Theatre and Performance Studies News
TaPRA 2025 Conference hosted at Warwick
We're delighted to announce that the annual Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) conference was hosted by Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick between 27 and 29 August 2025. The conference marked both the 20th birthday of TaPRA and the 50th anniversary of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick. Our conference keynotes, plenary panels, artistic activity, conference dinner and programmed events spoke to the themes of milestones and markers, focussing on celebrations, festivities, spectacle and joy.
To view conference plans, please visit our dedicated TaPRA pages here.
Sensing the City research team at Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art
Members of the AHRC-funded research project Sensing the City: an Embodied Documentation and Mapping of the Changing Uses and Tempers of Urban Place had a significant presence at the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art which ran from October 6 -22.
Nicolas Whybrow gave a 45-minute talk entitled 'Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe' at the symposium The Biennial Effect: Biennials and Place-making, The Box, FarGo Village, 19th October 2017.
Carolyn Deby (sirenscrossing) created a performance adventure entitled urbanflows (wish you were here). 'Taking place within everyday spaces of Coventry, this piece invites you to traverse the flows of the city, to notice how you simultaneously merge with, and leave traces. Enter secret vantage points and encounter the unexpected. The city never settles, nothing is built to last. You were here.' Urbanflows (wish you were here) ran from 10 - 13 October. Commissioned by Sensing the City at Warwick University, with support from Coventry Artspace Partnerships Central Taxis of Coventry, and Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art. Created by artists Carolyn Deby and Jia-Yu Corti.
Michael Pigott had a set of three prints entitled The Future is a Waste of Time in the main exhibtion at the CET Building. This triptych of prints take the imagined futures of Coventry as their starting point, overlaying text onto photographic and illustrated visions of the city.