[dance-tech] Brunel Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance - Research Seminar Series 2009
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Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance
Research Seminar Series '09
School of Arts, 4pm GB048, Gaskell Building Brunel University
Cleveland Road, Uxbridge Middlesex UB8 3PH UK
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/where
Research Seminar 1, Wednesday October 7th,
4pm Research update and appetizers
5 pm Louie Jenkins
Immortal Stages: Liminality, death and performance
Louie Jenkins is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chichester in
the Performing Arts Department and the coordinator of the new Drama
degree. Her specialisms are in Performance Writing, Solo Performance,
Devising and Applied and Interventionist Theatre. She has completed
the first year of a practice-based PhD at Brunel University, where her
research focus is on biopolitics, death and performance. Her Masters
degree is in Writing for Performance. She has worked as a professional
actress, writer and director in England and USA and is the founding
member of Factory Floor, a network for female solo performers.
Research Seminar 2, Wednesday October 21
4pm Reckless Sleepers, Mole Wetherell
sharing the same space
Reckless Sleepers creates original theatre pieces, installation
projects and interventions for theatres, galleries, museums, and site-
and seasonally-specific projects that both entertain and challenge its
audiences, viewers and participants.
www.reckless-sleepers.co.uk
http://makingthepilots.blogspot.com/
http://itwasnevercalledsnowman.wordpress.com/
Research Seminar 3 Wednesday, November 4
4pm Maira Spanghero
Dancing numbers, figures and patterns.
Maira is conducting post doctorate research entitled ?DANCE &
MATHEMATICS: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's use of the secret number and
William Forsythe's use of algorithmic structures in choreography?. The
intent is to understand how an abstract mathematical concept can be
transformed and used to develop new choreographic form and structure.
She is a professor, researcher and dance critic who teaches at the
Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC/SP).
Research Seminar 4: Wednesday November 18
4pm Joanne 'Bob' Whalley_and Lee Miller
Not Going Out: Dissent & Cupcakes_
Over the past ten years Whalley & Miller have developed an
increasingly conjoined performance and research practice. Their work
has been performed across a range of contexts, from local platform
events to international performance festivals. Increasingly, they have
struggled with how best to articulate this practice, a practice that
is supported (and to some degree given licence) by their work in the
Academy. This paper will consider Whalley & Miller's tense
relationship with professionalism and practice led research.
Research Seminar 5 Wednesday November 25th
4pm Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Reflective Viewing: Orlan's Hybridized Harlequin, Banksy, Bacon, and
the Animal-Human Divide
This paper explores ideas of hybridization emerging from Orlan's
recent work, ?The Harlequin Coat,? the recent art exhibit of Francis
Bacon at the Tate Britain, and the artist Banksy's "Village Pet Store
and Charcoal Grill" in New York. In very different ways, these bodies
of work expand possibilities while reflecting a cultural shift in
animal-human relationships. Each exhibit seems to challenge
traditional modes of viewing so that audiences might better reflect
upon questions of the animal in contemporary society. Jennifer teaches
at Roehampton University in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies.
Her work has focused upon the historical and theoretical implications
of new media/multimedia and its relationship to the live body in
performance. This work with multimedia has expanded to include work on
cyborg performance, trauma and memory in performance, dis/ability in
performance, feminism, animality and the non-human, and live art
practices.
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/staff/JenniferParker-Starbuck/
See: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/boiler09-10.html.
If you would like to attend please contact
Gretchen.Schiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx for more information.
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December 3-13, 2009
Networked Virtual Performance Envirorments: Japan UKIYO LAB
A workshop-symposium on virtual performance aesthetics, telepresence
design and transcultural communications
coordinated by Yukihiko Yoshida & Johannes Birringer
(Keio University)(Brunel University)
In the second phase of the UKIYO project collaboration, the DAP-Lab
team (Brunel University) will reside in Tokyo and be guests in
residence at Mixed Reality Lab, Hiyoshi Campus, Keio University,
directed by Professor Adrian Cheok. There the researchers from Japan
and Europe will spend several days investigating new approaches to 3d
virtual reality and virtual movement design, and exchanging knowledge
and methodologies. In the second half of the UKIYO research encounter,
Johannes Birringer and his DAP team will meet some of the leading
Japanese choreographers and digital artists interested in hybrid
performance choreography, and they will work together from 8th to 12th
December 2009. An international symposium will be hosted by Keio
University during this time frame, with an evening program of
presentations and films.
UKIYO is supported by the DAP-Lab at Brunel University's Center for
Contemporary and Digital Performance , a PMi2/connect British Council
research cooperation Award; The Japan Foundation.
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Following upon an invitation by producer Marlon Barrios Solano and
dance-tech TV, the Centre broadcasts selected Performance Research
Seminars live from the Brunel Drama Studio - making them available to
anyone in the world interested in the subject. Johannes Birringer
joined the dance tech TV as associate producer. The one hour talks and
discussions are webcast live on dance tech net TV (then archived).
This forms the beginning of a partnership between the Centre and
dance-techTV, and experiments in collaborative video broadcasting (the
channel is dedicated to interdisciplinary explorations of the
performance of movement. The channel allows worldwide 24/7 linear
broadcasting of selected programs, LIVE streaming and Video On-demand.
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Johannes Birringer
director, Centre for Contemportary and Digital Performance
School of Arts
Brunel University
West London
UB8 3PH UK
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/condip.html
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