Schedule & Presenters

Arts Practice Research Conference

scholarship, pedagogy, and the creative process

co - hosted by TASA & Texas Tech CVPA

October 1 - 3, 2015

Updated 9-12-2015

Date & Time	TASA Event	APR Event	Location
T Oct. 1
1-5p	TASA Board Meeting		SOA Conference Room
6-8p	Reception & Registration	Reception & Registration	Texas Tech Museum
F Oct. 2
8:00a
8:30-9a	Registration	Registration	SUB Senate Room Lubbock Room
	THECB art field of study revision and studio core curriculum update	APR 0X (Panel A): 9:30-11a
		Wandering as a Creative Research Practice--Chair: Bowman; Respondent: Justin Trudeau (University of North Texas)
9-9:30a	Richard Lubben, South Texas College	PANELIST 1: Sarah K. Jackson (Southern University of New Orleans) & Lindsay Greer (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale): The Wandering Chronotope as a Performance of Memory and Remembering
	Mark Greenwalt, College of the Mainland
9:30-10a	Carol Fairlie, Sol Ross	PANELIST 2: Bonnie McDonald (Louisiana State University) & Ruth Laurion Bowman (Louisiana State University): ’Botanizing on the Asphalt’: Wandering as Generative Interruption
	Valerie Powell, Sam Houston State University
10-10:30a	Gary Johnson, Texas Tech Andreas Peralta, Texas Tech	PANELIST 3: Brian Rusted (University of Calgary): Evoking the Visual: Walking, Performance, Trench and Circle
	Carol Flueckiger, Texas Tech
	Creating Arts Infrastructure/Developing Artist Research	APR 0X: 10:30a-12p: Sound, Movement, Cognition
10:30-11a	David Lindsay, Texas Tech	PAPER: Cliodhna Donnellan (University of Limerick) and Shannon Burns (University of Limerick): “Arts Practice Research as Method in the Investigation of a Traditional Musician’s Perceived Performance Limitations
11-11:30a	Monika Proffitt, Starry Night Residency, Truth or Consequences, NM	PAPER: Andrew Lawrence King (Guildhall School of Music and Drama): Text, Rhythm, Action! New Priorities in Historically Informed Performance
11:30-12p	Hans Molzberger, Hilmsen Summer Residency Program, Hilmsen, Germany	PAPER: Caitlin Grann (University of New Mexico) and Carolina Arellans (Texas Tech): Where Trees Do not Exist
12-12:30p	Lunch	Lunch	SUB Matador Room
12:30-1p	TASA Business Meeting
	Keynote	Keynote	SUB Ballroom
1-1:30p	Nick Cave	Nick Cave
1:30-2p	Nick Cave	Nick Cave
	Texas Tech Sponsored Lecture	Texas Tech Sponsored Lecture
2-2:30p	Philip Monaghan and David Trinidad in conversation with Kristi Humphrey, Texas Tech	Philip Monaghan and David Trinidad in conversation with Kristi Humphrey, Texas Tech
2:30-3p	Philip Monaghan and David Trinidad in conversation with Kristi Humphrey, Texas Tech	Philip Monaghan and David Trinidad in conversation with Kristi Humphrey, Texas Tech
	Tour SOA Facilities	APR 0X (Panel B): 2-3:30p	SUB Senate Room Or SOA Facilities
		The ways and means of praxis led research led praxis (Page)
3-3:30		PANELIST 1: Anna Hickey-Moody (Goldsmiths University of London): New materialisms and inventive methods
3:30-4		PANELIST 2: Tara Page (Goldsmiths University of London): The writing is on the walls
4-4:30		PANELIST 3: Esther Sayers (Goldsmiths University of London): Pedagogical arts praxis on the inside
5-5:30p	Reception	Reception	SOA Landmark Arts Gallery
5:30-6p	Reception	Reception
6-6:30p			Hotel
6:30-7p
7-7:30p
