Jo Pollitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 2223099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Pollitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollitt |
| SIGNATURE | POLLITT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2821-7768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Forecast
This paper presents a series of responses from Western Australian based artists and scholars from a range of disciplines including: meteorology, science, education, social work, psychology, art and performance studies, to a year-long exhibition titled Forecast in Gallery 09 at The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA). Forecast is a collaboration between AGWA’s Head of Learning and Creativity Research, Lilly Blue, Edith Cowan University’s Centr…
Relating to Difficult Weather through Creative Practice
In this paper we argue that performance and the arts invite a deliberate sensorial connection with the body and can support a bodily turn or return, in order to help artists, scholars and communities more broadly, better attune to increasing climate instability, through collaborative, supportive and reflexive storytelling. Drawing on the three “weather” symposia, the paper focusses on the second symposium which featured a keynote presentation by …
Clouds Running Out of Juice
This paper presents a pedagogical experiment in the form of a fictional podcast episode that “aired” in January 2025, featuring Tim Winton’s climate fiction novel Juice (2024). Emerging from a dialogical reading collaboration between three interdisciplinary “scholars, resisters and ordinary grafters” (Winton, 2024, p.116) — Rumen Rachev, Jo Pollitt, and Emma Nicoletti — the paper and podcast operate together through a method we term papercast, ce…
Weather under pressure
This paper will offer a re-scored version of my creative presentation given at Recentring the Region. It is a return of sorts to a methodological dancing body that has been taken up with university mechinacia but is remembering again differently my trust in artists, and trust in knowledges under words, under skins. As an artist, I’m interested in the kind of unquestioned extractivism that artist scholars such as Singer (2023) and van Neervan (202…
Masculinism, institutional violence and #MeToo
This article offers an analysis of data from the project Sexism, Higher Education, and Covid-19: The Australian Perspective. The authors argue that the gendered impact of the pandemic in Higher Education Institutions constitutes a form of institutionally perpetrated sexist harassment, and that raising awareness of the ways in which institutions themselves enable and perpetrate such harassment is consistent with the aims of the #MeToo movement. Th…
The Practice of Endings in a Work that has no End
We are living through times of crisis where we are witnesses to acts of terror being carried out in wars across the globe and where the reality of extreme weather is altering life as we know it. In these times, the idea of ends or, more specifically, ‘the end’ seem more real than at any other time in recent history.Given this context what we need more than ever is a space in which we can consider deeply and carefully a multiplicity of perspective…
‘I'm broken but I'm alive’
This paper reports on a project conducted between July 2020 and March 2021 that was developed within the context of COVID-19 and explored the ways in which Australian universities responded to the pandemic and the gendered effects of these responses. This paper demonstrates that sexist and gender discriminatory practices were amplified by the pandemic and that the gendered division of labour within higher education was made more apparent. We cont…
Performing feminist research
Presenting research findings outside of the form of a traditional research report requires different modes of making and communicating. This paper offers an account of how The #FEAS Report, a satirical news video, was made to communicate the findings from interviews and a survey as part of the mixed-methods study, Sexism, Higher Education, and COVID-19: The Australian Perspective to a wider public. Three creative tactics for research communicatio…
I am _your_Pyrate Dancer
The article proposes that the interstitial as an analytical category advances transdisciplinary developments in contemporary choreographic practice. The techniques and conventions of passing, marking, and parsing are described as concomitant agencies that act as notational scores connected to the informatic procedure of writing as dancing. A case study is provided as an example of how gesture, executable code, computational poetics, script, and s…
Dis/orientating the Early Childhood Sensorium
This paper shares a multilayered retrospective story of an international exhibit curated for the Climate Action Childhood Network Colloquium as part of a commitment among exhibit curators to reveal the complexities of unpalatable climate futures. In the format of a tasting menu, we offer a sampling of the exhibit installations as a menu of potential alterpolitics in the making. Facing intensifying inequitable climate presents and futures, our int…
Ensemblography
Choreographing collaboratories
This article introduces the concept of situated improvisations. Drawing from two long-term collaboratories in Australia and Canada, the discussion focusses on improvisation as method to unsettle well-trodden pedagogical choreographies in early childhood education. Through co-labouring, we propose situated improvisations as pedagogical processes of ensemble practice for heightening emergent encounters that disrupt the hierarchy of linearity, progr…
Between activism and academia
This paper gives an account of a series of three Zoom zine-making workshops run between March and July 2020 that were themed the political, the personal and the practical. A micro-reading of the zines is offered as data that mirror the aims of the workshops, to queer time by slowing down and creating a pause. The process of zine-making as feminist praxis is examined, and the zines themselves are discussed as data that reflect specific moments in …
Weather bodies
This paper reports on insights gained from incorporating dance improvisation into a broader early years environmental education ethnographic research project. Findings are reported from a two-day workshop where a dancer was invited to work with young children to attune to the weather through their bodies. In these workshops, the practice of dance improvisation was used as a deliberate interference to disrupt the disconnected and disembodied ways …
Feas Performing Project P
Between activism and academia
This paper gives an account of a series of three Zoom zine-making workshops run between March and July 2020 that were themed the political, the personal and the practical. A micro-reading of the zines is offered as data that mirror the aims of the workshops, to queer time by slowing down and creating a pause. The process of zine-making as feminist praxis is examined, and the zines themselves are discussed as data that reflect specific moments in …
Weather bodies
This paper reports on insights gained from incorporating dance improvisation into a broader early years environmental education ethnographic research project. Findings are reported from a two-day workshop where a dancer was invited to work with young children to attune to the weather through their bodies. In these workshops, the practice of dance improvisation was used as a deliberate interference to disrupt the disconnected and disembodied ways …
