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ARTAUD FORUM 2: Konnecting Gestures : LIVE from London on dance-tech.tv network, watch and interact!

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 29, 2012 at 1:40pm

http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/artaudforum.html

All  lectures and panel discussions will be live streamed from London, this weekwekend.

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ARTAUD FORUM 2:  Konnecting Gestures                                                             

Artaud Performance Centre

Friday, March 30                                                                                

20:oo  Opening Address (Artaud Performance Centre 001)

20:15        Sonic Arts Concert  (001)

Featuring:      Sonic Arts Ensemble, and vocalist Jennifer Walshe.
                       Intermisison
                      Thomas Köner and Carl Faia: The Futurist Manifesto


Saturday, March 31      

09:30  Registration / Coffee   (Artaud Performance Centre)

10:30   A001: Keynote:   Pieter Verstraete on gestures and sound                                

11:30   Welcome address, William Leahy, Head of School

11:35 – 13:00  Roundtable 1 (with presentations by Julian Henriques,
Eirini Nedelkopoulou, Nick Collins)                              


13:00   Lunch break                                                                                                                                                                             
14:00 –17:00  Physical Movement/ Sound Lab (001)  BadCo with Ivana Ivkovic &
Zrinka Uzbinec
14:oo – 17:00 Electronics Lab on Kinect interfaces (003)  Ian Winters
14:00 – 17:oo  Clinic with Carl Faia (Music and Programming); Presentation of new work/demo by Arthur Elsenaar

Short Coffee break                                                                                                                                                                              
17:10   Roundtable 2:  Reflections on Sound Performance
(with presentations by Jay Murphy, Nicolas Salazar-Sutil; Claudia Robles;
John Collingswood; Ian Winters)

18:30   Reception / dinner buffet, followed by art openings:                            

19:30   Installation-Performances  (101) (103)(115) (107)(109)
            "Cabinets of Post-Digital Curiosities": performance installations by Camilla Baratt-Due (N/D), Jörg Brinkmann (D),
            Arthur Elsenaar (NL),   Kate Genevieve & Alex Peckham (UK), Rebecca Horrox (UK) & Dani Ploeger (NL/D/UK)

21:00   Concert & Performance Installations (001)
           John Collingswood “Duet for Three” / Frieder Weiss, “Blue Flow”   /    Simon    
           Katan "DarkStar"    

      Julie Wilson-Bokowiec, with Mark Bokowiec:    
      “V'Oct(Ritual)”                                                                                     

Sunday, April 1

10:00    Presentation:     Body Performance Noise  (introduction)
                                      Darren Vincent Tunstall: Non-verbal communication/embodied experiential knowledge
11:00   Roundtable 3 (Artist presenters: Camilla Baratt-Due, Jörg Brinkmann, Arthur
                                      Elsenaar, Kate Genevieve, Rebecca Horrox
  Response panel: Alissa Clarke (performance studies scholar, De
 Montfort University),
                                     Sophia Gräfe (media art critic, Bauhaus University Weimar),
                                     Niall Richardson (media and film theorist, University of Sussex)
                                     Chair: Dani Ploeger (Brunel University)


13:00  Lunch break

14:00  Theatre / Sound Lab :     KINECT 2, and Frieder Weiss
            Clinics with Carl Faia, Daniel Ploeger

16:00   Roundtable 4
(moderated by Johannes Birringer, featuring Julie Wilson-Bokowiec and Mark Bokowicz, Nick Till,  Frieder Weiss, Carl Faia, Simon Katan, and guests)

17:00   Concluding Remarks

Be with us!!

Marlon

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BRUNEL Performance Research Series

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on April 4, 2011 at 12:14pm

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Brunel University's Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance in London regularly
organizes an annual series of Performance Research Seminars. Since 2009, the Performance Research Seminar Series  has cooperated with dance tech net  to produce live broadcasts selected from seminars or workshops live from Brunel's Drama Studio - making them available to anyone in the world interested in the subject. The public is invited to participate in this series of encounters, lectures, screenings, physical and new media workshops and discussions, focussed on new thinking in performance practices,
interactivity, technologies, digital/scientific creativity, and cultural production.