7:30p	One Foot Square Show: Juror: Charles Adams	One Foot Square Show: Juror: Charles Adams	LHUCA Satellite Gallery
	APR Poster Display	APR Poster Display
	First Friday Event	First Friday Event
	Dinner on own	Dinner on own
9:00p
S Oct. 3
8:30-9a			LHUCA Firehouse Theatre Helen DeVitt Jones Gallery
	Painting in Transience	APR 0X: 9-10:30a: Visual processes
9-9:30a	Hannah Dean, Lubbock Christian	PAPER: Kaveh Rafie (Texas Tech): Sitting Pretty: the Photographer King and the Impact of Photography on the Construction of Gender in Iran’s Naseri Era
	Scotty Hensler, Texas Tech
9:30-10a	Andrew Martin, Texas Tech	PAPER: Sharon Bainbridge (University of Leeds) and Jainine Sykes (University of Leeds): The Process Continues: the archive, the staff exhibition, practice and pedagogy
10-10:30a	Christie Blizard, University of Texas, San Antonio	PAPER: James A. W. Gutierrez (University of California, San Diego): Framing Creative Intentionality: Toward a Heuristic Music Theory Pedagogy
10:30-11a
11-11:30a	Paul Hannah Award Lecture: Felice House, Texas A&M University		Firehouse Theatre
11:30-12p	Paul Hannah Award Lecture: Felice House, Texas A&M University
12-12:30p	Bag lunch	Bag lunch	Helen DeVitt Jones Gallery
12:30-1p	Lunch	Lunch
	Workshops/Open Lecture Sessions/3D Annex Tour	APR 0X: 1-2p: Vision, Movement, History	LHUCA Firehouse Theatre Helen DeVitt Jones Gallery 3D Annex
1-1:30p	Tour 3D Annex: WORKSHOPS	PAPER: Priya Venkat Raman (Independent scholar): Oral Repositories or Textual Traditions? Assembling the past of South Indian dance into the present history of dance
	Verbal and Pictorial Narration in “Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasb Book”
	Yasaman Moussavi
	Open Breakout Sessions
1:30-2p		PAPER: Valerie Powell (Sam Houston State University): Fail Faster: Exploring Risk Taking in the Creative Process
		APR 0X (PANEL C): 2-3:30p
		Panel: Creativity and Education in Arts Practice Research: A Case Study--Chair: Helen Phelan (University of Limerick)
2-2:30p		PANELIST 1: Mattu Noone (University of Limerick): Reclaiming the Mongrel: Irish Traditional and North Indian Classical musical connections- a practice-based exploration of hybridization
2:30-3p		PANELIST 2: Kevin O’Carroll (University of Limerick): Phrased Notation: Exploring a new solution to an old problem - A performance based study creating a modified music notation system for use with Renaissance polyphony
3-3:30p		PANELIST 3: Shane Holohan (University of Limerick): Education and Creativity in Aerial Dance Performance and Training: An Arts Practice Investigation
		APR 0X: 3:30-5p: Performance and Pedagogy
3:30-4p
4-4:30p		PAPER: Laura Elizabeth Sapelly (Penn State): The Sewing Circle as Metaphor and Methodology for Art Pedagogy and Scholarship
4:30-5p		PAPER: Arthur J. Sabatini (Arizona State University): Interdisciplinary Arts, Theory, and Pedagogy from the Avant-Garde and Experimental Art Traditions
5-5:30p
5:30-6p
6-8p	Banquet	Banquet	LHUCA Ice House
	TASA recognition and Awards	TASA recognition and Awards
6:30-7p
7-7:30p
7:30-8p
8-8:30p	Research as Performance Evening – Curated by Heather Warren Crow	Research as Performance Evening, curated by Heather Warren-Crow	LHUCA Firehouse Theatre
8:30-9p
9-9:30p
9:30-10p
10-10:30p
	Bus back to hotel	Bus back to hotel
Su Oct. 4
9a-1p	Post Conference Board Meeting		Overton Hotel

