Brunel Seminar 010: Fiona Templeton:"Speaking for Performance"

Wednesday October 13, 2010 Fiona Templeton, Brunel University 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. The Centre broadcasts selected Performance Research Seminars live from the Brunel Drama Studio - 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).

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