Performance and Communities celebrates, challenges, disrupts, nurtures and researches the various modes of performance (voice, body, space, movement, language, sound, texture, shape, words) embedded within or working with diverse communities and in a boundless range of spaces.
We consider how work on performance can engage, work with and learn from existing, evolving and new communities of people and how performance impacts on individual and community wellbeing, inclusion and participation. This strand takes ‘performance’ in the broadest sense and is focused on uplifting research into the role of performance in community building and wellbeing.
This theme provides the home needed for a community of scholars, practitioners and students working on the community impacts of performance to create networks and collaborate, developing aspects of performance and wellbeing by expanding in the Centre for Art and Wellbeing’s supportive community of research and practice.
Image above: As artist in residence at the Korean Disability Arts and Culture Centre (KDAC) in Seoul, inclusive arts researcher Alice Fox brought together four South Korean artists with learning disabilities alongside four artists in residence to make a site-specific performance work, ‘In-Out’, in response to the collections and architecture of the public foyer space in the Seoul Museum of Art.