Sensuous Knowings: Making a difference in the Doctoral Space

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Choreographic researchers reframe choreography as an epistemic practice, structured by, and productive of, knowings and knowledges that find many modes of articulation in the world. They elaborate the potentials of sensuous address, revealing ‘less visible, less legible’ moments to offer ‘productive disciplinary and discursive interventions’ (Joy 2014: 4). Generated through corporeal-material-discursive apparatuses, they question what bodies in-motion can do and become, rather only than what they are (Midgelow, 2019).

Through a process of ‘storying’ I will share thoughts about the potential of artistic research in the Doctoral space, asking: What does researching in/as motion make possible? How does the sensuous address dominant knowledge economies? How are artistic doctorates making spaces for a new breed of movement artist, a new type of academic, a new kind of cultural mover and shaker?

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This event is the closing keynote for the Practice as Research Spring 2021 ZOOMposium, presented by the UC Davis Performance Studies Graduate Group.

 

VIDA L MIDGELOW
Professor; Director of Research Degrees, Faculty of Arts and Cultural Industries Middlesex University, UK; Principal Investigator, Artistic Doctorates in Europe: www.artisticdoctorate.com 

Dance Artist/Academic, Vida L Midgelow, is professor of Dance and Choreographic Practices at Middlesex University, UK, where she leads the doctoral provision for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries. As an artist scholar, she works on Practice-as-Research methodologies, improvisation and articulation processes and has published widely in these areas. Her practice includes somatically informed improvisational works, performative lectures and installation/experiential performance practices/video works. She is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance and is principal researcher for the Artistic Doctorates in Europe project www.artisticdoctorates.com (EU funded). Selected public works include: BreathBone (NottDance), Skript (NottDance), Some Fleshy Thinking (OUP), and Practice-as-Research (Bloombury). With professor Jane Bacon, Midgelow develops the Creative Articulation Process (CAP), facilitating this work internationally. Documentation on
and reflections about CAP can be found on the Choreographic Lab website www.choreographiclab.co.uk.

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