The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home 2014 - 2020
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Liverpool Hope University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
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- GA12C
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- T - Other
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- Open access status
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- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The Institute’ is a decade-long experimental family performance by the Andersons’ in response to the systematic exclusion of young families from performance-making. Anderson’s research premise is that family-making is incompatible to the demands of performance-making (evening schedules, intensive rehearsal times, childcare issues, limited finances, means of production). The research question became: which methodological innovations might be necessary to generate a financially viable, long-term, inclusive performance practice by/for young families?
The project consequently developed a new methodology: the heteronormative family as nexus for research in Live Art. This involved investigating, adapting and evolving contemporary methodologies of heteronormative artist-family collectives (‘A Place of Their Own (UK)’, ‘Migrant Artists Mutual Aid (Transnational)’, ‘Search Party (UK)’ ‘Rev Billy - Church of Stop Shopping (US)’, ‘Townley & Bradby (UK))’, all former collaborators with ‘The Institute’ (https://dissentathome.org/residencies/).
Methodologically, to tackle the existential problem of financial viability, Anderson generated a new economic model which evolved the work of Labofii and PLATFORM to the Institute’s heteronormative family practice (Keidan – Director, LADA - ‘the Institute have taken [this] to whole new levels in their groundbreaking economic models’ Five p.22), also see ‘Money’ in 10, p.33ff.
The books document the decade-long lived-experience of blurring boundaries between ‘performance-making’ and ‘family-making’ articulated as a series of interventions into normative family-making (‘Introductions’ in Five (2014) and 10 (2019)).
Five (2014) critically reflects on the fruits of the methodological innovations of the first five years thereby providing a necessary foundation from which to appreciate the research discoveries articulated in 10 (2019). 10 articulates the key finding of the 10-year performance: the politicization of family deploying anarcho-feminist theory constitutes both a performative intervention in the public sphere and a workable model for young families to tackle their possible exclusion from actual performance-making (The Institute’s ‘Family Activist Network’ (https://dissentathome.org/fan-family-activist-network/).
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