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Audience behavior in immersive theatre: an environment-behavior studies analysis of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More
No full textPlace can shape and influence audience behavior during a performance. This is especially noticeable in the site-specific immersive theatre model, where the performance occurs in a non-theatre setting and audiences have an active role. In this article, we argue that ‘place schema’ – a term from the interdisciplinary field of environment-behavior studies – provides a conceptual framework for better understanding audience behavior within immersive theatre environments. We know how to behave in a theatre building because we have codified experiences regarding the environment in our minds called place schemata. They help us process spatial information, predict what is likely to happen, and decide how to take action accordingly. However, if this spatial information does not match the ‘theatre schema’ we have in our minds, as is often the case in an immersive theatre setting, we would need to update our existing schema. In this article, we examine Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (2011 New York production, which is still running) to evaluate how audiences carry the behavioral rules of traditional theatre schema into immersive theatres and consider how expectations, roles, and rules of place influence the relationship between the audience and setting
Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds
No full text‘Femme’ describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Building upon experiences of transformation, belonging and harm, this book offers transfeminist contributions to movements for collective liberation.
Trans Femme Futures envisions the future through everyday actions that revolutionise all of our lives. Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift discuss struggles around trans healthcare, and the need for collectives rather than institutions, the importance of mutual care, and transfeminism as abolition.
The authors show how social change can be achieved through transformative practices that allow queer life to thrive in a time of climate, health, political and economic crises
Unraveling the Caribbean Origins, Makers, and Wearers of the Robe à la creole, c. 1780–1815
No full textIn 1783, Marie Antoinette shocked the French public with a portrait that depicted her in a thin, white muslin dress. Although later known (because of its connection to the queen) as the chemise a la reine, the dress was originally described as a "robe à la creole" in her diary and was inspired by the gowns worn by the wives of plantation owners in the French Caribbean. This article investigates the "creole" origins, makers, and wearers of this garment in the British and French Caribbean, arguing that it was not only the product of the labors of enslaved and free Caribbean women of color, but that their parallel interactions with the robe also worked to disrupt and subvert the racist neoclassical connotations that came to surround the dress in Europe. Moving back and forth between Europe and the Caribbean, this essay explores how the dissemination of fashion was not a one-directional flow from the metropole to its colonies, but rather part of a wider network of circulation and dialogue between the two
How Much Percussion Can We Take?
No full textThis letter was commissioned as a response to Joseph Noonan-Ganley’s collection of artist’s texts, THE CESSPOOL OF RAPTURE (MA Bibliotheque, 2024). My essay is an afterword to Noonan-Ganley’s chapter of texts on teaching practice.
This essay is an evocation of how teaching and learning feels in the art studio. The common forms of the tutorial, the crit and the student exhibition arise within the text but are fictionalised as situations of provocation, opposition and grace. The writing has a fractured buoyancy which captures the energy needed to inhabit an active learning and teaching situation with a large group of art students. Methods of observation, listening and non-verbal holding are described in relation to daily habits of creative practice
Optimising care transitions for people with multiple long-term conditions: learning from a stakeholder engagement workshop
Get PDFThis briefing paper reports on the findings from a stakeholder engagement workshop undertaken in collaboration with the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre (DHI). This work is part of the Systems Engineering and Thinking to Transform Transitions (SET4) of Health and Social Care study. The stakeholder engagement workshop included a diverse group of individuals from various sectors, including those directly involved in providing health and care services, as well as representatives from universities, industry, policy-making bodies, and other representative organisations
30 Years of MEARU Exhibition
Get PDFAn exhibition and event to look back over 30 years of MEARU's research
Designing Participation to Reframe Power in Collaborative Research with Young People with Lived Experience
No full textIntegrating lived experience in decision-making processes within research and policy making is an evolving area of practice in design. Participatory Design offers an approach prioritising authentic engagement and agency over knowledge in research (Dunn, Cruickshank, and Coupe 2023; Hodson, Svanda, and Dadashi 2023); and integrating lived experience expertise within policy design (Oakley and Robertson 2023). This also aligns with recognition of ‘pure or tacit knowledge’ as integral to decision-making processes (Smith-Merry 2020), especially within the practice of care (Reinders 2010). In this context, the power dynamics between researchers and lived experience partners (Green and Johns 2019) requires further discussion, to define ways to support genuine participation that values mutual learning between research knowledge and lived experience expertise.
