Tracing Creation: Genetics, Genes, and Genealogies of Performance

Tracing Creation: Genetics, Genes, and Genealogies of Performance International Conference
Tracing Creation: Genetics, Genes, and Genealogies of Performance
9 - 11 March 2016 / Antwerp, Belgium

The international conference "TRACING CREATION" provides a platform for genetic research on the performing arts. It is specifically targeted at scholars who examine the manifold creative processes that, strictly speaking, precede the moment a performance is staged but which nevertheless leave their mark on its form, structure, or content. The conference's overarching theme is subdivided into "Genetics, Genes, and Genealogies," which are presented as three anchor points around which investigations into creative processes can be clustered.

1) GENETICS: In contrast to the study of literature, which has a well-established tradition in genetic research, theatre scholars have only recently begun to inquire into the genetics of performance. Since this is a relatively young strand of research, there is a pressing need to develop solid methodologies that can enhance the genetic study of the performing arts.

2) GENES: Analysing performance from a genetic point of view raises the issue of how live performance relates to its material documentation: how can various means of notation, recording, and archiving adequately chart how a given work was created as well as enable its future restagings? Rather than reinforcing the essentialist idea that live performance exists exclusively in and as embodied practice, the topic of genes promotes an expanded understanding of performance’s being by scrutinizing how changing media and intermedial modes of presentation affect the appearance of performance.

3) GENEALOGIES: The genetic study of the performing arts also calls for new perspectives on how their histories are written, told, or recorded. Scrutinizing how performance comes into being entails that grand narratives make place for seemingly trivial anecdotes or sketchy details that may bear unexpected importance on the creation of the work. Genetic research on performance is therefore likely to inspire a form of historiography that is close to Michel Foucault’s notion of genealogy.

14/03/2016
14/03/2016
10/03/2016
Michael Shanks kicks off Tracing Creation!
09/03/2016

Michael Shanks kicks off Tracing Creation!

15/02/2016

This week, Tim Etchells is presenting four videos at the Kaaitheater in Brussels, as part of BURNING ICE #9, an event that brings together artists, scientists and theorists to address one of today’s most pressing questions: how human inventions change the environment and have an impact that is often unpredictable. The videos of Etchells that are on display give an idea of his imaginative use of text, performance, and image.
You can also discover this during “Tracing Creation.” Etchells will be showing his solo performance “A Broadcast / Looping Pieces” on Wednesday 10 March at 8 pm, while he is also giving a keynote lecture the next day at 10 am. A double-bill to look forward to!

http://www.kaaitheater.be/en/e1804/four-videos/

Today is the last day of early bird registration for “Tracing Creation”! Take advantage of the reduced rate and register...
14/02/2016

Today is the last day of early bird registration for “Tracing Creation”! Take advantage of the reduced rate and register now!

Visit the conference website for instructions on how to register. There you can also download the conference program, in case you want to find out more about who is presenting and which topics will be discussed.

http://dighum.uantwerpen.be/didascimagination/conf.html

Tickets for performances, evening dinners, and the conference closing dinner must be ordered separately by filling in the form.

Yesterday there was a press release announcing that Jan Fabre will be the new artistic director of the “Athens & Epidaur...
11/02/2016

Yesterday there was a press release announcing that Jan Fabre will be the new artistic director of the “Athens & Epidaurus Festival” in Athens, Greece. He will also be one of our guests during the "Tracing Creation"-conference. On Thursday 10 March 2016, Jan Fabre will talk about his drawings, sketches, notes and anything else that gives a glimpse of his artistic imagination. If you want to find out more about the creative processes of one the leading figures in today's art scene, come and join us!

http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.2569857

Belgian artist Jab Fabre has been appointed as the new artistic director of the "Athens & Epidaurus Festival".

07/02/2016

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