This is a live intervention that will last for the duration of the Symposium, that is two days. The intervention consists of an extended version of a performative project entitled Slow Races for which one or more performers undertake an infinitely slow race.
For Research in Real-Time one performer will loiter and gradually with no clear objective move through spaces and thoroughfares. Reminiscent of garden gnomes, those familiar and perfectly useless garden ornaments, she will be wearing the distinctive red hat and celebrate her perfectly useless self. Standing, sitting, resting and occasionally taking a step, she will observe, listen and attend. Like a fool who is second only to the King, she will go anywhere and be anyway. Like a fool who is not concerned with past or future she will exist only in the here and now. If approached by someone she may respond: if asked where she comes from she may point to the space directly behind her; if asked what she is doing, she may reply “Slow racing.” As an ongoing presence somewhere and anywhere within the symposium, at workshops, lectures, presentations and coffee breaks, she will challenge the parameters of slowness whilst testing her own capacity for dawdling in the now.
Biography
Claudia Kappenberg is a performance and media artists, as well as founding editor of The International Journal of Screendance. She lectures at the University of Brighton, UK and has published widely on performance and screen-based work, including in Anarchic Dance (Routledge, 2006), The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (2010), Art in Motion (Cambridge Scholars, 2015) and the Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (Oxford University Press 2016). Her performance practice consists of minimal choreographies which have been shown across Europe, the US and the Middle East in the form of live interventions, gallery-based performances and screen-based installations.
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