摘要：How can the contemporary performance practitioner
maintain a deterritorialised, nomadic existence within the
regulated systems of twenty-first century mobile life? Elliott
and Urry (2010) argue that ‘life “on the move” appears to
unfold faster and faster in the early days of the twenty-first
century, as people become more reliant upon
interdependent, digitised systems’. In contrast, the nomad is
an aspirational figure, ‘cut free of roots, bonds and fixed
identities’ (Pearson, 2010). Responding to the increasingly
globalised context of mobilities and Braidotti’s (2011) notion
of ‘becoming-nomad’, this keynote asks whether nomadism
can offer an alternative to the physical cultures created
through the systemisation and repetition of everyday
journeys. Rejecting conventional narratives of the ‘weary
and dystopian commuter’ (Edensor, 2011), we aim to
develop a series of performative interventions that
reimagine commuting as a creative and productive
embodied practice with the potential for nomadic
disruptions to the routines and rhythms of our everyday
journeys.
