CARPA 9 conference: Day 1
The theme for the ninth international conference on artistic research is Ecological design and performance pedagogies: sustainable practices and interdisciplinary acts in a climate changed world. The invited keynote speakers are Dr. Raisa Foster and Dylan Van Den Berg.
There are three strands running parallel in the programme:
1. Ecological Design Practices
The global ecological crisis calls for the exploration of new practices in performance production across areas such as set, costume, lighting, and sound. In this theme, focused on ‘Ecological Design Practices’, we are interested in how researchers, practitioners, educators and mentors have integrated sustainability into their processes.
2. Ecological Performance Making
The global ecological crisis calls for the exploration of new performance making practices across performing arts disciplines. In this theme, focused on ‘Ecological Performance Making’, we are interested in how researchers, practitioners, educators and mentors have integrated ecological thinking into their performance making processes. How is ecological thinking informing new works for performance?
3. Ecological Storytelling
The global ecological crisis calls for a rethinking of our relationship to the environment and how we tell stories that embraces a post-humanist approach. This theme, ‘Ecological Storytelling’, is interested in how researchers, practitioners, educators and mentors conceptualize the notion of ecological in relation to storytelling across various performing arts disciplines. In what ways can First Nations and other non-hegemonic knowledges (re)shape ecological theory and thinking in/through storytelling?
Throughout the conference days on Thu-Sat in Studio 534 there is a non-stop sound and video installation by Damien Ricketson, Diane Chester and Fausto Brusalimono running:
Listening to Earth is a sensory sound and video installation that invites audiences to listen and connect to their environment through sound. Created by sound artist Diana Chester, composer Damien Ricketson and video artist Fausto Brusamolino, Listening to Earth facilitates hearing the earth in ways that sit beyond our usual modes of perception. Exploring the vibratory interplay between sea and land, this deep listening experience positions the earth as a store of vibrational memory that, via an experience of heightened attentiveness, we may better understand what it has to say.
Outdoors presentations:
Merihaka strand, across the street from the intersection of Haapaniemenkatu and Sörnäinen Rantatie, a 3–5-minute walk
Around Mylly building, next to TeaK building (Academy of the Fine Arts), Sörnäisten Rantatie
There is also a Lounge in Auditorium 2 where you can rest and have some snacks.
Keynote speakers
The invited keynote speakers for the ninth Colloquium on artistic research in the performing arts are Dr. Raisa Foster (FIN) and Dylan Van Den Berg (AUS).
Raisa Foster
Multidisciplinary artist and scholar Dr. Raisa Foster has focused on the questions of social and ecological justice and sustainable life orientation for the past several years. She holds the titles of associate professor in dance pedagogy (University of the Arts Helsinki) and in social pedagogy, especially artistic research and practice (University of Eastern Finland). Originally a dance practitioner, Foster combines her expertise in body and movement with the possibilities of digital media, creating accessible but sensuously, emotionally, and cognitively stimulating total works of art. Her performances, media works, installations, and drawings have been exhibited in Finland and abroad. She has written several academic articles on the topics of otherness, interdependence, recognition, imagination, care, and ecosocialization in the context of contemporary art, dance, and ecosocial education.
https://raisafoster.com/
Dylan Van Den Berg
Dylan Van Den Berg is an Aboriginal Australian dramaturg, playwright and researcher, descendent from the Palawa and Trawloolway peoples of Tasmania. His plays include Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre Company), Milk (The Street Theatre), Struthers (NIDA), Ngadjung (Belco Arts), The Camel (Motley Bauhaus) and Consultation (CCTA). He is a two-time recipient of the New South Wales Premier’s Award for Playwriting, winner of the David Williamson Prize for New Australian Writing, and was shortlisted for the UK’s Bruntwood International Prize for Playwriting. He is undertaking a PhD at the University of Canberra, exploring the Aboriginal Gothic on stage. Other research interests include the depiction and function of ‘Country’ and landscapes in First Nations writing, and oral storytelling traditions. He studied drama at the Australian National University and the State University of New York.
Vision statement
Ecological Design and Performance Pedagogies: Sustainable Practices and Interdisciplinary Acts in a Climate Changed World
The 9th Colloquium on Artistic Research in the Performing Arts, CARPA9, explores pedagogical approaches to, in, and for performance making in a climate changed world. The conference envisions more ecologically and socially sustainable performing arts practices in higher education and university pedagogy. CARPA9 is a platform bringing together different perspectives and concerns around understanding and enacting climate justice in performing arts training and research.
Here, sustainability is used in the broad sense of interconnected material and social phenomena, through which we all enact ecological storytelling in the cultural realm. We understand sustainability as a post-humanist approach in a world transformed by the global ecological crisis but also as a pedagogical, socio-cultural and epistemological issue of human interaction, learning, teaching, knowledge formation and understanding. Sustainability in the performing arts and in performing arts pedagogy requires that we imagine and implement new kinds of cultures, new ways of thinking and acting for future generations.
The conference brings together acute concerns in performing arts practice and pedagogy in higher education. The presentations will address questions of ecological design practices, performance training and storytelling forms addressing environmental relations across different geographical locations and cultural mindsets. Together, we make visible artistic and pedagogical practices that have generated ecologically sensitive work environments for study, research, and art making. We will have performative keynotes as well as academic ones, diverse modes for sharing research and practice, and colloquial get-togethers.
We want to transform the narratives around climate justice in performance design and performance making, including embracing First Nations solutions to environmental challenges and learning practices? As researchers, practitioners, educators and mentors, how do we foster ecological stewardship and facilitate co-action to be change-makers of the future.
Wednesday 27 August
10:00–16:00
Check-in and Information Desk is open at TeaK Tori, Haapaniemenkatu 6 (Sörnäinen Campus).
