Keynote Speakers:
• Professor Richard Gough: Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Artistic Director of the Centre for Performance Research (CPR) and general editor and co-founder of Performance Research journal.
• Professor Pete Brooks: Principal Lecturer and Course Director, MA Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Artistic Associate Imitating the Dog, Founder Member of Impact Theatre Co-operative and Insomniac Productions.
Paper Presentations:
BERNADETTE CRONIN (University of Exeter)
The Cabinet of Curiosities
JENNY LAWSON (University of Leeds)
Dinner Table Engagement
BRYCE LEASE (University of Kent at Canterbury)
Self as Object or Grotowski’s Perversion
SOZITA GOUDOUNA (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Objecthood: From Deepest Stasis to Duration
CLARE DUFFY (Glasgow University)
Local Reality Expo on Hope Street
RICHARD ALLEN (Aberystwyth University)
Towards a Theatre of Objects: Theatre-Machines and the Violence of Transformation
PAUL PIRIS (Central School of Speech and Drama)
Subject-Object relationship between Performers and Puppets: The Role of the Gaze
NESREEN HUSSEIN (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Material Bodies… Bodied Material: A Case of Subversion
Performance Demonstrations:
GRANT TYLER PETERSON (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Performing Cancer
STEPHANIA MYLONA (University of Surrey)
Contraction: breaking the object-inverting the concept
DIEGO PELLECCHIA (Royal Holloway, University of London)
The Fan of Noh Theatre: Object of Encounter
Workshops:
PABLO PAKULA (ACCIDENTAL COLLECTIVE)Object/Subject: The workshop will investigate ways in which we ascribe meaning and importance to certain objects, and why they become repositories for our personal and collective memories/histories. How do we make these emotional connections? How can they be explored as the stimulus for performance? What happens when they are playfully subverted? What is the potential in exploiting the friction between reality/biography and lies/imagination? What are the implications for the audience?
Please note that participants in this workshop are asked to bring two objects, one which has some degree of personal significance, and one which does not.
LOTOS COLLECTIVE – Live Art performance company
Assumed History, Invented Identities. Invented Histories, Assumed Identity: The workshop will explore object-based dramaturgy, reimagining a collection of objects into a new mythos, unlocking untold narratives and functions and developing an improvised performance around an assumed/invented identity with an assumed/invented object. The workshop will take the form of a practical performance-based workshop in which three characters, Rag, Bone and the Archivist will facilitate and interact with the participants or Archive Assistants. http://www.lotoscollective.org.uk/
CHRIS CRICKMAY and ELLEN KILSGAARD
Objects: The workshops will address one’s own flow of attention as source and guide to movement improvisation and work with a world of objects. The question is how to maintain a state of deep concentration in the body, whilst simultaneously connecting (in an imaginative and feeling way) with the objects, spaces, and other ingredients that constitute one’s surroundings; also how to approach working with chosen everyday objects ‘in their own right’, liberating them from their familiar use and identity and allowing a rich field of sensation and association to build up around them.
Original CFP
Objects of Engagement looks at performance and non-performance strategies that seek engagement with particular objects/bodies/spaces. The conference hopes to explore the various modes of interaction
between human consciousness and inert matter, and the shifting boundaries of subject-object relationship. It examines the object and its status within diverse cultural, historical and social contexts and explores the various roles that artefacts and objects play in shaping our understanding of performance. The event invites emerging scholars and practitioners from various disciplines to come together, share their research, and raise questions regarding our relationship to the materiality of our world.
The conference will include presentations of 20-minute papers; 30-minute practice demonstrations and up to 45-minute workshops, with the aim of opening up wider dialogue within a multidisciplinary framework.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Object, body, space, time
• Objects and perception
• Objects and the archive
• Objects and the community
• Object/performer/spectator
• Objects as weapons
• Objects and ritual
• Objects and the earth
• Objects and reception
• Fetishised objects
• Familiar objects
• Functional objects
• Sacred objects
• Transitory objects
• Broken Objects
• Recycled Objects
between human consciousness and inert matter, and the shifting boundaries of subject-object relationship. It examines the object and its status within diverse cultural, historical and social contexts and explores the various roles that artefacts and objects play in shaping our understanding of performance. The event invites emerging scholars and practitioners from various disciplines to come together, share their research, and raise questions regarding our relationship to the materiality of our world.
The conference will include presentations of 20-minute papers; 30-minute practice demonstrations and up to 45-minute workshops, with the aim of opening up wider dialogue within a multidisciplinary framework.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Object, body, space, time
• Objects and perception
• Objects and the archive
• Objects and the community
• Object/performer/spectator
• Objects as weapons
• Objects and ritual
• Objects and the earth
• Objects and reception
• Fetishised objects
• Familiar objects
• Functional objects
• Sacred objects
• Transitory objects
• Broken Objects
• Recycled Objects
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