Hear Tell: Describing, Reporting, Narrating
Date: Monday 13 May 2019
Tate Exchange at Tate Modern
5th Floor, Blavatnik Building 12-6pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hear-tell-describing-reporting-narrating-tickets-60466329419 If you hear tell of an event, somebody relates it to you. Hear tell involves both a speaker and a listener, a performer and an audience. Taking the form of a study day, Hear Tell circulates around three actions: describing, reporting and narrating. Each of these terms can be understood as a mode within performance. It also presents an approach to writing and talking about performance. The day will be made of descriptions of describing, reports on reporting, narratives of narrating. 12.00-13.30Session 1: Describing Opening Description by Giulia Palladini, University of Roehampton Burning and invisible words: Chukovskaya on Akhmatova’s Requiem Emily Orley, University of Roehampton A principled hesitancy Joe Kelleher, University of Roehampton 13.45-15.15 Session 2: Reporting Preliminary Report by Georgina Guy, Royal Holloway, University of London Bringing Things In: Delivery and Joke Logistics Emma Bennett, University of Leeds Sonic inscription and improvisatory narrative: Richard Ridgway and the mute swan Ella Finer, writer, composer and curator 15.30-17.15 Session 3: Narrating Instigating Narrative by Johanna Linsley, University of Roehampton Re-Telling the Chauraasi Archive: Testimony after Trauma Sharanya Murali, independent researcher Narrating Ephemerality: Joseph Beuys and Terry Fox’s Isolation Unit in Print Tancredi Gusman, Freie Universität Berlin The Sober and the Unsound: Narrative, Addiction, Repetition Season Butler, writer, artist and dramaturg 17.15 Drinks and Discussion