TASA Presenters

Friday October 2, Lubbock Room, SUB, Texas Tech University

9:00 – 10:30

Issues and Updates on Curriculum and Faculty Salary

The panel discussion will cover several important topics relating to curriculum and faculty salaries.  Issues include the planned THECB art field of study revision and how it may affect community college and university programs/transfer, creative arts core curriculum updates, MFA salaries at the community college, compensation of lab/studio hours at the community college and the THECB scheduled deletion of 13 ACGM courses for spring 2017.

Carol Fairlie is current President of TASA, and Program head of Art at Sul Ross State University. She maintains an active studio practice and shows her paintings nationally.

Carol Flueckiger coordinates the Foundations Program at Texas Tech University and her artwork has been integrated into architecture, choreography, theatre and national park venues. 

Mark Greenwalt Mark Greenwalt is a TASA Board Member and Professor of Art at College of the Mainland

Richard Lubben is a TASA Board Member, CAA Education Committee Member, Fulbright Scholar and serves as the Art Department Chair at South Texas College.

Valerie Powell is the VP of Regional Programming of FATE, the Foundations Coordinator of the WASH Program at Sam Houston State University and maintains an active national & international studio practice.

Gary Johnson Gary Johnson PhD is Assistant Professor of visual studies at Texas Tech University. His current research deals with perceptions and identities involving pre service teachers. 

Andrés Peralta attended the University of North Texas where he earned a Ph.D. in Art Education, and his research centers on identity construction, visual culture, and issues of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender.

Friday October 2, Lubbock Room, SUB, Texas Tech University

10:30 – 12:00

Creating Arts Infrastructure/Developing Artist Research

Our session will feature a panel of artists who have developed infrastructure for the making, exhibiting, or understanding of art. Artist-developed infrastructure is often the result of those who have sought for new environments and communities in which to make and exhibit artwork. These efforts support expansive ideas about an individual artist’s own work, as well as broader solutions to developments within the field. We will discuss how these efforts have influenced the artist's own practice and their art communities and how artist-led infrastructure differs from projects instigated by patrons or corporations.

David Lindsay is an artist and professor at Texas Tech University; he is also the developer of the Popwalk phone app for artists.

Hans Molzberger is an artist living in Houston and teaching at Houston Baptist University, he is the director of the Hilmsen 1 residency in Hilmsen, Germany.

Monika Proffit is an artist and the director of the Starry Night Artist Residency and Exposure Program and in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Friday, October 2, School of Art Building

3:30 – 5:30

Tour Art Facilities

Facilities in the School of Art will be open for viewing.  See what is happening with Communication Design, Visual Studies, Art History, Painting, Photo and Printmaking.  Faculty and students will be on hand to show classrooms and student works.  

Saturday October 3, Helen DeVitt Jones Studio Gallery

9:00 – 11:00

Painting in Transience

Schwabsky writes: “…’painterliness’ has a different value today than it did in the past (…) allowing the paint to linger in the condition in which things are still unsettled, metamorphic, in transition” (About Painting, 2011).  Though Schwabsky refers more to th e connections between abstraction and image-based painting, the artists in this panel discuss “unsettled painting” as a means to push to its boundary, determining at what point these remain paintings an when they transition into something else entirely, offering a spectrum form exclusive object-makers to those that are more clearly linked to performance, video, and installation. 

Christie Blizard, MFA (GSU), Assistant Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio and Independent Artist. Exhibitions include Women and Their Work, Austin and Lawndale Art Center, Houston, and publications such as Art in America and Blouin Artinfo.

Scotty Hensler, MFA (TTU), creates works in painting and sculpture that have been exhibited throughout the Southwest and serves as the Assistant Director for Landmark Arts Exhibition and Speaker Programs at Texas Tech University School of Art.

Andrew W. Martin, MFA (UCLA) is a studio artist, Professor of Art (Painting and

Drawing) and Associate Dean in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Texas Tech University whose works in drawing and painting have been shown in over 100 juried and invitational exhibitions across the United States.

Hannah Celeste Dean, MFA (TTU) is a painter with exhibitions and publications

including the Rising Eyes of Texas, The Hunting Art Prize, and New American Paintings.

She currently is an adjunct instructor at Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian

University.

Saturday October 3, 2015, 3D Art Annex

1:00 – 4:00

Tour 3D Annex: Workshops

Come join us for a Solar Powered Painting workshop to create large collaborative cyanotype murals.  We will brainstorm our image and metaphor as we use found objects (including our own bodies) to create compositions.  Work will be displayed during the conference.  Workshop takes about 30 minutes.  Carol Flueckiger coordinates the Foundations Program at Texas Tech University and her artwork has been integrated into architecture, choreography, theatre and national part venues. 

Professor of Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing, Robly A. Glover will be giving guided tours of the state of the art Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing Studio. The renovated 3D Art Annex is one of the premier Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing facilities in the Southwest. Professor Glover will tour TASA participants and present a short presentation on opportunities in the field of Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing and highlight alumni accomplishments and employment within the field. The field of Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing offers numerous opportunities for BFA and MFA graduates. Academic, industrial, commercial, and new technologies are only a few on the entrepreneurial opportunities afforded our students. 

Associate Professor of Sculpture, William Cannings will be giving a guided tour of the Sculpture Studios. The 3D Art Annex is one of the premier Sculpture facilities in the Southwest. Associate Professor Cannings will tour TASA participants and give a short presentation on the opportunities in the field of Sculpture and highlight alumni accomplishments and employment within the field. The field of Sculpture offers numerous opportunities for BFA and MFA graduates. Academic, industrial, commercial, and new technologies are only a few on the entrepreneurial opportunities afforded our students. Please join us.