The paper discusses the role and contributions of design to an ongoing research programme – EDIFY (Eating Disorders: Delineating illness and recovery trajectories to inform personalised prevention and early intervention in young people), which aims to transform the way eating disorders are understood and treated by working directly with young people and uses an interdisciplinary approach. A dedicated lived experience workstream – ‘LENS’, focuses specifically on understanding experiences of young people from diverse, underrepresented, and ‘at risk’ groups. The objective is to co-create a range of stories from lived experience and develop an inclusive language for how we talk about and raise awareness of eating disorders. The work builds on a conceptual framework for participatory design in sensitive contexts (Raman and French 2022), to enable genuine participation from young people with lived experience. This paper specifically focuses on two facets of designing participation from young people with lived experience: a participatory engagement tool to foreground lived experience expertise of young people to challenge stereotypes and shift existing narratives around eating disorders; and the role of experts by lived experience as peer researchers to enable a shift in how future priorities for eating disorders research, practice and policy are developed. We further reflect on the design of participation when working with young people with lived experience as part of a research team, and discuss how power will be made visible, (re)framed and enacted in this context.
Through this paper and participation at the conference, we invite further dialogue on working with young people as peer researchers and ways in which participatory design methods foregrounding lived experience could challenge dominant narratives, focusing on diversity and inclusion
A History of Possilpark
No full text'A History of Possilpark' is a previously unpublished work written by Willy Maley in 1993 and discovered by Joey Simons in the local history box at Possilpark Library in the course of researching this project.
'The Spy Who Went Back to Bricklaying' is a publication which brings together writing by Ned Donaldson and excerpts from a previously unpublished interview between Ned and writer, activist, and 1994 Booker Prize winner James Kelman. A selection of original artefacts relating to Ned’s work and life from Dr. Anni’s Donaldson personal archive can also be found in the vitrines.
It is part of 'Beyond the Forbidden Gate', a body of work by Joey Simons made in response to the latest phase of urban regeneration in North Glasgow.
Produced by Joey Simons for Glasgow Sculpture Studios in collaboration with designer Andrew Brash, the book series 'Beyond the Forbidden Gate' presents a suite of publications that tell previously unpublished and newly commissioned working-class histories, stories, and scripts that centre on North Glasgow.
The Mitchell Library’s Old Glasgow Room was a central gathering point for this project, with the space used by Joey and his collaborators to present archival materials and artworks that investigate the class forces shaping competing visions for North Glasgow. A series of talks, workshops, poetry readings and text-based works will also unfold across public libraries in Springburn, Woodside and Possilpark. These civic spaces, forever under threat, remain a vital space for culture to persist and flower amidst the developers’ plans
SITE VISIT ONE
No full textA filmed and sound work response (including contact mics and hydrophones) to a residency spent as part of the Interface Inagh Woodlands Symposium in Connemara, Ireland. The Woodland Symposium is a collaborative project which facilitates artists in making an artistic response to ecological activism by engaging in a slow-art response to the changing ecology of the site of Interface in Connemara.
This yearly symposium has been established to reflect on the planned restoration of Sitka Spruce to native woodland. The intention of the project is to initiate a slow-art response with longevity, which will evolve with the slowly changing ecology of the site. The group of artists will return year on year, with artists dipping in and out over the years
Blue Sky Publishing, Blue Sky Printing - Publishing Guides for the Field
No full textIn Alain Resnais' Toute la Mémoire du Monde, a forbiddingly inhuman landscape in which man attempts to imprison ‘knowledge’ in an effort to counter the limits of his own memory. Only the act of individual selection - a single patron choosing a specific text – is there hope that this undifferentiated mass of knowledge can be redeemed as the reader makes discriminating use of the collective national memory for the fulfilment of a constructive individual purpose. The Practicing Landscape Field Guide series has emerged from the online seminar series run by Reading Landscape in 2021-22, under the overarching title, Landscapes of Energy and Extraction. The short paper asks questions about publishing - in the current financial and environmental landscape, the question of dissemination through traditional publishing pertains. A possible answer is to consider the book as an 'anomic' object, one that defies and surpasses its own mode of production and traces it's own line of inquiry