Coupled - Performance, Double Dialogues Conference, Cardiff University (organised in collaboration with Deakin University)
- Submitting institution
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York St John University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 527
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- University of Wales Trinity St David
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first performance
- September
- Year of first performance
- 2014
- URL
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http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/5016/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Coupled is a trans-disciplinary performative art event (incorporating its own internal photographic documentation) that was designed as a response to the theme of the Double Dialogues (Philosophy, Theory and the Arts, 2014) conference, organised by Deakin University in Australia and held in Cardiff UK. This was a peer reviewed invitation by the conference committee, and the intended outcome was an experiment in the embodied performance of thought. The contribution consisted of a rhythmic group promenade across a philosophical diagram inscribed upon the pavement of Cardiff Bay. The ambiguous title was a multi-layered reference that traversed the concepts surrounding the coupling of mind and body. It was also designed to test the philosophical reliance on binary thinking against GW Leibniz’ novel concept of the Monad (1714); the profound relations of the one to the multiple. The delegates had to consider these problems whilst walking a diagram that proposed the same problems through a non-philosophical iteration.
The theme was ‘Precursors into the Future’ and invited philosophers and artists to consider the relationship of the past to the future and how it determines creative thinking. The contribution of the performative ‘paper’ was to represent differing concepts integral to philosophical thought such as binary thinking, and the mind and body dualism bringing them into play against the historical concept of Monadology in order to perform the contemporary (future oriented) concept of non-philosophy.
In the context of a ‘standard’ philosophy conference this provided a challenge to delegates to consider the mutability of concepts through the lens of a performative, embodied and participatory art-practice set in opposition to textual thought. At the end of the performative and durational walking of the philosophical diagram, the philosophy delegates were invited to discuss in an on-the-spot seminar, the insights and thoughts that had emerged for them through the work.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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