Lecturing

Have been invited to develop and teach a new course at Buckinghamsphire New University entitled "Events and Audiences". 

The course will invite students to think outside the box, utilising the social sphere as a place of engagement and encounter, taking into consideration who is the potential audience and what may be the message to communicate.

Also teaching "Devising Practice" at Royal Holloway. Similiar to the class I taught last year at Brunel University, though with a more theory-based foundation.

Schloss Lüntenbeck Performance

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

This performance was truly an amazing experience. 

Alexa and I met Annette Schulze-Lohof in Hallein, Austria during a Fluxus workshop with Geoffrey Hendricks. Her performance actions are absolutely poetic and simple. She recently sat in a local square in Germany with 30 newly hatched chicks, picking them up gently one at a time until they fell asleep in her warm hands. Then placed them down and repeated the mesmerising process with another. 

There were many facets to this piece, Annette with her fish, Alexa with her wine, and me with the earth. We each went about our performance actions for a period of an hour, constructing this 20 metre table, upon which our various elements would cross, mix and through their interrelating, develop all new meanings and connotations. 

Conference Paper: Aesthetics and Applied Live Art

Wednesday 3rd September to Friday 5th September

As part of the Applied Practice Working Group, I presented a paper entitled: Aesthetics and Applied Live Art at TaPRA conference in Leeds

www.tapra.org

There's a lot I could write to respond to this, beginning with being the "practitioner" in an academic circle to now being the "academic" when around practitioners/production people.

I've added the paper I presented to my website for public scrutiny, if anyone feels like reading and responding:  

> >  Aesthetics and Applied Live Art  < <

What I can say now was the similarity between TaPRA and the many other organisations I have been a part of. Of course with the difference of content, the working group reminded me of working at the non-profit in Brooklyn and the voting and general organisation reminded me of my self-managed coop building in NYC. In essence the organising and presenting format model was in place everywhere and very similar if not the same. I guess it works is all, makes me wonder again about why it doesn't in government, maybe it just gets so big it stops working. Thats the optimistic viewpoint, I just think its greed...