The faculty in Ceramics (Juan Granados and Von Venhuizen) will be giving a guided tour of the Ceramics Facility in the 3D Art Annex.  The 3D Art Annex houses Ceramics, Jewelry/Metals, Sculpture, the Wood Shop, and 3D Foundations.  The Ceramics area boasts having one of the safest facilities in the nation, with state of the art ventilation for glaze and claybody research.  The Ceramics area also has 36 kilns of different varieties and sizes, so there is every chance available for students to fire ceramics in any type of kiln or atmosphere.  The dynamic program in Ceramics has B.F.A. and M.F.A. students that continue on to elite graduate programs, university level teaching positions, or become gallery directors, residency coordinators, and practicing studio artists. We also foster student ideas by having a healthy visiting artist program that the students get to engage with artists from all over the world.

Saturday October 3, 2015, Helen DeVitt Jones Studio Gallery

1:00 – 1:30

Verbal and pictorial narration in “Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasb book”

The Shahnameh Shah Tahmap is considered the most prominent and luxurious copy of Firdausi’s epic Shahnameh (The Book of Kings), which marks the summit of Persian manuscript painting in the 16^th century. 

This presentation is an attempt to investigate the unprecedented characteristic of narration in The Shahnameh Shah Tahmap and particularly in one of the ingenious illustrations by Sultan Muhammad, “Faraydun Strikes Zahhak.” This folio illustrate a departure from the traditional convention of the integration between text and image in Persian Painting.

Yasaman Moussavi, From Tehran/Iran.  BFA in Painting 2007 from Alzahra University, MA in Art Studies from Tehran University 2009, MFA in Painting, MFA candidate in Printmaking, Texas Tech University 2016. 

Saturday October 3, 2015, Helen DeVitt Jones Studio Gallery

1:30 – 4:00

Open Break Out Session

The Helen DeVitt Jones Studio Gallery will be available for conference attendees to conduct walk in presentations or break out sessions. 

APR Presenters

Friday October 2, 2015, Lubbock Room, SUB, Texas Tech University

9:00 – 10:30

APR 0 (Panel A)

Wandering as a Creative Research Practice--Chair: Bowman; Respondent: Justin Trudeau (University of North Texas)

PANEL ABSTRACT: In this session, we focus on wandering as arts based research practice.  An overview of wandering will be provided by the chair, after which the authors will examine different concepts and applications of wandering, such as the Surrealist activation of memory through a wandering chronotope, flânerie in performance composition, and poetic non-representational place-making in visual art.   In addition to understanding wandering as a chance based encounter between people and a place(s) or space(s), the three approaches highlight the multi-temporal affect of wandering; cover practical as well as theoretical concerns; and situate their work within the politics of wandering.   

PANELIST 1:

Sarah K. Jackson (Southern University of New Orleans) & Lindsay Greer (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale):

The Wandering Chronotope as a Performance of Memory and Remembering

PANELIST 2:

Bonny McDonald (Louisiana State University) & Ruth Laurion Bowman (Louisiana State University):

’Botanizing on the Asphalt’: Wandering as Generative Interruption

PANELIST 3:

Brian Rusted (University of Calgary):

Evoking the Visual: Walking, Performance, Trench and Circle

Friday October 2, 2015, Lubbock Room, SUB, Texas Tech University

10:30 – 12:00

APR Paper Session 02

Sound, Movement, Cognition

PAPER:

Cliodhna Donnellan (University of Limerick) and Shannon Burns (University of Limerick):

“Arts Practice Research as Method in the Investigation of a Traditional Musician’s Perceived Performance Limitations

PAPER:

Andrew Lawrence King (Guildhall School of Music and Drama):

Text, Rhythm, Action! New Priorities in Historically Informed Performance

PAPER:

Caitlin Grann (Texas Tech) and Carolina Arellans (Texas Tech):

Where Trees Do not Exist

Friday October 2, 2015, Lubbock Room, SUB, Texas Tech University

3:30 – 5:30

APR 03 (Panel B)

The ways and means of praxis led research led praxis (Page)

PANEL ABSTRACT: The Centre for the Arts and Learning (CAL) at Goldsmiths, University of London is a practice research centre, where knowledge is conceived as something that is co-constructed through action- praxis, practice with theory and theory with practice.  The aims of CAL are to enable, explore and curate critical processes of socially engaged praxis that effect change for social justice through a variety of ways and means.. The intention of these three presentations is to share ways of responsive, located research that draws on arts practice, pedagogy, modes of community engagement and collaborative creative processes.

