TaPRA PG Symposium 2018: Programme
Attendance is free to TaPRA members, and £10 for non-members. If you would like to attend, please email pg@tapra.org by Friday 2nd of February.
All welcome!
Programme
9.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome (Studio 4)
10.15 – 11.45 Parallel Panels
Panel 1 – Materialising Perspectives (Studio 2)
Material Culture as an Alternative Lens: Women’s Textile Work Onstage and Backstage in Pantomime Productions of Sleeping Beauty
Kitty Gurnos-Davies, University of Oxford
Vulnerability that matters: Transformation of Jan Fabre’s Power of Theatrical Madness (1984) into Power of Solidarity with the LGBTQ Community
Sylvia Solakidi, University of Surrey
Failure That Matters: Homophobic Violence & Practices of Queer Survival
Joe Parslow, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Panel 2 – Discursive Materialities (Studio 4)
Can the Fresh Perspective Provided by Materiality Help to Resolve the Contradiction Between the Ephemerality of Performance and the Importance of Documenting it?
Daniel Shipman, University of Sheffield
Documentary and Dissent: The Material Artefact in the Theatre of Teatr.doc
James Rowson, Royal Holloway, University of London
The Matter’s in My Head and in My Heart’: As You Like It’s Dramatic Materiality
William Kroeger, University of Oxford
11.45 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.15 Parallel Panels
Panel 3 – Resisting Material Conditions (Studio 2)
Animalia-interuptous
Stephanie Spindler, Chelsea College of Art
Towards a (New) Dramaturgy of Knowledge
Clio Unger, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
(co-written with Amir Farjoun, The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Performing Pointlessness: The Common Ground between Kurt Schwitters’ Leise and his Pointless Collage
Heather Ross, Newcastle University / The Hatton Gallery
Panel 4 – Immaterial Agents (Studio 4)
Material form from immaterial content: Light and architecture as mediums in contemporary scenography
Raphaé Memon, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
Light-as-Performer and the Hybrid Human Collaborator
Linda (Lyn) Cunningham
Drawing Notation: making the immaterial material
Meg Cunningham, University of Surrey
13.15 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 14.45 Post-Lunch Performance
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Rohanne Udall and Paul Hughes, Timber & Battery
14.45 – 16.00 Parallel Sessions
Panel 5 – Ephemeral Materials (Studio 2)
Mixed Fibres: Human and Nonhuman Collaborations
Ashleigh Griffith, University of Chichester
Iconography and Identity in Contemporary English Barn Dance Publicity
Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe, Roehampton University
Panel 6 – Immaterial Remains (Studio 4)
Rituals of Unbelonging in Unmade, Untitled
Carmen Wong, University of Warwick
The Closeness Hypothesis: Towards a Theory of Significance in One-to- One Performance
Lucy Smith, University of Sheffield
we are all made of stars: A Dialogue
Simon Bowes, University of Greenwich and johnsmith
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.30 SCUDD PG Subcommittee workshop (Studio 4)
Materialising our research ideas as movements: Top tips on publication, dissemination during and just-post PhD
Convenor: Aylwyn Walsh, University of Leeds
Speakers: Shane Boyle, QMUL and Johanna Linsley, Roehampton University
17.30 Close
