[Commlist] CFP Screening Live Performance (Southampton)

Screening Live Performance: Multi-Camera Production and the Performing Arts

University of Southampton, 3-4 July 2025
https://screeningliveperformance.soton.ac.uk
 From the earliest days of television broadcasting in the 1930s 
performers, programmers, and critics were enthusiastic about the 
potential for a creative approach to live mediated performance and its 
ability to facilitate an educated form of public dialogue. At the same 
time, the consistent challenges involved in ‘translating’ a live 
performance to the screen and the limitations imposed on multi-camera 
videography (rehearsal opportunities, lighting, camera placement) have 
demanded compromises and the establishment of practices that have been 
met with resistance and criticism. In ‘Screening Live Performance’ we 
aim to unpack the past, present, and future of multi-camera production 
for the performing arts to understand how this shapes our appreciation 
of live performance.  To what extent, we ask, can multi-camera 
production replicate or capture the experience of live performance? Or 
is it naïve even to consider such notions of immediacy in the face of an 
elaborate intervention? Has our collective familiarity with the grammar 
of multi-camera production (in television sports, in sitcoms) allowed us 
to see ‘through’ its mediating effects? Or is there something still 
strange and alienating about witnessing live performances fragmented 
into multiple perspectives, subjected to zoom shots and close-ups? 
‘Screening Live Performance’ will bring together scholars and 
practitioners to consider these and other questions in a combination of 
individual papers, panel sessions, and roundtable discussions. This 
two-day cross-disciplinary conference will also feature a workshop led 
by multi-camera directors Gemma Dixon 
https://www.maestrobroadcasting.co.uk and Jonathan Haswell 
https://www.jonathanhaswell.tv at Southampton’s Concert Hall, the Turner 
Sims, prior to an evening screened concert, demonstrating the techniques 
involved in presenting a live multi-camera event. Jonathan Haswell will 
deliver a keynote presentation entitled ‘Live Performance on Screen: 
Truths and Style’.
 We welcome proposals for individual papers (20 minutes), organised 
panels (3 papers), and roundtables (minimum 4 speakers, maximum 6 
speakers and a chair).  See the full call for papers and guiding 
questions here: https://screeningliveperformance.soton.ac.uk
 Deadline:  21 March 2025  Conference Committee: Miguel Mera 
(University of Southampton), Christopher Morris (Maynooth University), 
Gaia Varon (IULM, University of Milan), Carlo Cenciarelli (Cardiff 
University), and Erin Sullivan (Shakespeare Institute, University of 
Birmingham).

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