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Please see below for details of this term’s London Theatre Seminar<http://londontheatreseminar.wordpress.com/> programme. Seminars take place on Thursdays, 6.30-8.30pm, in Senate House room 246.
All are welcome.
18 October: James Harding (University of Warwick), ‘Outperforming Activism: Surveillance Technologies Beyond the Surveillance Camera Players’
15 November: Kim Solga (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘Intimate Theatre, Intercultural Politics: Inside Theatre Replacement’s BIOBOXES’
29 November: Reflections on the Cultural Olympiad: Kate Elswit (University of Bristol), ‘Ten Evenings with Pina’, and Marilena Zaroulia (University of Winchester), ‘“A piece of the island in your hands”: (National) Belonging and the Paradox of Alex Hartley’s nowhereisland’
13 December: Postgraduate panel: Adam Alston (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Shaun May (Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London)
Details for 18 October:
‘Outperforming Activism: Surveillance Technologies Beyond the Surveillance Camera Players’
James Harding (University of Warwick)
When the Surveillance Camera Players disbanded in 2006 after a decade of political activist theatre on the streets of New York City, they had already achieved international recognition for a unique style of performance that focused on the numerous ways in which surveillance cameras undercut long established notions of privacy and consent. Beyond that important focus, however, my paper suggests that the Surveillance Camera Players pursued a mode of performance activism that underestimated the ways that surveillance technologies themselves perform. Understanding how those technologies perform and how they continue to evolve through those performances, I argue, is an indispensible prerequisite for an effective activism against a society that is increasingly structured by the tools, mechanisms and technologies of surveillance.
James Harding is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists and the American Avant-Garde (Michigan, 2010) and Adorno and a Writing of the Ruins (SUNY, 1997). His newest monograph, The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) (Michigan) is forthcoming in Spring 2013. His other books include The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner’s Broad Spectrum (Palgrave, 2011), which he co-edited with Cindy Rosenthal.
For more information about LTS, please see: http://londontheatreseminar.wordpress.com/
with best wishes
Louise Owen (Birkbeck), Jen Parker-Starbuck (Roehampton), and Theron Schmidt (King’s), co-conveners
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