Masculinism, institutional violence and #MeToo
This article offers an analysis of data from the project Sexism, Higher Education, and Covid-19: The Australian Perspective. The authors argue that the gendered impact of the pandemic in Higher Education Institutions constitutes a form of institutionally perpetrated sexist harassment, and that raising awareness of the ways in which institutions themselves enable and perpetrate such harassment is consistent with the aims of the #MeToo movement. Th…
Choreographing collaboratories
This article introduces the concept of situated improvisations. Drawing from two long-term collaboratories in Australia and Canada, the discussion focusses on improvisation as method to unsettle well-trodden pedagogical choreographies in early childhood education. Through co-labouring, we propose situated improvisations as pedagogical processes of ensemble practice for heightening emergent encounters that disrupt the hierarchy of linearity, progr…
Feas Performing Project P
Ensemblography
Choreographing collaboratories
This article introduces the concept of situated improvisations. Drawing from two long-term collaboratories in Australia and Canada, the discussion focusses on improvisation as method to unsettle well-trodden pedagogical choreographies in early childhood education. Through co-labouring, we propose situated improvisations as pedagogical processes of ensemble practice for heightening emergent encounters that disrupt the hierarchy of linearity, progr…
Between activism and academia
This paper gives an account of a series of three Zoom zine-making workshops run between March and July 2020 that were themed the political, the personal and the practical. A micro-reading of the zines is offered as data that mirror the aims of the workshops, to queer time by slowing down and creating a pause. The process of zine-making as feminist praxis is examined, and the zines themselves are discussed as data that reflect specific moments in …
Weather bodies
This paper reports on insights gained from incorporating dance improvisation into a broader early years environmental education ethnographic research project. Findings are reported from a two-day workshop where a dancer was invited to work with young children to attune to the weather through their bodies. In these workshops, the practice of dance improvisation was used as a deliberate interference to disrupt the disconnected and disembodied ways …
Dis/orientating the Early Childhood Sensorium
This paper shares a multilayered retrospective story of an international exhibit curated for the Climate Action Childhood Network Colloquium as part of a commitment among exhibit curators to reveal the complexities of unpalatable climate futures. In the format of a tasting menu, we offer a sampling of the exhibit installations as a menu of potential alterpolitics in the making. Facing intensifying inequitable climate presents and futures, our int…
‘I'm broken but I'm alive’
This paper reports on a project conducted between July 2020 and March 2021 that was developed within the context of COVID-19 and explored the ways in which Australian universities responded to the pandemic and the gendered effects of these responses. This paper demonstrates that sexist and gender discriminatory practices were amplified by the pandemic and that the gendered division of labour within higher education was made more apparent. We cont…
Performing feminist research
Presenting research findings outside of the form of a traditional research report requires different modes of making and communicating. This paper offers an account of how The #FEAS Report, a satirical news video, was made to communicate the findings from interviews and a survey as part of the mixed-methods study, Sexism, Higher Education, and COVID-19: The Australian Perspective to a wider public. Three creative tactics for research communicatio…
I am _your_Pyrate Dancer
The article proposes that the interstitial as an analytical category advances transdisciplinary developments in contemporary choreographic practice. The techniques and conventions of passing, marking, and parsing are described as concomitant agencies that act as notational scores connected to the informatic procedure of writing as dancing. A case study is provided as an example of how gesture, executable code, computational poetics, script, and s…
The Practice of Endings in a Work that has no End
We are living through times of crisis where we are witnesses to acts of terror being carried out in wars across the globe and where the reality of extreme weather is altering life as we know it. In these times, the idea of ends or, more specifically, ‘the end’ seem more real than at any other time in recent history.Given this context what we need more than ever is a space in which we can consider deeply and carefully a multiplicity of perspective…
Clouds Running Out of Juice
This paper presents a pedagogical experiment in the form of a fictional podcast episode that “aired” in January 2025, featuring Tim Winton’s climate fiction novel Juice (2024). Emerging from a dialogical reading collaboration between three interdisciplinary “scholars, resisters and ordinary grafters” (Winton, 2024, p.116) — Rumen Rachev, Jo Pollitt, and Emma Nicoletti — the paper and podcast operate together through a method we term papercast, ce…
Weather under pressure
This paper will offer a re-scored version of my creative presentation given at Recentring the Region. It is a return of sorts to a methodological dancing body that has been taken up with university mechinacia but is remembering again differently my trust in artists, and trust in knowledges under words, under skins. As an artist, I’m interested in the kind of unquestioned extractivism that artist scholars such as Singer (2023) and van Neervan (202…
Masculinism, institutional violence and #MeToo
This article offers an analysis of data from the project Sexism, Higher Education, and Covid-19: The Australian Perspective. The authors argue that the gendered impact of the pandemic in Higher Education Institutions constitutes a form of institutionally perpetrated sexist harassment, and that raising awareness of the ways in which institutions themselves enable and perpetrate such harassment is consistent with the aims of the #MeToo movement. Th…
Forecast
This paper presents a series of responses from Western Australian based artists and scholars from a range of disciplines including: meteorology, science, education, social work, psychology, art and performance studies, to a year-long exhibition titled Forecast in Gallery 09 at The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA). Forecast is a collaboration between AGWA’s Head of Learning and Creativity Research, Lilly Blue, Edith Cowan University’s Centr…
Relating to Difficult Weather through Creative Practice
In this paper we argue that performance and the arts invite a deliberate sensorial connection with the body and can support a bodily turn or return, in order to help artists, scholars and communities more broadly, better attune to increasing climate instability, through collaborative, supportive and reflexive storytelling. Drawing on the three “weather” symposia, the paper focusses on the second symposium which featured a keynote presentation by …
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Dance (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (3 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (3 works)