Scottish Journal of Performance Vol. 5 No. 1 Special Issue "The Art of Care"
- Submitting institution
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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 2498688
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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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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3
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The symposium ‘The Art of Care-full Practice’, part of the Take Me Somewhere performance festival, was hosted at University of Glasgow in 2017. It was organised by Dee Heddon and Simon Murray for the University and Laura Bissell and myself from RCS. We took as a starting point the involvement of non-professional participants as a key feature of performance making. Our questions were: 1) How do we ensure the practice of working with non-professional participants in the processes and production of performance is ethical? 2) How do we care for other(s) in work that might be difficult, challenging, demanding? 3) How do we care for the self in work that requires complex configuration of aesthetics, relations and responsibilities?
After the symposium, Bissell and I co-edited this special issue, mentoring PhD students Aby Watson and Mona Bozdog in the process. We used a methodology of curation, engaging writers and artists at different stages of their careers to present their research in a format that was not perhaps natural to them, and thereby exploring what it means to communicate performance-making through writing. We also addressed the challenges of writing the communal lunch, the gift-giving, and the rules of engagement that were integral to the symposium. Bissell, Watson, Bozdog and I wrote the editorial, and Heddon, Murray, Bissell and I, the afterword.
Work on care in art has expanded since this publication and various monographs have been published (including 'On Care', 2020, where I have a chapter). This output was the beginning of a new conversation. As such, some of it is naïve, but also some of it is important and especially applicable in post-pandemic times, where care practices are and will be essential. This issue was the beginning of my current project on breath, care and performance, funded by Creative Scotland.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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