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.