Author: kaisyngtan

VIDEO: 20 Ways Running Can Transform Your World!

A moving moving-images rundown of my PhD research exploring running within an arty framework (Summer 2013)

This film is a (fun) rundown of my (not-as-fun) doctorate research (2009-2013) conducted at the Slade School of Fine Art as a University College London scholar. It explores the physical and poetic processes of running as a playful means to transform our relationship with the city, state and internet-mediated world, as well as the way we think. I work through the concept and practice of running through a range of disciplines and ideas, including digital aesthetics, the Chinese tradition of Taoism, the philosophy of correlative thinking, as well as emerging research in neuroscience on running. My outputs include durational performance, running-discourse-performance, lecture-performance, film (like this) and installation in the city and social-media platforms, as well as text (including a drryyyyyyy 80,000-word written thesis, and if you add those long-winded appendices, the total comes up to more than 100,000 words). Made in Summer 2013, the film features a new composition by award-winning composer Philip Tan. I premiered the film offline in September 2013 during my residency at the Slade Summer School. This is the online premiere (can’t you hear the fireworks and firecrackers and pork crackers going off?) The film has a running time of about 15 minutes, and runs quite swiftly (hence along the way maybe also proposing running as a way of seeing/looking). I shall stop punning with running as of now.

20 Ways Running Can Transform Your World! A rundown of my PhD research exploring running within an arty framework (Summer 2013) from kaisyngtan on Vimeo.

RUNCHAT: interview on-the-run with Live Marianne Noven

 

Live (what a fab [real] name!!!) is a theatre specialist currently doing her BA at the Aberystwyth University (it cannot be easy to be Welsh, or be a dyslexic Welsh, having to swim your way through so many consonants….I’d need more time to fill up forms too.). A keen runner, Live aims to synthesis running with her performative work, and wants to put up a piece for her final year show in May. Exciting!! At the meantime, she is filming/interviewing people who run. I was one of them. This took place at Regents Park, just after a shower (not me/her/us, but by god or rather Mother Nature or just plain fracking good old Nature or rather nature). (Check out my suave moves and running pace of about 1 cm per hour, and boasting about how running demands ‘no technique’ to justify my own wobblycrappy technique or lack thereof). Live travelled 10 hours both ways from Wales, via train, to be in London… A trip I may take to see her work. And to see the work of one of her profs, Dr Andrew Filmer, who researches performativity and running  – and walks the talk or rather runs the talk by making/co-ercing/forcing his students to run. Nice. I must rope him in for my New Interdisciplinary Research School Of Running that I am setting up in Runswick Bay (grand opening: 2084).