Sue Broadhurst

 

Johannes Birringer, director of the Research Center at Brunel University, joined dancetechTVlive as associate producer, and more than a dozen of the the one hour talks and discussions
are now also archived on the site.

This partnership between the Center and dance-techTV also supports experiments in collaborative video broadcasting and research;  the channel is dedicated to interdisciplinary explorations of the performance of movement and media.
The channel allows worldwide 24/7 linear broadcasting of selected programs, LIVE streaming and Video On-demand.

On-line lectures

2011 Lectures

2010 Lectures

2009 Lectures

 

Questions or feedback to Johannes Birringer

Co-producer Marlon Barrios Solano

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On dance-techTV:Today:Nick Hunt | Designer:Performer Repositioning the role of the theatre lighting artist”

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 30, 2011 at 4:22pm
Brunel Performance Seminar Series March 30, 4 pm GMT The role of the person with creative responsibility for lighting in theatre performance has traditionally been conceptualised as ‘designer’ – someone who makes a prior imaginary act before the moment of performance, which is then replayed in performance through an essentially procedural, non-creative, process. I want to propose a partial reinvention of theatre lighting as an arts practice, emphasising the live operation or ‘performance’ of lighting, rather than its design prior to the performance event, and conflating the existing roles of the lighting designer and the lighting operator into the lighting artist. In this seminar, I trace the historical origins of the professional role of the lighting designer and how it is structured, and suggest some strategies for making the shift from designer to performer. As well as describing changes to rehearsal room practices to include lighting, I demonstrate a custom lighting control interface conceptually structured in terms of lighting affects and temporal dynamics,that provides a playable, expressive instrument for the performance of theatre lighting. Nick graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering before deciding that theatre was more interesting than thermodynamics. After ten years as a professional lighting technician and designer, he started teaching at Rose Bruford College, where – some thirteen years later – he is currently Head of the School of Design, Management and Technical Arts. Nick’s principal research interest at present is the performative potential of light and the lighting artist as performer. Nick’s other research interests include digital scenography and digital performance, the history of theatre lighting, and the roles and status of the various personnel involved in performance-making. Brunel Seminars! WATCH here! http://www.dance-tech.net/profiles/blogs/dancetechtvlive-1
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LIVE@dance-techTV: Lecture Series from Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance, London, GB

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on October 9, 2010 at 9:30pm


Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance
Research Seminar Series
Brunel Universiity

Coproduction with danceTech TV
ALL 2010 series

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Site venue: School of Arts, Brunel University, West London
Time:
4 pm (GMT) 11:oo am EST


Wednesday October 13th
Fiona Templeton, Brunel University
Speaking for Performance


Wednesday October 27th
Johannes Birringer, Brunel University
‘Dispositif: Performance Repositions’



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Wednesday November 3rd
Misha Myers, University College Falmouth
Is that a pistol in your pocket...?’: Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment

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Wednesday November 10th
Mike Pearson, University of Plymouth
'Fighting in Built-Up Areas': staging The Persians with the British Army

Wednesday November 24th
Guillerme Mendonça, Brunel University
Title: TBA

Wednesday December 8th
Rachel Fensham, University of Surrey

Title: TBA


DESCRIPTIONS


Wednesday October 13th: Fiona Templeton, Brunel University

Speaking for Performance

I will introduce a method I use in the last few years to generate text
without writing, described in my article ‘Speaking for Performance’ in
Sensualities/Technologies, and used particularly in my work The Medead.
I’ll also talk about voice, not only physiologically and musically but
about the notion of voice in the sense of authorial position/ persona in
performance / inhabitation / ventriloquism. This relates to my current
work in progress, and also to another very brief article/note about the
work I directed last June by Leslie Scalapino. That article, entitled
'Acting Brackets' is about directing decisions about the non-lexical
aspects of the text to reflect Scalapino’s and my own interest in the
above notions.

Fiona Templeton is currently director of New York based The
Relationship, an international performance group, and was a founder of
The Theatre of Mistakes in the 70s. Her work ranges across theatre,
poetry and installation, and she has won awards and published 12 books
in several disciplines. Her You-The City (1988) was a pioneering work
in the genre of the site-specific performance journey. Recent
productions include the 6-part performance epic The Medead, and L’Ile, a
recreation of the dreams of the people of Lille in the places dreamt
of.

Wednesday October 27th Johannes Birringer, Brunel University

‘Dispositif: Performance Repositions’

In this speculative lecture, Birringer seeks to develop methodological
frameworks for grappling with the daunting challenges that underlie a
sociological or pragmatist/materialist analysis of contemporary
"interfacial installations." After introducing the notion of the
"performative dispositif" (extending studies of cinematic and
scenographic arrangements), questions will address the material
processes in installations and what it might mean to advance knowledge
or explore sensory perception. How do performer-participants assess or
value attributes or affordances of "technical beings," of programmed
responsive environments or hybrid media spaces which behave with and
towards the visitor-participant – as if becoming living, moving, animate
matter, changing their vitality and displaying a range of symptoms in
their materiality (motion, agency, autonomy, protocol behavior, and
ritual aspect, etc.). With this research, Birringer proposes to place
more attention on how a particular dispositif enables the interface
relations technically while observing how human performers respond to
responsive environments or experience its sensate articulations.


Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and media artist. As artistic director of the Houston-based AlienNation Co.(www.aliennationcompany.com),
he has created numerous dance-theatre works, video installations and
digital projects in collaboration with artists in Europe, the Americas,
China, Japan and Australia. His digital oratorio Corpo, Carne e Espírito
premiered in Brasil at the FIT Theatre Festival in 2008; the
interactive dancework Suna no Onna was featured at Laban Centre and
Watermans, London. The mixed reality installation UKIYO toured Eastern
Europe in June 2010. He is founder of Interaktionslabor Göttelborn in
Germany (http://interaktionslabor.de)
and director of DAP-Lab at Brunel University, West London, where he is a
Professor of Performance Technologies in the School of Arts. His new
book, Performance, Technology and Science, was released by PAJ
Publications in 2009.

Wednesday November 3 Misha Myers, University of Falmouth
Is that a pistol in your pocket...?’:
Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment

This presentation stages a performative ‘fictocritical’ dialogue with
Jimmie Durham on the strategies employed in his work to intervene in the
rituals of concealment and erasure which founded and continue founding
the unique brand of empire made in the political and ideological
narratives of the US.
This dialogue engages with Durham’s performance/installation works,
writings on cowboys, and his curation of the American West (2005) at
Compton Verney, UK, and his work Building a Nation (2006) at Matt’s
Gallery, London, through the persona, performance texts, lyrics, stage
directions and images of my own performance practice, including Yodel
Rodeo and Lonesome Long Gone and the installation/outpost Buffalo Sue’s
Wild West (2004), which were commissioned and performed as part of
Spacex Gallery and Relational’s Homeland exhibition in Exeter, UK. As a
method of researching Durham’s strategies of interruption, I staged a
re-enactment of a moment of Building a Nation for a Performance
Re-enactment Society (PRS) photo shoot. It is a kind of research that I
do through the doing of a thing. This involved a process of finding out
what something was, is or what it can become through a dynamic and
discursive relationship with ‘second hand’ memories, photographs, and
other relics of a performance archive.

Originally, from Mississippi, Dr. Misha Myers is a live artist and
Senior Lecturer in Theatre at University College Falmouth-incorporating
Dartington College of Arts. She creates socially engaged, dialogic and
participatory events that invite participants to reflect on and
articulate their experience of particular places and landscapes through
various spatial practices and performance mechanisms involving walking,
singing, moving and writing. Documentation and digital artworks from her
walk works way from home and Take me to a place, co-created with
refugees and asylum seekers and refugee support organisations in cities
across the UK, are online at www.homingplace.org.
Her recent work has been shown at Spacex Gallery’s public art
exhibition ‘Homelands’, in the Millais Gallery’s ‘Art in the Age of
Terrorism’ exhibition, and as part of Art Surgery and Newlyn Art
Gallery’s ‘Tract’, a programme of site-specific and live art. She has
published articles on her work and that of others in various journals,
including Visual Studies, Performance Research Journal, Leonardo
Electronic Almanac, Performance Paradigm, The International Journal of
Arts and Society, Research in Drama Education and in the book Art in the
Age of Terrorism.

