Presenting my research exposition “Imitation as a Way to Care” on the 12th International Conference on Artistic Research.

My abstract for the presentation:

In my doctoral artistic research “Children and Childhoods in Intergenerational Performance Art” I approach children and childhoods through imitation, mimicking and verbatim techniques. Can mimicking be an ethical way to approach the other? Can we care through imitation? Are we able to use imitation as it is used in childhood, when empathy is developed through imitating? Here I present our practice, where adult performance and dance artists find ways to overcome the adult-child opposition and gain knowing of the children and childhoods through verbatim techniques and mimicking. We share the intergenerational performance space, children are artists and conductors of the performance, as well as experts by experience. For this presentation we create a transgenerational virtual space.