Please join QUORUM, a series of theatre and performance research seminars hosted by the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London, for our second event of the term, Wednesday, 25 October from 17:30 – 19:30 BST. This gathering will feature Lois Keidan, co-founder of the Live Art Development Agency (LADA), Robin Deacon of Spill Festival and Aaron Wright, Head of Performance and Dance at Southbank Centre, together in conversation.
Lois Keidan co-founded LADA in 1999 and was its Director until 2021. She was Director of Live Arts at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London from 1992 to 1998, responsible for national policy and provision for Performance Art and interdisciplinary practices at the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1990 to 1992, and before that she worked at Midland Group, Nottingham and Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh. She was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Queen Mary in 2009.
Robin Deacon is a British artist, writer, educator and curator. Since the mid-1990s, he has presented his performances, lectures and videos at conferences and festivals throughout the world. He has received a variety of awards and fellowships from organisations such as Artsadmin, the Delfina Foundation, British Arts Council, Live Art Development Agency and Franklin Furnace Inc. He is also a MacDowell Fellow. His writings on performance reenactment and documentation (and related contributions to monographs on artists such as Baktruppen, Stuart Sherman and Joshua Sofaer) have been published by Routledge, NYU Press and Intellect Live. After a decade in the USA as Professor and Chair of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Robin returned to the UK in 2021 to become the Artistic Director and CEO of SPILL Festival, an international biennial of art and culture based in Ipswich, Suffolk. He is also Chair of the Board of Directors of the Live Art Development Agency.
Aaron Wright is Head of Performance and Dance at the Southbank Centre, appointed in April 2023. Aaron has extensive experience in commissioning and presenting contemporary performing arts. Previously, Aaron was Artistic Director of Fierce (Birmingham) since May 2016, where he was responsible for festival programming, commissioning, artist development and building partnerships. He curated three editions of the biennial Fierce Festival between 2017-2022, working with a broad range of international artists and companies. Aaron was also a cultural programme consultant for the Birmingham 2022 Festival for which Fierce delivered a major public realm project Key to the City by artist Paul Ramírez Jonas. Aaron also helped instigate the new English performing arts showcase: Horizon.
This hybrid event takes place in person at Queen Mary University of London’s Mile End campus in Arts One, RR2 and simultaneously online. If you want to join us, please book a free ticket. For those attending online, we will send you a Zoom link closer to the date of the event. For those joining in person, you are welcome in Arts One from 17:30. The event kicks off promptly at 18:00 and wraps up around 19:00, when in-person attendees are cordially invited to stay and chat over drinks and nibbles.
Register here for a free ticket to our in-person and online event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quorum-lois-keidan-robin-deacon-and-aaron-wright-in-conversation-tickets-737241337687
Find Quorum’s full list of upcoming events at: https://quorumqmul.wordpress.com or email: [log in to unmask]
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