FAA 06042016 CONNIE SVABO Researcher Associate Professor Ph

FAA 06042016

CONNIE SVABO Researcher Associate Professor, Ph. D Dpt. of Communication and Arts Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark Head of Studies, Performance Design app 150 students, BA and MA levels 7 full-time lecturers/researchers 15 part-time lecturers Photo: Dorte Jelstrup

VISIT at FAA April – June 2016 Purpose: a short time-out from regular activities for inspiration and research During stay: Will participate in some of Kristine Kemps teaching activities, give studio visits if there is interest, be available for informal talks and do own research

OWN RESEARCH Circles around: Experience Performance installation / exhibition Nature, animals & environment Photo: Connie Svabo

METHOD In academic research accounting for method is important: How do you build knowledge and understanding? One of my methods: Research-based engagement with experimental situations of learning, knowledge creation and communication. Engaging (in) performance as a way of building knowledge, understanding and learning. Here: performance installation / participation in Sisters Academy, Inkonst, Malmø Photo: Connie Svabo

EXAMPLE Participation in performance activist project: Sisters Hope Immersive performance installation at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2015 (PQ 2015) Makers Exhibition curated by Icelandic theatre expert and designer Rebekka A Ingimundardottir Live performance exhibiting event. Artists from all over the world prepared and performed food inspired by and coming from different theatrical performances. Sisters Hope was invited to recycle an existing piece into a food performance. I participated as performing researcher / researcher performing. Photo: Diana Lindhardt

Photo: Diana Lindhardt

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT Becoming Iris : developing a schizoid-performative method of inquiry into arts-based knowledge creation Targeted publication academic journal: Par. TAKE: Performance as Research

250 word proposal: Proposal submitted for PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research BECOMING IRIS : developing a schizoid-performative method of inquiry into arts-based knowledge creation TITLE: Becoming Iris: developing a schizoid-performative method of inquiry into arts-based knowledge creation. IDEA: The project Becoming Iris engages with performance as a radical/extreme knowledge-creating practice, where the creation of fiction is integrated into research. I will develop an alter ego; a new subject position from which research will be carried out during my three month visiting scholarship at a small, independent visual art academy in Denmark (April – June 2016). This is a methodological experiment, which seeks to develop a schizoid-performative method of inquiry into arts-based knowledge creation. The purpose is to transpose reality; to circumvent my ordinary self-positioning as a researcher and to experiment with alternative research positions. The rationale behind the work is that in order to access aesthetic forms of knowledge, learning and understanding, a radically different researcher position is necessary: A researcher position(ing) which is embedded in and engaged in aesthetic, visual practice, where this is the rationale, the logic, the primary modus and form of expression. The rhizomatic multiplication and disturbance of self in Becoming Iris is an attempt to access aesthetic forms of knowledge, learning and understanding, and is simultaneously an attempt to perform a contraposition to production pressure and instrumental approaches to writing in academic work. (Publish or Perish!) (Perform or Else!) The project thus seeks to (facilitate) connection with more sensitive, perhaps slower, and definitely less instrumental and goal-oriented forms of engagement and modes of existence in research. Sample of References: Denzin, Spry, Pollock, Van Maanen, Pelias, Knowles, Leavy, Madison, Deleuze & NOTES There are several media / forms of expression at play in the proposal. I think of it as an academic article which engages with visual art / multimedia explorations. Iris works in visual and spatial media. The researcher works in text. 100 word biography: Connie Svabo (Ph. D) is Head of Studies in Performance Design, and Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research focuses on the design and experience of physical environments such as exhibitions and immersive performance installations. Svabo works from the conviction that the form knowledge emerges in, and the way knowledge is communicated, co-constitutes what is known. Methodologically this leads to research-based engagement with exploratory and experimental situations of learning, knowledge creation and communication. Svabo will be Visiting Scholar at Funen Art Academy Spring 2016 (April-June). The proposed article will be informed by this stay.