Fostering Resilience - Improvised and sited movement practice within environments as a means to foster resilience
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 41222578
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
- February
- Year of first performance
- 2016
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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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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This body of research by Pavey encompasses projects Take Your Seats and Green Grass which investigated how movement practice with furniture, artificial grass and architectural environments can foster resilience. Together these works explored human fragilities, capabilities and potentials through investigating moving beyond habitual patterns of embodiment. Creating space to reflect on our ontology and interconnectedness with the wider ecology, the PaR probed questions concerning our lived relationship to the earth by fostering understandings of how we are affected by our immediate environment.
Situated within the fields of improvised and sited dance/performance and informed by phenomenology, somatics, theories of place/space and discourses of liveliness and thing-ness in the world, the research drew on developments in ergonomics (Opsvik 2009, RAAAF 2014) that encourage movement in sitting and reclining.
Playful dance improvisations and participatory experiences were used to investigate manners of sitting, reclining, rolling and resting in order to reveal and challenge established norms of behaviours and embodied memories. Key was a methodology of lively play and processes which allowed for slowness and stillness, being and contemplation.
Pavey curated and performed in an event Take Your Seats (Shipley Art Gallery 2016), delivered workshops for d.i.n.e. (2014) and Interlude (2017), and created and participated in further performances of Take Your Seats on Campus (at ‘Transformations’ medical humanities symposium, 2016) and Take a Pew (INHABIT Performance Art Week, Hexham Abbey 2017). She performed in Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox (Sele Park, Hexham 2016), and she conceived and realized Green Grass, a longitudinal public practice with culminating performance (Great Exhibition of the North FRINGE 2018).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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