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.)

Haiku Sunday April 15, 2012

Wow to ocean view

Contrary to most of tired

I feel nurtured

Accountability

Unrestrained Corporate Voice

Lost Democracy

Sore tired backside

Enlivened by a tuba

An impromptu dance

  

My mind is swirling

Large scale data in my space

Seeking to interpret it

Creating meaning

Reading across varied text

Within disciplines

Commerce ripples wave

Clouds cloak and unveil mountains

Scholars observe learn

Stealth education

If the educated are scared

Can we expect change

Money floats and flies

Scholars debate argue while

Homeless shoot up and die

Stealth education

Technology leads us here

Are young connected

Partnerships with schools

Depend on relationships

Communication

Mirrored images

Interwoven through teaching

Sharing a time free

Acid discussant

Questions your Crombach’s alpha

Evening mood ruined

Sex, pets, and Facebook

Did not seem so related

Thanks, MDE SIG

Sparsely attended

Symposium panellists

Beg us please move up

Appreciation

To know is not enough,

So give out awards.

The arts as research

Make knowledge soar and dive

New paradigm bird.

Sunday April 15's reARTiculation

Hurray for all the artists, producers and helpers who made yesterday's reARTiculation session so much fun!

Today we have another great day ahead -- this time from 6:05 - 7:05 PM at the 2nd floor stage at the Vancouver Convention Centre:

Barbara Adler, slam poet and accordionista

Julia Lane, theory clown (and SFU graduate student)

Jillian Christmas, slam poet
(Jillian Christmas video link)

The wandering Lost Academic (aka Kathryn Ricketts) may make another surprise appearance if she can find her way to the stage.

The amazingly prolific comic book artists Colin Upton, Julian Lawrence and Jonathon Dalton are in the final stages of production of a beautiful mini comic book based on their sketches and comics from yesterday's sessions. HInt: come to reARTiculation in the next two days and you may get a copy of this fabulous comic book -- free!

See you this evening -- enjoy the conference day.

Haiku Saturday April 14, 2012

HAIKU

April 14, 2012 SATURDAY

Hopeless converse,

Hallway talk, talk, talk

Coffee woke me up,

From searching for the right sessions,

One more coffee, please.

Invited keynote

Repeats same old, same old, same…

Super coffee talk.

Thoughtful ideas

Generative stimuli

Going home to write

Rush up the hill, fast

Enter the trickster room, late

Walk down the hill, slow

Serendipitous

Epistemological

Illumination

Performance Art Act

Folklore Music Poetry

Learn, play, dance, sing

This tome is heavy

I’ll leave it in the hotel

Wait! Where’s that session!

Does anyone go to poster sessions really?

It’s much less stress though.

Be efficient, sir.

You get just fifteen minutes.

“Wrap it up” says Chair!

 

Sweet surrender thus

Wandering the paths of knowledge

Such anxious praxis!

OrkestarSlivovica writes new AERA lyrics to classic Balkan tunes (2)

Susan Gerofsky wrote this song to the tune of Niska Banja (a tune in 7/8):

A-E-R-A

1) Garden-based class
Out in the sun
Hands in the soil
Feet in the clay

Write eco-poems
History\s taste
Math in our arms
Botanical plays.

chorus:
Scholarly text
Activist ways
Head hand and heart
AERA.

Critical thought
Cultural play
Challenge the power
AERA.

2) Those trickster tales
Ananse-sem
Turtle, bird, twig
Bat's cunning ways --

Folkloric texts
Chasing the tale
Youth find a voice
And know what to say.

chorus

3)  Coast Salish land
Beat nation speaks
First Nations teach
Cultural ways.

Hands reach, hands raised
There has been pain
There will be hope
There will be change.

 chorus

OrkestarSlivovica writes new AERA lyrics to classic Balkan tunes (1)

Deirdra Kiai wrote these new AERA lyrics to the song Hocemo. We call it Po-Mo Hocemo. Note|: 'necemo' translates as 'no we won't', 'hocemo' as 'yes we will'.


Hey Momci! Shall we start an educational revolution? Hocemo!

Better education needs innovation!

Shall we sit back and let the dominant patriarchal culture walk all over everyone? Necemo!

Shall we learn from the insights of indigenous stories and traditions as we fight for social justice? Hocemo!

Old rich white guys, make room for the rest of us!

Shall we keep setting up our students for failure? Necemo!

Shall we give students positive, immediate feedback in their learning using technology and new media? Hocemo!

Failing isn't any good for learning!

Shall we sit quietly at our desks with our heads down? Necemo!

Shall we get up and dance to this lovely Balkan band? Hocemo!

Slivovica, get up from your seats-a!

Saturday April 14, 2012 artists

Today, all three comic book artists will be on site sketching & scheming:

Julian Lawrence
Jonathon Dalton
Colin Upton


Al Mader, slam poet and minimalist jug band, will be weaving his magic, and the Orkestar Slivovica will make you dance with wild Balkan beats and special new AERA lyrics.


Performances and art display will run from 5:30 - 6:30 PM at the reARTiculation stage, 2nd floor lobby, Vancouver Convention Centre West.


Don't forget to contribute your AERA response haiku(s) in the boxes next to the stage! Look for the "5-7-5" blue and yellow postcards.

Welcome to the AERA 2012 reARTiculation blog!