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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Franklin Furnace book: http://www.tonisant.com/ff
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