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ANTI Adult RUN! RUN! RUN!
No full textGALLERY: http://kaisyngtan.com/portfolio/antiadultrun/ VIDEO CLIPS: https://vimeo.com/144658511 https://vimeo.com/138449874 MEDIA ENGAGEMENT: Newspaper and radio (in Finnish) Yle Uutiset http://bit.ly/2dwnNqT Real Time Arts (Australia) review: goo.gl/LTLYD0 CONFERENCE PRESENTATION ABOUT THIS WORK: Royal Geographical Society RGS-IBG Conference 2016 goo.gl/GLq45p QUESTIONS: With a logocentric, technology-saturated world, and divisive silos of the elite art world and the academy, could individuals – as adults, academics and artists – be taught the gift (‘anti’ in the Finnish language) of having unadulterated fun, and question existing orthodoxies? Through artist-led creative interfaces and initiatives, what new insights arise, regarding participation, audience and place to promote public health and enrich existing understanding of wellbeing? RIGOUR, ORIGINALITY: Also known as the #antiadultrun, this was a series of masterclasses run by experts aged 7-14 to teach adults (top age 82) how to re-claim fun and be ‘old children’, like the Chinese Daoist philosopher Lao Zi (literally ‘old child’, 500BCE). The workshops draw on my research since 2009 on the ‘gentle anarchism’ of Lao Zi, and the Situationists’ notion of the revolution of everyday life, and the childlike and subversive qualities of running. Commissioned by the annual ANTI Festival of Contemporary Arts, this was held in Kuopio Finland, September 2015, which also featured at the festival was acclaimed live artist Heather Cassils. Around 40 participants enjoyed the 5 masterclasses that took place at a local stadium (before the Kuopio Annual Marathon kicked off), and the Kuopio Market Square in Finland. The ‘Masters’ were recruited from a local school, and the artwork was co-developed from 2-days/4 hours of workshops. I invited geographer Dr Alan Latham (UCL Senior Lecturer) to work on this with me. SIGNIFICANCE: Feedback from participants and the masters were 100% positive. We successfully demonstrated that running be activated as a critical and creative tool to cut across and indeed question the boundaries of language and culture (Finnish; UK; NZ; Singapore), discipline (geography; fine art) and age (adults and non-adults). The work is a strong example of everyday revolution and public intervention through interdisciplinary and intercultural and intergenerational collaboration. We subverted some of the expectations around the roles of children and adult. Through a clever design (simple, accessible, fun, interactive), generated new insights about participation, audience and place that contribute to existing efforts to promote public health and wellbeing. FEEDBACK include: 'The ANTI festival project was very interesting and we have nice memories about it. Let us know if your making this kind of project again sometimes here in Kuopio! - Maria Ikonen ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival: from http://antifestival.com/en/info/ ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival works with innovative artists on projects that explore and explode urban space. The next festival will take place between 8th and 13th September 2020. ANTI began life in 2002. Since then we’ve produce 18 editions of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival and have established a year-round programme of artist residencies and cultural projects and events. In 2014 we established the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, one of Finland’s richest cultural prizes. Held annually in Kuopio, Finland, the city hosts the festival, projects by artists from around the world inhabit the spaces of public life – homes, shops, city squares, business, forests, lakes – and directly engage communities and audiences in the making and showing of their work. The festival is free to attend. We’ve presented and commissioned some of the world’s most exciting artists from USA, Australia, Mexico, Japan and Europe along with leading artists from Finland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. We’re proud to support an ever-growing generation of emerging artists, often presenting artists internationally for the first time. Photo credit: ANTI-ADULT RUN! RUN! RUN! MASTERCLASS #antiadultrun, ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival 2015 - Photo: Pekka Mäkine
RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2018
No full textThis was the 3rd edition of a festival that I founded, led/directed, curated and produced. Also known as the #r3fest, this was a hybrid programme examining running as an arts and humanities discourse, not just within sport science or as a fitness practice. This fills an existing gap within and beyond the academy. #r3fest 2018 was held in exile, hosted as it was hosted by the Paris School of Arts and Culture, University of Kent. Consistent with #r3fest's ethos of developing the work of emerging researchers and artists, this included a newcomer whose PhD in Information and Knowledge Society was from the Open University in Catalonia. The theme was a timely Dangerous Movements. Kai's keynote lecture responded to toxic trends like the rise of protectionism and the end of the freedom of movement. There was a live running and tracking activity too by Dr Veronique Chance. Co-curator: author and Reader in English and Environmental Humanities Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid. See images http://kaisyngtan.com/r3fest/ Thus far, RUN! RUN! RUN! has presented the drawings, installations, performances, papers, academic posters and films of 65 researchers, artists