The Running Artfully Network Presents at International Performance Studies Network Conference: Reframing Running

Dr Kath Hughes and members of the Running Artfully Network collective, Dr Véronique Chance (Anglia Ruskin University), Dr Matti Tainio (University of Lapland), and Natalie Pace (Pier Projects), presented a roundtable discussion panel titled ‘Reframing Running as Performance Methodology’, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, on Thursday 10th July, 2025.

Abstract:

The Running Artfully Network (RAN) reframes running as a performance methodology, which counters established discourses of competitive, physical, sporting and health related activities, to propose new artistic paradigms for embodied, inter-relational arts practice. Converging interdisciplinary approaches to live and performance art methodologies, we challenge established assumptions around running, to propose the running body(/ies) as artistic medium and driver for thinking differently about critical issues of our day. As such, the presentations in this round-table discussion emphasise the radical impact of running as metaphor and aesthetic, embodied, performance praxis, arguing for its relevance to urgent socio-cultural, environmental and technological contemporary world issues.

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Image credits: Amy Crankshaw