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The breaking, fracturing, sculpting and renewing of systems; geological and textual, the collapsing, exploding, fading and expanding of processes; cosmological and vocal. And then, of course, there are the ‘things’, that the surface from consciousness, the flashback to the dream, the digressions on a theme, the realisation we are spinning on a rock object, hurtling through space.
Walking in natural landscapes has been a stable ritual since childhood and has been a consistent practice within my professional life; teaching, performance practice and research. Field Day - Night Tone, unpacks the significance of walking experiences, specifically nighttime walking in dark sky areas – where there is less light pollution, to work collaboratively, make performance, gather audiences for unique experiences in outdoor spaces, and reflect upon the engagement with earth and the cosmos. I am interested in the various ways, as researchers, we can explore natural phenomena
through artistic processes, disseminate our practice and look to what creative forms are possible, for the sharing of creative insights. The talk will reflect upon Claire’s practice as research and then move into examples of practice-led PhD submissions where both artsitic works and critical reflections, are examined at doctoral level.
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Claire Hind is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at York St John University, UK where she is the Postgraduate Research Lead for the School of the Arts. Her collaboration on the Ways to Wander projects with Dr Clare Qualmann has been instrumental in the international development of a culture of walking and experimental writing. Her methods of practice make connections between walking, creative writing and performance. Claire has taken international audiences through urban and natural landscapes, for sensory experiences of Quantum Listening (Oliveros) and she leads on dark sky walks and performances for the Dark Skies Festival through communal walking and dancing experiences with Dr Robert Wilsmore as The Long Dead Stars. Claire was a project associate on the Walking Publics / Walking Art research project co-curating The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing. Claire also collaborates with Phil Smith and Helen Billinghurst on Walking Bodies (Triarchy Press) and is the co-author with Gary Winters on Embodying the Dead, Writing, Playing, Performing (Bloomsbury). She has toured her work internationally and has been a guest research practitioner at The Federal University of Rio, School of the Arts Institute, Chicago, Oslo Met University, New York University, and The Norwegian Theatre Academy
www.clairehind.com
