[dance-tech] announcing Artaud Forum III (2013) at Brunel University
- From: Johannes Birringer <Johannes.Birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:24:46 +0000
ARTAUD FORUM 3:
Theatre and Resonant Politics
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Saturday, March 23 - Sunday, March 24, 2013
A two-day conference and performance laboratory
held at the Antonin Artaud Performance Centre
Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London (UK)
D e t a i l e d P r o g r a m will be posted at:
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/artaudforum.html
CALL FOR PAPERS, PERFORMANCES and OTHER PRESENTATIONS
deadline for proposals: 15 December 2012
The third ARTAUD FORUM on Theatre and Resonant Politics examines theatre as a
site of disciplining bodies towards participation in political regimes – as
well as a site in which bodies, resonating with each other, might resist. The
lens of corporeal/bodily resonance opens up questions of performance training,
spectatorship and affect, which this symposium explores through a series of
practical workshops, performances, paper panels, roundtable discussions, and
keynote presentations. It brings together international theatre, performance
and sound artists, musicians, digital artists, theorists and researchers
engaged in creative practices that reflect on major innovative performance
traditions of the past century and their impact on current performance
knowledge and physical techniques. We invite proposals for presentations that
engage with this corporeal-political theme.
Thematic Focus
‘Resonance’ in everyday usage implies a quality of ‘generating significance’:
the ability to evoke images, memories, affects and emotions. In acoustics, it
implies the intensification of sound, when that sound vibrates sympathetically
with its receptor and surrounding objects. A resonant politics, then, might
imply a quality of sympathy and receptivity among persons – a mode of being
together and being-in-common outside of ideologies. When we resonate with each
other we share a commonality that does not do away with individuality and
differences.
Recent political events including the ‘Arab Spring’ and the Occupy movement
around the world demonstrate the power and relevance of resonant politics. The
sympathetic reverberations of Occupy from New York to Bradford and the Arab
Spring to the ‘Printemps érable’ of Québec show a sense of commonality that
does not rely on identification with political parties, leaders or ideologies.
Rather, such events are instances of large-scale corporeal resonance — a
sympathetic vibration between the bodies amassed in the public square, the
park, the occupied lecture room.
Theatre is an art-form that trades primarily in the shared assembly of bodies,
onstage, and in the audience, and is therefore an ideal site to examine
resonant politics on a smaller scale. Yet examining resonant politics through
theatre and theatrical events also opens up the possibility of the
appropriation of resonance by states and nodes of power. The London 2012
Olympic Opening Ceremony with its spectacle of mass-movement called upon the
citizenry of the United Kingdom to ‘move this way’ while simultaneously
repressing dissent (the arrests of Critical Mass protestors outside of the
stadium gates). Pageants and military spectacles use the technologies of
theatre to create a shared corporeal resonance in the service of national
ideals. As a form that brings bodies together, theatre can be seen as a
technology of subjectivisation, which disciplines, trains and moulds bodies in
common.
The symposium and physical theatre workshop are composed of dialogue and
performance practice, intermixed with film screenings, performances and
installations.
Proposals for performative presentations and papers are welcome, as well as
traditional papers and presentations that combine traditional, performative and
video elements. All presentations must be no longer than 15 minutes in length.
Curated and organised by Dr Broderick Chow & Prof Johannes Birringer (Brunel
University).
Send proposals to broderick.chow@xxxxxxxxxxxx or johannes.birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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This event is sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance
and supported by the Brunel School of Arts and Brunel University Graduate
School.
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Prof. Johannes Birringer
Director, Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance
School of Arts
Brunel University
West London
UB8 3PH UK
+44 (0)1895 267 343 (office)
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/condip.html
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