Practice, Movement & Play in Learning
Lockdown Edition 11/2020 Dr Kai Syng Tan FRSA SFHEA Senior Lecturer, Manchester School of Art For King’s College London School of Education Communication & Society Module: Art, Culture & Education www.kaisyngtan.com/artful @wesatonamat @kaisyngtan kai.syng.tan@mmu.ac.uk
Practice, Movement & Play in Learning • • • •
Exploring practice, movement and play in learning Run through theoretical, historical & practical aspects Draw on: live art, participatory art, kinaesthetic learning, body-mind-world poetics (Daoism) Sit/talk at desk/armchair Get your hands dirty
• => Begin to assemble your own toolkit to conceptualise + design + embed + successfully carry out practice-led moments or sessions for various learning contexts.
!!Don’t be afraid to PLAY and to fail!!
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• Exploring practice, movement and play in learning • Run through theoretical, historical & practical aspects a participatory activity art, for a group of : • Create Draw on: live art, participatory kinaesthetic learning, body-mind-world poetics (Daoism) Migrants with limitedGet ability English yourin hands dirty • A) Sit/talk at desk/armchair with ADHD • B) =>Children Begin to assemble your own toolkit to C) Teenagers addicted to electronic devices conceptualise + design + embed + D) Elderly people with limited mobility
successfully carry out practice-led moments or sessions for various learning contexts. Consider socially-distant/ lockdown conditions
!!Don’t be afraid to PLAY and to fail!!
itinerary NOW: àLECTURE àPRACTICE: DESIGN HANDS ON EXERCISE
THURSDAY: SEMINAR àQUESTIONS/RESPONSES FOR LECTURE àSHARE YOUR PRACTICE àFEEDBACK BY OTHERS à DEBRIEF: WHAT’S LEARNT? WHAT NEXT?
Practice, Movement & Play in Learning
step I: pick up a stranger step II: pick up a ribbon step III: tether step IV: run step V: talk about your hopes for 2050
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Hand in Hand (2016)
BRE X I T
T R UMP
EL ECT I 0N
ERE CT I 0 N
WA L L S
HOS T I L T Y
S I L OS
BOR D E R S
RSA blog https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/matthew-taylor-blog/2016/07/its-time-to-look-over-the-edge
Guardian 15 July 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/15/rebecca-solnit-hope-in-the-dark-new-essay-embrace-unknown
body as medium
The Naked City, a psychogeographical map of Paris. Guy Debord, 1957
—> Situationist international; dÊtournement
24 January 2016, Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/24/asylum-seekers-made-to-wear-coloured-wristbands-cardiff
http://www.kaisyngtan.com/portfolio/hand-in-hand
http://www.londonathletics.org/blind-Sport-Guide-Runner
Terezinha Guilhermina with guide Guilherme Soares de Santana running a 200m race, 2014
Terezinha Guilhermina with guide Guilherme Soares de Santana running a 200m race, 2014
body as learning tool
The Daoist body: the world is the body, body is world (Kohn 1993, 102)
World as body
‘The Diagram of Interior Lights (“Neijing Tu”)’ (cited in Kohn 1993, p.177)
Body as world The Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection (‘Xiuzhen Tu’) (cited in Pregadio 2008, p.767).
belly-knowledge, body thinking ‘Through our body, we may contemplate the body. Through our family, we may contemplate the family. Through our hamlet, we may contemplate the hamlet. Through our state, we may contemplate the state. Through our world, we may contemplate the world. How do I know the world is so? By this here!’ – Lao Tzu ch.54 from Lau 1963
While we are influenced and moulded by the environment, the flow of influence can be reversed for those who grasp both the ways of our body and the laws of nature. Only then are we no longer simply the product of our environment, but are able to dominate and transform it. – Schipper 1994, 103–190
à kinaesthetic learning, tacit learning
body as site/sight of protest Ă performance or live art, participatory art
Thích Quảng Đức, Saigon. By Malcolm Browne, 1963
From the Underdog File, Valie Export 1969
‘Art / Life: One Year Performance 19831984 (Rope Piece)’, Teh-Ching Hsieh, New York (with Linda Montano).
Walking, Holding, Glasgow, Rosa Cade, since 2011
The Green Line, along the Israel/Palestine border, Francis AlĂżs, 2004
Erdem Gunduz, Istanbul, 2013
Baktash Noor, Manchester, 2017
Femen, Paris 2016
The Naked The Naked Rambler, Stephen Rambler, Stephen Gough, Fife, 2012 Gough, Fife, 2012
Hunger strike
Extinction Rebellion since 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/07/extinction-rebellion-protesters-block-road-outside-downing-street
Black Lives Matter protest 31 May 2020 St Peters Square Manchester
the running body
Breathing is Free: 12,756.3, Liberty Square, Taipei, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, worldwide since 2007
G N I N WAR G N I N N NO RU LACE
P R U O Y T A STAY Y E T F A S N W O R U O Y R FO
The Loneliness of Long Distance Runner Tony Richardson 1963
Critical Run Venice Biennale, Thierry Geoffrey 2013
Diagram of the Homo erectus by Daniel Lieberman 2015
Free To Run <http://www.freetorun.org>
Work No. 850 Martin Creed, Tate, 2008
Memory Jogging Warsaw Contemporary Art Museum, Kai Syng Tan 2015
KUMEC masterclass Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Undergraduate Medical Education Community 2018 Workshop with GPs
Whitworth Art Gallery Culture Shots 2016 (how cultural experiences can improve health and wellbeing) Workshop with nurses from Royal Infirmary
Practice, Movement & Play in Learning
Lockdown Edition 11/2020 Dr Kai Syng Tan FRSA SFHEA Senior Lecturer, Manchester School of Art For Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College London School of Education Communication & Society Module: Art, Culture & Education www.kaisyngtan.com/artful @wesatonamat @kaisyngtan kai.syng.tan@mmu.ac.uk