Renata Gaspar
Biographic Data
| ID | 7547103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renata Gaspar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renata |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaspar |
| SIGNATURE | GASPAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1544-2103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 44 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
To teach as if there were no future
Drawing on diverse situated experiences, the twelve authors of this article suggest the potential in teaching as if there was no future. To speak of a performance pedagogy futurity is to speak of an impossibility – the coexistence and circulation of technique does not lead towards a shared future, as intercultural pedagogies might have it, but instead to the absence of futurity altogether. The question is not when a future will arrive, as institu…
Presence / 13
I am sitting in my parents' living room, sharing a cup of tea and a slice of lemon drizzle cake. It is my father’s 86th birthday. We are discussing the neighbour’s parked car that blocks the view o
Ritualized / 04
Waiting for coffee to finish brewing. I am debating pouring a cup before the whole pot finishes. It is not a vigorous debate, but a not unserious negotiation with myself. The sort of thing I might
Ritualized / 10
I tie my shoes every day. I remember learning other ways of tying shoes – make two loops and tie them together or wrap the lace in the other direction so that the finished knot sits more squarely
Entering / 02
Yesterday at 3:42 p.m. I was picking up dog poo in the park. I’ve been picking up my dog’s shit for nearly two years, often several times a day (which means I’ve picked up approximately two thousan
Presence / 12
Entering / 03
3.42 p.m. Friday.She’s stomping up and down in front of the mirror to determine whether the ballet shoes fit.‘Try dancing a bit.’ We’ve entered the white noise stage of decision making. Oh Lord.‘Do
Presence / 09
Emotions are not, in fact, reactions to situations but predictions based on previous similar situations we have encountered. So every time we come across a situation, we dive into our personal, emo
Waiting / 05
What is mundane about daydreaming?Making collages with my daughter.Sitting on a bench having coffee and a cigarette.Walking and running.Walking or reading.Seeing jewels of light from raindrops on b
Presence / 10
I don’t remember what I was doing (at 3:42 p.m.). I was looking forward to it all day, waiting to capture the moment, to understand how I felt, to decipher its mundanity. I anticipated the light, b
Ritualized / 07
I have indeed ‘ritualized’ the mundane act of morning teadrinking and cooking dishes of my home country, conferring them a cultural significance in America that it does not carry otherwise and else
Presence / 03
Monday: IT appointment to help me embed the new lecture recording software in the new LMS.Tuesday: teaching Creating the Arts in the Contemporary World.Wednesday: facilitating a focus group for Reb
Presence / 05
3:42 ThursdayLines on the road,Flat grey sky,Traffic lights stop and start.Three people, one person.Car, car, ambulance. Taxi.Three women in head coverings turn leftWalking – man on bicycle looks t
Presence / 06
I write lists to help me manage.I have realized, especially since the anxiety triggered by menopause, that I use the lists not simply as ‘to do’s’ but as a way to prevent my mind from running over
Ritualized / 02
We were weaving in and out of one another’s rhythms – an email here and there, a reminder, a Zoom link, a writing schedule, a debate, a disagreement, a Google Doc comment alert ... Most people, of co
Waiting / 03
In the waiting room, I scroll on my phone until I feel my eyes heavier and heavier with numbness. But I have been missing the chance. I have to feel productive. I have to feel that I am saving time
Presence / 09
The presence of mundanity invites, as Gabriella Giannachi proposes in Archaeologies of Presence, attention to the spatial – towards the enactment of ‘co-presence’. Because presence as ‘a phenomenon
Maintenance and Care / 03
The most mundane hour is the time immediately after everyone leaves the house when I (who mostly work from home) am faced with emptiness and unmade beds as I walk around the apartment opening windo
Presence / 11
Ways of doing the weather: there’s eco-anxiety.I live in the Philippines and we joke about having four seasons: Hot+Humid, Hotter, Wet+Humid and Wet+Cold. I prefer the Wet+Cold days. It usually hap
Entering / 04
It is 7:06. Three forty-two slips between.Each day for a week now I have tried to remember to attend to this moment and forgotten.The routines of my days take over and that one moment, marked by a
Maintenance and Care / 01
The dreaded bedtime routine of getting children to sleep, which on some nights has no end in sight. This challenging and exhausting process embodies the monotonous character of childcare work throu
Waiting / 01
[5:24 p.m.]I am waiting for my daughter to finish her toddler dance class. I am sitting in the waiting area outside the dance studio. I turn around and realize that all the other mums and dads are
