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A fugitive to the manicured the disciplinarity of the academe, public intellectual, lecturer, author, father of Alethea and Kyah, grateful husband/life-partner to Ijeoma, speaker, and proud diaper-changer, Bayo Akomolafe (PhD) leads an earth-wide organization-movement (The Emergence Network) as its Chief Curator and Director. The organization is set up around what Bayo calls “postactivism”, which concerns itself with an exploration of the materiality of responsibility and responsivity in critical times. Postactivism, as well as The Emergence Network, is a project framed within a posthumanist ethos and inspired by indigenous cosmologies. Bayo asks: what if the ways we respond to the problem is part of the problem? He considers this vocation to slow down, to touch the textures of urgency, to see through the eyes of the fugitive, as a shared art – an exploring of the edges of the intelligible, a dancing with posthumanist ideas, a dabbling in the mysteries of quantum mechanics and the liberating sermon of an ecofeminism text. 

Bayo hosts a course (We Will Dance with Mountains) among other offerings, teaches and speaks around the world. He is passionate about nurturing a posthumanist emancipatory movement and fugitive network that opens up other sites of power. 

Bayo is visiting professor at Middlebury College, Vermont, and has taught in universities around the world (including Sonoma State University California, Simon Frasier University Vancouver, Schumacher College Devon, Harvard University, and Covenant University Nigeria – among others). He is a consultant with UNESCO.  

Bayo has authored two books, ‘We Will Tell Our Own Story!’ and ‘These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home’, and has penned forewords for many others. 

www.bayoakomolafe.net

www.emergencenetwork.org

No booking is required. You must be registered as a Borrowed Time delegate to attend this event.

Supper is available to all registered delegates

A film presentation from Beatrice Allegranti Dance Theatre’s dance theatre production I’ve Lost You Only to Discover That I Have Gone Missing  – evolving directly from feminist interdisciplinary choreographic and dance movement psychotherapy practice, research and activism with people living with rare young onset dementia, their families and the artistic team. 

The project builds on previous interdisciplinary research highlighting the paradoxical sense of dispossession in loss and grief and, the experience, not as ‘lack’ but as an embodied-relational process: loss is visceral and not something that we ‘do’ alone. 

Through a blend of dance theatre and autoethnographic text, each extract will invite the audience to engage with the affective and kinaesthetic import of the material and consider the ethics and politics of borrowed time with/in dementia and wider: we are not bounded self- contained fully formed humans but porous processes – enfolding within a complex network of body politics, voices/language, affect, tactile-kinaesthetic relating, environments, ecologies, technologies and power structures. 

As such, my proposition with this piece is a more- than-human view of loss, time and space – that tangles with, and disrupts wider social, political and environmental inequalities and taboos of age, ‘self’, life-death, voice/language, memory, intimacy, vulnerability and care. 

Paul Michael Henry is a Scottish performance artist, dancer and musician. His work is informed by Butoh dance, punk rock and ritual, and is performed all over the world. Recent projects include SHRIMP DANCE (a multimedia dance work exploring the links between anti-depressants, ecological crisis and late capitalism), a tour of the United States with Laughter at Being Crushed, touring as a Butoh dancer in France and Japan, the premiere of new performance Mammy at CCA Glasgow, and a new film exploring high rates of male suicide in Scotland and globally called SMITE ME NOW. He is currently working towards a PhD at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, researching techniques for shifting our sense of self from Individual-Consumer to Interdependent- Ecological.

Michael’s themes are political, social & spiritual, dealing with love, neglect of the body, destruction of the environment and atrophy of the soul in consumerist society. www.paulmichaelhenry.com

He is also Artistic Director and creator of UNFIX, an evolving and experimental festival platforming ecologically committed performance, dance, music, film and discussion. UNFIX is intended as a contribution to the waking up of the human species to our predicament in an age of climate change, massive inequality and crazy consumerism. It is based in Glasgow and is ongoing there and in New York City and Tokyo. www.unfixfestival.com

Others say:

Utterly compelling… the astonishingly talented Henry has much to say. 
– Glasgow Theatre Blog

A singular talent of grace and power 
– Lorna Irvine (reviewer for the List and Exuent)

A disciplined, creative and unique performer to Scotland and I have not seen his like in Europe in fact. His movement has a beauty and intensity which has its roots in Japanese Butoh.
– Morag Deyes (Artistic Director, Dance Base Edinburgh)

The White Bar is open.

