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DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIP, DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
PERFORMING DOCUMENTS: MODELLING CREATIVE AND CURATORIAL ENGAGEMENTS WITH
LIVE ART AND PERFORMANCE ARCHIVES.
Applications are invited for a fully funded Doctoral Studentship attached
to the above project, from 1st July 2011 to 30th June 2014, registered in
the Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol.
Performing Documents is a 3-year AHRC-funded project hosted by the
Department of Drama in collaboration with Arnolfini (Bristol), Inbetween
Time Productions (Bristol), the Centre for Intermedia, University of Exeter
and the Live Art Archives of UOB's Theatre Collection. Principal
Investigator - Prof Simon Jones; Co-investigators - Dr Paul Clarke and Prof
Nick Kaye.
Many archives of live art and performance have been or are being produced,
as this contemporary form becomes valued by museums or collections
internationally gaining significant cultural capital. Where traditional
scholarship has tended to appraise archives in relation to art-historical
narratives and read documents as the textual remains of past events, this
project will produce models for the investigation of this archival material
through practice-as-research. Specifically, the project will explore the
potential for knowledge transfer from the Live Art and Arnolfini Archives
through three distinct dialogues between renowned professional
practitioners and scholarly practitioner-researchers, and between academic
and cultural industry partners. The first workshop will focus on artists'
re-use of their own archival materials; the second on artists' use of other
artists' documents; the third on the exhibition of documents and
performance ephemera using curatorial practice as its mode of enquiry. The
project will enable audiences, scholars and professional practitioners to
access these workshops through symposia and showings. The third workshop
concludes with a two-day conference synchronized with an exhibition and
performance of selected outcomes. A co-authored and edited book, combining
DVD, will compile documentation and reflection on the practical inquiries,
essays from the investigators and developed conference papers.
The doctoral project will consider an aspect of creative engagement with
archival documents of contemporary live art and performance, such as
enactment, re-use, re-mediation, installation or re-exhibition. The PhD
will mirror the methodological structure of Performing Documents, being
carried out through a combination of practice-as-research, creative and
critical engagements with archives and theoretical and contextual analyses.
In addition to the usual research facilities and training provided by the
Faculty of Arts, including a graduate school and centre, the student will
participate in workshops alongside emerging professionals or
practitioner-researchers, enabling them to gain relevant practical
knowledges and tools. They will be involved in symposia, invited to submit
an abstract for the concluding conference. The student will also contribute
ongoing observations to online dialogues around the research workshops.
Applicants should provide a research proposal of no more than 4 sides of A4
in response to the project's objectives, plus a CV by FRIDAY 20TH MAY.
Applications are invited from those with relevant first degrees, plus a
postgraduate qualification and/or equivalent professional practice.
Apply online at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/gradschool/apply.html and
email advising us of your interest in this studentship at
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Interviews will be held in the Drama Department TUESDAY 31ST MAY with
shortlisted applicants notified by email MONDAY 23RD MAY.
The successful candidate will be expected to register by 1ST JULY 2011 and
submit their thesis by the end of the third year of study (30TH JUNE 2014).
Enquiries regarding this studentship should be addressed to
Prof Simon Jones at [log in to unmask]
DR SIMON JONES
professor of performance
department of drama: theatre, film, television
university of bristol
tel: +44 (0)117 954 5466
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