[ecrea] No Way Out TaPRA Interim Event: Schedule & Registration

*No Way Out: Theatre as a Mediatised Practice*
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*TaPRA Performance & New Technologies Interim Event*
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*Birkbeck University of London & London South Bank University, April 
20th & 21st*
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*[please scroll down for registration details]*
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Mediatisation – the increasingly pervasive influence of new media 
technologies in the form of social institutions and ideological 
apparatuses on society, culture and consciousness since the late 
twentieth century – has radically shaped our everyday lives and 
relationships. Mediatisation as a social and cognitive phenomenon has 
changed the way theatre and performance are produced, shaped, performed 
and perceived. This shift has led to a state where there is nothing left 
outside of mediatisation. Hence, we argue, all contemporary theatre and 
performance today is mediatised.//

The mediatised theatre and performance of the 21^st  century propose a 
practice, and offer ground for the development of a scholarship, in 
which ontological boundaries between media and performance, live and 
mediatised, analogue and digital, are no longer useful or even possible 
to consider. Mediatisation lies within the aesthetic and political 
[un]consciousness of the works, whichever form or manifestation those 
choose to take. It is, directly or implicitly, embedded within their 
architectures, dynamics, and processes; we might even argue that, in 
some ways, mediatisation /is/ the works.

This two-day event seeks to investigate the processes and practices of 
mediatised theatre and performance in the 21^st  century with a 
particular interest in such questions as: How does the mediatised 
theatre and performance of the 21^st  century engage with digital 
culture and labour as, partly, products of capitalist ideology and 
economy? Is there potential for resistance (in the wider understanding 
of the term) within theatre as a mediatised practice? Or, to use 
Stiegler’s analogy, can theatre and performance approach the digital as 
a /pharmakon/ in order to engender social ‘remedy’, opening up critical 
spaces for resistance and dissensus in contemporary neoliberal culture?


Organised and chaired by: Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou (LSBU) & Dr Seda 
Ilter (Birkbeck)

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*Event Schedule*


*Day One*
*Birkbeck – Thursday 20th April*
/Room G10, //43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD/

Registration from 10:30am

*11am  - Welcome & Introduction – Dr Seda Ilter (Birkbeck)*

*11:15 - Keynote by Prof. Matthew Causey (Trinity Dublin): The Earth as 
Data Farm for the Virtual World and the Techno-performative, 
Post-digital Art of John Gerrard*
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_Abstract_

John Gerrard, is an internationally recognised Irish artist working in 
Dublin and Vienna best known for his digital simulations using real-time 
computer graphics. Gerrard’s work engages a techno-performativity that 
uniquely represents the current challenges (anthropocene) to our climate 
and environment and the potential of art and performance to articulate 
those issues within a post-digital condition. My talk will draw on 
Heidegger’s questions regarding the nature of art and technology in 
order to consider the post-digital moment which is witness to growing 
indisctinctions between the virtual and real, between the organic and 
the technological. In these zones of indistinction how is it that art 
might indicate our historical community’s sense of ‘what is’ and ‘what 
matters’.


12:30 - 1:30 - Lunch Break

*1:30-3pm - Panel: Post–digital Resistance*

  * *Dr Rosemary Klich* (Kent): Performing the Material Modality of Media
  * *Dr Stella Keramida* (Independent): Mediatisation as Resistance in
    the Work of Contemporary Theatre Directors
  * *Dr Aneta Mancewicz* (Kingston): Coming Together as a Public: Dries
    Verhoeven’s /No Man’s Land/ and Ontroerend Goed’s /Fight Night/
  * *Dr Tarryn Li-Min Chun* (Michigan): Mediatised Theatre in a
    Surveillance State: Wang Chong and Contemporary Chinese Performance


3-3:30 - Coffee Break

*3:30- 5pm - Postgraduate Panel *

  * *Bahar Ilgın Türköz *(Trinity Dublin)
  * *Annette Balaam* (Bristol): Performing the Machine
  * *Benjamin Monk *(Kent): From / To a Theatre Near You! The
    Mediatised, Screened Theatre as Convergent Transmedia
  * *Armando F. Pinho* (Minho), *Cristina Mendanha* (Porto), *Gabriela
    Barros *(Arte Total Cia.), *David Ramalho* (Arte Total Cia.):
    Emergence of New Modes of Artistic Creation and Writing Techniques
    for Postdigital Performances, Through Practice-as-Research
    Methodologies: Demonstration of a Portuguese Experience