PANELIST 1:

Anna Hickey-Moody (Goldsmiths University of London):

New materialisms and inventive methods

PANELIST 2:

Tara Page (Goldsmiths University of London):

The writing is on the walls

PANELIST 3:

Esther Sayers (Goldsmiths University of London):

Pedagogical arts praxis on the inside

Saturday Oct. 3, 2015, Firehouse Theater, LHUCA Campus

9:00 – 11:00

APR Paper Session:

Visual Processes

PAPER:

Kaveh Rafie (Texas Tech University):

Sitting Pretty: the Photographer King and the Impact of Photography on the Construction of Gender in Iran’s Naseri Era

PAPER:

Sharon Bainbridge (University of Leeds) and Jainine Sykes (University of Leeds):

The Process Continues: the archive, the staff exhibition, practice and pedagogy

PAPER:

James A. W. Gutierrez (University of California, San Diego):

Framing Creative Intentionality: Toward a Heuristic Music Theory Pedagogy

PAPER:

Kathryn Kelly (Texas Tech):

“On CERTAINTY – The practice of language of female visual artists’ in social positioning – I THINK” 

Saturday Oct. 3, 2015, Firehouse Theater, LHUCA Campus

1:00 – 2:00

APR Paper Session:

Vision, Movement, History

PAPER:

Priya Venkat Raman (Independent scholar):

Oral Repositories or Textual Traditions? Assembling the past of South Indian dance into the present history of dance

PAPER:

Valerie Powell (Sam Houston State University):

Fail Faster: Exploring Risk Taking in the Creative Process

Saturday Oct. 3, 2015, Firehouse Theater, LHUCA Campus

2:00 – 3:30

APR (PANEL C)

Panel: Creativity and Education in Arts Practice Research: A Case Study--Chair: Helen Phelan (University of Limerick)

PANEL ABSTRACT: In Navigating the Unknown (2006), Christopher Bannerman reminds us that artistry combines both learned “tuition” and instinctive “intuition”. Arts practice research has developed at the crossroads between artistic process and its self-reflexive analysis. This panel presents a case study of the Arts Practice PhD at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. It outlines the genesis of the programme and draws on recent publications to situate it within the wider debate around what constitutes arts practice research. It will include three examples of current research by students on the programme.

PANELIST 1:

Mattu Noone (University of Limerick):

Reclaiming the Mongrel: Irish Traditional and North Indian Classical musical connections- a practice-based exploration of hybridization

PANELIST 2:

Kevin O’Carroll (University of Limerick):

Phrased Notation: Exploring a new solution to an old problem - A performance based study creating a modified music notation system for use with Renaissance polyphony

PANELIST 3:

Shane Holohan (University of Limerick):

Education and Creativity in Aerial Dance Performance and Training: An Arts Practice Investigation

Saturday Oct. 3, 2015, Firehouse Theater, LHUCA Campus

3:30 – 5:00

APR Paper Session:

Performance and Pedagogy

PAPER:

Erin Grogan (Texas Tech):

Digital Anxiety – Multimedia Scenography in “Fire Island”

PAPER:

Laura Elizabeth Sapelly (Penn State):

The Sewing Circle as Metaphor and Methodology for Art Pedagogy and Scholarship

PAPER:

Arthur J. Sabatini (Arizona State University):

Interdisciplinary Arts, Theory, and Pedagogy from the Avant-Garde and Experimental Art Traditions

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Saturday Oct. 3, 2015, Firehouse Theater, LHUCA Campus

8:00 – 10:30

As performance on Saturday night: Shaking, Touching, Queering

Jess Humphrey (San Diego State University)

Leslie Seiters (San Diego State University)

Eric Geiger (University of California, San Diego)

PANEL ABSTRACT: We three dance artists/practitioners, while reflecting on and “opening out” our work together over time, arrived at three emergent acts/actions/activities that have reappeared, developed, and, over time, influenced our praxis. They are shaking, touching, and queering. They are methods, values, descriptors, and inroads to each other. This solo was created by “folding [shaking, touching, and queering] back into” the dancemaking process using questions inspired by Robin Nelson’s Practice-as-Research (PaR) model: 1. What is it? How do you do it? 2. What does it do? To you? To the world? 3. How might it change you? How might it change the world?