and runners from 40 institutions, across venues including Cardiff National Indoor Stadium and Paris School of Culture and Art. Through RUN! RUN! RUN!, which the Guardian urges other academics to 'take a leaf from' (2014), I am recognised as being 'absolutely central' in the field of 'Running Studies' (Whelan 2015). BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking Programme (January 11, 2017), reached out to 300,000 listeners. http://goo.gl/nXL4Df My curatorial framework was published on Royal Society of the Arts blog, which reaches out to a global network of 28,000 fellows and more non-fellows (open access) http://bit.ly/2g1jAdr I co-founded and now lead the Running Cultures Group, which consists of artists, runners and academics from all walks. A JISCMail list, which I co-manage, has 70 subscribers from Chicago to Grenoble to Aberystwyth. http://goo.gl/8ee5d
Free thinking - running
No full textWe've been running for two million years give or take. Shahidha Bari and Laurence Scott explore contemporary running as solitary inspiration and communal activity with the Geographer and 1999 Scottish Hill Running Champion, Hayden Lorimer, the artists Kai Syng Tan and Angus Farquhar, and the literary scholar and bare-foot artiste, Vybarr Cregan-Reid. Conversation ranges from feeling empowered on city streets to teaming up with the wind to the horrid history of the treadmill and explore whether Running deserves better representation in the arts. Guests: Vybarr Cregan-Reid - author of Footnotes How Running Makes Us Human Angus Farquhar, Creative Director of NVA Public Art, author of a blog 'The Grim Runner' Hayden Lorimer Running Geographer Kai Syng Tan, Artist and curator of a biennial festival Run Run Run Producer: Jacqueline Smith
Tough Ultramarathons and Life on the Run
No full textWhat are the ways in which running — the popular exercise, the locomotion, the etymology of the word and its rich idiomatic expressions — can be activated as a metaphor and method to think and talk about the so-called ‘migrant crisis’ and, more generally, life on the run as political or intellec-tual exiles (voluntary/forced)? These images are created by artist-researcher Kai Syng Tan, herself a (mediocre) runner, mongrel and one of 230 million people around the world who lives outside the country they were born, with the aim of enriching the discussion dominated by politicians, journal-ists, scholars and Nimbies
An exploration of running as metaphor, methodology, material through the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale #r3fest 2016
No full text© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper runs through the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale’s origins, curatorial framework, and its potential future impact. Also known as #r3fest, the Biennale is an interdisciplinary programme exploring running as an arts and humanities discourse. Exploring running as creative material, metaphor and methodology, the 2016 edition threw a spotlight on live art, drawings, films and activities by practitioners in the arts, academia and NGOs which have hitherto been underrepresented in dominant discourses in the emerging field of ‘Running Studies’. The paper raises philosophical questions about the synergies between arts and sport. Examples of practice across visual and performance art locate RUN! RUN! RUN! and the paper in the area of curating, suggesting a new way of considering how arts and sports can be organized, considered and presented. My aims include: widening the current discourse, inviting curators, artists and academics to consider and generate yet other experiments that activate running as creative material, metaphor and methodology, and challenging existing assumptions in the arts about sport
RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016
No full textThis was the second leg of an international, interdisciplinary festival that I founded, led/directed, curated and produced. Also known as the #r3fest, this was a hybrid programme examining running as an arts and humanities discourse, not just within sport science or as a fitness practice. This fills an existing gap within and beyond the academy. #r3fest 2016 featured 30 artists, academics and runners from 18 institutions and charities, from 21/11/2016 - 24/11/2016. We explored running as a metaphor to consider gender, ageing and borders. We sourced for and secured 3 venues: screening, seminar and performance at Leeds Arts University (LAU), UCL and National Indoor Athletics Centre in Cardiff. I designed mentor-learner couplings: my first-time co-curators (and #r3fest alumni) artists Dr Carali McCall (London-based) and Annie Grove-White (Cardiff-based) were paired with Latham in London, and a Senior Lecturer in theatre in Aberystwyth. We ran monthly 1-2-hour discussions. Feedback from Grove-White (retired Principal Lecturer, Director of Learning & Teaching, Cardiff School of Art & Design): ‘I enjoy the richness of sharing ideas and support’. Dr McCall (PhD in Fine Art, CSM) says the group taught her ‘commitment,discipline and working with others’. I was an invited speaker on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking. Thus far, RUN! RUN! RUN! has presented the drawings, installations, performances, papers, academic posters and films of 65 researchers, artists and runners from 40 institutions, across venues including Cardiff National Indoor Stadium and Paris School of Culture and Art. Through RUN! RUN! RUN!, which the Guardian urges other academics to 'take a leaf from' (2014), I am recognised as being 'absolutely central' in the field of 'Running Studies' (Whelan 2015)