Day for arrival, information on sightseeing and social events.
Conference practical management
There are three strands running parallel in the programme:
1. Ecological Design Practices
The global ecological crisis calls for the exploration of new practices in performance production across areas such as set, costume, lighting, and sound. In this theme, focused on ‘Ecological Design Practices’, we are interested in how researchers, practitioners, educators and mentors have integrated sustainability into their processes.
2. Ecological Performance Making
The global ecological crisis calls for the exploration of new performance making practices across performing arts disciplines. In this theme, focused on ‘Ecological Performance Making’, we are interested in how researchers, practitioners, educators and mentors have integrated ecological thinking into their performance making processes. How is ecological thinking informing new works for performance?
3. Ecological Storytelling
The global ecological crisis calls for a rethinking of our relationship to the environment and how we tell stories that embraces a post-humanist approach. This theme, ‘Ecological Storytelling’, is interested in how researchers, practitioners, educators and mentors conceptualize the notion of ecological in relation to storytelling across various performing arts disciplines. In what ways can First Nations and other non-hegemonic knowledges (re)shape ecological theory and thinking in/through storytelling?
Throughout the conference days on Thu-Sat in Studio 534 there is a non-stop sound and video installation by Damien Ricketson, Diane Chester and Fausto Brusalimono running:
Listening to Earth is a sensory sound and video installation that invites audiences to listen and connect to their environment through sound. Created by sound artist Diana Chester, composer Damien Ricketson and video artist Fausto Brusamolino, Listening to Earth facilitates hearing the earth in ways that sit beyond our usual modes of perception. Exploring the vibratory interplay between sea and land, this deep listening experience positions the earth as a store of vibrational memory that, via an experience of heightened attentiveness, we may better understand what it has to say.
Outdoors presentations:
Merihaka strand, across the street from the intersection of Haapaniemenkatu and Sörnäinen Rantatie, a 3–5-minute walk
Around Mylly building, next to TeaK building (Academy of the Fine Arts), Sörnäisten Rantatie
There is also a Lounge in Auditorium 2 where you can rest and have some snacks.
Keynote speakers
The invited keynote speakers for the ninth Colloquium on artistic research in the performing arts are Dr. Raisa Foster (FIN) and Dylan Van Den Berg (AUS).
Raisa Foster
Multidisciplinary artist and scholar Dr. Raisa Foster has focused on the questions of social and ecological justice and sustainable life orientation for the past several years. She holds the titles of associate professor in dance pedagogy (University of the Arts Helsinki) and in social pedagogy, especially artistic research and practice (University of Eastern Finland). Originally a dance practitioner, Foster combines her expertise in body and movement with the possibilities of digital media, creating accessible but sensuously, emotionally, and cognitively stimulating total works of art. Her performances, media works, installations, and drawings have been exhibited in Finland and abroad. She has written several academic articles on the topics of otherness, interdependence, recognition, imagination, care, and ecosocialization in the context of contemporary art, dance, and ecosocial education.
https://raisafoster.com/
Dylan Van Den Berg
Dylan Van Den Berg is an Aboriginal Australian dramaturg, playwright and researcher, descendent from the Palawa and Trawloolway peoples of Tasmania. His plays include Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre Company), Milk (The Street Theatre), Struthers (NIDA), Ngadjung (Belco Arts), The Camel (Motley Bauhaus) and Consultation (CCTA). He is a two-time recipient of the New South Wales Premier’s Award for Playwriting, winner of the David Williamson Prize for New Australian Writing, and was shortlisted for the UK’s Bruntwood International Prize for Playwriting. He is undertaking a PhD at the University of Canberra, exploring the Aboriginal Gothic on stage. Other research interests include the depiction and function of ‘Country’ and landscapes in First Nations writing, and oral storytelling traditions. He studied drama at the Australian National University and the State University of New York.
Vision statement
Ecological Design and Performance Pedagogies: Sustainable Practices and Interdisciplinary Acts in a Climate Changed World
The 9th Colloquium on Artistic Research in the Performing Arts, CARPA9, explores pedagogical approaches to, in, and for performance making in a climate changed world. The conference envisions more ecologically and socially sustainable performing arts practices in higher education and university pedagogy. CARPA9 is a platform bringing together different perspectives and concerns around understanding and enacting climate justice in performing arts training and research.
Here, sustainability is used in the broad sense of interconnected material and social phenomena, through which we all enact ecological storytelling in the cultural realm. We understand sustainability as a post-humanist approach in a world transformed by the global ecological crisis but also as a pedagogical, socio-cultural and epistemological issue of human interaction, learning, teaching, knowledge formation and understanding. Sustainability in the performing arts and in performing arts pedagogy requires that we imagine and implement new kinds of cultures, new ways of thinking and acting for future generations.
The conference brings together acute concerns in performing arts practice and pedagogy in higher education. The presentations will address questions of ecological design practices, performance training and storytelling forms addressing environmental relations across different geographical locations and cultural mindsets. Together, we make visible artistic and pedagogical practices that have generated ecologically sensitive work environments for study, research, and art making. We will have performative keynotes as well as academic ones, diverse modes for sharing research and practice, and colloquial get-togethers.
We want to transform the narratives around climate justice in performance design and performance making, including embracing First Nations solutions to environmental challenges and learning practices? As researchers, practitioners, educators and mentors, how do we foster ecological stewardship and facilitate co-action to be change-makers of the future.
Wednesday 27 August
10:00–16:00
Check-in and Information Desk is open at TeaK Tori, Haapaniemenkatu 6 (Sörnäinen Campus).
Day for arrival, information on sightseeing and social events.