Julia Pond: Work and Labour - Dancing Degrowth

In this latest episode of our Work and Labour series we hear from Julia Pond, a transdisciplinary dance artist, teacher and researcher working with political economy. She works with choreography, improvised movement and text, humour, and, sometimes, bread dough, often siting work in public space. Currently, this takes shape in her performance project and fictional company BRED. Julia is a co-initiator of the podcast DanceOutsideDance, and is supported by TECHNE funding for her practice-based PhD research. Her work has most recently been published in Documenta Journal. ------------Image: Gani Naylor Music: Jennifer Doveton------------References:Fridman, Leora. (2022) Static Place. Santa Barbara: Punctum Books.Hersey, Tricia. (2022) Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto. New York: Little, Brown Spark.Kallis, G. and Vansintjian, A.(Ed). (2017) In Defense of Degrowth: Opinions and Minifestos. Online: Open Commons.Kunst, Bojana. (2015) Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism. London: Zero Books.Paramana, K., Gonzalez, A. (Eds.) (2021) Performance, Dance and Political Economy. London: Bloomsbury Academic.Pitts, F. H., Jean, E., & Clarke, Y. (2020). Sonifying the quantified self: Rhythmanalysis and performance research in and against the reduction of life-time to labour-time. Capital & Class, 44(2), 219-239.Rojo, Paz. (2018). To Dance in the Age of No Future. Berlin: CIRCADIAN.Soper, K. (2020) Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism. London: Verso. Virno, Paolo (2002). Virtuosity and Revolution, The Political Theory of Exodus. Autonomedia, http://dev.autonomedia.org/node/1392.------------Technecast is a podcast series showcasing research from across the arts and humnities. It is produced by Felix Clutson, Isabel Sykes, Morag Thomas, Olivia Aarons, Chiara Muzzi, Eva Dieteren and Pragya Sharma. Fancy turning your research into a podcast episode? We’d be happy to hear from you at [email protected], on Instagram @technepodcast, or on X (formerly Twitter) @technecast.