This event is free but please register to secure a place
This event is free but please register to secure a place
This one-off workshop will offer collective, participatory and kinesthetic experiences of encountering materials from the Tavistock Institute’s archive.
Dance/performance practice-researcher Heni Hale invites you to join her in encountering our multi-faceted archive.
Heni Hale is a postgraduate researcher with the Centre for Dance Research. She is working on a collaborative doctoral project using performance practice methods to approach the Tavistock Institute’s archive.
This workshop will be a meeting place where Heni’s methods are exchanged with current practitioners of Tavistock’s methods.
Who is this workshop for?
Do you have an existing relationship to the Tavistock Institute or experience of our methods and practices?
You might have encountered systems psychodynamic thinking about organisations and change. Or you might be a Group Relations practitioner. You could be an associate, consultant or practitioner working with reference to Tavistock methodologies, theories and body of research.
What to expect
The day will include some introductions to sensory perception, bringing awareness to our bodies in/as movement (no prior dance experience is necessary).
The idea is to create an activated space, where memory and materiality enlivens gaps between personal, political, social and technical. We will be working with printed copies of original archive materials as replicas that can be re-composed, re-ordered, re-framed, annotated, torn-up.
These replicas are easily replaced, inviting the opportunity to reimagine and playfully insert ourselves into the history of the organisation.
What kind of information is contained in these historical artefacts; in their materiality and their aesthetic elements, as well as the stories they tell?
How do we read these artefacts from our positions and lived experiences now as workers, organisers, carers?
What resonates across time as we perform roles in the here and now, drawing from the records and the scripts that were pre-written and pre-given?
The developing research methodology
The workshop will be part of Heni’s doctoral research project. Participants at this workshop will be contributing to a developing research methodology as well as generating insights from collective embodied readings of archive.
The project is ethically in compliance with Coventry University’s ethics panel and you will be offered more detailed information about how data is used and asked for your consent to participant and to use data generated for research purposes prior to the session. Withdrawing or refusing consent to use data does not prevent anyone from participating in the study day.
About Heni
Dance/performance practice-researcher Heni Hale is a postgraduate researcher with the Centre for Dance Research, working on a collaborative doctoral project using performance practice methods to approach Tavistock’s archive. Through these methods, Heni is examining the bodily affects in the relationships between work, time and care.
Image Credit: Heni Hale
Still from Assembly – video artwork – featuring dance artists Ben Ash and Marina Collard and papers from Automation project 1959-61.
This event is free but please register to secure a place
