“Curating Transdisciplinary Residencies: Time and Place for a ‘First Kiss’” presented by Thwaites, Herath and McKenzie
Symposium:
Session Title:
- Dance (short papers)
Presentation Title:
- Curating Transdisciplinary Residencies: Time and Place for a ‘First Kiss’
Presentation Subtheme:
- Ecologies of place
Presenter(s):
Abstract:
Artist residencies offer opportunities for creative interaction between different cultures, communities, and practitioners. Beyond providing time and space, hosts facilitate artists’ immersive social encounters with place, allowing them to explore unfamiliar processes of experimentation. Drawing on a case study of a robotics and arts-based residency, which birthed the choreographed robotic installation ‘First Kiss’, this short paper considers the complex rhythms of transdisciplinary collaboration; their awkward intimacies challenging seamless trajectories of innovation.