Maintenance and Care / 04
Presence / 08
The things that stopped being mundane the moment I lost them
Waiting / 02
The act of waiting recalls Faith Wilding’s 1972 performance Waiting – a classic work of feminist art originally performed at the historic Womanhouse installation in Los Angeles. In 2007, Wilding re
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Changing Perspectives on Performance Collaboration
Presence / 13
I am sitting in my parents' living room, sharing a cup of tea and a slice of lemon drizzle cake. It is my father’s 86th birthday. We are discussing the neighbour’s parked car that blocks the view o
Ritualized / 04
Waiting for coffee to finish brewing. I am debating pouring a cup before the whole pot finishes. It is not a vigorous debate, but a not unserious negotiation with myself. The sort of thing I might
Ritualized / 10
I tie my shoes every day. I remember learning other ways of tying shoes – make two loops and tie them together or wrap the lace in the other direction so that the finished knot sits more squarely
Entering / 02
Yesterday at 3:42 p.m. I was picking up dog poo in the park. I’ve been picking up my dog’s shit for nearly two years, often several times a day (which means I’ve picked up approximately two thousan
Presence / 12
Entering / 03
3.42 p.m. Friday.She’s stomping up and down in front of the mirror to determine whether the ballet shoes fit.‘Try dancing a bit.’ We’ve entered the white noise stage of decision making. Oh Lord.‘Do
Presence / 09
Emotions are not, in fact, reactions to situations but predictions based on previous similar situations we have encountered. So every time we come across a situation, we dive into our personal, emo
Waiting / 05
What is mundane about daydreaming?Making collages with my daughter.Sitting on a bench having coffee and a cigarette.Walking and running.Walking or reading.Seeing jewels of light from raindrops on b
Presence / 10
I don’t remember what I was doing (at 3:42 p.m.). I was looking forward to it all day, waiting to capture the moment, to understand how I felt, to decipher its mundanity. I anticipated the light, b
Ritualized / 07
I have indeed ‘ritualized’ the mundane act of morning teadrinking and cooking dishes of my home country, conferring them a cultural significance in America that it does not carry otherwise and else
Presence / 03
Monday: IT appointment to help me embed the new lecture recording software in the new LMS.Tuesday: teaching Creating the Arts in the Contemporary World.Wednesday: facilitating a focus group for Reb
Presence / 05
3:42 ThursdayLines on the road,Flat grey sky,Traffic lights stop and start.Three people, one person.Car, car, ambulance. Taxi.Three women in head coverings turn leftWalking – man on bicycle looks t
Presence / 06
I write lists to help me manage.I have realized, especially since the anxiety triggered by menopause, that I use the lists not simply as ‘to do’s’ but as a way to prevent my mind from running over
Ritualized / 02
We were weaving in and out of one another’s rhythms – an email here and there, a reminder, a Zoom link, a writing schedule, a debate, a disagreement, a Google Doc comment alert ... Most people, of co
Waiting / 03
In the waiting room, I scroll on my phone until I feel my eyes heavier and heavier with numbness. But I have been missing the chance. I have to feel productive. I have to feel that I am saving time
Presence / 09
The presence of mundanity invites, as Gabriella Giannachi proposes in Archaeologies of Presence, attention to the spatial – towards the enactment of ‘co-presence’. Because presence as ‘a phenomenon
Maintenance and Care / 03
The most mundane hour is the time immediately after everyone leaves the house when I (who mostly work from home) am faced with emptiness and unmade beds as I walk around the apartment opening windo
Presence / 11
Ways of doing the weather: there’s eco-anxiety.I live in the Philippines and we joke about having four seasons: Hot+Humid, Hotter, Wet+Humid and Wet+Cold. I prefer the Wet+Cold days. It usually hap
Entering / 04
It is 7:06. Three forty-two slips between.Each day for a week now I have tried to remember to attend to this moment and forgotten.The routines of my days take over and that one moment, marked by a
Maintenance and Care / 01
The dreaded bedtime routine of getting children to sleep, which on some nights has no end in sight. This challenging and exhausting process embodies the monotonous character of childcare work throu
Waiting / 01
[5:24 p.m.]I am waiting for my daughter to finish her toddler dance class. I am sitting in the waiting area outside the dance studio. I turn around and realize that all the other mums and dads are
Maintenance and Care / 04
Presence / 08
The things that stopped being mundane the moment I lost them
Waiting / 02
The act of waiting recalls Faith Wilding’s 1972 performance Waiting – a classic work of feminist art originally performed at the historic Womanhouse installation in Los Angeles. In 2007, Wilding re
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