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  • Choreographing the City - Ep. 8 | Into Motion

    Choreographing the City - Ep. 8 | Into Motion
    Apr 28 2021
    In this eighth and final episode of Choreographing the City at MIT, Dr. Adesola Akinleye and Professor Gediminas Urbonas are joined by eminent choreographer and educator Liz Lerman. ‘This conversation brings together key ideas I feel have been generated from the residency so far. This includes some of the notions/language that I am taking forward as part of this interdisciplinary exploration of Choreographing the City - part of the lexicon we have been looking for. These key words are power (to and over), preciseness, improvisation/response/spontaneity, connection/disconnection, growth, resistance, boundary (not discussed in this conversation but also included in this list I am taking forward are agency, four-dimensional space, and score). Liz addresses this language in terms of how it manifests in her own practice. Together we share the magnitude, joy and importance of attempting to understand each other at the boundaries, membranes, edges that are perceived in order to shape ourselves/our disciplines/ our cities.’ - Adesola This podcast is the result of the Morning Conversation series held in the Fall 2020 Choreographing the City class, offered by the Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT in partnership with Theatrum Mundi and Professor Richard Sennett. The course was taught by Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology's visiting artist, choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye. Dr. Akinleye’s residency looks at emerging lexicons for movement in urban space that connect to ideas shared across dance-making and choreography to city-making and building community. This series of eight episodes is hosted by Dr. Adesola Akinleye, Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and Chucho Ocampo Aguilar. References and further reading: Akinleye, A (forthcoming April 2021) Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue), London/New York: Bloomsbury Reference for further reading about dance interdisciplinary work, community and choreographing the city. Lerman, L. (2011). Hiking the horizontal: field notes from a choreographer. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press. Referred to during the conversation by Liz Lerman, L., & Borstel, J. (2003). Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process: a method for getting useful feedback on anything you make from dance to dessert New York: Dance Exchange, Inc. Referred to during the conversation by Liz Other info: Date of conversation November 30th, 2020 Key words: Classism, interdisciplinary, choreography, multiplicity, horizontal
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  • Choreographing the City - Ep. 7 | Scores and Infrastructure, Instruction and Encounter

    Choreographing the City - Ep. 7 | Scores and Infrastructure, Instruction and Encounter
    Apr 22 2021
    In this seventh episode of Choreographing the City at MIT, Dr. Adesola Akinleye and Professor Gediminas Urbonas are joined by urban theorist and director of Theatrum Mundi Dr John Bingham-Hall. ‘Moving forward from the notion of agency and things having their own futures proposed in the last conversation with Dr Pratt, this episode looks at a number of research projects combining ideas from urbanism and the arts, carried out by Theatrum Mundi. We particularly discuss how infrastructural ways of thinking can help us understand what makes places work as active forms, rather than finished artefacts. Dr Bingham-Hall discusses looking at scores as offers of possibility and how this notion can be used as an instrumental approach to design. This speaks to the concept of four-dimensional space that Dr Mahina discusses in episode five: how we create art or cities that are four-dimensional (in movement, emerging, ever connecting and separating) seeing the lived-experience (or the matrix of mind-ful-body in environment) as including the temporal in order to be in relationship with […]. To be in relationship with […] being a key notion across all the Morning Conversations and my residency in general.’ - Adesola This podcast is the result of the Morning Conversation series held in the Fall 2020 Choreographing the City class, offered by the Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT in partnership with Theatrum Mundi and Professor Richard Sennett. The course was taught by Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology's visiting artist, choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye. Dr. Akinleye’s residency looks at emerging lexicons for movement in urban space that connect to ideas shared across dance-making and choreography to city-making and building community. This series of eight episodes is hosted by Dr. Adesola Akinleye, Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and Chucho Ocampo Aguilar. References and further reading: Theatrum Mundi Library: https://theatrum-mundi.org/library