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PSi Digest 35 (August 2008) Forthcoming Conferences and Seminars (Items 24 - 30) Conferences FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS24. TaPRA, Sept 3-5 2008, U of Leeds, UK This is a gentle reminder to those of you intending to participate in TaPRA's annual conference for 2008, hosted by the University of Leeds. TaPRA is a membership organisation. Anyone who has offered and had accepted a paper to any of the Working Groups' meetings, or the open Themed Exchanges, must register for the conference, and be a paid up member of TaPRA. Please note that the deadline for the early registration discount has now passed. If you want to attend the Conference Dinner, you will need to send your registration as soon as possible, as there are very few places left. You can download the 2008 Conference registration form, and credit card authorisation form from the TaPRA web-site at Postgraduates who wish to apply for a TaPRA bursary to help with the costs of attending the Leeds Conference have until 28th July to apply. Details are on the TapRA web site. Looking forward to seeing LOTS of you in Leeds in September! Best, Prof. Kate Newey 25. Writing Encounters, Sept 11-13 2008, York St John U, York, UK Curating the encounter between writing and performance - a three day event bringing together artists and writers with critics and producers to debate, present, perform and collaborate. Writing Encounters is an international symposium featuring interdisciplinary artists and scholars working in the expanded field of writing. Opening on Thursday evening with a performance of Lone Twin's Nine Years, the symposium will include Barbara Campbell, curator of the Australian web writing project 1001 Nights Cast York-New York - a series of 5 minute writing commissions for recording technologies Artist publishers Information as Material (Simon Morris and Nick Thurston) with The Perverse library Melbourne based writers Jude Walton and Margaret Cameron on writing dance, and the performed essay. Simon Piasecki's Rich Tea Conversations With further interventions, commissions, presentations and discussions on art, poetics, collage, narrative, the visual books, publishing, the theatrical remix, new dramaturgies, writing networks, art and language, pedagogy, writing's histories, visual textuality, scripts, scores and scribbles from (amongst others) Drunken Chorus, cris cheek, Terry O'Connor, David Richmond, Caroline Bergvall, Alex Kelly, Peter Jaeger, Tony White. Maria Fusco, Simon Zimmerman, Mary Oliver, Niki Woods, Charlotte Vincent, Liz Agiss, Lenora Champagne, Dutton and Swindells, and many more World café events, writing workshops, Saturday Surgery with ACE on writing proposals, roundtables on networks and collaborations, DJ event with Lone Twin, evening soiree, pies and papers. The registration fee includes lunch and refreshments, and informal dinner on 1st and 2nd night as well Lone Twin's performance. You can register for the whole event, or for either of the full days (Friday and Saturday) each of which will include papers, performances and presentations into the evening as workshops by Tony White and Barbara Campbell (Friday) and Margaret Cameron on the performed essay, and Jude Walton on writing dance (Saturday). To register and book your place go to www.yorksj.ac.uk/writingencounters Or contact James Alexander at York St John University: Symposium information and programme can also be found at http://www.thespacebetweenwords.org/ Writing Encounters is curated by Claire Hind and Claire MacDonald and is a partnership production between York St John University and the space between words. Proceedings from the symposium will inform a special issue of the journal of Writing in Creative Practice to be edited by Dr Susan Orr and Claire Hind. For more information on this please go to: http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=JournalWritingCreativePractice 26. Buried Treasures, Sept 27 2008, Royal Holloway, U of London and the British Library, UK BURIED TREASURES How many remediated Elizas teetered simultaneously across the breaking ice on London stages? When did the first English boxing champion appear in a pantomime? Why? What had a greater cultural impact – the Crimean War or men in moustaches? Crinolines, bloomers or garroting? Was Elizabeth Braddon’s play really less successful than Lady Audley’s Secret? Who was the great, forgotten dramatist of the middle of the 19th century? These and many other questions are raised – and maybe answered – by the thousands of mid-nineteenth-century plays (1853-1863) from the Lord Chamberlain’s Collection in the British Library, recatalogued and key-worded in the Buried Treasure Project, which ends this year. The Keynote address will be by Prof. Tracy C Davis, who is currently working on bringing the Victorian theatre repertoire back to currency. Prof. Jacky Bratton and Manuscript Curator Kathryn Johnson will introduce the Project, and papers will be given by, amongst others, its two Research Assistants, Dr Laurie Garrison and Dr Caroline Radcliffe. Prof. Jim Davis will sum up the potential of the new catalogue and survey potential uses of this and other newly accessible dramatic materials by scholars of the social and cultural history of the period. BURIED TREASURES is an AHRC funded project. PROGRAMME 9.45-10.15 Coffee in the Drama Department, Rehearsal Room A 10.15 Noh Theatre: Introduction to the Project (Jacky Bratton, Kathryn 10.30 Keynote Address 11.30-12. 30 Panel discussion 1: Texts Kate Mattacks: ‘A Woyage o’ Diskivery’: Moving Targets and the Victorian Caroline Radcliffe: Remediation and Immediacy in the Theatre of Sensation. 12.30 Laurie Garrison: Introduction to the Lord Chamberlain’s Plays 1.00-2.00 Lunch in RRA: catalogue information and the editions will be 2.00-3.30 Panel Discussion 2: Extra-textual Susan Croft: Mediating the British Empire - Elizabeth Phillips’ Life in David Haldane Lawrence: The Ticket of Leave Man’s Sequel. Janice Norwood: Pugilists and Greasepaint: Boxing’s Links with the Theatre 3.30-4.00 Tea 4.00 – 5.30 Jim Davis on future prospects for the study of Victorian Registration and Fees For more information regarding registration and how to get to RHUL please Please email queries to conference administrator Marissia Fragkou 27. Interrupt 2008, Oct 17-19 2008, Brown U, US Interrupt 2008, to be held at Brown University from October 17-19, is a three-day festival of readings, performances, and symposia organized around the theme of "interruption" in digital art and programmable literary practices. Why "Interrupt"? In computing, a hardware interrupt request or IRQ is used to prioritize the execution of certain processes over others. It is a command sent to the processor to get its attention, signaling the need to initiate a new operation. In the context of contemporary art, the act of interruption is a performance that redirects threads of process and lines of thought into fields of new expression. Interrupts