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TWO-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Spaces of Memory & Performance: Trauma, Affect, Displacement
Centre of Performing Arts Development, University of East London
20 - 21 June 2014
Supported by British Academy Mobile Partnership Scheme & the University of East London
‘Places are lost – destroyed, vacated, barred – but then there is some new place, and it is not the first, never can be the first.’ – Judith Butler
Keynote speakers: Maria Delgado (Queen Mary), Carl Lavery, (Glasgow University), Leigh Payne (University of Oxford), Alan Marcus (Aberdeen University), Lola Arias (Theatre Director), Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths, University of London), Claudia Fontes (Visual Artist), Marcelo Brodsky (Photographer Artist), Valentina Salvi (University Tres de Febrero).
Venue: Centre of Performing Arts Development, Harvard Lecture Theatre, University Stratford Square, University of East London.
The aftermath of episodes of trauma and loss have traditionally given way to urban rituals and encounters with sites of public grieving. Even so, the emergence of disparate sites of trauma has not been enough addressed from a performative perspective. The very existence of the so-called ‘spaces of memory’ requests the reconfiguration of modes of engagement with the public space in the face of trauma and its performance. With this in mind, this two-day international conference explores unconventional forms of intervention in performance and visual arts in a wide spectrum of geographical scenarios. The question that underlines the event is: how can we possibly propitiate public pathways to engage with loss and trauma among expanded publics?
Featuring a range of panels, paper presentations, keynote addresses and performative lectures, live performances, film showings, provocations and round table discussions, this conference meeting interrogates embodied, ephemeral and unmarked spaces as sites of enchantment and public gathering while it explores transitional and diasporic interventions that might envisage news forms of being together. The event, finally but not least, invites us to imagine the futurity of sites of memory and simultaneously explores fictions that may transform the politics of spectatorship in the present.
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TWO DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MEETING
‘Spaces of Memory & Performance: Trauma, Affect, Displacement’
University of East London, Centre of Performing Arts Development
20 - 21 June 2014
Supported by the British Academy Mobile Partnership Scheme &
the University of East London
Venue: University Stratford Square, Harvard Lecture Theatre, University of East London
PROGRAMME
Friday 20th of June
9.00 - 9.45: Registration & Coffee
(Walking with the ‘Young Demobilized’, Sound Walk by Luis Sotelo)
9.45 – 10.00 Welcome by organisers:
Eve Katsouraki (Co-Director of CPAD, University of East London)
Cecilia Sosa (University of East London, PI of the British Academy Programme “Commemoration, New Audiences and Spaces of Memory in Latin America’s Southern Cone: Trans-cultural Dialogues in the Wake of Loss”)
Valentina Salvi (University Tres de Febrero, Argentina, Co-applicant of the British Academy Programme)
10.00 – 11.00 Keynote
Claudia Fontes (Visual Artist): The Liminal Memory. Art as Evidence at Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires.
Respondent: Prof. Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths, University of London)
11.00 – 12.30: Panel 1: Performative Approaches to European Traumas
Prof. Patrizia Violi (University of Bologna): Remembering through Art and Performance: the Case of the Ustica Museum in Bologna
Marta Rabikowska (University of Hertfordshire): Visual Narrative of a Post-Communist Estate: Transgression of Memory and the Ruins of Community
Simon Bell (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge): Laibach and the NSK: Site-Specific Performances of European Trauma
12.30 – 1.40 Lunch Break
1.40 a 2.30: Keynote: Prof. Maria Delgado (Queen Mary): Garzón, Lorca, Almodóvar and the Performance of Memory in Spain.
2.30 - 4.00 Panel 2: Playing with Traumas
Lisa Peschel (University of York): Trauma and Humor in Scripts from the Terezín Ghetto.
Jordana Blejmar (Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London): The Playground as a Site of Mourning in Marcelo Brodsky’s Photographs.
Alessandra Ferrini (Visual Artist, Founder and Co-Director of Mnemoscape): The Body as Site: Embodying the Enemy in Teresa Margolles' Vaporización.
