Performing Pedagogies and Exploring Embodied Knowledge

Performing Pedagogies was a week-long performance and exhibition series I organized that took place in Kingston, Ontario between March 15th - March 20th 2016. The motivation for this project came from a desire to explore performative modes of experiencing critical, embodied knowledge. The series featured five performances, a long distance collaboration between thirty-one Queen’s undergraduate students and a Vancouver artist-run free school (The School for Eventual Vacancy), a subsequent exhibition, a panel discussion, and a radical performance pedagogy workshop led by co-artistic director of the international performance art troupe, La Pocha Nostra. Artists featured included Golboo Amani, Basil AlZeri, Caitlin Chaisson, Justin Langlois, Saul Garcia-Lopez, Francisco-Fernando Granados, and Andrew Rabyniuk. By curating examples of performance art that variously incorporated embodied pedagogical interventions, I examined the processes of performance as pedagogy. Performing Pedagogies explored interventions into contemporary contours of neoliberal education paradigms through embodied encounters—fostering conversations about the meanings and limitations of knowledge dissemination and education today and posing questions about possibilities for radical pedagogies, embodied knowledge, and counter curricula.

Unsettling Histories: Representation and Indigenous Creative Art Praxis in Official Indian Residential School Redress

This dissertation offers an investigation of the role of visual strategies, art, and representation in reconciling Indian Residential School history in Canada. This research builds upon theories of biopolitics, settler colonialism, and race to examine the project of redress and reconciliation as nation and identity building strategies engaged in the ongoing structural invasion of settler colonialism. It considers the key policy moments and expressions of the federal government—from RCAP to the IRSSA and subsequent apology—as well as the visual discourse of reconciliation as it works through archival photography, institutional branding, and commissioned works. These articulations are read alongside the creative and critical work of Indigenous artists and knowledge producers working within and outside of hegemonic structures on the topics of Indian Residential School history and redress. In particular the works of Jeff Thomas, Adrian Stimson, Krista Belle Stewart, Christi Belcourt, Luke Marston, Peter Morin, and Carey Newman are discussed in this dissertation. These works must be understood in relationship to the normative discourse of reconciliation as a legitimizing mechanism of settler colonial hegemony. Beyond the binary of cooptation and autonomous resistance, these works demonstrate the complexity of representing Indigeneity: as an ongoing site of settler colonial encounter and simultaneously the forum for the willful refusal of contingency or containment.

Agent Inferencing Meets the Semantic Web

We provide all agent; the capability to infer the relations (assertions) entailed by the rules that, describe the formal semantics of art RDFS knowledge-base. The proposed inferencing process formulates each semantic restriction as a rule implemented within a, SPARQL query statement. The process expands the original RDF graph into a fuller graph that. explicitly captures the rule's described semantics. The approach is currently being explored in order to support descriptions that follow the generic Semantic Web Rule Language. An experiment, using the Fire-Brigade domain, a small-scale knowledge-base, is adopted to illustrate the agent modeling method and the inferencing process.

