Considering the messy, fraught relationship between research and creative artmaking, this present... more Considering the messy, fraught relationship between research and creative artmaking, this presentation contemplates diverse notions of “failure” as a creative, queering process (Halberstam 2011, Hahn 2017, Patel 2017). Offering a selection of precarious cases of unruly artist-scholarship, Hahn problematizes varieties of failure—transmission failure, sensory failure, research failure—as a provocation of methodological practices. Might troubling failures serve as a generative practice to complicate embodied cultural knowledge, performance practice, “authenticity,” and expressivity? In turn, how might an interrogation of failure(s) shed light on gender, race, and history?
“Making Sense” presents the primary aims of the book, including how sensory information situates ... more “Making Sense” presents the primary aims of the book, including how sensory information situates the body, self, and embodied knowledge. The basic theoretical stance regarding the body, senses, and experience is discussed alongside the pedagogical approaches incorporated into the various exercises. Details on how to use the book, specifically the recipe format, are provided. Underlying themes raised by the exercises are discussed, including processing sensory experience; writing and drawing (sensibilities, freewriting, freedrawing); use of anticipation, curiosity, mystery, and surprise; sensory juxtapositions; collaboration; improvisation; and communication and creativity.
Most of the exercises, or “recipes,” in Arousing Sense follow a consistent compositional form. Th... more Most of the exercises, or “recipes,” in Arousing Sense follow a consistent compositional form. This section presents a single page overview of the recipe format.
The opening chapter, “Impulses,” introduces readers to the interdisciplinary concepts of the book... more The opening chapter, “Impulses,” introduces readers to the interdisciplinary concepts of the book and how the senses relate to interdisciplinarity. It presents readers with a background for employing sensory prompts in creative, practice-based settings and how the exercises support an expanding awareness of self and other, stressing communication, accountability, and vulnerability.
Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2014
This article represents a collaborative integration of ethnographic techniques and cognitive neur... more This article represents a collaborative integration of ethnographic techniques and cognitive neuroscience for examining the dynamics of the movement pedagogy that takes place within Japanese traditional dance. The goal is to examine the extent to which the notion of multiscale entrainment, a hallmark assumption of prospective cognition, can enhance our understanding of the movement pedagogy dynamics that emerge during a given pedagogical session and the larger timescale events that come to be learned over sessions (e.g., the student–teacher relationship, the multiple sessions needed to learn an entire dance, and the annual events associated with Japanese dance pedagogy). The analysis will examine the extent to which Japanese dance pedagogy entails embodied anticipation (i.e., movement learning that gives rise to later movement anticipation) and multiscale embodied anticipation (i.e., multiscale events that come to be recursively associated with movement planning and, as a result, ap...
Embodied listening approaches that stand outside the canon of pedagogical mainstream provide a wi... more Embodied listening approaches that stand outside the canon of pedagogical mainstream provide a wide variety of insights for different pedagogical settings—from participants who have little-to-no musical training, to those with developed musical skills. A whimsical, graphic-text piece is provided to playfully break down barriers of “skill” to urge all participants to heighten awareness of sound in their environment. In addition, a context and suggested use of the piece is provided.
Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Oct 29, 2008
CD Homogenic, and a series of music videos by Madonna, Missy Elliot, Ginuwine, and Christina Mili... more CD Homogenic, and a series of music videos by Madonna, Missy Elliot, Ginuwine, and Christina Milian, the kimono-clad Asian woman has become one of the icons of Asian chic in pop America. 1 With the nineteenth-century French fad of Japanese art and culture known as japonisme in our nearly remote hindsight, the exoticized and eroticized bodies of Japanese women are certainly not a new trope in Europe and North America. One wonders what cultural impact this Western fascination with the Asian/Japanese female body has on ...
This paper focuses on the power of voice and the nature of reflexivity in feminist ethnography st... more This paper focuses on the power of voice and the nature of reflexivity in feminist ethnography starting with a definition of reflexivity, a brief historical context, and closing with several mini-case studies, including Japanese traditional dance; Monster Truck rallies; and the Deep Listening community.
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation
The short article recollects Pauline Oliveros's transmission of Deep Listening through everyd... more The short article recollects Pauline Oliveros's transmission of Deep Listening through everyday, direct, and playful means of improvisation.
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation
The short article recollects Pauline Oliveros's transmission of Deep Listening through everyd... more The short article recollects Pauline Oliveros's transmission of Deep Listening through everyday, direct, and playful means of improvisation.
This chapter integrates ethnographic techniques, cognitive science, and enactive theory to examin... more This chapter integrates ethnographic techniques, cognitive science, and enactive theory to examine the phenomenology dynamics that emerge during spontaneous interaction in a newly developed practice called banding. Specifically, participants are connected to each other via large rubber bands. An enactivist analysis of participants’ journals reveals participants undergo intense intercorporeal experiences with properties that are: disorienting; multiscale; conjure intercorporeal surprise and discovery; undergo patterns of change, in both groups and individuals; give rise to intercorporeal trust; and entail intercorporeal shifts in identity. The paper analyses how these properties might reflect the intercorporeal nature of everyday experiences.
