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Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance

Documenting Performance: Exploring the Problems

Kent, 7 May 2011

TaPRA Documenting Performance Working Group Interim Symposium

10:30 - 11:00             REGISTRATION & COFFEE

Late registration will be available until noon.

11:00 - 12:00             INTRODUCTION & WORKSHOP
Welcome & Introduction
Toni Sant & Nicki Shaughnessy
(Re)Traces / Is You Me? Reflections on real-time performance and prototyping
Johannes Birringer, Brunel University

11:30 - 12:00             TELEPRESENTATION
The Net & the Butterfly: A little allegory on documenting cyberformance
Helen Varley Jamieson and Francesco Buonaiuto, UpStage
In this performative presentation, Helen Varley Jamieson and Francesco Buonaiuto illustrate and discuss the challenges of documenting cyberformances set in UpStage.

12:00 - 12:30            DOCUMENTING PREFORMANCE:  EXPLORATION 
The Underlying Principles of Documenting Performance
Laura Molloy, University of Glasgow
This presentation will be followed by a brief Q&A and discussion session.

12:30-13:30: LUNCH

13:30 - 13:45:  DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING 
(the CEDAR documentary will be screened twice during the lunch hour)
Clustering and Enhancing Digital Archives for Research
Tracing the Pathway: (Re)Presenting the Archive Through the Body
Joseph Dunne, University of East London

13:45 - 14:00:             POSTER PRESENTATION 
(the poster will be available to view all day, especially throughout the lunch hour)
Documenting Performance Art: a new Information Design challenge
Rosanna Traina, Dept of Typography & Graphic Communication, Reading University

14:00 - 15:30            DOCUMENTING PERFORMANCE: PANEL 1
Chaired by Toni Sant, University of Hull at Scarborough
Accessing the Absent
Lee Campbell, Wimbledon School of Art  & Loughborough University
The Art of Leftovers: Memory, Matter and Decay
Saini Manninen, Queen Mary - University of London
Translating Research-Practices: From Performance Documentation to Direct Action Documentation
Siobhan Mckeown, Dept of Drama, Queen Mary - University of London
Documentation of (Mis)Representation
Allan Taylor, Independent Artist

A 30-minute Q&A and discussion will take place after all the papers have been presented. Duration of each presentation: 15 minutes.

15:30 - 16:00            COFFEE BREAK

16:00 - 17:15            DOCUMENTING PERFORMANCE: PANEL 2
Chaired by Nicki Shaughnessy, University of Kent
The Pleasures of Writing about the Pleasures of the Practice: Documenting Psychophysical Performer Trainings
Alissa Clarke, De Montfort University, Leicester
Digital Dance Archives and the Choreography Commission
Sarah Whatley & David Bennett, Coventry University
Documenting Character Performance Using Modern Technology
Cong Ye, S. Maddock & F. Babbage, University of Sheffield
The Yellow Wallpaper: a discourse of captured ghostly beings and ephemeral events
Helen Newall, Edge Hill University

Each 15-minute presentation will be followed by a brief Q&A (5 mins). 
A 20-minute discussion will take place after all the papers have been presented.

17:15 - 18:30            BOOK PARTY & RECEPTION
Toni Sant presents and reads from his book Franklin Furnace & the Spirit of the Avant-Garde: A History of the Future(Intellect, 2011)

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