Capturing Process: Documenting and Evaluating Reflexive Practice
In this session we shall look at means of documentation and evaluation…
ArTELIER LEARNING EXCHANGE: MARCH 2020
Capturing Process - Documenting and Evaluating Reflexive Practice
This session acknowledges that teaching artists need to plan, document and evaluate as part of our reflective practice. It also acknowledges that we each bring different styles and approaches to this process. What can we learn from each other about our reflective practice?
Venue
All that we are
1450 South Arm road
Sandford
7020
Date
Tuesday 10 March 2020
Time:
9.30 - 4.30pm
PLEASE bring to this session an example of your documentation/planning/evaluation to share and something for the shared lunch.
Facilitators
Victoria Ryle and Simon Spain with provocations from Alex Desebrock, Christy Flaws , Bec Stevens and others
9.15am
Arrival and coffee – Housekeeping and bring-your-coffee walk
Acknowledgement of Country
We need your ideas for ArTELIER Learning Exchange subjects for 2020 – come along with your ideas and use today as an opportunity to exchange ideas about this planning
10.00am
What do you do, what are the blocks, what do you want to improve?
ArTELIER reflective questions and
Why are we focussed on this subject?
Task: document the day
10.30 – 11am
Christy Flaws, Asking for Trouble (via Zoom)
http://www.askingfortrouble.com.au
Christy is going to give a quick presentation about how, in her latest project she, co plans with children exploring co-design with children in her approach to planning, documenting and evaluating her practice.
11.00 – 12.30pm
Provocateur: Alex Desebrock, Perth via Zoom
Documentation. Reflection. Planning.
Why? Who for? How? As artists we naturally have a reflective practice, as we tweak, improve and evolve. This hands-on session is an opportunity to consider how we do this & how we might want to improve or adapt our processes in creative, time efficient and/or effective ways.
Alex Desebrock is an independent artist based in Perth, Australia. Her work spans interactive theatre, live art, installations, online and public interventions. Her practice focuses around empathy, connecting strangers, big questions and the child’s voice.
She is the lady behind Maybe ( ) Together which has presented works across Australia including Sydney Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, Come Out Festival, Awesome Festival, The Arts Centre Melbourne and ArtPlay. Maybe ( ) Together’s touring works are produced by Performing Lines WA and represented in the US by Boat Rocker Entertainment. Alex completed Animateuring (VCA) in 2011 and was awarded the Barbara Manning Scholarship. In 2012 she completed a mentorship with Sara Topsoe-Jensen of Carte Blanche (Denmark). She was the Australian representative for ASSITEJ’s Directors’ Seminar in Germany in 2015 & was an artist in residence at Arts Chiyoda 3331, Japan in 2016 and The Artground (Singapore), 2019. Alex was the Program Co-ordinator at ArtPlay for 3 years.
Alex is passionate about creating high quality, insightful arts experiences for children and adults. Her work is described as "gently radical" using games and interventions to connect the ideas and opinions of children with stranger adults. Sharing the creative, brutally honest, playful, amusing, and guilt-inducing moments from future generations has become a long-term investigation, as she believes this is ultimately what the world needs to hear.
12.30pm – 1.15pm Lunch and books
1.30-3pm Sharing Practice - open discussion
This session will contribute to a whiteboard of notes to support the development of the toolkit…
Gatherflow drawings – Simon Spain
Gatherflow drawings are created as planning tools to understand and connect, like concept mapping, and provide a ‘visual road map showing some of the pathways we may take to connect meanings of concepts to propositions’ (Novak & Gowin 2010, p. 15). They present maps of movement and are proliferators of a process of unfolding (Van Berkel and Bos 1998), frequently operating as a means of making sense of a process or situation and have become a tool for knowledge creation (Monk in Bissell and Dillon 2012).
Bissell, C. and Dillon, C. (2012). Ways of Thinking, Ways of Seeing. Dordrecht: Springer.
Fook, J. (2012). Social Work: A critical approach to practice. SAGE
Novak, J. and Gowin, D. (2010). Learning how to learn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Van Berkel, B. and Bos, C. (1998). Diagrams: Interactive instruments in operation. Any, 23, pp.19-23.
plus other ArTELIER artists sharing their forms of planning, documentation and evaluation
Share your own examples of documentation
Quick break then 3.00 - 3.45pm
Reviewing our documentation practices of the day
3.45 – 4.30pm Turning our learning into shared resources (Bec and Simon) – discussion
4:30 End