoor and experiential learning.
Learning by doing
You have to assume this was learned by doing. Embodied cognition at it's best.
Shakespeare, icons, archetypes, current affairs (and riots)
Two great programmes on BBC Radio 4 today, Mon March 16th. There is stuff about Trump and Twitter Spats, American history, the role of popular movies in political or philosophical discourse or not, and an astonishing tale of the Astor Palace Riot in which Shakespeare and 'The English Actor' was responsible for the deaths of 31 rioting commoners at the hands of the US militia.
Sally Potter and the best time to start is now
The best time to start is now (don’t wait) Take responsibility for everything (it saves time) Don’t blame anyone or anything (including yourself) Give up being a moviemaker victim (of circumstance, weather, lack of money, mean financiers, vicious critics, greedy distributors, indifferent public, etc.)