Ms Julia Pond

Research project: Re-articulating value: embodied pathways to sustainability

Abstract

Dance and economics both depend on movement, of bodies and resources. This commonality sets the stage for this interdisciplinary practice-as-research project that creates new ways of thinking – and living – sustainable development. Specifically, the project develops a dialogue between dance, new economics and political philosophy to ask how embodied knowledge might help us rearticulate and practise value in ways that support a sustainable society. Beginning with a conceptual map of value theory centred around Marx, the project makes the link between economic growth ideologies and the neoclassical conception of value, recognising that ‘growth' is ultimately an unsustainable strategy. It then explores through practice the unknown territory of what a sustainable articulation of value could look like. Movement improvisation and interdisciplinary dialogue are key components of a cyclical methodology rotating between solo practice engaging with theoretical areas, group movement explorations, dialogue with theorists and public workshops.