Human and Raptor Interactions in the Context of a Nomadic Society

This research project focuses on contemporary eagle-taming falconry practice of the Altaic Kazakhs animal herding society in Bayan Ulgii Province in Western Mongolia. It aims to contributing both theoretical and empirical criteria for cultural preservation of Asian falconry. This cultural as well as environmental discourse is illustrated with concentrated field research framed by ecological anthropology and ethno-ornithology from the viewpoint of “Human-Animal Interaction (HAI)” and “Human-Animal Behavior (HAB)”. Part I (Chapter 2 & 3) explores ethno-archaeological and ethno-ornithological dimensions by interpretive research of archaeological artefacts which trace the historical depth of Asian falconry culture. Part II (Chapter 4 & 5) provides an extensive ethnographic narrative of Altaic Kazakh falconry, which is the central part of this research project. The “Traditional Art and Knowledge (TAK)” in human-raptor interactions, comprising the entire cycle of capture, perch, feeding, training, hunting, and release, is presented with specific emphasis on its relation to environmental and societal context. Traditional falconry as integral part of a nomadic lifestyle has to face some critical problems nowadays which necessitate preventing the complete disappearance of this outstanding indigenous cultural heritage. Part III (Chapter 6 & 7) thus focuses on the cultural sustainability of Altaic Kazakh falconry. Changing livelihoods, sedentarisation, and decontextualisation are identified as major threats. The role of Golden Eagle Festivals is critically analysed with regard to positive and negative impact. This part also intends to contribute to the academic definition of eagle falconry as an intangible cultural heritage, and to provide scientific criteria for a preservation master plan, as well as stipulate local resilience by pointing to successive actions needed for conservation. This research project concludes that cultural sustainability of Altaic Kazakh falconry needs to be supported from the angles of three theoretical frameworks; (1) Cultural affairs for protection based on the concept of nature-guardianship in its cultural domain, (2) Sustainable development and improvement of animal herding productivity and herder’s livelihood, (3) Natural resource management, especially supporting the population of Golden Eagles, their potential prey animals, and their nesting environment.

Livro de imagem: possibilidades de leitura estética

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

O trágico, o cômico e a "distância artística": arte e conhecimento n'A Gaia Ciência, de Nietzsche

A partir da leitura de A Gaia Ciência, pretendemos mostrar alguns elementos importantes que, nesse livro, se constituem em torno do tema da "distância". Analisando principalmente três aforismos do livro, procura-se esclarecer o deslocamento no texto e no pensamento de Nietzsche da distância como Ferne, de origem romântica, à distância como Distanz. Entretanto, procura-se ao final mostrar que Nietzsche desloca o tema romântico da Ferne, caracterizando-a como uma "distância artística", que se torna o traço distintivo entre a perspectiva da arte e a perspectiva do conhecimento.

A produção em sexualidade, gênero e educação sexual na ANPED: estudo analítico-descritivo a partir do estado da arte como opção metodológica

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

Serviço Social e Educação: uma aproximação a partir do estado da arte

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

La adivinanza (mexicana) : Forma y función a partir de su estructura

La adivinanza, forma lírica de comunicación, del arte de saber y entretener, destaca como un juego mental y verbal que ha perdurado durante años uniendo a la poesía con el ingenio. Su forma tradicional se basa en versos de arte menor, cuartetas octosilábicas, de rima asonante o consonante cruzada, y el uso del símil, la metáfora, la metonimia, la alegoría, la dilogía, la analogía, y el desglose lingüístico. Como forma, no se apega a los cánones sino que se trata de un género libre, que crea sus propias reglas. Como el refrán, pertenecen al conjunto de rimas, o textos que no se cantaban, sino que se decían. Sus características son: la brevedad, la autonomía, la rima, las aliteraciones y los paralelismos. Su estructuración tiene dos vías: la sintáctica y la retórica: ambas están envueltas en el ropaje de la semántica y convierten a las adivinanzas en un juego del lenguaje, una lección o castigo, un enigma y un auténtico deleite de la tradición lírica

La adivinanza (mexicana) : Forma y función a partir de su estructura

La adivinanza, forma lírica de comunicación, del arte de saber y entretener, destaca como un juego mental y verbal que ha perdurado durante años uniendo a la poesía con el ingenio. Su forma tradicional se basa en versos de arte menor, cuartetas octosilábicas, de rima asonante o consonante cruzada, y el uso del símil, la metáfora, la metonimia, la alegoría, la dilogía, la analogía, y el desglose lingüístico. Como forma, no se apega a los cánones sino que se trata de un género libre, que crea sus propias reglas. Como el refrán, pertenecen al conjunto de rimas, o textos que no se cantaban, sino que se decían. Sus características son: la brevedad, la autonomía, la rima, las aliteraciones y los paralelismos. Su estructuración tiene dos vías: la sintáctica y la retórica: ambas están envueltas en el ropaje de la semántica y convierten a las adivinanzas en un juego del lenguaje, una lección o castigo, un enigma y un auténtico deleite de la tradición lírica

