FUNDING FILM + THEATRICALITY
Tuesday 12 June
4.00-7.00pm
Whitechapel Gallery
London, E1 7QX
Funding Film (4.00-5.30pm):
BEN ROBERTS (BFI
Lottery Film Fund)
AGNIESZKA PIOTROWSKA (Academic
and Filmmaker)
+
On Theatricality (5.30-7.00pm):
MATHEW ABBOTT (Federation
University, Australia): “Display in Human Art and the Aesthetic Lives of Animals”
ADRIAN KEAR (Uni
of the Arts, London): “Theatre against itself: performance, politics and the limits of theatricality”
This event is FREE to attend, but you must register for the event
at Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-funding-theatricality-tickets-46398638577
This symposium is part of
an AHRC funded project on ‘Theatricality and Interrelations between Art, Film and Theatre’. The project is being run by
Dr Richard Rushton and Professor Andrew Quick, both from the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University.
About the speakers:
Ben
Roberts:
Ben Roberts is the Director of the BFI Film Fund and is responsible
for overseeing the BFI’s Lottery investments in film development, production and distribution, along with the BFI’s international activities.
Agnieszka
Piotrowska:
Agnieszka Piotrowska is a BBC trained, award winning documentary filmmaker with substantial experience in broadcast television in the
UK and internationally. Her films include
Married to the Eiffel Tower (2008),
Lovers in Time (2015) and
Escape (2016). As an academic her publications include
Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2013) and
Black and White: Cinema, Politics and the Arts in Zimbabwe (2016).
Mathew
Abbott:
Mathew Abbott is
Lecturer in Philosophy at Federation University Australia. His research is concerned with clarifying the philosophical significance of the forms of rational inquiry that go on in art. He is the author of The Figure of This
World: Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology and Abbas
Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy, both published with Edinburgh University Press. His edited collection Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality was
published by Routledge in February 2018.
Adrian
Kear:
Professor Adrian Kear is Programme Development Director, Performance Arts, at the University of the Arts London. His research investigates
theatre as a critical matrix through which to understand contemporary culture and as a specific aesthetic practice. He is the co-editor, with
Maaike Bleeker, Joe Kelleher and Heike
Roms, of a major book series for Methuen, Thinking Through Theatre, and an associated volume on the relationship between critical performance practice and pedagogy,
Thinking Through Theatre and Performance
(forthcoming, 2018). His other books include Theatre and Event: Staging the European Century (Palgrave);
International Politics and Performance: Critical Aesthetics and Creative Practice
(with Jenny Edkins, Routledge); Psychoanalysis and Performance (with Patrick Campbell, Routledge); and
Mourning Diana: Nation, Culture and the Performance of Grief (with Deborah Lynn Steinberg, Routledge). He has written frequently for the journal
Performance Research, including co-editing a special issue
On Appearance (with Richard Gough). Adrian has been interviewed about his work on
The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4 (by John
Humphrys), BBC Radio London (by Vanessa
Feltz), and BBC Radio Wales.
For further information contact Richard Rushton: [log in to unmask]