Interruptions, Interventions, Interactions
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Output identifier
- 5003498
- Type
- H - Website content
- Month
- April
- Year
- 2014
- URL
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http://www.walksquawk.org/research
- 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
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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A - Drama, Theatre and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Ramsden’s research is built around the concept of interruptions manifested in a variety of media and methods. Works submitted as part of this multi-component web-based submission represent research involving public participatory walks, art installations, sound works, interventions in public space, and rebel clowning workshops which took place in the UK, Western Europe and the USA between 2014 and 2020. Reflecting the episodic and interruptive nature of the work, it is gathered in its totality for presentation as a digital artefact, namely the website pages www.walksquawk.org/research. Evidence dates the URL’s entry into the public domain in April 2020. All research captured on this URL dates exclusively to the period before 31 December 2020.
The website research pages present three areas of practice-research in walking, clowning, and un-learning. They include a combination of performance documentation and writings including posts, reflective blogs and scholarly articles in relation to each theme. Material presented on the website provides information on the research process, the processes and methods of discovery, the creative and intellectual context, and creative outcomes.
The events represented emerged from notions of interrupting patterns of behaviour, perception, attitude and space. Inspired by Feldenkrais’ movement work Ramsden’s approach focuses on creating playful interruptions in the physical habits of the body that create corresponding interruptions in habitual patterns of attitude and perception. Building on the potential connections between the physical, spiritual, intellectual and sensual levels of being, and creating an original methodology which interweaves clowning, civil disobedience, improvisation, Situationist practices and feminist theories of gender and the body, Ramsden has developed an innovative research practice of everyday interruptions which are expressed as interventions in public space and involve public collaboration and participation.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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