Theatricality and the Arts Symposium, Lancaster University, 23-24 September 2017

Location: LICA Building (see campus map here)

Programme:

Day 1: 23 September

11.30-12.00 – tea & coffee

12.00-1.30pm – Plenary session 1

Lisa Åkervall (University of Gothenburg) – ‘Absorption and theatricality in postcinematic media ecologies’

Kati Röttger (University of Amsterdam) – ‘Staging Night Watch. Theatricality and crime from painting to film’

Chair: Richard Rushton

1.30-2.30pm – Lunch (lunch will be provided for all delegates)

2.30-4.30pm – Plenary session 2

Angelos Koutsourakis (University of Leeds) – ‘Popular Theatricality in Spike Lee’.

Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca (University of Surrey) and John Ó Maoilearca (Kingston University) – title TBC

Tim Etchells (Lancaster University, Forced Entertainment) – title TBC

Chair: Andrew Quick

4.30-5.00pm – tea & coffee

5.00-7.00pm – Plenary session 3

Nick Kaye (University of Exeter) – ‘Theatrical materials: energy, time, and remains in Dennis Oppenheim’s conceptual performance’

Carl Lavery (University of Glasgow) – ‘Ecological theatricality’

Simon Jones (University of Bristol) – ‘Against Experience: Theatre is Not Life’

Chair: Christopher Frayling

7.00pm-late

Dinner at the Private Dining Room (County College)

(Please note that only those who have booked for dinner can attend)

Day 2: 24 September

9.30-11.00am – Parallel sessions

Session 1: (A27)

Clare Foster (University of Cambridge) – ‘Ludus, lusus, il-lusion: art as theatricality in the classical intermedial past’

Michaela Antoniou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) – ‘Metaphoric theatricality: theatricality as a weapon for resistance’

Neil Bowes (University of Greenwich) – ‘Theatre, Art, Cosmology’

Chair: Andrew Quick

Session 2: (A29)

Serap Erincin (Louisiana State University, Penn State University) – ‘The force that sustains: theatricality and intermediality in the work of The Wooster Group’

Swen Steinhauser (University of Leeds) – ‘Exposing the impossibility of self-containment: towards a politics of theatricality’

Rachel Hann (University of Surrey) – ‘Scenographics, orientation, and theatricality: or what is scenographic about installation art?’

Chair: Christopher Frayling

Session 3: (A05)

Louis Bayman (University of Southampton) – ­‘“The most naturally theatrical of people”: the screen as stage in Italian cinema’

Helena Bassil-Morozow (Glasgow Caledonian University) – ‘The theatre of ghosts and shadows: Federico Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits (1965)’

Isadora Grevan (Rutgers University) – ‘The interconnectedness between melodrama and theatricality in Almodovar’s La Piel que Habito and Nelson Rodrigues’ A Mulher sem Pecado’

Chair: Richard Rushton

11.00-11.30am – tea & coffee

Day 2: 24 September

11.30am-1.00pm – Parallel sessions

Session 4 (A27):

Adrian Kear (University of Aberystwyth) – ‘Theatre against itself: performance, politics and the limits of theatricality’

Jacek Ludwig Scarso (The Sir John Cass School of Art) – ‘Reframing the (post)dramatic in contemporary art’

Sylvia Solakidi ‘“Rule 1: It is possible that your only nation is imagination”: Political theatricality of Jan Fabre’s images in Belgian Rules/Belgium Rules (2017)’

Chair: Karen Juers-Munby

Session 5 (A29):

Luciana Dias (Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil) – ‘Hegel and Artaud on theatricality: a diachronic view’

Gabriella Daris (Art Historian, Independent Curator & Scholar) – ‘Theatres of air’

Sharmistha Saha (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) – ‘Theatricality as divine intervention: a comparative study of the concept of “theatre” as one arrives at theatricality’

Chair: Andrew Quick

Session 6 (A05):

Paula Blair (Freelance scholar) – ‘Somewhere between lies and truth lies the truth: staging and performativity in Damien Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’

Agnieszka Piotrowska (University of Bedfordshire) – ‘Theatricality in the age of post-truth’

Beth Harland (Lancaster University) and Ian Heywood (Lancaster University) – The vicissitudes of an idea: theatricality and its cognates in visual art’

Chair: Richard Rushton

1.00-2.00pm – Lunch (lunch will be provided for all delegates)

Day 2: 24 September

2.30-3.30pm – Parallel sessions

Session 7 (A27):

Lowell Gasoi (Carleton University, Canada) – ‘Theatricality, metatheatricality, and hypermediacy in intermedial practice: a case study of Daniel MacIvor’s Never Swim Alone’

Jane Frances Dunlop (University of Brighton) – ‘Dissonance: theatricality in internet-situated performance practices’

Chair: Lisa Åkervall

Session 8 (A29):

Julian Ross ‘Photographic theatricality: 35mm slide projection in contemporary art’

Allan Taylor (University of East London) ‘Theatricality, photography and the “performed photograph”: theatricality as a reflexive device in the still image’

Chair: Christopher Frayling

Session 9 (A5):

Mischa Twitchin (Goldsmiths, University of London) – ‘In and out of the dark: theatre and the “immersive”’

Anna Wilson (University of Salford) – ‘Theatricalising cinematic subjects and genres: sci-fi theatre and the multiverse in the work of Daniel Kitson and Nick Payne’

Chair: Karen Juers-Munby

3.00-3.30pm – tea & coffee

3.30-4.30pm – Plenary session 4

Daniel Morgan (University of Chicago) – title TBC

Summary: Richard Rushton and Andrew Quick

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