Body Of (As) Knowledge: 'Handle with Care' and 'Please Do Touch'
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 37
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Nottingham Contemporary; Derby Museum; Nottingham Castle, NottDance Festival; New Walk Museum and Art Gallery; Dance Limerick
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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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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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Body Of (As) Knowledge (BOK) is an Arts Council-funded, practice-as-research project examining the body as a living archive.
Phase one, Handle With Care: InDialogue Symposium, included activities aligned towards understanding of traditional practices that exist regarding preservation, cataloguing and archiving in order to re/consider how to use corporeal archives in the generation and performance of dance practices. A series of residencies was undertaken at The Silk Mill Museum, Derby (2017, open to public viewing) and Dance4 International Centre for Choreography, Nottingham (2017) and included three performative outcomes.
Phase two focused on the development and performance of Please Do Touch. Conceived to be performed in gallery/museum spaces, this performance work challenges traditional notions of what an archive might be. It considers how embodied memory can be rich in history and how active re-calling provokes the re-emergence of what was once ‘forgotten’. It further aims to provoke audiences’ memories, as the artists recall and share their own personal histories through improvised movement, and spoken and sung responses. Please Do Touch opens up debate around the body as archive: what it means to document/generate, re-call and re-configure our histories (in the now) and how transferable this thinking can be to a non-dancing body.
Please Do Touch was presented at New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester (1-2 December, 2018), Modes of Capture: The Capturing of Process in Contemporary Dance-Making conference, University of Limerick, Ireland (22 June, 2019) and Cultural Exchanges Festival, Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University, Leicester, (15 February, 2020).
Findings were also disseminated as a book chapter - Krische, R. V., Osborne Kendall, L., and Doughty, S. (2020). The Holding Space: Body Of (As) Knowledge. In S. Whatley (Ed.), Body Space Object Memory Identity. London: Palgrave, 2019 - which connected to an online repository for film, audio and written documentation of BOK.
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- Non-English
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