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Documenting Performance

VENUE: Oculus, 0.05

Working Group Session 1

Wednesday, 27th August, 13.00-15.00

Archives and Forms of Embodiment

Chair: Emma Bennett

Celeste Burr Herrera Embodied Duality and Cartographies of Care In and Out of Place.

Vanessa Macaulay Intimate Archives: Black Life in Chicago through the South Side Home Movie Project.

Maggie Gray and Caoimhe Mader McGuinness Engaging engaged archives: articulating Cartoon theatre between comics and performance theory.

Rachael Davies Documents as ‘Structures of Feeling’: a Methodology for Dance History.


Working Group Session 2

Thursday, 28th August, 09.00-10.30

Intimate Traces, Formlessness, Resistance

Chair: Harriet Curtis (tbc)

Harry Mackrill One-to-one performance as a possible scene of address when documenting the vigilant fabulations of Section 28 for LGBTQ+ youth 1988 - 2003.

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau Walking Around Speaking to Myself.

Johanna Linsley Live Art Forms.


Working Group Session 3

Thursday, 28th August, 15.30-17.00

Rest, Stillness and Unscripted Possibilities

Chair: Vanessa Macaulay

Georgina Guy ‘It’s us in altered form:’ Telling Acts of Representational Multiplicity in theOnstage Documents of Dead Centre and Tim Crouch.

Tanatchaporn Kittikong Documenting the Unscripted: Capturing the Choreographic Process in Khon Kaen Choreography Development (KKCD).

Laura Kressly From Private Rehearsal Space to Public Discourse: embedded criticism's unveiling of hope and possibility. [online]


Working Group Session 4

Friday, 29th August, 13.00-15.00

Choreographies of Process: Visualising, Imagining, Co-Remembering

Chair: Emma Bennett and Vanessa Macaulay

Despoina Christianoudi Vase depictions in motion: From Image to Body to Text. [practice demonstration]

Acatia Finbow Performance, Documentation, Memory, Imagination.

Shaoyuan Qi Sketching Performance: Rich Picture-like Diagrams as Rehearsal Records. [5 minute online provocation]

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