ALL WELCOME
Talk by Robin Nelson with Jo Scott
as part of Dance Research Week
"From Practitioner to Practitioner Researcher: an intermedial case study"
Weds 22nd May
5-6.30pm, SEEDpod
Nodus Building
School of Arts
University of Surrey
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This double presentation begins with Jo Scott’s live intermedial performance (1:00pm-2:15pm in the AC building). It is a durational performance so please drop in for at least 10minutes and read the related documents. In the seminar (at 17.00) Robin Nelson will expound his “dynamic” model for Practice as Research projects, clarifying the adjustments practitioners need to make to become practitioner-researchers in an academic context. The key argument is that (in the UK at least) arts practices may be submitted as evidence of a research but that, in most instances, documentation of process and complementary writings assist in articulating and evidencing the research dimension. The inter-relations between the different modes of research in a multi-mode inquiry will be illustrated from Jo Scott’s current PhD project at Royal Central School.
Robin Nelson is Professor of Theatre and Intermedial Performance and Director of Research at the University of London, Royal Central School, and Professor Emeritus at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published widely on the performing arts and media and on “Practice as Research”. Indeed, a book-length study Practice as Research in the Arts has recently been published by Palgrave (Spring 2013). Other books include: Stephen Poliakoff: on stage and screen was (Methuen Drama, 2011); Mapping Intermediality in Performance (co-edited with Bay-Cheng, S et al, Amsterdam University Press, 2010); State of Play: contemporary “high-end” TV drama (Manchester University Press, 2007). Prof. Nelson is a also co-founding editor of Critical Studies in Television, for which he guest co-edited a special issue on Archiving (5/2, November 2010).
Jo Scott is a teacher, practitioner and researcher whose PhD study involves an investigation of live intermediality in performance. As an international school educator, Jo has taught all over the world and in a variety of contexts, from Singapore to the UK and many places in between. On returning to the UK, Jo undertook an MA in Performance Practices and Research at RCSSD. This was the starting point for developing the live intermedial performance practice, which is now the subject of and vehicle for her practice as research PhD thesis.
Dr. Laura Cull
Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies
Director of PGR, School of Arts
University of Surrey
Guildford, UK
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