Event overview
Performance Research Forum hosts a range of events, talks and presentations by established and early-career researchers and practitioners in theatre and performance.
This event marks the publication of Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance: A Duet Without You and Practice as Research, edited by Chloé Déchery (Intellect Playtext series, February 2023). The book offers a multi-modal perspective into the collaborative process that informed the making of the performance piece A Duet Without You (2015). More broadly, the book offers to examine the politics of collaboration and authorship as they unfold in the rehearsal room as well as on stage, or even, more widely in the public sphere and the privacy of our homes.
The book launch will incorporate a roundtable discussion facilitated by Clare Finburgh Delijani, with Karen Christopher, Diana Damian Martin and Mary Paterson, each of whom contributed to the book. Chloé Déchery will also introduce the conceptual and methodological thinking behind the book and will delve into the practice research that informed the creative process of the performance.
Karen Christopher is a collaborative performance maker, performer and teacher. Her UK-based company, Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects, is engaged in creating a series of duet performances. Karen was a member of Chicago-based Goat Island performance group for 20 years. Karen's essays on performance have appeared in The Creative Critic (2018), and The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (2020). She co-edited Entanglements of Two: A Series of Duets (2021) with Mary Paterson. http://www.karenchristopher.co.uk/
Diana Damian Martin is a performance writer and researcher. She is a Senior Lecturer in performance arts and course leader for BA Hons Experimental Arts and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is editor of On Time: A SPILL Reader (2018) and (states of) wake: Dedicating Performance (2018), and co-editor of Critical Interruptions Vol. 1: Steakhouse LIVE (2018) and Critics in Conversation (2018). She co-hosts Something Other and The Department of Femi-nist Conversations with Mary Paterson and Maddy Costa.
Chloé Déchery is a performance-maker, writer, pedagogue and Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Paris 8 in Saint-Denis, France. Her research interests include everyday corporeality and embodiment; authorship and creative labour; the atmospheric turn and eco-feminism in performance. She is the co-director of Performer Les Savoirs (Performing Knowledge) a research programme and curatorial platform. http://www.chloedechery.com
Mary Paterson is a writer, artist and producer who works across disciplines. With Diana Damian Martin and Maddy Costa, she develops Something Other and The Department of Feminist Conversations: two collaborative projects on the politics of performance and the performance of politics. Mary is the co-editior of two books for Intellect, Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation and Entanglements of Two: A Series of Duets.
Image: Manuel Vason, 2013
Dates & times
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| 7 Mar 2023 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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