4.00 – 4.15 Coffee Break
4.15- 5.00 Keynote: Prof. Carl Lavery (University of Glasgow): Far away so close: Reflections on Buenos Aires.
5.00 – 6.30: Panel 3: Displaced Biographies, Mourning & Performance
Alev Adil (University of Greenwich): Mixed Media Performance Extract from the One Woman Performance Memory in the Dead Zone.
Chikukuango Cuxima-Zwa (Brunel University): Body Painting Performances in London: A Manifesto in Public and Site-Specific Spaces.
Namita Chakrabarty (Ruskin College, Oxford): On the Performative Sexuality of Mourning: Hamlet, Sinead, and ‘Sacrifice’.
6.30 – 7.00 Performance (20’): The Artist Dawn Cole (winner of the International Print Biennale 2011) and performance-maker Roanna Mitchell discuss the processes of making public and private space that enable the act of remembering.
Saturday 21 of June
9.00 - 9.30 Registration & Coffee
9.30 – 10.15: Keynote: Marcelo Brodsky ((Photographer Artist): Good Memory and the River– Screening & debate.
10.15 – 11.50: Panel 4: Aftermath, Testimony & Performance
Ananda Breed (University of East London): Performances of Memory: Negotiating Trauma and Curating Spaces in Post-genocide Rwanda.
Mariana Eva Perez (University of Konstanz): The Concentration Camp and the “Unhomely Home”: the Disappearance of Children in Post-dictatorship Argentine Theatre.
Anca Doczi (University of East London): Theatre of Testimonies – the Remaking of the Self.
Rachel Seoighe (King’s College): Spaces of Memory and Artistic Interventions in Sri Lanka's Post-war Northeast.
11.50 – 12.00: Coffee break
12.00- 1.00: Keynote: Alan Marcus (Reader in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen) Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Post-Traumatic Space.
Dr. Marcus will present a 30-minute film In the Birch Grove (2012), which explores the contemporary setting of Auschwitz by drawing on the diaries of a perpetrator. Followed by a Q&A.
1.00 - 2.00: Lunch Break
2.00 - 3.30 Panel 5: Sound & Walk
Nuria Querol (Royal College of Art): The Presence of Sound and Other Acoustic Matters.
Constanze Thielecke (Interdisciplinary Artist): Walking and Remembering.
Luis C. Sotelo (University of East London) Walking with the ‘Young Demobilized’. A participatory performance project (discussion and feedback).
3.30 – 4.30: Round-Table: On Perpetrators
Prof. Leigh Payne (University of Oxford): Unsettling Bones; Unsettling Accounts. The Politics and Performance of Perpetrators’ Confessions in Spain.
Valentina Salvi (University of Tres de Febrero): Crime against Humanity Trials in Argentina. What do Perpetrators say?
4.30 - 4.45 Coffee Break
4.45 – 6.15 Panel 6: Architecture & Haunted Spaces
Roberto Terraciano (University of Naples): Memorials of Perception: Virtuality in Physical and Digital Architecture in Berlin, Baghdad and New York.
Margarida Brito Alves (IHA – FCSH/ Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Spatialized Archives. Between Memory and Experience.
Garikoitz Gomez Alfaro (University of Brighton): The (Chrono)Politics of Haunted Spaces in Post-Franco Spain.
6.15 – 6.45: Performance: Lola Arias (Argentine Writer, Director, Performer and Songwriter): Temporary Families.
Which kind of community brings together a documentary theatre project? A temporary family, a therapy group, an utopian cell? Drawing on The Year I was born (2011)- where she worked people born in Chile in the 1970s and 80s, who grew up under Pinochet’s dictatorship-- and The Art of Making Money (2013)- where she worked with beggars, street musicians and prostitutes-, the Argentine theatre director Lolas Arias will explore how theatre can be a place of encounter and thinking together.
6.45 - 7.15: Wine Reception
7.30 Conference Dinner
Dr. J. Blejmar
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet St.
London WC1E 7HU.
Room ST 280 (Stewart House)
Tel: 020 7862 8964
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