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Performance Research Event at the University of Winchester.
Place, Technology and Movement in Performance.
King Alfred Quarter
Sparkford Rd, Winchester SO22 4NJ
Wednesday 26th April
10:00 to 13:00
Performing Gym Studio
Everyone is welcome.
To book your place for this event (in person), please email [log in to unmask]
The event will be recorded, please use the same email to request a link to the recording.
The Centre for Performance Practice and Research (CPPR) at The University of Winchester and its research project The Institute of Place is inviting you to join its forthcoming research seminar. The event gathers a group of artists in conversation with scholars and researchers to discuss current performance practices in relation to notions of place, technology and movement.
10:00 to 10:30
Vicky Spanovangelis and Olu Taiwo
10:30 to 11:00
Sidonie Carey-Green and Tom Tegento
11:00 to 11:30
Make Amplify (Zach Walker)
11:30 to 12:00
Thomas Buckley
Plenary Roundtable
12:00 to 13:00
Conversations will be chaired by Research Fellow and Fuse Performance artistic director John Lee, Senior Lecturer Dr Noyale Colin and Reader Dr Olu Taiwo.
The Institute of Place is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to generate, interrogate and reformulate individual and collective relationships to ‘place’ through performance-research related activities. It is a research project part of the Centre for Performance Practice and Research (CPPR) at the University of Winchester
https://theinstituteofplace.org
Fuse Performance and Somerset Outdoor Arts is an artist led company that makes and curates arts projects, festivals and events across a range of outdoor and indoor sites. The company creates place-based multi stranded projects collaboratively working with diverse communities and develops spectacle, site specific and community performances. Fuse seeks to inspire, engage and offer opportunities for all to take part in creative arts projects and events.
Speakers’ Biographies
Vicky Spanovangelis is a London-Athens based architect, choreographer, dancer, (Bartlett UCL, Royal College of Art, Trinity Laban London). Vicky teaches in higher education, has exhibited internationally, directed design, artistic research collaborations, and performances in the UK and abroad. Her doctoral research (University of Winchester) focuses on choreography & architecture as creative practice.
Olu Taiwo is a reader in Performing Arts at the University of Winchester. He has worked on identity and performance and is a well-established performer using digital technologies. He is engaged with critical debates around the interaction of body, technology and the environment.
Sidonie Carey-Green’s practice lies in the realms of dance, film and creative practice; she specialises in Contemporary dance and has also directed several dance films. Sidonie works predominantly within site specific projects. Her doctoral research (Royal Holloway University) examines the disruption of fixed identities through working with new technologies. Within her work she explores the idea of the surface of the body becoming a site for the shifting concept of home.
Thomas Tegento was born in Gonder, Ethiopia, and has lived in many countries. His refugee life has equipped him with different cultures, and life experiences of EastAfrican and contemporary performance art practices. Since living in the UK, Thomas has completed an MA at the University of Kent. He is currently working as a session artist in Kent.
MakeAmplify are an award-winning collective of artists and technologists. We create spectacular large-scale outdoor immersive events that connect people and transform public spaces into the extraordinary. We illuminate and re-imagine city centres and landscapes, bringing forgotten or ignored buildings to life, and engaging communities and audiences in life-affirming stories that combine the physical, emotional and digital.
Thomas Buckley is an alumni fellow of The Royal Shakespeare Company / Magic Leap Spatial computing Thomas works with emerging immersive technologies and sensory experiences internationally. They lead on projects that explore sensory ways to communicate social heritage, their ongoing work "Memory Bar" generates new oral histories that are served as cocktails within pop-up speakeasies. As a creative technologist they’ve been working in XR for nearly a decade - believing in work that makes us feel more human. Most recently Thomas has worked with: BAFTA Award Winning Alchemy Immersive, Real Ideas Market Hall Plymouth and University of Portsmouth CCiXR.
The event is supported by Arts Council England, Fuse Performance and Somerset Outdoor Arts, Mayday Creative Communities project and the University of Winchester.
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Dr Noyale Colin
Senior Lecturer in Choreography and Dance
Senior Fellow HEA
Convenor Centre for Performance Practice and Research (CPPR)
UoA 33 Lead
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