Videos of the performances at AERA 2012 reARTiculation

Orkestar Slivovica at AERA 2012 Vancouver reARTiculation from Susan Gerofsky on Vimeo.

Orkestar Slivovica at AERA 2012 Vancouver reARTiculation part 2 from Susan Gerofsky on Vimeo.

Poet and Minimalist Jug Band Al Mader at AERA 2012 Vancouver reARTiculation from Susan Gerofsky on Vimeo.

Kathryn Ricketts as the Wandering Academic at AERA 2012 Vancouver reARTiculation from Susan Gerofsky on Vimeo.

Poets Barbara Adler & Jillian Christmas and theory clown Julia Lane at AERA 2012 Vancouver reARTiculation from Susan Gerofsky on Vimeo.

Theory clown Julia Lane at AERA 2012 Vancouver reARTiculation from Susan Gerofsky on Vimeo.

Colin Upton Sunday AERA drawings

New haikus from Monday & Tuesday

a mid April day
Sanguine intellectuals
secretly read fluff

those physical laws
velocity, torque and weight,
dressed up in sinew

Orange armchair prophets
Have they heard of Tom Robbins?
more whimsy, less bite!

I'm here by pure chance
what are these people doing?
why aren't they at work?

your ringing bowl-ring!
into a timeless presence
teaches unfolding

Haiku Monday, April 16th, 2012

What do you do now

Race to the fringe listening

How will you teach now

Motivational

Competition, grades, rewards

Gradvational

Ebb and flow of bodies

Talking, sharing, dancing, bleeding

Vast oceans of knowing

Learner before me

Cerebrally adore me

Cherie, assure me

Learning and teaching

Your themes are always teasing

Provoking pleasing

Teaching and learning

Complex and mysterious

My joyous mistress

Without morals and

Values our children

Base, hateful, selfish

Middle school kids can’t read

The entire room slept sweetly and peacefully

Why is art even capitalized

So worried about

Being important target

About growth of child

Al Mader's AERA poem!

an improvisational poem written by Al Mader under a very tight deadline on Saturday April 14, 2012 at the AERA conference

I'm here to learn

Never been a preacher

I was self-taught

Had a terrible teacher

So I'm on the outside looking in

And I prefer to stay outside

Sunlight's waltzing on the water

As the mountains watch with pride

Though I'd like to learn how to learn

Be taught how to teach

It's pure conjecture

Which lectures be within my reach.

ELL -- what the hell?

It's worth a try

The collective empathy

There to bring a tear to one's eye

There are some brilliant thinkers here

And they're being held accountable.

Bureaucracies, hypocrisy

But it's not insurmountable

Articulate communications

It can be a vice

Let me reARTculate --

Say everything twice.

Repetition is for emphasis

Quote unquote

Projecting from a laptop

Hey, let me check my notes.

They're a well-spoken bunch

These nerdy wordy professors

But I must confess those in this profession

Are not exactly flashy dressers.

Is it time for Q and A?

Here's my question, sort of

AERA -- does that stand for 'aorta'?

You've shown a lot of heart here

And dedication

To the education process

I have to show my admiration

It's such a valuable sacrifice

Serving future generations

Thanks for the sharing of your work

I've learned things today I'll never forget

But let me go outside again

Before the sun sets.

Today's reARTiculation performances: Monday April 16

Today is the final day of reARTiculation performances for AERA 2012. Hope you can be there -- at the stage on the 2nd floor of the Vancouver Convention Centre from 5:30 - 6:30 PM. We will soon be posting videos, comics & more photos, poetry and haikus from all three days. Keep watching this space for more great art inspired by the conference.

Today's line-up:

•The 605 Collective dance improvisation troupe

• Sean & Milton Lim, SFU theatre improvisors extraordinaire

• Dalene Swanson: poetry and dance

• The Slothful Academic (aka Kathryn Ricketts)

You can also get a FREE copy of the fantastic "Non SATIRE Scire" comic book produced at AERA by Cloudscape comic artists Jonathon Dalton, Colin Upton and Julian Lawrence! You will not want to miss this...

Photos from Day 1 & 2 of reARTiculation

Thanks for these photos, Ozlem! (It's very difficult to do photography or video shooting against that big backlit window with changing light...great work from photographers & videographers.)