The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance
at Antonin Artaud Performance Centre
Brunel University, London
ARTAUD
FORUM 3:
Theatre and Resonant Politics
International
Conference-Workshop on Theatre Praxis
Saturday,
March 23 - Sunday, March 24, 2013
held
at the Antonin Artaud Performance Centre
The
third ARTAUD FORUM on Theatre and Resonant Politics examines theatre as
a site of disciplining bodies towards participation in political regimes
- as well as a site in which bodies, resonating with each other, might
resist. The lens of corporeal/bodily resonance opens up questions of performance
training, spectatorship and affect, which this symposium explores through
a series of practical workshops, performances, paper panels, roundtable
discussions, and keynote presentations. It brings together international
theatre, performance and sound artists, musicians, digital artists, theorists
and researchers engaged in creative practices that reflect on major innovative
performance traditions of the past century and their impact on current
performance knowledge and physical techniques. We invite proposals for
presentations that engage with this corporeal-political theme.
Thematic
Focus:
'Resonance'
in everyday usage implies a quality of 'generating significance': the
ability to evoke images, memories, affects and emotions. In acoustics,
it implies the intensification of sound, when that sound vibrates sympathetically
with its receptor and surrounding objects. A resonant politics, then,
might imply a quality of sympathy and receptivity among persons - a mode
of being together and being-in-common outside of ideologies. When we resonate
with each other we share a commonality that does not do away with individuality
and differences.
Recent
political events including the 'Arab Spring' and the Occupy movement around
the world demonstrate the power and relevance of resonant politics. The
sympathetic reverberations of the movements show a sense of commonality
that does not rely on identification with political parties, leaders or
ideologies. Rather, such events are instances of large-scale corporeal
resonance - a sympathetic vibration between the bodies amassed in the
public square, the park, the occupied lecture room.
Theatre
is an art-form that trades primarily in the shared assembly of bodies,
onstage, and in the audience, and is therefore an ideal site to examine
resonant politics on a smaller scale. Yet examining resonant politics
through theatre and theatrical events also opens up the possibility of
the appropriation of resonance by states and nodes of power. The London
2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony with its spectacle of mass-movement called
upon the citizenry of the United Kingdom to 'move this way' while simultaneously
repressing dissent (the arrests of Critical Mass protestors outside of
the stadium gates). -Pageants and military spectacles use the technologies
of theatre to create a shared corporeal resonance in the service of national
ideals. As a form that brings bodies together, theatre can be seen as
a technology of subjectivisation, which disciplines, trains and moulds
bodies in common.
The
symposium and physical theatre workshop are composed of dialogue and performance
practice, intermixed with film screenings, performances and installations.
Curated
and organised by Johannes Birringer & Broderick Chow (Brunel University).
For registration and information about
campus hotel accommodation, please go here
or write to artaud@brunel.ac.uk or call
Janette West at +44 1895 267823
FULL
PROGRAM
Saturday, March 23
09:30 Registration / Coffee (Artaud Performance
Centre)
10:30: Keynote:
Sophie Nield, (Royal Holloway, University of London):
'Resonance and Representation: Playing
the People in the Public Sphere.'
11:30: Welcome address, Pro-Vice Chancellor
Dany Nobus
11:35 - 13:00:
Panel 1: Political Resonance
Moderator: Broderick Chow
"Almost Irresponsibly Optimistic":
Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment (Stephen Bottoms) :: A Life
That Is Not Worth Living: powerlessness as resistance in praxes of political
suicide (Eve Katsouraki) :: Soil Depositions (Lynne McCarthy)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Physical
Theatre Lab
: Wrestling and Corporeal Resonance -
Politics Between Bodies: Broderick Chow & Tom Wells (The Dangerologists)
Coffee/Tea (Artaud Building Upstairs Foyer)
17:10: Panel 2:
Performance and Resonance 1 Moderator: Johannes Birringer
Subway (Andrew Quitmeyer/Ava Ansari)
:: Beneath the surface of the event: The politics of affective registers
in public space (Victoria Gray) :: From the “Mass Plague” to “Requiem for the End of Love”:
voice, lament, and AIDS politics in the first half of the Greek 90's.
(Marios Chatziprokopiou) :: Projecting
on Der (kommende) Aufstand nach andcompany&Co (Jochem Naafs)
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18:30 Reception/Dinner Buffet
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Followed by Performances and Film Installations:
Performances:
A Citizenship Ceremony with a difference...
performative archaeology of Colombian migration into London (Luis
C. Sotelo)
On Losing One's Shirt (Dangerologists)
Film Installation:
The Revelations of Dr. Kx4l3ndj3r
(Jon McKenzie)
In-Finite (Joumana Mourad/IJAD
Dance Company)
Sunday, March 24 09:30 Registration/Coffee
10:00 Keynote:
Jon McKenzie (University of Wisconsin) : "Remediating Performances"
11:00 Panel 3:
Performance and Resonance 2 Moderator: Johannes Birringer
Artaud's Resonances (Johannes Birringer) ::
Remediating Performance and Generalized Creativity (Jon McKenzie) ::
Collective Revolt: Dance, Disorder and Plague (Kelina Gotman)
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 16.30 Physical Theatre
Lab: Turning Social Media into Creative Media, conducted by choreographer Joumana
Mourad / IJAD Dance Company
16:30 Roundtable Discussion
(Moderated by Johannes Birringer and Broderick Chow)
:: Speakers to be invited from the participant
collective ::
17:00 Concluding Remarks
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This
event is sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance
and supported by the Brunel School of Arts and Brunel University Graduate
School.
All
Keynotes and Roundtables are co-produced with dance tech live TV and streamed online
as well as archived.
The
Centre broadcasts selected Performance Research Seminars and the ASRTAUD FORUM live from the Brunel
Drama Studio or Artaud Performance Centre - making them available to anyone in the world interested in the
subject. Johannes Birringer and Marlon Barrios Solano
are co-producing the talks and discussions as live webcasts webcast live on
dance tech net TV . The partnership between the Centre
and dance-techTV, is an experiment in collaborative video broadcasting (the
channel is dedicated to interdisciplinary explorations of the performance of
movement. The channel allows worldwide 24/7 linear broadcasting of selected
programs, LIVE streaming and Video On-demand). This channel is powered by
dance-tech.tv, and is enveloped within dance-tech.net, a donation based
platform. DAPLabTV will participate in the new META-ACADEMY project.
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ARTAUD FORUM 2:
Konnecting Gestures
Helenna Ren in DAP-Lab rehearsal with camera and Kinect interface (c) DAP-Lab 2011
International Conference-Workshop on Performance and Sound Technologies
March
30 - April 1, 2012
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ARTAUD
FORUM 1
The
World from within and without
(in
memoriam Kazuo Ohno)
Yumi
Sagara and Biyo Kikuchi (Maison Artaud, Tokyo) performing at Artaud Performance
Centre, West London
April
4-5, 2011
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(c) 2013
The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance, Johannes Birringer
(acting director)