Archived page of Performance.Experience.Presence (PEP) research group at University of Plymouth The Performance. Experience.
Presence (P.E.P) Research Group at the University of Plymouth focuses on embodiment, representation, culture and identity through the making and analysis of performance. It encompasses researchers of theatre, dance, popular performance, live art and interdisciplinary performance practices. Many members engage in practice-led research, and the group champions the value of rigorous reflexive practic
28/08/2022
Programme - DRHA 2022 programme Welcome to the DRHA 2022 programme. Below you can find the detailed schedule of events and panels that will take place during the conference days. Please note that it might be subject to changes. Sunday 4 September – Open Day Location: Town House [go to map] 13:00 Coffee and Registrati...
06/07/2022
Professor Roberta Mock: Greening Theatre Production A talk by Professor Roberta Mock: Greening Theatre Production through the Sustainable Use of Materials
09/03/2022
Testing scores for performing placestories (2022). Testing scores for performing placestories. Studies in Theatre and Performance. Ahead of Print.
11/02/2022
A new artistic research screendance by Ruth Way and Russell Frampton, arising from intergenerational somatic movement practice.
FLORENTIS Florentis - a practice research screendance outcome explores the theme of loneliness and the potential for somatic movement practice to resource individuals to…
09/02/2022
CfP: TDPT Special Issue: Touch and Training Special issue: Touch and Training to be published June 2023 Call for contributions, ideas, proposals and dialogue with the editors Guest editorsDr Ha Young Hwang, Korea National University of Arts,…
Adventures in Posthumanism
Wednesday 2nd February 2pm GMT (online)
Into the Clear
Visiting speaker Erin Manning
Research Chair in Speculative Pragmatism, Art, and Pedagogy and is Director of the SenseLab, Concordia University Canada
Erin Manning is a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the founder of SenseLab (www.senselab.ca), a laboratory that explores the intersections between art practice and philosophy through the matrix of the sensing body in movement. Current art projects are focused around the concept of minor gestures in relation to colour and movement. Art exhibitions include the Sydney and Moscow Biennales, Glasshouse (New York), Vancouver Art Museum, McCord Museum (Montreal) and House of World Cultures (Berlin) and Galateca Gallery (Bucarest). Publications include For a Pragmatics of the Useless (Duke UP, forthcoming), The Minor Gesture (Duke UP, 2016), Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance (Duke UP, 2013), Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009) and, with Brian Massumi, Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (Minnesota UP, 2014).
Please contact jocey.quinn (at) plymouth.ac.uk or joanna.haynes (at) plymouth.ac.uk for a zoom invite
All Welcome
For this year's programme and recordings of past events see
Adventures in Posthumanism Blog
https://adventuresinposthum.wordpress.com/
21/01/2022
A performance lecture by Mark Leahy!
Date: Tuesday 15 February 2022
Time: 19:30–20:30
Venue: The House Theatre, University of Plymouth
Ticket information: free admission
Revised Dictionary Supplement: a lecture performance Revised Dictionary Supplement: a lecture performance with Mark Leahy, University of Plymouth. Tuesday 15 February 2022, The House Theatre, University of...
08/01/2022
Experiential Artistic Processes as Research Symposium | Nordic Summer University The new iteration of Circle 7 will be focusing on the experiential in artistic practice, its methods, knowledges and processes. From 2022 until 2024, we will host biannual symposia, with the aim to create opportunities to explore plurality of experiences through art practice and to gather methodolog...
The TaPRA Postgraduate Essay prize deadline is midnight GMT on 7 January. Essays are welcome from PGs anywhere in the world, on any topic of relevance to theatre & performance scholars. You don’t have to be a TaPRA member to enter. For more info: