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[ecrea] CFP Documentary and Performance
Wed Jun 01 10:41:51 GMT 2011
*Documentary and Performance *
A one-day symposium hosted by the Film Studies programme at the
University of Surrey.
Friday September 16^th 2011
While theatrical acting and fictionalised action is generally precluded
in documentary film, the concept of performance is inherently, if
ambivalently, linked to the study of documentary and non-fiction media.
The documentation of performance is a primary function of the moving
image, going back to the first screenings of the Skladanowsky brothers
in 1895 Berlin, where the six second films featured dance performances,
acrobatics and kangaroo boxing. There now exists a rich and varied
tradition of documenting the performing arts, from dance to theatre to
performance art. Moving from the perspective of performance studies to
that of documentary studies, the process of making film and television
documentary also implies issues of performance. The performance of the
self in everyday (filmed) situations, the performance of re-enactment
and reconstruction and the performative act of documentary production,
question how we understand the notion of performance as it relates to
the representation of the real.
This one-day event aims to explore performance in the context of
documentary and moving-image documentation. How do theories of
documentary and the theorisation of performance interact? What are the
ethics and aesthetics of recording performances? How does the
documentary form enhance or distort the art of performance? How does
performance taint or enhance the re-presentation of reality?
We invite speakers and contributors working on documentary film as well
as the intersection of non-fiction media with theatre, dance and
performance studies to respond to these questions. The following topics
are a guideline to potential paper proposals and are not meant to
exclude other interpretations of the seminar’s title /Documentary and
Performance/
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· Documenting dance, dance documentary, documenting dance as ethnography
or popular idiom
· Records of performance in biographies and histories of performers
· The role of documentary in the creation/preservation of performance art
· The documentation of site-specific performance
· Performance of the self and the everyday in documentary
· Re-enactment and reconstruction in documentary
· Documentary as embodied knowledge
Please submit a proposal including a 300-word paper abstract and a short
biography to Dr. Helen Hughes ((h.hughes /at/ surrey.ac.uk)
<mailto:(h.hughes /at/ surrey.ac.uk)>) by Friday 1^st July 2011.
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