https://theatrum-mundi.org/?s=adesola%20Akinleye To see Adesola’s work at Theatrum Mundi Scoring the city: Scoring the City http://scoring.city/ Referred at the beginning of the pod cast, with Gascia Ouzounian (Oxford University) Sonic-urbanism: https://theatrum-mundi.org/project/sonic-urbanism/ Urban Backstages: https://theatrum-mundi.org/library/urbanbackstages-londonfieldwork/ Referred to particularly in terms of how artistic/ creative spaces are felt and their impact through this Easterling, K. (2016). Extrastatecraf : the power of infrastructure space. London / New York: Verso Books. Referred to during the conversation by John (particularly ‘Knowing to… Knowing that…’) Other info: Date of conversation November 16th 2020 Key words: urbanism, encounter, score, music, improvisation, infrastructure, embodied knowledge, possibility
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  • Choreographing the City - Ep. 6 | Agency and the Demonic

    Choreographing the City - Ep. 6 | Agency and the Demonic
    Apr 15 2021
    In this sixth episode of Choreographing the City at MIT, Dr. Adesola Akinleye and Professor Gediminas Urbonas are joined by philosopher Dr Scott L. Pratt, with further comments from Ms Dianne McIntyre. ‘In the conversation Dr Pratt discusses his theory on Logic of Place which I have used extensively in my work particularly in the monograph Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue). Dr Pratt’s notions of The Logic of Place, boundary, and Logic of Home draws on a number of Native American nations worldviews with interesting echoes of the importance of regarding the intra-connection of land, humans and non-humans as vital (as discussed in the previous podcast with Hûfanga Dr Okusitino Mahina). I feel dance-choreography involves knowledges that allow us to become aware of or make porous the construction for Place that emerges from the conversation.’ – Adesola This podcast is the result of the Morning Conversation series held in the Fall 2020 Choreographing the City class, offered by the Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT in partnership with Theatrum Mundi and Professor Richard Sennett. The course was taught by Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology's visiting artist, choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye. Dr. Akinleye’s residency looks at emerging lexicons for movement in urban space that connect to ideas shared across dance-making and choreography to city-making and building community. This series of eight episodes is hosted by Dr. Adesola Akinleye, Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and Chucho Ocampo Aguilar. References and further reading: Akinleye, A (forthcoming April 2021) Dance, Architecture and Engineering (Dance in Dialogue), London/New York: Bloomsbury Reference for further reading about dance and logic of place, the demonic and choreographing the city. Barad, K. M. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press ; Chesham : Combined Academic [distributor]. Referred to in the conversation by Scott Deloria Jr., V., & Wildcat, D. R. (2001). Power and Place: indian Education in America USA: Fulcrum Publishing; First printing, Underlining edition. Referred to in the conversation by Scott Deloria, V. (1994). God is red: a native view of religion (Updated ed. ed.). Golden, Colo.: North American Press. Referred to in the conversation by Scott McKittrick, K. (2006). Demonic grounds : black women and the cartographies of struggle. Minneapolis ; London: University of Minnesota Press. Referred to in the conversation by Adesola and Scott Pratt, S. L. (2002). Native pragmatism : rethinking the roots of American philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Referred to in the conversation by Adesola and Scott Other info: Date of conversation November 9th 2020 Key words: agency, intra-action, Place, Logic of Place, power, entanglement, demonic, land
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  • Choreographing the City - Ep. 5 | Improvisations in Time/Space, Form/Content

    Choreographing the City - Ep. 5 | Improvisations in Time/Space, Form/Content
    Apr 8 2021
    In this fifth episode of Choreographing the City at MIT, Dr Adesola Akinleye and Professor Gediminas Urbonas are joined by Tongan philosopher Hūfanga Dr ‘Ōkusitino Māhina in the fifth of my Choreographing the City residency’s morning conversation series; with comments and questions from Adriana Lear and Maui-TāVā-He-Ako Professor Tēvita O. Ka’ili. ‘In the last conversation the notion of choreography is discussed almost as an instrument in a process beyond it. My relationship with or meaning for choreography is as a method that emerges from methodologies that involve (or even center) around a somatic empirical ontological understanding of being present in the world. To this end Dr Māhina shares understanding for how the human experience is part of the wider web of existence of which I see dance (or the bodily of the somatic) as a method (of many) for meaning making. Thus, choreography is a method for understanding the transaction of self with space/time that is Place. Dr Māhina offers modes for revealing this interconnection and inter separation grounded in Tonga philosophy particularly Tā/Vā-ism. My own methodological framework is grounded in a Lakota (and Yoruba) worldview, of which these indigenous philosophies share some similarities, particularly the sense of interwoven relationship of human with environment rather than human over environment. When we dance, we have an inkling of what it is to be a part of it all.’ - Adesola This podcast is the result of the Morning Conversation series held in the Fall 2020 Choreographing the City class, offered by the Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT in partnership with Theatrum Mundi and Professor Richard Sennett. The course was taught by Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology's visiting artist, choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye. Dr. Akinleye’s residency looks at emerging lexicons for movement in urban space that connect to ideas shared across dance-making and choreography to city-making and building community. This series of eight episodes is hosted by Dr. Adesola Akinleye, Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and Chucho Ocampo Aguilar. References and further reading: Akinleye, A. (2015) Her life in Movement: Reflections on embodiment as a methodology chapter in Wellard, Ian (Ed.) Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring movement cultures, Routledge, pp.178-196 Reference for further reading about dance as a method meaning making in world discussed in conversation Baker, A. J. (1986). Australian realism: the systematic philosophy of John Anderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. John Anderson is referred to by Hūfanga Hegel, G. W. F., & Nisbet, H. B. (1975). Lectures on the philosophy of world history, Vā introductio : Reason in history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hegel is referred to by Hūfanga Māhina, O. (2004). Art as Tã-Vã 'Time-Space' transformation. Auckland, New Zealand: Center for Pacific Studies, University of Auckland. (2017) Tã-Vã (Time-Space) Theory* of reality (special issue) Jonathan Napela Center for Hawaiian & Pacific Studies, Republic of Fiji: Pacific Theological College. Vol 40:1/2 *now theory is replaced by philosophy. Ka‘ili, T. O. (2017). Marking Indigeneity: The Tongan Art of Sociospatial Relations: USA: The University of Arizona Press Reference for further reading about ‘Separating limitations from possibilities’ Other info: Date of conversation November 2nd / 3rd 2020 Key words: Time/space, tā-vā, Tongan philosophy, intersectionality, connection /disconnection
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  • Choreographing the City - Ep. 4 | Courage and the Unknown

    Choreographing the City - Ep. 4 | Courage and the Unknown
    Apr 1 2021
    In this fourth episode of Choreographing the City at MIT, Dr. Adesola Akinleye and Professor Gediminas Urbonas are joined by lecturer in design engineering Dr Arianna Mazzeo. ‘This is an open conversation with questions that contribute to Dr Mazzeo’s thoughts from Joy Buolamwini, Jesus Ocampo Aguilar, Pohao Chi, and Shucao Mo. The conversation includes questions about choreography as embodied algorithm, the importance of the notion of relationship in situating an understanding of embodiment, and the vitality of ‘failure’ as a tool for embracing exploration. The conversation sits alongside the previous discussion with Richard Sennett in looking at the multiple constructions for what choreography can mean. Yet within these meanings, connection, relationship and social responsibility seem to always remerge perhaps they could be considered as core elements for the realisation of embodiment – for the realisation of presence in a situation to which the body is responding. I am interested by the very different uses and meanings for ‘choreography’ that those in different fields attribute to it.’ – Adesola This podcast is the result of the Morning Conversation series held in the Fall 2020 Choreographing the City class, offered by the Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT in partnership with Theatrum Mundi and Professor Richard Sennett. The course was taught by Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology's visiting artist, choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye. Dr. Akinleye’s residency looks at emerging lexicons for movement in urban space that connect to ideas shared across dance-making and choreography to city-making and building community. This series of eight episodes is hosted by Dr. Adesola Akinleye, Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and Chucho Ocampo Aguilar. References and further reading: Akinleye, A. (2012). Orientation for Communication: embodiment, and the language of dance. Empedocles: the European journal for the philosophy of communication, 4(2), pp.101-112. doi:10.1386/ejpc.4.2.101_1 Reference for further reading about embodiment Akinleye, A and G. Preciado-Azanza (2020) Dancing the digital age: a survey of the new technologies in the choreographic process, Journal of Genius and Eminence, Volume 5, No 1. Article 4/ pages 37-52 ISSN: 2334-1130 print/2334-1149 online DOI: 10.18536/jge.2016.01.1.1.02 Reference for further reading about dance and the digital age Halprin, L. (1969). The RSVP cycles: creative processes in the human environment. N.Y.: Braziller. Referred to in the conversation by Arianna Fuller, R. B. (1981). Critical path (1st ed. ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. Reference for Buckminstef Fuller referred to by Arianna Jones, D. (2020). David Bowie: a life (Revised and updated edition. ed.). Canada: Doubleday Canada. Referred to in the conversation by Arianna Other info: Date of conversation November 2nd 2020 (Boston Morning) Key words: Algorithms, embodied, playfulness, multiplicity, empathy, courage, failure, unknown
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  • Choreographing the City - Ep. 3 | Resistance and Double-Barrelled Aspiration

    Choreographing the City - Ep. 3 | Resistance and Double-Barrelled Aspiration
    Mar 25 2021
    In this third episode of Choreographing the City at MIT, Dr. Adesola Akinleye and Professor Gediminas Urbonas are joined by urbanist and writer Richard Sennett in the third of Akinleye’s Choreographing the City residency morning conversation series (with a discussion question from Alan Boldon). ‘The conversation interrogates the notion of how “double-barrelled aspirations” (in this case within choreography or architectural practices) strive to both create within their own discourses and at the same time become available for those outside their practice. We discuss how the methodology for this by its nature speaks to the political. The conversation suggests ‘raw problems’ can inform epistemologies of resistance. The conversation begins with Richard Sennett further describing the 1960 and 1970 post-contemporary dance scene that Ms. McIntyre introduced in the previous conversation.’ – Adesola This podcast is the result of the Morning Conversation series held in the Fall 2020 Choreographing the City class, offered by the Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT in partnership with Theatrum Mundi and Professor Richard Sennett. The course was taught by Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology's visiting artist, choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye. Dr. Akinleye’s residency looks at emerging lexicons for movement in urban space that connect to ideas shared across dance-making and choreography to city-making and building community. This series of eight episodes is hosted by Dr. Adesola Akinleye, Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and Chucho Ocampo Aguilar. References and further reading: Stillness and silence pod cast http://theatrum-mundi.org/library/silence-and-stilness-in-conversation-with-richard-sennett-and-adesola-akinleye/ Referred to during conversation as on-going interested between Richard and Adesola Raymond Williams - structures of feeling first discussed by Williams in his book with Michael Orrom, Preface to Film (1954) Referred to by Gediminas Yvonne Rainer: Trio A (film of performance work) Referred to by Richard Other info: Date of conversation October 7th 2020 Key words: Resistance, silence, Infrastructure, choreography, between-ness, double-barrelled aspiration, The Aesthetics of Resistance, affect
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  • Choreographing the City - Ep. 2 | A Different Kind of Preciseness: ‘It’s About the Movement'

    Choreographing the City - Ep. 2 | A Different Kind of Preciseness: ‘It’s About the Movement'
    Mar 18 2021
    In this second episode of Choreographing the City at MIT, Dr. Adesola Akinleye and Professor Gediminas Urbonas are joined by eminent choreographer Dianne McIntyre. The conversation continues thinking about the differences and similarities across choreography and engineering raised by the first morning conversation (Bridges: discovery and togetherness) with Dr. Ellie Cosgrave. We bring to discuss processes for composition. ‘I begin the conversation by overviewing a common assumption that choreographic-thinking could be positioned as challenging the rigidity of rules and regulations inherently in both architecture and engineering. However, there is also preciseness (including rules and at time unfair regulations) in dance. I ask renowned choreographer Dianne McIntyre to expound on this further. As the conversation progresses the intension of movement and the coming together of space, moment and human body further underlines my residency’s suggestion that the collaboration across disciplines is not about the production of coming together but about the better understanding of processes that interdisciplinary inquiry can nourish. We also note that the transaction of choreographer, dancer and musician exemplifies the wider transaction of being present in Place.’ -Dr Akinleye This podcast is the result of the Morning Conversation series held in the Fall 2020 Choreographing the City class, offered by the Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT in partnership with Theatrum Mundi and Professor Richard Sennett. The course was taught by Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology's visiting artist, choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye. Dr. Akinleye’s residency looks at emerging lexicons for movement in urban space that connect to ideas shared across dance-making and choreography to city-making and building community. This series of eight episodes is hosted by Dr. Adesola Akinleye, Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and Chucho Ocampo Aguilar. References and further reading: Akinleye, A. (Ed.) (2018). Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices. London: Palgrave Macmillian. Reference for further reading about the Black dancing body and decolonising embodied/dance practices. Gerber, R. (Writer). (2010) Breath Made Visible: Anna Halprin. In. R Gerber (Producer). Referenced for film, discussed during conversation Perron, W. (2020). The Grand Union : accidental anarchists of downtown dance, 1970-1976. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. Referenced by Dianne during the conversation with chapter on her work. Other info: Date of conversation September 28th 2020 In the recording Dr. Akinleye refers to Ms. McIntyre as Dianne. This is a form of informality and respect in line with how other contemporary dance icons are referred to, by first name such as Martha (Martha Graham) or Alvin (Alvin Ailey). However, within the African-American tradition there is also the case for showing respect for her and her accomplishments by addressing her as Ms. McIntyre (such as Mr. Mitchel – Arthur Mitchel). Key words: humanity, precision, Black bodies, movement, ‘anti’embodied / embodiment, spontaneous composition, choreography, intension of the work
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  • Choreographing the City - Ep. 1 | Bridges: Discovery and Togetherness

    Choreographing the City - Ep. 1 | Bridges: Discovery and Togetherness
    Mar 7 2021
    In this first episode of Choreographing the City at MIT, Dr. Adesola Akinleye and Professor Gediminas Urbonas discuss discovery, togetherness, bridges, and power within choreographing and engineering with Dr. Ellie Cosgrave. Dr. Cosgrave is a lecturer in Urban Innovation and Policy at University College London's department of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Public Policy, and co-director of the Urban Innovation and Policy Lab. "The conversation sets the scene for why this inquiry of Choreographing the city and reflects the frameworks to enable practices (such as dance and engineering) to come together without just re-establishing the same old issues but in each other’s spaces. The conversations suggest noticing constructions for how discovery, power and encounter offer starting points for how to arrive in the togetherness of collaboration across interdisciplinary inquiry. We also discuss moments in terms of the poetics of encounters with weight." - Dr. Akinleye This podcast is the result of the Morning Conversation series held in the Fall 2020 Choreographing the City class, offered by the Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT in partnership with Theatrum Mundi and Professor Richard Sennett. The course was taught by Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology's visiting artist, choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye. Dr. Akinleye’s residency looks at emerging lexicons for movement in urban space that connect to ideas shared across dance-making and choreography to city-making and building community. This series of eight episodes is hosted by Dr. Adesola Akinleye, Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and Chucho Ocampo Aguilar. References and further reading: Akinleye, A. (2019). ‘[…] wind in my hair, I feel a part of everywhere […]’: Creating dance for young audiences narrates emplacement, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Vol 11, No. 1, pp. 39-47(9) https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.11.1.39_1 11.1.39_1 References to Adesola’s discussion on Moments and nowness of dance. Bingham-Hall, J., & Cosgrave, E. (2019). Choreographing the city: Can dance practice inform the engineering of sustainable urban environments? Mobilities, 14(2), 188-203. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1567981 Paper discussed as a starting point for the Choreographing the City work. hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom. New York ; London: Routledge. Ellie references during the discussion. Latour, Bruno, Weibel, Peter (2020). Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press Gediminas references during the conversation. Other info: Date of conversation September 14th, 2020 Key words: discovery, togetherness, bridges, power over / power to limitations, choreographing the city, engineering, Sympoiesis (making-with)
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