Registration is now open...
trans.form@work
Experimental Methodologies and Interdisciplinary Challenges in Arts Research
A Postgraduate Symposium
25-26 March 2010
Department of Dance, Film and Theatre, University of Surrey
Keynotes: Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University)
Mark Franko (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Open to postgraduate students working on dance, performance, visual arts, anthropology, corporeal histories and related topics, trans.form@work is a two-day symposium committed to interdisciplinarity. It is centred around dialogue, as a critical structure. Two eminent figures in Performance Studies, Professors Maaike Bleeker and Mark Franko, will engage with participants throughout the event, in seminars, panel discussions and master classes.
Professor Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) is the author of Visuality in the Theatre: The Locus of Looking (2008) and editor of Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre (2008). She has published extensively on performance, corporeality, given lecture performances and managed an experimental theatre company, Het Oranjehotel.
Professor Mark Franko (University of California, Santa Cruz) is the author of five books, including Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body (1993) and Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics (1995). He is the editor of Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2007) and editor of Dance Research Journal. As an historian of the Baroque and modernity, he has also maintained a dance career with his company, NovAntiqua, since 1985.
Theme:
Embedded in graduate research, the symposium will include presentations, master classes and workshops on:
· The costs/effects of labour on artistic practice and research
· New issues of formalism in aesthetics
· Disputing performance between disciplines, identities and countries (transitional zones, translation, transformation, transnational, transgender…)
· The ethics of appropriation or eclecticism
· The negotiation of conflicting methodologies
The symposium consists of:
· Day 1 (March 25th): Optional skills training workshops in experimental methods of arts research designed to enhance graduate skills convened by Professor Rachel Fensham (Surrey); Professor Sarah Rubidge (Chichester) and Doctor Libby Worth (Royal Holloway). The workshops will explore different ways of articulating the ideas that drive research in performance disciplines. The sessions will introduce new strategies for understanding your research thinking; help you to developing alternative writing voices; and examine the presentation of research in ways that are relevant to research topics grounded in the study of performance. Individual sessions include preparing an abstract, writing a conclusion, presenting at a conference, showing performance in presentations, and performance analysis. Detailed programme is available on the symposium's website or from the organisers.
· Day 2 (March 26th): Includes the following:
· Master Classes:
- Master Class with Professor Maaike Bleeker
Ariel Gratch, Benjamin Haas, and Lisa Flannagan (Louisiana State University) ‘The Construction of Cutting Across the Map: A practical guide to stealing stories.’ (Presentation/workshop)
- Master Class with Professor Mark Franko
Noémie Solomon (New York University) ‘Choreography as Conducting: Xavier Le Roy and the Unworking of Le Sacre du Printemps.’
·
Panel presentations (panels' titles are subject to minor changes):
Labour, Work, Body
- Beatriz Cantinho (Edinburgh College of Art) ‘Crystal image – beyond metaphor: analysis of movement perception in interdisciplinary artistic work.’
- Dunja Njaradi (Lancaster University) ‘The question of labour in dance.’
- Tim Miles (University of Surrey) ‘Absence, Ambivalence, and ‘Audience’ Participation: the Challenges of Researching Stand-up Comedy.’
Artistic Interdisciplinarity, Reading Across Art Practices
- Jennifer Daniel (University of Leeds) ‘Experimental Ethnography and Family Opera: a Convoluted Whole.’
- Manrutt Wongkaew (University of Surrey) ‘God Saves the (Mc)Queen: Punk ideologies and politics of performance in a cross-over between dance and fashion in Deliverance (2003).’
- Amanda Couch (UCA Farnham) ‘Dust Passed and the future of Three Magic Particles.’
Translation and Transculturalism
- Chih-Chieh Liu (University of Surrey) ‘From Sorry Sorry (2009) to That Banana (2009): the subtitling of a Korean music video as a site of contestation in Taiwan.’
- Hilary Cooperman (Northwestern University) ‘Performance as Alchemy and Critique: Bringing Ethnography to Life When Lives are At Stake.’
- I Lien Ho (University of Exeter) ‘Innovating Intercultural Techniques: On the Case Study of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan’s “Cursive I” and “Cursive II”.’
Practical Demonstration
- Katrina Carter (Royal Holloway) ‘The Ethics of Appropriation in Aerial Choreography.’
Dialogic Exchanges I
- Katrina Farrugia (London Metropolitan University) ‘Transdisciplinary approaches to constructing choreographic histories: Charting recent transnational and transcultural histories with particular reference to Angelin Preljocaj’s choreographic work (1984 – 2009).’
- Danae Theodoridou (Roehampton University ) ‘These words are coming from the stage: Writing possibilities and methods of a practice-led research.’
- Androniki Marathaki (Central School of Speech and Drama) ‘Practice as research: “Modulated choreographies”. Performance: biograms.’
Dialogic Exchanges II
- Eugénie Pastor (Royal Holloway) ‘Moving uncertainties: grasping ‘theatre in movement’ in French landscapes.’
- Arseli Dokumaci (Aberystwyth University) ‘Misfires that Matter: Performance in a Transdisciplinary Conversation.’
- Mark Caffrey (Queen’s University, Belfast) 'The Ethics of Walking: Exploring collaboration through cycles of silent walking and writing,’ and Tania Batzoglou (CSSD) ‘Accidental art: a 12 hours theatrical collaboration between a director, producer, three actors and a dramatherapist of the Sesame approach.'
Dialogic Exchanges III
- Karen Rose Cann (University of Surrey) ‘General system theory: An inter-disciplinary convergence of methodology in the Arts and Sciences.'
- Lise Uytterhoeven (University of Surrey) ‘Extreme virtuosity: moments of disbelief.’
· Workshops:
- Chris Jannides, Paula Kramer, Victoria Gray, Kiki Selioni, Nicki Polykarpou, Stefanie Sachsenmaier ‘(In)compatibility Lab’
- Joe Hug 'When does practice become artistic/research?'
- Louise Ritchie (Aberystwyth University) ‘Transmitting a Scratch and a Squat’
Platform - Postgraduate eJournal for Theatre and Performing Arts:
The symposium is collaborating with this refereed online journal dedicated to postgraduate students and emerging scholars. For more information, please visit http://www.rhul.ac.uk/drama/platform/.
Registration fees and bursaries:
£20 and £10 for students, payable via https://store.surrey.ac.uk/catalogue/products.asp?compid=1&deptid=73&catID=15&hasClicked=1 by 19 March 2010.
For registration, please email [log in to unmask] by 19 March 2010, including your name, affiliation, contact details and the days you are registering for.
Students’ bursaries are available for travelling and accommodation expenses. Registration is essential.
For more information, directions and accommodation options, please visit http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Dance/ and select “Events” or contact Mr. Manrutt Wongkaew on 07870746129.
trans.form@work is a student-led symposium organised by and for postgraduate students. It concludes an AHRC-funded collaborative research training scheme ‘Sharing Dance Research: Theory and Practice’ involving the University of Surrey, University of Chichester and Royal Holloway, University of London.