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Open Panels 2

Friday, 29th August, 10.00-12.00

Panel A: Politics, Power and Identity

Venue: Oc 1.02

Chair: Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins

Mariia Krupnik (Kroupnik) ‘Class Act’, from Scotland to Russia and Ukraine: work-in-progress.

Qi Wang Celebrating the Carnival of Power: From Genet’s The Balcony to China’s Political Stage.

Varvara Sklez To Unlearn the Hard-way: Revisiting Gendered and Colonial Violence in Pre-2022 Russian Theatre.

Lorna Vassiliades The Immigrant Self: Autobiographical Solo Performance.


Panel B: Borders and Borders

Venue: FAB 0.19

Faval Copedo Mujeres Salvaje/Wild Women  A Dance Performance of Forced Displacement at the US/Mexican Border.

Paul Geary Gatekeepers and Policing the Borders: Class, the Arts, and the Problems of ‘Social Mobility’.

Tomaz Krpic Performing Creative Contestation of Performance’s Borders by Labour/Work.

Erica Piasecka Unravelling the Biomedical Bordering of Chronic Pain: A Critical Examination of Ania Nowak's 'Inflammations'.


Panel C: Bodily Pleasures

Venue: Oc 1.05

Chair: Mark France

Sam Cermak Becoming Gimp: Pleasure, Submission, Embodiment.

Leila Nashef ‘Don’t make it weird’: play, nudity and authorial intervention as disruption of gaze in 'High Steaks' (2023).

Isabel Stuart Staging Grief: Collective loss and glimpses of hope in feminist performance art.

Hannah Greenstreet Cultivating ‘analogue intimacy’ in a postdigital age: 'Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist' and 'Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel'.

Irfana Majumdar “Deep Waters”: Playfulness as lens, mode, and process in a solo performance.


Panel D: Telling Times: Multiform Disruption and Documentary Practices

Venue: Oc 0.05

Harriet Curtis Refusal: lingering, stillness, and rest as collective action.

Bryce Lease Contemporaneity as Theatricality: Repositioning Knowledge and Experience in Curatorial Time.

Dana Kim Voice of NObody: AI Voice and the Performativity of Absence in Documentary Theatre. [online]

Tom Hastings Scoring Laughter: Eleo Pomare in Adelaide.


Panel E: Unlearning Legacies of Colonial Pasts

Venue: Oc 1.01

Chair: Gemma Edwards

ally walsh White Sight: Revisiting spectatorship as surveillance after 'A Good House'.

Marilena Zaroulia what have we here?’ Performance, legacies, and learning from Hew Locke’s artistic practice.

Maria Estrada-Fuentes Knock them into shape: Undoing Child Soldiers.

Eli Gale Doykeit’: Queer Jewish Diasporas in Theatre and Live Art in London and New York.


Panel F: Doing Scenography

Venue: Faculty of Arts Building (FAB) 0.20 (Jim Davis Studio)

Chair: Kelli Zezulka

Eleanor Field Games of procrastination for taking the long way round: Lingering in mess.

Susannah Henry Indifferent nature.

Katherine Graham Making, Missing, Feeling: Performers, audience and the embrace of light.


Panel G: Women, Celebration & Resistance

Venue: Oc 1.06

Chair: Jane Milling

Sos Eltis Celebrating kick-ass Victorian heroines.

Hannah Bradshaw 'A little play for my benefit’: Aristocratic Women and Woburn Abbey's Private Theatre, c.1803-1857.

Sofia Fransolin Pires de Almeida Guilhermina Rocha (1884-1938): Celebrating as a Means of Resistance. 

Alissa Mello Women’s work: Punch & Judy.


Panel H: Bodies, Borders and Intersectional Politics

Venue: Oc 0.01

Val Meneau & Giulia Settomini Desexualising Latin DanceSport: paving the way to Queering DanceSport.

Philip Watkinson Coming Out of the Coffin: Theorising the Queer Gothic in Contemporary Performance.

Arianna Ferrari Leaky Networks and Bareback Browsing: Towards Reclaiming Promiscuity Online.

Hind Bilal Liminal Displacement and Feminist Refugia: Women's Agency in Heather Raffo's Noura.


Panel J: Spiritual and Ritualised Futurities

Venue: FAB 2.43

Chair: Tobi Poster-Su

Broderick Chow, Paul Edwards and Eero Laine “Make it mean something”: Yearning for significance in The Iron Claw.

Roberta Mock The Fugitive Futurity of Danielle Abrams’ Jewish and Black Temporal Drag.

Webster McDonald "Pure Christianity," Jamaican Revivalism and Kumina: Toward a Queer Spiritual Praxis, and the Destabilization of Colonial Epistemologies.


Panel K: Options to do otherwise

Venue: Oc 1.09

Chair: Rachel Turner-King

Matt Smith Let the Objects Speak: Potencia in Things.

Réka Polonyi Why are we not talking about anarchism? 

Gemma Kerr Something or nothing to show: the strategic and intangible benefits of long-term and open-ended practice in socially engaged theatre.

Bethany McShepherd Compromise for Change: Subversive Potencia in Applied Theatre Project and Partnership Development.


Panel L: TaPRA Gallery Panel: sharing and reflecting on practice: transdisciplinary methodologies and practice as research

Venue: FAB 3.32

Chair: Claire French

Jiaying Gao Qi in Dance Museum.

Maud Lannen Maternal Plastic and I Sit down and I Get Up.

Vanessa Macualay Immortal.

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