Solway Walk – Moving On
A return to look at the art as experiential learning model befor moving on.… Read More Solway Walk – Moving On
Tag: Performance
Items about performance of all forms
Solway Walk – How to Perform a Walk
Introducing Augusto Boal’s ideas about performance as a creative space for experiential learning.… Read More 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.… Read More Solway Walk – The Experience
Walking Poem
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 brought… Read More Walking Poem
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… Read More Performing Distancing
About that stroboscope in the attic.
Creating an image showing thinking, doing and making art.… Read More About that stroboscope in the attic.
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.… Read More How dancing helps me think, and thinking helps me dance
Performance and Adventure Learning
Exploring ideas from performance studies in relation to outdoor and experiential learning.… Read More Performance and Adventure Learning
Learning by doing
You have to assume this was learned by doing. Embodied cognition at it’s best.… Read More Learning by doing
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. … Read More Shakespeare, icons, archetypes, current affairs (and riots)