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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY AND DIGITAL PERFORMANCE
Brunel University
PERFORMANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR
Autumn 2012 Series
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Gaskell Bldg 048 Drama Studio
Cleveland Rd. Uxbridge, West London
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/boiler13.html
16:oo
Susan Broadhurst
(Professor of Performance & Technology, Brunel University)
“Einstein on the Beach: A Study in Temporality”
In this paper, Prof. Broadhurst seeks to examine and analyze the sense of duration induced by performances of Einstein on the Beach, and the entailed sense of time which its internal structure creates. She will sketch out the stylistic context and artistic intentions of this work's creators, Glass and Wilson, and briefly describe the process of its creation. Certain features of this process indicate how the work may be interpreted. Having cited the creators' thoughts on structure and temporality, she addresses directly aspects of Einstein's temporal effects, comparing it to works of similar lengths. She will give the briefest synopsis of its staging and motifs, and then outline three kinds of devices which seem to inform our temporal sense of this work as spectators. In the final section Broadhurst invokes two ideas which serve as analogies to help characterize this work's overall effect on us: Heidegger's notion of the "hermeneutic circle" and, more speculatively, Nietzsche's "theory" of Eternal Recurrence.
Susan Broadhurst is a writer and performance practitioner, and Professor of Performance and Technology in the School of Arts, Brunel University, London. She has published widely in the area of experimental performance and is Series co-editor for Palgrave's Studies in Performance and Technology. She is also co-editor of the online journal Body, Space & Technology.
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Brunel University
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UB8 3PH UK
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