An exploration of running as metaphor, methodology, material through the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale #r3fest 2016
No full textThis paper runs through the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale’s origins, curatorial framework, and its potential future impact. Also known as #r3fest, the Biennale is an interdisciplinary programme exploring running as an arts and humanities discourse. Exploring running as creative material, metaphor and methodology, the 2016 edition threw a spotlight on live art, drawings, films and activities by practitioners in the arts, academia and NGOs which have hitherto been underrepresented in dominant discourses in the emerging field of ‘Running Studies’. The paper raises philosophical questions about the synergies between arts and sport. Examples of practice across visual and performance art locate RUN! RUN! RUN! and the paper in the area of curating, suggesting a new way of considering how arts and sports can be organized, considered and presented. My aims include: widening the current discourse, inviting curators, artists and academics to consider and generate yet other experiments that activate running as creative material, metaphor and methodology, and challenging existing assumptions in the arts about sport
Chromatographic Purification and Characterization of EBV DNase From Chemically Induced Lymphoid Cells
No full textRun-up tests on a permeable slope
No full textThis report is the result of the Master of Science thesis of the author, at the Delft University of Technology, sub-Faculty of Civil Engineering. Although a lot is known nowadays about the run-up on smooth and impermeable slopes as well as the run-up on slopes covered with a rock armour layer, the physical properties of the armour layer of a rubble mound breakwater are not incorporated in the relations describing the run-up on a breakwater's slope. The roughness of a slope and its permeability, which can be described by a characteristic diameter of the armour unit and the porosity of the layer, are not used in the description of the run-up. This report is an attempt to get insight into the influence that the roughness and the permeability of a slope have on the run-up on this slope. In order to achieve this goal, dimensional parameters are derived describing the roughness of a slope and its permeability. Firstly, the framework of the design of a breakwater is given in order to place the run-up on a rough, permeable slope. The run-up itself is dealt with separately. Experiments were performed in order to obtain data that can be used to quantify the influence of the roughness of the slope and its permeability. The experiments were performed leaving the permeability of the whole structure out of consideration. To achieve a difference in porosity of the armour layer, rock armour units were used as well as tetrapod armour units. Two approaches of data analysis are applied on the data obtained from these experiments. This first approach describes the run-up on a rough, permeable slope by a combination of a roughness parameter, a permeability parameter and the breaker parameter. The roughness parameter and the permeability parameter are derived by forming non-dimensional parameters that describe roughness and permeability. The run-up, usually made non-dimensional using the wave height (H) is made non-dimensional here using the nominal diameter. This gave better results in combination with the derived parameters describing the roughness and the permeability of a slope. The second approach describes the run-up on a rough, permeable slope by using the relative run-up R.lH and a newly derived non-dimensional parameter resembling the Iribarren parameter, but incorporating the influence of the permeability of the armour layer. When the relative run-up is put against the Iribarren parameter and is put against the newly derived non-dimensional parameter, the appearing scatter is less in the latter case. In both approaches, two relations describing the run-up on a rough permeable slope are derived. One for breaking waves and one for non-breaking waves. For the second approach, the found relations have a significant resemblance with the known formulae for run-up on a slope covered with rock armour units, derived by van der Meer and Starn. When the relations derived following the both approaches are compared, the relations derived by the second approach are the relations that give the best feeling with the physical processes as they occur. The relation for non-breaking waves, derived using the first approach, is applied on data obtained from physical model tests on a breakwater covered with tetrapod armour units. The calculated nondimensional run-up is compared with the measured non-dimensional run-up. The results show that the permeability of the whole structure can not be neglected, especially inthe case of non-breaking waves.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
What Has Running Got to Do with Our Divided World?
No full textArtist-curator Dr Kai Syng Tan FRSA provides a rundown of how artists use running to think about the world around us, and invites you to join her at the upcoming RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale 2016 #r3fest, a relay of three cross-country events (co-curated with Annie Grove-White and Dr Carali McCall). I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA). Founded in 1754, past fellows include Charles Dickens, Stephen Hawking, Karl Marx and William Hogarth. Elected fellows come from 80 countries
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