Leap into Action Companion

Lee Campbell, PhD received his doctorate from Loughborough University, United Kingdom in 2016. He is an artist and Lecturer in Academic Support at University of the Arts London. His previous publications include PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, Body Space Technology and Performance Paradigm.

List of Illustrations – Lee Campbell: Introduction: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Action: Anticipation, Action, and Analysis – Adrian Lee: The Making Project: Data-Collection, Disruptions and Disconnects in Liminal Spaces – Jo Hassall: Off the Hostess Trolley: Performative Learning and the Visual Prop – Neil Mulholland: Shift/Work: Speculations – Adam Cooke/Paul Jones: Disco Dissent Collective: A Performative Nexus of the Political, Subcultural and Creative – Cathy Gale: Disco Dissent Collective: A Performative Nexus of the Political, Subcultural and Creative – Paul Vivian: Performing Interventions: Creative Spatial Interruptions – Gill Foster: Unravelling Hierarchies: Engaging Performative Pedagogies within a Creative, Transnational Partnership to Enhance Socio-Cultural Resilience – Steve Fossey: Composing the Material of Our Inner Voices: Creative Listening and the Dialogic Self – Nic Chalmers/Sarah May: Pattern and Process: A Score for Movement-Based Teaching – Nathan Geering: The Sound of Movement: B-boying to Increase Spatial Awareness – Lee Campbell: Technoparticipation: Pixels, Palimpsests and Performative Events – Lee Campbell: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Action: Three, Two, One, Go! – Notes on Contributors.

“There is lots of talk these days about experiential learning, flipped classrooms, and reflective practice, but so often the implementation falls back into a handful of top-down paradigms. Not so with this collection, which explodes the familiar and expands what is possible. These exercises could be adapted and directly applied to new contexts, but more importantly, they model a wider range of speculative thinking that resonate well beyond the creative arts.”—Theron Schmidt, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney

“With higher education under attack on all fronts, normative educational practices remain dominant and risk-taking is diminishing. Campbell’s advocacy for a set of critical performative pedagogies that provoke through troublesome knowledges, radical subject positions and liminal sites of learning couldn’t be more urgently needed. Read this timely instruction manual, disrupt the status quo, create eventful spaces for critical politicized thinkers and make a giant leap for experimental praxis possible.”—Gillian Whiteley, Loughborough University