Breakfast is served in the White Hart

for guests staying at Dartington Hall

Supper is available to all registered delegates

A presentation about the Beatrice Allegranti Dance Theatre’s dance theatre production I’ve Lost You Only to Discover That I Have Gone Missing  – evolving directly from feminist interdisciplinary choreographic and dance movement psychotherapy practice, research and activism with people living with rare young onset dementia, their families and the artistic team. 

The project builds on previous interdisciplinary research highlighting the paradoxical sense of dispossession in loss and grief and, the experience, not as ‘lack’ but as an embodied-relational process: loss is visceral and not something that we ‘do’ alone. 

Through a blend of dance theatre and autoethnographic text, each extract will invite the audience to engage with the affective and kinaesthetic import of the material and consider the ethics and politics of borrowed time with/in dementia and wider: we are not bounded self- contained fully formed humans but porous processes – enfolding within a complex network of body politics, voices/language, affect, tactile-kinaesthetic relating, environments, ecologies, technologies and power structures. 

As such, my proposition with this piece is a more- than-human view of loss, time and space – that tangles with, and disrupts wider social, political and environmental inequalities and taboos of age, ‘self’, life-death, voice/language, memory, intimacy, vulnerability and care. 

Supper is available to all registered delegates

Henna Asikainen: Between two shores

The ‘ Between Two Shores’ project is structured around two main elements: 1. Climigration Testimonies Video Archive; and 2. A shared solidarity performance event held in the unique landscape of the Holy Island pilgrims causeway. (The social, cultural and historical relevance to the respective community highlights the importance of engaging the local when considering responses to global issues.)

Shared solidarity performance event

To highlight the impact of climate change in a local context, a public participatory walk for local communities and incoming migrants will take place across the tidal causeway in the North Sea to Holy Island, a site of spiritual, historical and ecological importance. Climate change will have a devastating impact on causeways such as this – many have already disappeared, and sea level rise will eliminate many more. The route across the Holy Island causeway follows an ancient path of pilgrimage and offers a symbolically charged –iconic setting for the event and the resulting artistic outcomes. The walk across the causeway will create a dynamic and emotive contribution to the debate on climate change, human rights and migration. It will highlight the tangible effect of climate change as we contemplate the disappearance of a much-loved feature of the local landscape. Traversing the path together becomes an act of solidarity – bringing together the local population and refugee communities.

The event is designed to produce a strong visual impact and lasting memories for those taking part, as well as uniting individuals and organisations in acting together for change and taking us towards a future where both people and planet will flourish. The event will be documented with multiple cameras in video and photography to create a tapestry of perspectives and will form the basis of a number of artistic outcomes which can be displayed in online platforms, as well as exhibitions.

Fundamental to this initiative is the bringing together project partner organisations (refugee agencies, arts organisations, environmental organisations) and the voices of participants in the context of positive actions on climate. It is my firm belief that artists can have agency by bringing together different ‘actors’ and in this extended conversation, where collaborative solidarity, and generosity in approach and understanding underpins what we do.

Mat Osmond: title TBA

The ‘ Between Two Shores’ project is structured around two main elements: 1. Climigration Testimonies Video Archive; and 2. A shared solidarity performance event held in the unique landscape of the Holy Island pilgrims causeway. (The social, cultural and historical relevance to the respective community highlights the importance of engaging the local when considering responses to global issues.)

Supper is available to all registered delegates

Supper is available to all registered delegates

for guests staying at Dartington Hall

Supper is available to all registered delegates