[dance-tech] Re: Performance Research Seminar Series at Brunel: starts Wed. Oct. 2
- From: Johannes Birringer <Johannes.Birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:57:38 +0100
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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY AND DIGITAL PERFORMANCE
Brunel University
PERFORMANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR
autumn 2013
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Gaskell Bldg 048-Drama Studio, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Cleveland Rd, UB8
3PH
16:oo
Grant Tyler Peterson
(Theatre, Brunel University)
‘Situationist Theatre Legacies and Participatory Spectatorship since 1964’
In the early 1960s, British Situationist Alexander Trocchi impacted the London
arts scene in ways yet to be fully acknowledged. Trocchi’s absence in the field
of theatre and performance is curious despite alliances with prominent
twentieth-century theorists and theatre makers, including Guy Debord, Jean
Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Joan Littlewood, Jeff Nuttall and John
McGrath. As a historiographical project excavating Trocchi’s legacy and
Situationist modes of spectatorship, this talk considers Trocchi’s key
manifesto, “Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds” alongside the
ground-breaking 1965 London installation performance, sTigma. A performance
genealogy could even extend from Trocchi’s proposed aesthetics of spectatorship
to the recent ‘affective turn’ and ‘immersive’ performance practices. The
proposed genealogy in this talk attempts to recuperate germane British
Situationist legacies while tracing an eversion of participatory spectatorship
methods from the sixties to the present.
Grant Tyler Peterson joined the Brunel Theatre faculty in 2013 having
previously taught at Royal Holloway, University of London, University of
Winchester, and Bath Spa University. Grant is an early career researcher with
published work on a diverse range of subjects including British alternative
theatre history, street theatre, gender, sexuality, and digital research
methodology. He earned a MA in Critical Studies from UCLA under Sue-Ellen Case
and a PhD from Royal Holloway under Dan Rebellato and Chris Megson.
admission free
Coordinated by Prof. Johannes Birringer
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(0)1895 267 343 (office)
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