Site, Adapt, Perform: A Practice-as-Research Confrontation with Climate Change

Kloetzel, Melanie

doi:10.3366/drs.2017.0186

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“…In this case, the process is used by the researcher(s) as a qualitative data collection method to increase their understanding and knowledge on the topic (e.g. Kloetzel, 2017;Miller and Brockie, 2015). Using art and creativity in this way has been argued to give vulnerable people a voice and to allow the message and emotions to travel beyond those who experienced the event, but there seems to be no empirical research confirming this (Miller and Brockie, 2015).…”

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“…For example, the process of sharing oral history accounts can contribute to community resilience (Osterhoudt, 2018), but how does it apply to future events? There is evidence that damage from natural hazards decreases after repeated events due to adaptation (for floods, see Kreibich et al, 2017). Memory of a previous event has been found to decrease damage in the next event (Viglione et al, 2014), but this memory decreases over time (Lopez et al, 2017).…”

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Creative practice as a tool to build resilience to natural hazards in the Global South

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Abstract. Global South communities are increasingly exposed and vulnerable to natural hazards such as floods and droughts. Preparing for future hazards requires developing an idea of an uncertain future, thinking out of the box for possible solutions, enhancing communication between diverse groups, and instigating organisational and behavioural change. In this study, we explore whether art and creativity could support this process by presenting the results of a literature-mapping exercise and a case study. Our search for journal articles, focusing on Global South communities and topics like environmental issues, hazards, and health, yielded 267 papers published between 2000 and 2018. These used a diversity of art forms, including photography and other forms of visual art, music and song, and drama and storytelling. We found that papers on the topic of climate change generally had lower co-creation (62 % medium to high) than those on health (90 % medium to high). A subset of seven papers focusing on drought and flooding fell into the following two categories: those aiming to raise the general public's awareness of these hazards and those aiming to instigate adaptation action by the participants. In our case study, we explored the middle ground between these categories. In a pilot project in South Africa, we designed storytelling workshops in which community members explored scientific data on future droughts, exchanged ideas between groups, and developed narratives about the impacts of and preparedness for future drought. These narratives were filmed and edited and shared both with the community and with governance actors. We found that this approach allowed participants to imagine future droughts, opened up conversations about potential adaptation measures, encouraged intergenerational exchange, and increased awareness of local issues for policy makers. Both in the wider literature and in our case study, the long-term effects of creative interventions are rarely evaluated. Feedback from participants, however, indicates a number of short-term benefits, which shows the potential of combining creative practice approaches and more conventional approaches into a more holistic preparation for future natural hazards.

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Creative practice as a tool to build resilience to natural hazards in the Global South

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“…In this case, the process is used by the researcher(s) as a qualitative data collection method to increase their understanding and knowledge on the topic (e.g. Kloetzel, 2017;Miller and Brockie, 2015). Using art and creativity in this way has been argued to give vulnerable people a voice and for the message and emotions to travel beyond those who experienced the event, but there seems to be no empirical research confirming this (Miller and Brockie, 2015).…”

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Creative practice as a potential tool to build drought and flood resilience in the Global South

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Global South communities are increasingly exposed and vulnerable to natural hazards such as floods and droughts. Preparing for future extremes requires including diverse knowledges, elevating under-represented voices, thinking out of the box for possible solutions, enhancing communication between diverse groups, and instigating organisational and behavioural change. In this study we investigate whether artistic and creative processes could support Global South communities in improving their preparedness to extremes. A literature review of 267 journal articles published between 2000 and 2018 showed that there is a growing body of research on using creative practice in environmental issues. Art and creativity are for example often used for raising awareness of climate change and for encouraging behavioural change in relation to health issues. Research using creative practice to increase resilience to natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, floods and droughts is, however, still very rare. An opportunity exists to better understand the application of the wide range of creative methods currently used for environmental and health-related issues also to enhance resilience to droughts and floods. We tested this in a pilot project in South Africa, in which we designed storytelling workshops to create community narratives about impacts of and preparedness for future drought. These narratives were filmed and edited and shared both with the community and governance actors. Although this was a short pilot project and the effects have not been thoroughly researched, we see potential for these kind of methodologies. We noticed that the approach allowed people to imagine future droughts and that it opened up conversation about potential adaptation measures. Based on the literature and pilot study we call for more research on the use of creative practice in building resilience to extreme events. It is especially important to investigate how the use of creative methods compares to other methods, and how effective creative practice is to make a difference, either in people&#8217;s own behaviour or in communicating people's needs to decision makers.</p>

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“…As I attempted to dissect a "singular" site that covered ten miles and that had pedestrian travel and corporate consumerism as its raison d'être, I discovered the need to widen my frame in order to decode a homogenized space-a "non-place" as Marc Augé would categorize it (Augé 1995). This led to an embrace of mobility as tied into the very fabric of the site-specific work I was creating, a situation that caused me a certain level of consternation (Kloetzel 2015). I maintained this focus on mobility as I began to examine the dynamics of creating site works for portable architectural venues in "Have Site, Will Travel :-Container Architecture and Site-Specific Performance" (Kloetzel 2013).…”

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“…This led to an embrace of mobility as tied into the very fabric of the site-specific work I was creating, a situation that caused me a certain level of consternation (Kloetzel 2015). I maintained this focus on mobility as I began to examine the dynamics of creating site works for portable architectural venues in "Have Site, Will Travel :-Container Architecture and Site-Specific Performance" (Kloetzel 2013). However, in delving into a project where choreographers made works for repurposed shipping containers that could travel between cities, I began to question the limits of the discussion around mobility and site-specific performance.…”

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Site and Re-Site: Early Efforts to Serialize Site Dance

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2017

Dance Res. J.

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In this article, I investigate the historical precedents of site-adaptive dance. After walking through the mobility discourse as applied to site-specific art by such scholars as Miwon Kwon, Fiona Wilkie, and Victoria Hunter, I examine the mobile site works of North American choreographers Ann Carlson, PearsonWidrig DanceTheater, Eiko & Koma, and Stephan Koplowitz as exemplary of early attempts to take site dance on tour. Finally, I argue for the value of employing the lens of adaptation to analyze such works, both for the field of site performance and for the larger cross-disciplinary dialogues that could be activated.

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Site, Adapt, Perform: A Practice-as-Research Confrontation with Climate Change

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Creative practice as a tool to build resilience to natural hazards in the Global South

Creative practice as a tool to build resilience to natural hazards in the Global South

Creative practice as a potential tool to build drought and flood resilience in the Global South

Site and Re-Site: Early Efforts to Serialize Site Dance

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