Considering the messy, fraught relationship between research and creative artmaking, this present... more Considering the messy, fraught relationship between research and creative artmaking, this presentation contemplates diverse notions of “failure” as a creative, queering process (Halberstam 2011, Hahn 2017, Patel 2017). Offering a selection of precarious cases of unruly artist-scholarship, Hahn problematizes varieties of failure—transmission failure, sensory failure, research failure—as a provocation of methodological practices. Might troubling failures serve as a generative practice to complicate embodied cultural knowledge, performance practice, “authenticity,” and expressivity? In turn, how might an interrogation of failure(s) shed light on gender, race, and history?
“Making Sense” presents the primary aims of the book, including how sensory information situates ... more “Making Sense” presents the primary aims of the book, including how sensory information situates the body, self, and embodied knowledge. The basic theoretical stance regarding the body, senses, and experience is discussed alongside the pedagogical approaches incorporated into the various exercises. Details on how to use the book, specifically the recipe format, are provided. Underlying themes raised by the exercises are discussed, including processing sensory experience; writing and drawing (sensibilities, freewriting, freedrawing); use of anticipation, curiosity, mystery, and surprise; sensory juxtapositions; collaboration; improvisation; and communication and creativity.
Most of the exercises, or “recipes,” in Arousing Sense follow a consistent compositional form. Th... more Most of the exercises, or “recipes,” in Arousing Sense follow a consistent compositional form. This section presents a single page overview of the recipe format.
The opening chapter, “Impulses,” introduces readers to the interdisciplinary concepts of the book... more The opening chapter, “Impulses,” introduces readers to the interdisciplinary concepts of the book and how the senses relate to interdisciplinarity. It presents readers with a background for employing sensory prompts in creative, practice-based settings and how the exercises support an expanding awareness of self and other, stressing communication, accountability, and vulnerability.
Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2014
This article represents a collaborative integration of ethnographic techniques and cognitive neur... more This article represents a collaborative integration of ethnographic techniques and cognitive neuroscience for examining the dynamics of the movement pedagogy that takes place within Japanese traditional dance. The goal is to examine the extent to which the notion of multiscale entrainment, a hallmark assumption of prospective cognition, can enhance our understanding of the movement pedagogy dynamics that emerge during a given pedagogical session and the larger timescale events that come to be learned over sessions (e.g., the student–teacher relationship, the multiple sessions needed to learn an entire dance, and the annual events associated with Japanese dance pedagogy). The analysis will examine the extent to which Japanese dance pedagogy entails embodied anticipation (i.e., movement learning that gives rise to later movement anticipation) and multiscale embodied anticipation (i.e., multiscale events that come to be recursively associated with movement planning and, as a result, ap...
Embodied listening approaches that stand outside the canon of pedagogical mainstream provide a wi... more Embodied listening approaches that stand outside the canon of pedagogical mainstream provide a wide variety of insights for different pedagogical settings—from participants who have little-to-no musical training, to those with developed musical skills. A whimsical, graphic-text piece is provided to playfully break down barriers of “skill” to urge all participants to heighten awareness of sound in their environment. In addition, a context and suggested use of the piece is provided.
Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Oct 29, 2008
CD Homogenic, and a series of music videos by Madonna, Missy Elliot, Ginuwine, and Christina Mili... more CD Homogenic, and a series of music videos by Madonna, Missy Elliot, Ginuwine, and Christina Milian, the kimono-clad Asian woman has become one of the icons of Asian chic in pop America. 1 With the nineteenth-century French fad of Japanese art and culture known as japonisme in our nearly remote hindsight, the exoticized and eroticized bodies of Japanese women are certainly not a new trope in Europe and North America. One wonders what cultural impact this Western fascination with the Asian/Japanese female body has on ...
This paper focuses on the power of voice and the nature of reflexivity in feminist ethnography st... more This paper focuses on the power of voice and the nature of reflexivity in feminist ethnography starting with a definition of reflexivity, a brief historical context, and closing with several mini-case studies, including Japanese traditional dance; Monster Truck rallies; and the Deep Listening community.
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation
The short article recollects Pauline Oliveros's transmission of Deep Listening through everyd... more The short article recollects Pauline Oliveros's transmission of Deep Listening through everyday, direct, and playful means of improvisation.
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation
The short article recollects Pauline Oliveros's transmission of Deep Listening through everyd... more The short article recollects Pauline Oliveros's transmission of Deep Listening through everyday, direct, and playful means of improvisation.
This chapter integrates ethnographic techniques, cognitive science, and enactive theory to examin... more This chapter integrates ethnographic techniques, cognitive science, and enactive theory to examine the phenomenology dynamics that emerge during spontaneous interaction in a newly developed practice called banding. Specifically, participants are connected to each other via large rubber bands. An enactivist analysis of participants’ journals reveals participants undergo intense intercorporeal experiences with properties that are: disorienting; multiscale; conjure intercorporeal surprise and discovery; undergo patterns of change, in both groups and individuals; give rise to intercorporeal trust; and entail intercorporeal shifts in identity. The paper analyses how these properties might reflect the intercorporeal nature of everyday experiences.
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