La adivinanza (mexicana) : Forma y función a partir de su estructura

La adivinanza, forma lírica de comunicación, del arte de saber y entretener, destaca como un juego mental y verbal que ha perdurado durante años uniendo a la poesía con el ingenio. Su forma tradicional se basa en versos de arte menor, cuartetas octosilábicas, de rima asonante o consonante cruzada, y el uso del símil, la metáfora, la metonimia, la alegoría, la dilogía, la analogía, y el desglose lingüístico. Como forma, no se apega a los cánones sino que se trata de un género libre, que crea sus propias reglas. Como el refrán, pertenecen al conjunto de rimas, o textos que no se cantaban, sino que se decían. Sus características son: la brevedad, la autonomía, la rima, las aliteraciones y los paralelismos. Su estructuración tiene dos vías: la sintáctica y la retórica: ambas están envueltas en el ropaje de la semántica y convierten a las adivinanzas en un juego del lenguaje, una lección o castigo, un enigma y un auténtico deleite de la tradición lírica

Dear DTCA, Please Don’t Deceive Me, Don’t Play on My Fantasy

Travail créatif / Creative Work

Utilizing ICT to prevent loneliness and social isolation of the elderly. A literature review

Ageing of the population is a worldwide phenomenon. Numerous ICT-based solutions have been developed for elderly care but mainly connected to the physiological and nursing aspects in services for the elderly. Social work is a profession that should pay attention to the comprehensive wellbeing and social needs of the elderly. Many people experience loneliness and depression in their old age, either as a result of living alone or due to a lack of close family ties and reduced connections with their culture of origin, which results in an inability to participate actively in community activities (Singh & Misra, 2009). Participation in society would enhance the quality of life. With the development of information technology, the use of technology in social work practice has risen dramatically. The aim of this literature review is to map out the state of the art of knowledge about the usage of ICT in elderly care and to figure out research-based knowledge about the usability of ICT for the prevention of loneliness and social isolation of elderly people. The data for the current research comes from the core collection of the Web of Science and the data searching was performed using Boolean? The searching resulted in 216 published English articles. After going through the topics and abstracts, 34 articles were selected for the data analysis that is based on a multi approach framework. The analysis of the research approach is categorized according to some aspects of using ICT by older adults from the adoption of ICT to the impact of usage, and the social services for them. This literature review focused on the function of communication by excluding the applications that mainly relate to physical nursing. The results show that the so-called ‘digital divide’ still exists, but the older adults have the willingness to learn and utilise ICT in daily life, especially for communication. The data shows that the usage of ICT can prevent the loneliness and social isolation of older adults, and they are eager for technical support in using ICT. The results of data analysis on theoretical frames and concepts show that this research field applies different theoretical frames from various scientific fields, while a social work approach is lacking. However, a synergic frame of applied theories will be suggested from the perspective of social work.

Pasado, presente y futuro. Reflexionar-hacer desde el archivo

Fundamentalmente a partir de los años noventa del siglo veinte ha venido adquiriendo especial relevancia en el arte el trabajo en torno al paradigma del archivo. Quienes desarrollan esta clase de prácticas parten de una necesidad de releer las imágenes de modo no lineal y no jerárquico, en el seno de procesos de conocimiento interesados en generar nuevas posibles lecturas, nuevas relaciones. Este texto propone un recorrido por un determinado grupo de manifestaciones que tienen en común el empleo del paradigma del archivo como punto de partida, como espacio de una indagación acerca del presente. Se trata las proposiciones artísticas llevadas a cabo por Catarina Simão, Maria Ruido, Sahatsa Jauregui y Elssie Ansareo. Todas ellas, habiendo entendido la importancia de su necesaria incidencia en el futuro, asumen la colección y/o relectura de las imágenes mismas como estrategia.