[ecrea] Interfaces - Postgraduate Research Workshop and Exhibition

> University of Exeter, Department of English
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> Interfaces: encounters
> beyond the page / screen / stage
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> 1 Day Postgraduate Research Workshop and
> Exhibition, 29th January 2011
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> Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Judith
> Buchanan (University of York)
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> Funded by the AHRC Beyond Text Student-led
> Initiative Scheme
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> VISIT THE EVENT BLOG @: 
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> www.interfaces
> -beyond-
> text.blogspot.com
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> This innovative multidisciplinary research
> training event examines questions of mediation and memory in
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> encounters with non-textual archival
> materials in the arts. By creating dialogues between postgraduates
> and
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> experienced researchers, and featuring
> practical sessions with curators and archivists, the research
> workshop
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> seeks to investigate issues that take the
> researcher beyond the text in the investigation of objects and
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> artefacts that constitute non-textual
> interfaces between film, literature and theatre.
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> Participating speakers and delegates will
> attend a central workshop event in the University’s Bill Douglas
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> Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular
> Culture and Exeter’s Special Collections, where a hands-on
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> exploration of key filmic and literary
> non-textual materials will be led by the curators of these archives.
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> Abstract for 20 minute papers are welcomed on
> the following core panel themes from
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> postgraduates across the arts disciplines in
> drama, literature, film, performing arts, visual culture and
> modern languages:
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> •
> Performativity
> : transitory forms created by performance and
> performativity; improvisation and the
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> play script; the body in play; performance
> and photographs/stills; the critical interpretation of
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> ephemera; the incorporation of non-print
> ephemera into academic scholarship; mediations between
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> public interest and critical histories
> surrounding popular artefacts; the function of stage props
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> • Beyond
> ‘Adaptation’: mediations involved
> in processes of adaptation across disciplines / media; the
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> creation and sustenance of ‘media memories’
> in repeated adaptation
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> • Forms of
> Engagement: creative forms which
> overlap across the arts­such as illustrations, sound
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> recordings, and poetic readings; the
> translation and migration of theatrical, literary and filmic
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> heritages into business practices;
> non-narrative auto/biographical sites
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> • Production
> History: the exploration of how
> plays have been ‘framed’ in discussion, presentation
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> and analysis across their history; exploring
> the relationship between "text" and
> "performance"
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> • Digital
> Cultures: the impact of
> digitization upon the archival ‘text’; the impact of new digital
> media
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> upon process of memory / memorial; multimedia
> practices and presentations
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> • Rethinking
> archives: how archives destabilize
> notions of ‘text’ / the search for archival authorial
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> ‘presence’; archival silences; notions of the
> archive as performance; questions of authority
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> surrounding pre-texts / printed texts;
> challenges encountered in recreating draft manuscripts; the
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> impact of ‘anecdotal’ archival material
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> We strongly encourage speakers to present
> the ‘beyond text’ materials of their research in
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> a multi-media format, bringing evidence of
> cornerstone non-textual examples­sound clip
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> / manuscript image / artwork etc.
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> Please submit 300 word abstracts for 20 minute
> papers to Lisa Stead ((lrs204 /at/ ex.ac.uk)) and Jennifer
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> Barnes ((jab228 /at/ ex.ac.uk)). Suggestions for panels of
> 3 speakers for any of the given core panel themes are also welcomed.
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> Supporting work for the Interfaces
> Exhibition is very much welcomed!
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> The Interfaces event welcomes the submission of artwork,
> photography and
> imagery for a temporary exhibition representing, replicating or
> reflecting upon
> key non-textual archival materials, objects and images in the arts.
> The exhibition of this work will accompany the Interfaces research
> event, and
> offer an interactive counterpart to the workshop. We strongly
> encourage
> presenting delegates to submit items to this exhibit, but we also welcome
> non-presenting delegates to submit proposals for exhibition pieces,
> themed
> around non-textual encounters in postgraduate research and practice
> across
> the disciplines of drama, literature and film.
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> Exhibition proposals might include the following:
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> Large scale single/collections of images
> The Interfaces committee will replicate these in high-quality
> print poster
> form. Examples of items might include replica posters, postcards,
> photos, stamps, prints, artworks etc.
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> Original artwork
> Inspired by ‘beyond text’ issues in research / artistic
> interpretations of
> research themes.
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> Original photography
> Examples: documenting the research process or archive visits /
> photographs of beyond text objects that tell a story about the
> researcher or specific methodologies.
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> Moving images
> These might include cinematic film clips (to be looped on exhibition
> and
> accompanied by explanatory text) / original short films or clips /
> footage
> of archival practice / montage of beyond text materials / clips
> illuminating beyond text devices or materials­e.g. optical toys,
> animations from such devices etc. / footage of performances /
> footage
> relating to production history.
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> Displayed objects
> Key non-textual research objects (if they can be temporarily spared
> for
> display!)­e.g. newspapers / playbills / magazines / marketing
> materials / stage props (or replicated versions of these).
> We have a small fund to assist in the high quality presentation of
> these
> objects and original creations, and will provide AV exhibition and
> printing for
> art and photography.
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> Please submit samples and/or exhibit project outlines with brief
> supporting
> notes to Lisa Stead ((lrs204 /at/ ex.ac.uk)) and
> Jennifer Barnes
> ((jab228 /at/ ex.ac.uk)). Deadline: November
> 1st, 2010.
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> Phil Wickham
>  
> Curator
> The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular
> Culture
> University of Exeter
> Old Library
> Prince of Wales Road
> Exeter
> Devon
> EX4 4SB
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> 01392 724321
> (P.J.Wickham /at/ exeter.ac.uk)
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