Cross Pollination's Nomadic Laboratory: a praxis in-between practices

Adriana La Selva,Andrea Maciel,Patrick Campbell,Marije Nie

doi:10.1590/2237-2660113814

Abstract

ABSTRACT This collaborative writing presents the ways in which practitioner-researchers from Cross Pollination (CP), an international arts research platform with a focus on knowledge exchange, create nomadic and temporary laboratory spaces. It is argued that the encounter between different experiences of performative craft generates epistemic insights that enable members of the platform to rearticulate their practices through the reterritorialization of specialized techniques. Furthermore, the article discusses how an ethos of companionship may appear through dialogical and horizontal practices, contributing to a renewal of the theatre laboratory.

Highlights

The authors of this article are all core members of Cross Pollination (CP), an international arts research platform with a focus on knowledge exchange, linked to Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium (NTL) (DK)1
Founded in 2017 by Marije Nie and Adriana La Selva, CP runs an expanded laboratory for the dialogue in-between practices, both scholarly and performancebased, as an integral and essential part of a politics of embodied research in theatre and performance. This collaborative writing shares the ways in which practitionerresearchers from CP create nomadic and temporary laboratory spaces which are characterized by an ethos of companionship, interdisciplinarity and dialogical practices which lie in-between the bodies of knowledge we each possess
A critical reflection of CP’s trajectory so far will be followed by opening up the epistemological field of inquiry in which our practices dialogue, whilst foregrounding the concrete praxical tactics we have developed and continue to employ as we work together

Summary

Adriana La SelvaI Patrick CampbellII

Marije NieIII Andrea MacielIII IGhent University – UGENT, Ghent, Belgium IIManchester Metropolitan University – MMU, Manchester, United Kingdom IIIIndependent Scholar. ABSTRACT – Cross Pollination’s Nomadic Laboratory: a praxis in-between practices – This collaborative writing presents the ways in which practitioner-researchers from Cross Pollination (CP), an international arts research platform with a focus on knowledge exchange, create nomadic and temporary laboratory spaces. The article discusses how an ethos of companionship may appear through dialogical and horizontal practices, contributing to a renewal of the theatre laboratory. RÉSUMÉ – La Laboratoire Nomade de la Cross Pollination: une praxis entre les pratiques – Cet écrit collaboratif présente les façons dont les praticiens-chercheurs de Cross Pollination (CP), une plateforme internationale de recherche en arts axée sur l'échange de connaissances, créent des espaces de laboratoire nomades et temporaires. L'article discute comment un ethos de camaraderie peut apparaître à travers des pratiques dialogiques et horizontales, contribuant à un renouvellement du laboratoire du théâtre. Adriana La Selva; Patrick Campbell; Marije Nie; Andrea Maciel – Cross Pollination’s Nomadic Laboratory: a praxis in-between practices. All becoming is based on movement (Klee, 2001, p. 45)

Introduction

Nomadic Villages

Entanglement of Theory and Practice