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>>>>>>> A FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending an email to over 2500 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. Emails represent the views of individuals and not SCUDD. Events advertised via the list are not endorsed by us. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i n v i t a t i o n :: CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY AND DIGITAL PERFORMANCE Brunel University PERFORMANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR autumn 2013 Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Gaskell Bldg 048-Drama Studio, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Cleveland Rd, UB8 3PH 16:oo Grant Tyler Peterson (Theatre, Brunel University) ‘Situationist Theatre Legacies and Participatory Spectatorship since 1964’ In the early 1960s, British Situationist Alexander Trocchi impacted the London arts scene in ways yet to be fully acknowledged. Trocchi’s absence in the field of theatre and performance is curious despite alliances with prominent twentieth-century theorists and theatre makers, including Guy Debord, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Joan Littlewood, Jeff Nuttall and John McGrath. As a historiographical project excavating Trocchi’s legacy and Situationist modes of spectatorship, this talk considers Trocchi’s key manifesto, “Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds” alongside the ground-breaking 1965 London installation performance, sTigma. A performance genealogy could even extend from Trocchi’s proposed aesthetics of spectatorship to the recent ‘affective turn’ and ‘immersive’ performance practices. The proposed genealogy in this talk attempts to recuperate germane British Situationist legacies while tracing an eversion of participatory spectatorship methods from the sixties to the present. Grant Tyler Peterson joined the Brunel Theatre faculty in 2013 having previously taught at Royal Holloway, University of London, University of Winchester, and Bath Spa University. Grant is an early career researcher with published work on a diverse range of subjects including British alternative theatre history, street theatre, gender, sexuality, and digital research methodology. He earned a MA in Critical Studies from UCLA under Sue-Ellen Case and a PhD from Royal Holloway under Dan Rebellato and Chris Megson. admission free Coordinated by Prof. Johannes Birringer For more information, contact [log in to unmask] or call +44 (0)1895 267 343 (office) All Research Seminars are co-produced with dance tech live TV and streamed online as well as archived. In collaboration with http://www.livestream.com/dancetechttvliveDAP-lab.TV: <<http://dance-tech.tv/videos/daplabtv>> Please visit our website: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/boiler13.html ______________ To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit www.scudd.org.uk/list ______________