5:15-6pm – *A Closing Provocation *

  * *Prof. Janis Jefferies *(Goldsmiths): *Performance as Provocation*


6pm - Close -

*Day Two*
*London South Bank University (LSBU) – Friday 21st April*
/Edric Theatre, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA/

Registration from 9:15am

*9:45 Welcome and Introduction – Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou (LSBU)*

*10am - Keynote by Prof. Andy Lavender (Warwick): **Power, Populism and 
Performance: **Producing Post-truths in Neoliberalism’s New Illiberalism*
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_Abstract:_
In this presentation, I consider the relationship between public 
discourse, mediation and representation (understood both as democratic 
process and the conveyance of ideas) with reference to the ‘Leave’ 
campaign regarding the EU referendum in the UK and the Trump 
presidential campaign in the USA. I draw on ideas from theatre and 
performance studies to examine how specific notions and policies were 
articulated and positioned in the public sphere, and how these were 
reverberated both as expressions of a popular voice and in order to 
capture a popular vote. Who, here, are ‘the people’, and how do they 
speak? I consider the ways in which both campaigns staged a ‘post-truth’ 
politics in which utterances of seeming facts were variously rhetorical, 
theatrical and hyper-literal, whilst contributing to the affective 
charge of the respective campaign and its emotional and ideological 
persuasion. I examine how each campaign can be viewed in terms of a 
neoliberal agenda that is also paradoxically illiberal, involving calls 
for constraints of various kinds and dramatizing these in diverse ways. 
In all this, I consider how paradigms from theatre and performance 
studies can help to explain how both campaigns achieved success 
supposedly against the odds, in part through the way in which their 
respective ideas were produced in and through mediatisation. The residue 
of both victories is a plethora of images, soundbites and sequences that 
bespeak the theatricalised and highly mediated nature of their production.

11:15 - Break

*11:30am - 1pm- Panel: Temporal Cracks, Spatial Dislocations and 
Reproducibility*

  * *Dr Swen Steinhauser *(Manchester Metropolitan):**Leap Into the
    Void: Exposing the Temporal Crack of the Present
  * *Dr Ed Vollans *(Middlesex & Anglia Ruskin): Is Theatre Going Down
    the YouTube?
  * *Claire Read *(Roehampton)
  * *Dr Liam Jarvis *(Essex /Analogue):**The Ethics of Mislocalized
    Selfhood: Proprioceptive Drifting Towards the Virtual Other

1-3pm - Lunch break with performance /installation demo’s

  * *Jeannette Ginslov* (LSBU): Five Key Words: Memory, Porosity,
    Dialogical, Augmented Reality, Screendance
  * *Dr Nuno Salihbegovic *(LSBU): CYBERAMA: A Proposal for a Total
    Theatre of the ‘Digital Today'
  * *Dr Johnmichael Rossi* (newFangled theatReR): ‘Playwrighting’ as
    Curatorial Practice in Digital Spaces of Reading and Writing

*3-4:30pm – Panel: Mediatised Practice on Page and Stage: New Tools, New 
Ecologies*

  * *Dr Christophe Collard* (Vrije Brussels): Ecological Scenography, or
    Staging Mediatised Entanglements
  * *Dr Maria Kapsali *(Leeds): Finding a Way Out from Within: Intra and
    Extra-Organic Tools in Performer Training Practice
  * *Prof. David Houston Jones* (Exeter): Kathryn Smith and the
    Practices of Forensic Performance: from/ Jack in Johannesburg /to
    /Incident Room/

*4:30pm - Wine reception and Book launch:/ Intermediality and 
Spectatorship in the Theatre Work of Robert Lepage: the Solo Shows/ by 
Aristita I. Albacan (2016, Cambridge Scholars Publishing)*
*Aristita Albacan in Conversation with Prof. Christopher Balme (Munich, 
Leverhulme Visiting Professor CDDS London)*

6pm – Close -

*REGISTER – PLEASE USE ANY LINK IF YOU ARE ATTENDING BOTH DAYS*
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*DAY ONE: *

http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/whats-on/no-way-out-200417


*DAY TWO:*

http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/whats-on/no-way-out-210417


REGISTRATION is £40 for 2 days or £25 per day. Concessions: £30 for 2 
days or £15 per day. Non TaPRA members will be charged an extra £10 
membership cost. The cost includes lunch, coffee break and wine 
reception on second day.

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