[ecrea] Performance Studies international Conference #17

*International Conference ‘Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience’*

*From the 25^th until the 29^th of May 2011 Theatre Studies at Utrecht
University presents in collaboration with art festival Festival a/d Werf
the 17^th edition of the Performance Studies international Conference.
Entitled /Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience,/ this year’s
conference will research the performing arts as a perspective on the
relations between technology, memory and experience. As a combination of
science and art the conference promises to be a dynamic,
interdisciplinary and interactive 5-day event with lectures,
presentations, workshops, performances and installations.*

Technological developments allow more people access to more information
than ever before. Additionally, they make it possible to store and share
experiences, inputs, and topics of conversation. These technologies
alter what and how much can be stored, but also transform how memory is
shaped, how the stored can be experienced, how our and other’s memories
are entangled in the here-and-now, and – in the end – even how we think
and imagine.

In the 16^th century the Italian philosopher Giulio Camillo developed
his memory theatre – a wooden construction that was meant to allow the
spectator access to /all/ existing knowledge. We can understand this
construction as a display of the /Ars Memoria/: the /techné/ of memory.
This makes Camillo’s theatre of memory into an emblem and historic point
of reference to the research subject of /Camillo 2.0/: the performing
arts as a providing a perspective on and embodiment of the relation
between technology, memory and experience.

During a five-day program more than 400 international artists and
academics will present their work. There will be lectures by renowned
academics from different disciplines such as Alan Read, Rebecca
Schneider, Mieke Bal, Jill Dolan, Joe Kelleher, Freddie Rokem and
Shannon Jackson. Moreover, more than half of the program is filled with
other forms of presentation such as demonstrations; installations;
(lecture) performances; workshops; interviews; and discussions.

Theatre and dance artists together with scholars will, for example,
explore the possibilities of re-enactment in spoken word and movement;
there will be demonstrations of new digital archive projects of dance
and performance; and /Lost and Angry Manifestoes of Forgotten Theatres/
can be heard. Also, the conference will feature a temporary rest home
for elderly Performance Studies scholars and a stock market for
Paleo-futurist technology.

Festival aan de Werf presents several performances and installations
programmed specifically in the context of the conference’s subject, such
as the installation /Wailing Wall /by Janez Janša; the performance
ACTOR#1 by Kris Verdonck; /Will You Ever Be Happy Again/ by Sanja
Mitrovic; /This is how you will disappear/ by Giselle Vienne; /I AM 1984
/by Barbara Mateijovic & Giuseppe Chico; and the interactive project
TELE_TRUST by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat.

Several program parts of the conference will be public events. Other
than the performances that are part of Festival a/d Werf, these concern
for example a lecture by the South-African writer Jane Taylor (known for
her theatre play /Ubu and the Truth Commission/); a series of lectures
on Giulio Camillo’s 16^th century Memory Theatre in relation to
contemporary developments of media technologies and neurosciences (with
amongst others philosopher Peter Matussek); interviews with Kris
Verdonck and other participating artists; and performances in public
space. The exact program, time and place will be announced on the website.

For more information on the conference program and registration, see the
website: http://psi17.org <http://psi17.org/>.

For participation in the conference registration is obligated. When you
register beforehand a cheaper fee will be charged than when you register
at the start of the conference itself. Prices are inclusive with the
exception of the performances of Festival a/d Werf.

The program parts open to the public are free of charge as long as there
is room available. Registered participants will be given priority.

/Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience/ is the 17^th edition of
the world conference Performance Studies international (PSi), a
worldwide network organisation on Performance Studies. The research
conducted under this umbrella term is interdisciplinary per definition
and is strongly rooted in the interaction between theory and practice.

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