[ecrea] Symposium on Documentary and Performance

 Documentary and Performance: A One Day Symposium at the University of
 Surrey — Friday 16^th September 2011

All events will take place in the Nodus Building, University of Surrey, 
Stag Hill, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH. Information on how to get to the 
University and a map of the campus can be found at 
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/about/visitors/

9.30 – 10.00 Registration and Welcome

10.00 – 11.00 _Panel 1 Performance and Reenactment _

Chair: Helen Hughes

Toni-Lynn Frederick, ‘Problems of Representation: Simon Srebnik & the 
Strategies of Re-enactment in Lanzmann’s /Shoah/’

Hing Tsang, ‘Killing as Performance: the ethics and techniques of 
reconstruction and performance in the context of Rithy Panh's /S21: The 
Khmer Rouge Killing Machine /(2003)’

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00 Panel 2 _Contemporary documentary aesthetics and performance _

Chair: Bella Honess Roe

Alina Bernstein and Inbar Shenhar, ‘The ebb and flow of day-to-day 
banality: The performance of self in /Connected/’ (Israeli tv video diaries)

Gabriela Calchi-Novati ‘Documentary in the Age of Digital Biopolitics 
/Catfish /& the “Aesthetics of Amphibology”’

Birgit Kohler, Performing Documentary – IT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE (Anja 
Salomonowitz, 2006) as an Example of a New Documentary Strategy (German 
and Austrian hybrid docs)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.00- 15.30 _Documenting the Artist’s Performance_

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Chair: Lois Davis

Ulrike Hanstein, ‘Ron Vawter’s Roy Cohn/Jack Smith Documented’

Barbara Elektra Droth, ‘Interrogating the artist’s private and public 
self through documentary film practice: the visual narrative in the 
performance of life’

Willemien Sanders, ‘Woman at work… A documentary participant’s extended 
performance of her professional self’

15.30 – 16.00 Tea Break

16.00 – 17.00 _Choreography and Performance_

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Jennifer Jackson, ‘Behind The Setting of Diamonds’

Lucia King, ‘Filming an Indian pilgrimage as a mass choreography’

17.00 Symposium Ends

Dr Helen Hughes
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
School of Arts
University of Surrey
01483 682837
(h.hughes /at/ surrey.ac.uk) <mailto:(h.hughes /at/ surrey.ac.uk)>