Disorientation and emergent subjectivity: The political potentiality of embodied encounter

Located in philosophical enquiry, this article considers ways to theorize and articulate the political significance of embodied encounter with the environment. Underlying this discussion is an interrogation of the relationship between presence, embodiment and intersubjectivity, with specific reference to Fisher-Lichte’s proposition of ‘the radical concept of presence’. In doing so, an affinity is proposed between Deleuzian inflected corporeal feminism principally through the work of Rosi Braidotti and Elizabeth Grosz, and somatic-informed movement practice in the environment. It is suggested that both offer a critique of the ‘mind/body’ dualism implicit within humanist understandings of subjectivity. Accordingly, each can be argued to recast subjectivity as an always embodied activity, an inter-corporeal exchange between ‘self’, recast as shifting and multiple, and ‘otherness’. In arguing this point, the article proposes an alternative model of the audience – performer relationship theorized around notions of witness and transformation. Noting the political dimensions of this for issues of difference in performance, the article seeks to elucidate the extent to which existing approaches to performance studies, or that which Melrose terms ‘expert writerly registers’, themselves rooted in a disembodied spectatorship, arguably lack the apparatus to accommodate such understandings

A gift of writing? Choreographer and writer collaborations in the university

This paper investigates certain philosophical implications of asking a dance artist for an account of how she or he works. The research proposes the development of practices of collaborative writing by a dance artist and researcher‐observer (alert to the motivated and implicated positions of each) that are capable of articulating what matters to dance practitioners. Noting that many issues specific to the production and reception of practitioner‐focused writing have a bearing on dance education and on institutional practice‐as‐research frameworks, it is argued that dance academics should be more concerned with the questions an artist might ask before writing

flockOmania 1 exhibition, performance event & catalogue

The shaping of an exhibition programme for a gallery in a university can take on some quite different and interesting perspectives from those that might drive the selection of shows in other sorts of venues. The opportunity we identified in our first discussions about Zoe Robertson using the Lanchester Gallery was to use the exhibition both as a lever, or fulcrum, around which to explore ‘objectiveness’ of her works, and as an event in which performativity could be manifest

Dancing with dirt and wires; reconciling the embodied and the digital in site responsive collaborative practice

Acknowledging the practitioner-researcher model and collaboration inherent to twenty-first-century contemporary performance practices, this co- authored chapter is offered as an extension of an ongoing collaboration between two dance artists and a photographer working in outdoor performance under the project enter & inhabit. The writing process and resulting chapter moves between a reflection on process, a document of practice and a theorisation around live and digital composition, thus inviting a reconsideration of the relationship between the real and the virtual

everything is at once: Reflections on embodied photography and collaborative process

In discussion with his co-collaborators, dance artists Natalie Garrett Brown and Amy Voris, this interview explores the photographic process of Christian Kipp, landscape and dance photographer, as he reflects on his experience of working on the Enter & Inhabit project. The questions asked by Garrett Brown and Voris were generated through movement and reflective writing in response to the photographic collection exhibited as part of the 2011 Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, Coventry, UK. In particular, the article explores the interrelationship between the somatic-informed movement practices and performance score creation of Garrett Brown and Voris and the sensorial play of Kipp’s photography. Co-authored by Garrett Brown, Kipp and Voris, this collection of questions and responses seeks to continue rather than merely document the Enter & Inhabit collaborative process

Small-Column Cesium Ion Exchange Elution Testing of Spherical Resorcinol-Formaldehyde

This report summarizes the work performed to evaluate multiple, cesium loading, and elution cycles for small columns containing SRF resin using a simple, high-level waste (HLW) simulant. Cesium ion exchange loading and elution curves were generated for a nominal 5 M Na, 2.4E-05 M Cs, 0.115 M Al loading solution traced with 134Cs followed by elution with variable HNO3 (0.02, 0.07, 0.15, 0.23, and 0.28 M) containing variable CsNO3 (5.0E-09, 5.0E-08, and 5.0E-07 M) and traced with 137Cs. The ion exchange system consisted of a pump, tubing, process solutions, and a single, small ({approx}15.7 mL) bed of SRF resin with a water-jacketed column for temperature-control. The columns were loaded with approximately 250 bed volumes (BVs) of feed solution at 45 C and at 1.5 to 12 BV per hour (0.15 to 1.2 cm/min). The columns were then eluted with 29+ BVs of HNO3 processed at 25 C and at 1.4 BV/h. The two independent tracers allowed analysis of the on-column cesium interaction between the loading and elution solutions. The objective of these tests was to improve the correlation between the spent resin cesium content and cesium leached out of the resin in subsequent loading cycles (cesium leakage) to help establish acid strength and purity requirements

Scale-Up, Production, and Procurement of PEP Simulants

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been tasked by Bechtel National Inc. on the River Protection Project-Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (RPP-WTP) project to perform research and development activities to resolve technical issues identified for the Pretreatment Facility. The Pretreatment Engineering Platform (PEP) was designed, constructed, and operated as part of a plan to respond to issue M12, “Undemonstrated Leaching Processes.” The PEP is a 1/4.5-scale test platform designed to simulate the WTP pretreatment caustic leaching, oxidative leaching, ultrafiltration solids concentration, and slurry washing processes. The PEP replicates the WTP leaching processes using prototypic equipment and control strategies. This report provides the lessons learned regarding the manufacture and delivery of simulated feeds for PEP testing

Small-Column Ion Exchange Testing of Spherical Resorcinol-Formaldehyde -11379

ABSTRACT Ion exchange using the Spherical Resorcinol-Formaldehyde (SRF) resin has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of River Protection (DOE-ORP) for use in the Pretreatment Facility (PTF) of the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) and for potential application in an at-tank deployment. Numerous studies have shown the SRF resin to be effective for removing Cs-137 from a wide variety of actual and simulated tank waste supernatants. Prior work focused primarily on the loading behavior for 5 M sodium (Na) solutions at 25°C and the eluting behavior of the loaded SRF resin with virgin 0.5 M HNO 3 . Recent proposed changes to the process baseline indicate that loading may include a broader range of sodium molarities (2 to 8 M) and higher temperatures (50°C) to alleviate post-filtration precipitation issues. In addition, elution will likely utilize variable-strength recycled nitric acid containing trace amounts of Cs-137. Cesium ion exchange loading and elution curves were generated for a 5 M Na, 2.4E-05 M Cs loading solution traced with Cs-134 followed by elution with variable HNO 3 (0.02, 0.07, 0.15, 0.23, and 0.28 M) containing variable CsNO 3 (5.0E-09, 5.0E-08, and 5.0E-07 M) and traced with Cs-137. The ion exchange system consisted of a pump, tubing, process solutions, and a single, small (~15 mL) bed of SRF resin with a water-jacketed column for temperature-control. The columns were loaded with approximately 250 bed volumes (BVs) of feed solution at 45°C and at 1.5 to 12 BV per hour (0.15 to 1.2 cm/min). The columns were then eluted with approximately 25 BVs of HNO 3 processed at 25°C and at 1.4 BV/hr. The two independent tracers allowed analysis of the on-column cesium interaction between the loading and elution solutions. The objective of these tests was to improve the correlation between the spent resin cesium content and cesium leached out of the resin in subsequent loading cycles (cesium bleed) to help establish acid strength and purity requirements