unlearning
A collection of talks from ID's Digital Library
co-curated by Renée Bellamy and Jay Yule
December 2022
Access the co-curated collection via Independent Dance's Digital Library
"unlearning is a collection of talks selected from ID’s Digital Library, co-curated by Renée Bellamy and Jay Yule as an alternative entry point and companion to the 2022 International Festival of Learning. Each speaker proposes reconsideration, recontextualisation and renegotiation as a means of gleaning a new and previously unknown perspective from something otherwise familiar.
Cristina Rosa and Suzi Weber lead a participatory session, arguing that the space of alterity or otherness can be a creative state. In conversation with Maddy Costa, Jo Bannon discusses her identities as a heterosexual woman and disabled person as lenses through which she experiences life in capitalist patriarchy. Anna Pakes probes the notion and purpose of authorship in relation to choreography. ‘Funmi Adewole explains Walter Mignolo’s theory “border-thinking:” a decolonial approach to thinking about epistemology, and how this has fed into her practice as a dramaturg. Marina Collard, Nicola Conibere, and Heni Hale discuss two projects that reassess the mundane and the everyday."
How Shall We Begin Again? Initiated by Jo Fong
Commissioned by NEUROLIVE, performed at Siobhan Davies Studios
November 2022
Reviews of How Shall We Begin Again? by Kate Hall and Jennifer Ramm
"A new performance installation initiated by artist Jo Fong.
“Fifty people will gather for a two-day performance. How can I describe the performance… a live installation; a creative action; between portraiture, protest and something like a prayer.
Just a moment, to be in the moment.” Jo Fong
You are invited to witness. Across the two days, nothing repeats. Each moment will be different.
Created and performed by 50 people:
Amelia Zhou, Annie Pui Ling Lok, April Lin, Ben Ash, Cai Tomos, Carlos Trenado, Charly Monreal, Cheniece Warner, Clara Nüzel Liang, Dawn Collins, Dermot Farrell, DJ Hassan, Elina Akhmetova, Ellis Legg, Emily Lue-Fong, Ghost Chan, Guido Orgs, Haeeun Lee, Iris Yi Po Chan, James Baker, Jamie Ward, Jane Chan, Jay Yule, Jemima Hoadley, Jia-Yu Corti, Jo Fong, Joe Wild, John Chan, Katherine Hall, Kayjay Maseko, Korina Biggs, Kuan-Yu Chen, Loe D’Arcy, Luisa Mateo Dupleich Rozo, Marc Stevenson, Matthias Sperling, Nareg Khachatoorian, Paulina Porwollik, Rachel Davies, Rachel Cooke, Renée Bellamy, Saurav Roy, Shamiso Oneka, Shivaangee Agrawal, Sophie Nüzel, Takako Hasegawa, Théïa Maldoom, Temitope Ajose, Uma Hung Ayala Lok, Vincent Chiu, Xi-mali Kadeena-Guscoth, Yuyu Wang, Zhaolin Zhou.
This performance is both an artistic event and part of a scientific research process. NEUROLIVE is a 5-year interdisciplinary research project bringing artists, scientists and audiences together to study what makes live experiences special. How Shall We Begin Again? is the second live performance created as part of this research."
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Photo: Jo Fong. Graphic Design: Lisa Mattocks
'Loose Assemblages' by Florence Aurora Woolley
Part of Next Choreography Festival 2020
"This film was developed out of a series of movement, writing, discussion, sculpting and sound workshops, that sought to challenge our familiarity with time and space. It is a project about speculation. If it is messy, vague or unclear - that’s great - the gaps are the perfect place to go looking."
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Choreography by Renée Bellamy, Directed by Ned Botwood
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