Practice as Research Seminar Series Institute for Performing Arts Development (IPAD)

Reminder of
SEMINAR/WORKSHOP LOCATION
WB 3.01, 1:00-3:00 pm

April 16, 2010
Presenters: Dominic Hingorani, John Nassari
Title: How can the ethnicity of the actor be addressed in rehearsal and performance?
Description: We shall look at practical ways in which the ethnicity of the performer can be addressed in the rehearsal room. This may lead us to address wider cultural and political questions as to why it should be addressed and how might this impact on issues such as representation, authenticity and identity.

Would those attending the seminar on Friday 16 April please bring a photograph – that is personal and important to them -as an object which we will work with in the session.

Surveillance and the City: Film Screenings and Roundtable Discussion

Further information at their website: The Raphael Samuel History Centre Urban Studies.

Last month and coming up

The exploration of practice-based  research continues in the School. With a steady increase of students undertaking practical, creative projects – there seems to be a genuine interest in exploring the interdisciplinarity of artforms, subject areas and disciplines.

Yesterday February 18th 7:00pm there was a great evening of readings and performances called WRITE NOW held at Stratford Circus. Initiated by The Writing Centre and IPAD of UEL and moderated by Mark Hunter, the panel included staff and students from UEL contemporary writing practice subject area. This included readings and performances from: Tim Atkins, Tessa McWatt, and Mark O’Thomas.

There is also a monthly seminar series entitled Imaging Migration being held in Matrix East (see Seminars>Imaging Migration) in which a number of us are contributing as practitioners exploring ways in which we create, think about, imagine and represent the migratory experience  – a global phenomenon deeply effecting each of our everyday experience.

IPAD and SmartLab continue their research seminars this semester.

Format @ NPG

Read more here…

Practice/ PhD Research@UEL

Practice/ PhD Research, meeting arranged for Friday 11th December at 11:00am  Room (WB2.04).

Another opportunity to share ideas, look at best practice from other universities, and generally come up with a good level of support to PhD researchers creating work in the School in Semester B 2009_10.

IFTR Symposium

The International Federation for Theatre Research in assocation with IPAD @ UEL is organising a symposium on East European approaches to dramaturgy, adaptation, and translation for the stage.

The event takes place on January 20th 2010 at Stratford Circus.

More details here.

IFTR Symposium

node.london meeting – 09 November 09

node.london meeting – 09 November 09

For those of you interested, Node is a network of artists and curators interested in promoting, exhibiting, and making media arts in London.

Sound Ecologies: Listening in the City

SOUND ECOLOGIES: LISTENING IN THE CITY

10am-4pm, Wednesday 18th November 2009
Department of Music, City University London, Northampton Square,
London EC1V 0HB

Call for Papers – PhD Students and Staff – Crossing Conceptual Boundaries 2

This is a call for papers and involvement in the process of producing Crossing Conceptual Boundaries, 2, scheduled for publication in July, 2010.

Virtual Show @ ISEA, Strangers in the Neighbourhood, Kritical SL II

Snapshot from Strangers in the Neighbourhood, Kritical SL II Show

Snapshot from Strangers in the Neigbourhood, Kritical SL II Show

I don’t know whether this post fits to the theme of the blog… but just wanted to make the platform familiar to me, so I’m posting my recent practice. (Thank you for opening up the site Ro!)

I had a small exhibition opening in Second Life a few days ago. It’s commissioned as bigger theme, Kritical SL II (curated by Denise Doyle) at ISEA@Belfast 2009. The conference is in the end of this month, but show opened on 7th of August. (Click the picture to go to SL) I owe alot to Angrybeth, collegue artist here to make stuff. I really would like to learn more about making stuff.

My work, ‘Strangers in the neighbourhood’ starts from the street where I live. I took my bed out of my bedroom to the street, to break the private space and public space within the story I wanted to tell. Hyeseok and Mary’s encounter and their dialogue was an anchor to carry the physicality of the work. My questions about the history and small observations of the meeting became a great part of the work, but it also stems from virtual, imaginary space I was in. My neighbourhood was my stage for unpacking my imaginary narrative. The fact that it is developing in Kriti is especially exciting for me as this is the perfect combination of exploring the virtuality and physicality in a digital environment. This is the mirror image from what I created on my street, but this is also an extension of locality where my characters travel from one place to another. This work has exhibited at Kyunggi Museum of Modern Arts at 2008, entitled ‘lure of lawn’ with a lawn and bed installation.

So that’s it for now…