trigger the moment when a process of creation yields a public manifestation. The cycle of ongoing work is paused by a challenge, calling for the attention of a provisional community: just as we read ICQ as "I seek you," we can read IRQ as "I argue." In this sense, interrupts articulate critical thresholds at which formal expressions are offered up to (or forced into) new circuits of communication, countering that which came before and making a case for new artistic and political futures. Artists in Residence: Confirmed Headliners: Details and arrangements to be confirmed: Critics, theorists, artists and students who would like to attend are asked to contact John_Cayley (at) brown.edu. We will be organizing two or more round table sessions during the festival, and we invite brief presentations intended to spark critical discussions relating to the work of interruption within the context of digitally mediated language practices. Participants will also be invited to instigate discussion at these round tables. If you would like to attend, and particularly if you have institutional backing, we ask you to consider supporting Interrupt with a registration contribution of $50 (checks only please) made out to 'Brown University' and sent to: Interrupt 2008 For letters of invitation, please contact John_Cayley (at) brown.edu. Register now. To read more about what we mean by Interrupt and for other details about the festival – including the preliminary program, schedule, location, venues, and accommodation information – please refer to our website: Organized and hosted at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design by graduates and undergraduates from Literary Arts, Modern Culture and Media, MEME, RISD D+M, and other departments. Funding and support for Interrupt currently includes the following sources: Brown Creative Arts Council, the Literary Arts program, RISD Digital+Media, MEME, the Brown Graduate School, the Comparative Literature department. 28. Permanence in Contemporary Art: Checking Reality, Nov 3-4 2008, Statens Museum for Kunst and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark Statens Museum for Kunst (the Danish National Gallery) and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, will be the organisers of an international seminar Permanence in Contemporary Art - Checking Reality addressing various critical issues surrounding the preservation and exhibition of contemporary artworks. The seminar will be held over two days from the 3rd to the 4th of November 2008. The seminar, which will encourage interdisciplinary exchange between museum professionals including conservators, art historians, artists and others, will take place in conjunction with Reality Check, an exhibition at Statens Museum for Kunst, opening fall 2008. Reality Check will act as a thematic springboard for the seminar, addressing issues related to content, material, time, exhibition and context exemplified by works in the exhibition. The seminar will encourage participation and dialogue from within the greater Scandinavian region, as well as abroad. With this seminar, Statens Museum for Kunst and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, aim to contribute to the growing international professionalism and awareness associated with the preservation, installation, documentation and exhibition of contemporary artworks. The seminar will provide a forum for professionals working in the field to discuss crucial questions regarding authenticity, permanence/impermanence, artistic intent, reproducibility, and longevity of artworks – issues which illustrate the paradox into which contemporary art is situated, where the idea of preserving the ‘authentic’ original material is perhaps in distinct opposition to the original concept of the artwork or where conversely a literal acceptance of ideas of flux and instability inherent in certain works may compromise the existence of the original material object. Also the conservation and curatorial concerns relating to time based works and installations, which are especially challenging, will be addressed. To further illuminate these issues, selected prominent artists will be asked to give presentations at the seminar. The curator of the exhibition Reality Check will offer a special viewing to the participants in the seminar. Details regarding registration will be posted shortly. For further information contact Louise Cone, Statens Museum for Kunst at <louise.cone@smk.dk>. Jørgen Wadum 29. Capturing the Essence of Performance: The Challenge of Intangible Heritage, the International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS), Edinburgh, UK Registration is now open for the SIBMAS conference Capturing the Essence of Performance: The Challenge of Intangible Heritage. There is a packed programme of international speakers and keynote addresses. The social programme includes performances, exhibitions and a day visit to Edinburgh with special events for SIBMAS delegates. These include the opportunity to see a major new ballet by leading choreographer Matthew Bourne as part of the Edinburgh International Full details of the programme and registration information can be Found at: http://www.rsamd.ac.uk/research/NewsaboutSIBMAS.htm If you have any questions, please email us on Sibmas@rsamd.ac.uk 30. The Golden Generation? New Light on British Theatre Between 1945 and 1968, British Library Conference Centre, UK Just a reminder that registrations is open for the Theatre Archive Project international conference ‘The Golden Generation?’ New Light on British Theatre between 1945 and 1968. The conference will take place on 8th and 9th September 2008 at the British Library Conference Centre. The conference will present some of the findings of the project’s three strands: the Archive Strand, the Scripts Strand and the Oral History Strand. The AHRC British Library/University of Sheffield Theatre Archive Project www.bl.uk/theatrearchive has been collecting recollections of British Theatre between 1945 and 1968 for over four years. The project has already amassed over 100 hours of oral history about under-researched theatrical activity from that period. Guest speakers include Alan Plater, Ann Jellicoe, Peter Nichols and Harold Pinter. The conference will also explore in an entertaining and informative manner some of the recollections of this period of the practitioners and members of the theatre audiences who have been interviewed by the Project, many of whom point out that the theatre of the period embraced much more than Angry Young Men, important as the work of the Royal Court was. Further details, including how to book a place and a programme, are given on the conference website: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/goldengeneration/ You could also visit the Theatre Archive Project's website www.bl.uk/theatrearchive I very much look forward to seeing you in September. Yours sincerely, Dominic Shellard |
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