DOCUMENTING PERFORMANCE: EXPLORING THE PROBLEMS
CALL FOR TaPRA INTERIM SYMPOSIUM - 7 MAY 2011
Performance documentation has long held an arguably problematic place in the
related fields of theatre and performance studies. This is less so for
music, both because of conventional notation systems and the role of
recording in the last century or so.
An interim TaPRA symposium will be held at the University of Kent on
Saturday 7 May 2011 to explore this theme through papers, presentations,
posters, performances and/or provocations. This event is free to all current
members of TaPRA. Anyone who did not attend TaPRA's 2010 conference in
Cardiff will be required to pay a one-off fee to TaPRA of £10, which will
make them members for the remainder of the year ('TaPRA years' run from
conference to conference).
In an effort to re-animate the TaPRA working group on Documenting
Performance, we're entertaining ideas around the following questions:
* Why do performance scholars find documentation so problematic?
* What are the new realities we're faced with in an era where new
technologies (including high definition remote screenings of live
performances) have extended the meaning of liveness beyond anything most
would have been comfortable considering just a decade ago?
* Are new technologies and contemporary working practices bringing
theatre and performance closer to music in terms of shrinking the separation
between the act of performance and the document of performance?
* What role do archives play in an age of digital mass (re)production?
* If documentation is something other than performance, what is it
exactly?
The TAPRA Working Group on Documenting Performance would like to invite
proposals for papers and presentations related to any of these questions, as
well as others related to them. Papers/presentations from this symposium may
be reworked and/or re-presented at further panels from the Documenting
Performance working group at the annual TaPRA conference in September 2011,
so this CFP may be considered an early call for sessions from this TaPRA
working group for the conference in September.
Please send a short description of your presentation/provocation/workshop
and your technological needs by 21st February 2011 to the working group
convenors: Toni Sant ([log in to unmask]) and Nicki Shaughnessy
([log in to unmask])
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Dr Toni Sant
Director of Research
School of Arts and New Media
University of Hull - Scarborough Campus
Filey Road, Scarborough - YO11 3AZ
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Sue Gollifer
University of Brighton
School of Arts and Media
Director of ISEA International Headquarters
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