Wednesday November 10th Mike Pearson, University of Plymouth
'Fighting in Built-Up Areas': staging The Persians with the British Army

This seminar will reflect upon matters of archaeology, landscape and
site-specificity theory and practice in relation to the production of
Aeschylus's The Persians that Mike Pearson directed in August for the
newly-founded National Theatre Wales.

Mike Pearson studied archaeology in University College, Cardiff
(1968–71). He was a member of R.A.T. Theatre (1972–3) and an artistic
director of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973–80) and Brith Gof
(1981–97). He continues to make performance as a solo artist and in
collaboration with artist/designer Mike Brookes as Pearson/Brookes
(1997–present). In August 2010 he directed a site-specific production of
Aeschylus’s The Persians for National Theatre Wales on the military
training ranges in mid-Wales. He is co-author with Michael Shanks of
Theatre/Archaeology (2001) and author of In Comes I: Performance, Memory
and Landscape (2006) and Site-Specific Performance (2010). The
monograph: All that remains: an imperfect archaeology of the Mickery
Theatre, Amsterdam is forthcoming in 2010. He is currently Professor of
Performance Studies, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies,
Aberystwyth University.

Wednesday November 24th Guillerme Mendonça, Research Student Brunel University
Title: TBA

Wednesday December 8th Rachel Fensham, University of Surrey
Title: TBA

For more information please contact
Gretchen.schiller@brunel.ac.uk


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Butoh film premiere at Antonin Artaud Centre , UK

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on June 20, 2010 at 7:05pm




After two dance and motion-design workshops held at Brunel University (West London) and Keio University (Tokyo) in 2009, the third cross-cultural UKIYO lab held at Brunel’s Antonin Artaud Centre ended on June 6, 2010, with the premiere of a new film shot on location during the cross-cultural encounter between artists and researchers from the UK and Japan.

The UKIYO project was directed by choreographer and media artist Johannes Birringer and involved collaborative experimentation conjoining artistic and techno-scientific disciplines. Based on a design libretto for the composition of a mixed reality installation – Ukiyo: Moveable World – Birringer’s DAP-Lab ensemble has developed innovative performance concepts for linking physical spaces with online virtual worlds, mediated by a diverse range of innovative wearable designs and intelligent sensing.

The Japanese team visiting Brunel University included researchers from Keio University and a group of butoh dancers from the renowned Maison d’Artaud led by Hironobu Oikawa, a master teacher and director who had studied Artaud’s visionary theatrical ideas in Paris in the 1950s and later taught his own method alongside Japan’s butoh founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. The DAP-lab members had been received at Oikawa’s studio last December, and a lively process of cultural exchange was initiated.

It was a sad coincidence that the visiting dancers, Biyo Kikuchi, Yumi Sagara, and Jun Makime learnt of the death of their 103-year old master, Kazuo Ohno, on the day of their arrival in London, whereupon the lab decided to create a special film as a tribute to Ohno and incorporate the filmed dance in the creation of UKIYO.

In a remarkable historical convergence, the Japanese dancers from the Maison d’Artaud (Tokyo) thus featured in the creation of a new installation staged

at Brunel’s new performing arts centre named after Antonin Artaud. The building was inaugurated in 2009 under the tutelage of Steve Dixon, the former head of the School of Arts.

The DAP ensemble is now taking the new work to Slovenia, with public exhibitions of UKIYO and a workshop held at KIBLA Media Arts Centre in Maribor. In the winter of 2010-11, the new production and wearable designs will have their London premiere, with the participation of the Maison d’Artaud performers and Yoko Higashino (Baby Q Contemporary Dance Company), one of the rising stars of Japan’s contemporary dance scene. The full version of the UKIYO butoh film dedicated to Kazuo Ohno, directed and edited by Birringer and featuring the Japanese dancers with conceptual fashion design by Michèle Danjoux and music by Alexander Finlayson, will be released this summer.

Website: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/ukiyo.html

For further information, call +44 (0)1895 267 343

Or email: Johannes.Birringer@brunel.ac.uk

The UKIYO project is supported by a PMi2/connect British Council research cooperation

Award, a grant by The Japan Foundation, The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel University, and the Ministry of Culture & Municipality of Maribor.
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