Faculty of Arts Research Seminar Series
University of Winchester
Wednesday 11 November. 4pm. SEB110.
All welcome!
This session comprises two presentations:
The Boat: Collaborating with Icarus, Radcliffe Bailley and Moses on the road sea to Dalaman
Prof. Andrew Melrose (English, Creative Writing and American Studies, University of Winchester).
This paper is about collaborating with a trope as old as Icarus, as old as Moses, and bringing it into the 21st Century as a very real and relevant story which we have now come to refer to as ‘boat people’. And I will do this to show how powerful art, a story or a poem can be in introducing very difficult subjects to children and adults alike, by making them think in a world where new media immunises us to its iniquities. Collaboration is much more than sitting trading ideas and insults with another person and I will also preview a collaborative art project I am currently involved in, called The Boat.
Where do you put the bomb?
Paul Carter (School of Media and Film, University of Winchester)
Gordon Murray (Performing Arts, University of Winchester)
Drawing from a commission to create a piece of verbatim theatre that responded to the experience of British Veterans who worked on the British Nuclear Bomb Tests in Australia and 1950s, we were forced into considering the limits and merits of theatre as a campaign tool and verbatim as a means to access authenticity. We set out then to find some process in which the midway between interview and performance is also a useful tool for advocacy and campaigning. We began to find a form that mixed drama with narrative poetry, old fashioned journalism and documentary interview techniques. In an attempt to place the bomb into public memory we found ourselves wondering where to place it in the stories of Reiki Healers, Franciscan Friars, Sickly Children, and Conscripted Soldiers. We will present some of our audio drama/poem and discuss some of the issues surrounding the making of it.
For more information, please contact Neil Ewen ([log in to unmask]) or Jane Dipple ([log in to unmask])
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