ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how performing 'homemade circus' in academic spaces has urged author to reflect on the spatial and embodied practices of academia, the movements and bodily postures in the lecture room, and their consequences for knowledge production and practices of sharing knowledge. It examines in sensorial details how the spatial positions affect embodied reflection, social interaction and verbal exchange within academic life as it appears to author through the practice of Homemade Academic Circus. The practice of Homemade Academic Circus has included lecturing while hanging in a rope. The chapter explores two different positions that author has encountered through performing homemade circus in academic spaces, such as hanging upside-down and standing upside-down. The experience, and some pragmatic observation of academic environments, seems to confirm that the upright but immobile position such as when standing or sitting has a privileged position within the embodied practices carried out in academic spaces.
