Roehampton University
Open Spaces. Open Minds.
10 Performances
Artists
Mark Caffrey
Collective Spill
Mark Caffrey works across performance, text and installation. He is currently interested in creating sites for encounter that expand on tensions in the urban environment. Wider areas of interest include durational performance; documentation in Live Art; and questions of gender, sexuality and the body.
Mark is a graduate of King's College London and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London (MA in Text & Performance; Distinction) and a former undergraduate student of Queen's University, Belfast (BA Drama; 1st Class Hons) and Columbia College, Chicago. Since late 2007, he has been working on a practice-led PhD through the Drama Department at Queen's University Belfast.
In Autumn 2009 he was a Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
Barbara Campbell
All that I can remember: in non-words
Barbara Campbell has performed in both hemispheres, in museums, galleries, public buildings, photographs, on film, video, radio, and the internet, in silence and with words, still and moving, since 1982. She teaches at Sydney College of the Arts and is an associate artist in the Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney.
Robin Deacon
Too Beautiful to be Wasted
Robin Deacon is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in the UK. Working since the early 1990s, much of his work encompasses live performance with a body of works that have explored journalistic and documentary approaches to arts practice.
Matthew Goulish
Gratefulness
Matthew Goulish was a member of the performance group Goat Island, and is now a member of Every House Has A Door. He is the author of 39 Microlectures – In Proximity of Performance, and co-editor of Small Acts of Repair – Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island, both published by Routledge.
Matthew's lectures and essays have been published widely, and he received a Lannan Foundation writer's residency in 2004. He teaches writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently a visiting artist in the Stanford University Drama Department.
Matthew's text will be performed by Lisa Alexander, PhD Candidate, Roehampton University.
Akillas Karazisis
Man, 52 Yrs
SELF PORTRAIT
Akillas was born in Salonika, Greece in 1957. He studied Political Sciences in Heidelberg, West Germany, and began acting in theatre in 1985. Since then he has worked as an actor both in theatre and cinema in Germany and in Greece. He writes prose and poetry and has directed for the theatre since 2004.
Cathy Naden
All that I can remember: in words
Cathy Naden is a founder member of internationally acclaimed Forced Entertainment. She has devised and performed in over 40 of the company's productions across theatre, digital media and film, alongside pursuing her own artistic practice as a performer, writer and director.
Cathy has collaborated with both national and international practitioners including TG Stan, Tim Crouch, Jerome Bel and The New York City Players. A published author of short fiction and a writer for new media platforms, she recently participated in Writing Encounters, an international new writing and performance symposium at York St John University.
Directing projects include Beautiful Problems with Vancouver-based Radix Theatre and Use Blue For Night with The Young Actor's Company at Contact Theatre in Manchester. Cathy regularly teaches around her own and Forced Entertainment's practice, both in the UK and abroad, most recently working at BAC's young people’s festival and with acting and scenography students at The Norwegian Theatre Academy.
Johanna Linsley
Like to know
"Expressed primarily in performance, my practice is broadly concerned with situations and locations wherein organized and emotional systems engage. I'm currently thinking about: expertise; classrooms; offices; utopian social experiments; public transportation; shopping, generally; cities, generally; the movement of capital in New York in the 21st century, specifically; violence; the documentary form; furniture design. Formally, I’m drawn to structured environments that give way to intuitive and/or associative processes.
"In 2005, I co-founded UnionDocs, a Brooklyn-based documentary arts collaborative. UnionDocs will be showing work at the MoMA in New York in February 2010. Currently, I am working on a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London, where I also lecture."
Tamarin Norwood
What To Do
Tamarin Norwood is an artist and writer living and working in London. She graduated from Oxford University in 2004 and Central Saint Martins in 2007 with first-class honours in Linguistics and Fine Art respectively, and is now in her second year of MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths.
Her work has been exhibited in the UK, Europe and the US, and her artist’s book DO SOMETHING is published in December 2009. She is a founding member of antepress, with whom she regularly contributes to Resonance FM and is writer in residence at FormContent Gallery.
Tamarin's texts, videos, performances and objects consider the friction between visual art and writing, and between their production and their circulation. Against a background in language and translation, she applies textual strategies of multilingualism, translation and repetition to non-textual artifacts, creating quietened or 'flattened' works that draw attention to their own artifice.
Theron Schmidt
This text bears false witness
Theron Schmidt is a writer and performer based in London. He has performed as a solo artist at Camden People's Theatre and Chisenhale Dance Space, and has collaborated extensively with Chris Goode and with Julia Barclay/Apocryphal Theatre. He has also collaborated on performances with Lucy Cash, Nicola Conibere, and Unlimited Theatre.
Theron is currently pursuing AHRC-supported doctoral research into theatricality and the politics of spectatorship at Queen Mary, University of London. His critical writing on live art and performance has been published in Dance Theatre Journal, The Live Art Almanac, Platform, RealTime, and Total Theatre.
http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk/theron
Danae Theodoridou
A Single Voice
3000 English words in the hands of a T.J.
Danae Theodoridou was born in Greece in 1978. She has studied Greek Philology and Linguistics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where she also did an MA in Historical and Balkan Linguistics. She has also studied acting at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. She is currently a PhD candidate at Roehampton University, London.
Danae's work research is practice-led and considers the dramaturgical structures and affect of contemporary narratives within experimental theatre. She has worked as an actress in theatre, cinema and television.
Since 2008 she has been creating and presenting solo works and writing, as well as collaborative works, with the Athens-based 'company 5' of whom she is also a founding member.
Opening Event
Rachel Lois Clapham and Alex Eisenberg
10 Performances +1
Answers:
1– Rachel Lois Clapham 2– Poo 3– Bradford 4– Curator and Writer 5– Manchester 6– MA Contemporary Art Theory Goldsmiths College 7– Physical Education: E 8– Curator of Nahnou-Together Now at Tate Britain 9– an exhibition of socially engaged art 10– Will Self’s How the Dead Live 11– Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 12– Sanitary Waste Collector (Dog Units) Fullwood Prison 13– live writing, performance criticism, improvisation, contingency and the porosity of text 13– Leeds United 14– Co-Director of Open Dialogues 15– £1500 16– Jeff Nuttall’s Bomb Culture 17– marginalia 18– Second Life.
1– Alex Eisenberg 2– Bimbi 3– London 4– Artist and Writer 5– London 6– Advanced Theatre Practice, Central School of Speech and Drama 7– Chemistry: B 8– Street Walker for a chartered surveyors 9– Writing on Drugs, Sadie Plant 10– The System of Objects, Jean Beaudrillard 11– Waiter for a catering company 12– Aphorisms, network visualisation diagrams, maps, conversation, proximity, transcription 13– none 14– no current income, wandering 15– £200 16– Sounding the Event, Yves Lomax 17– mammalian 18– picture frame making.
Questions:
1– Name 2– the name your family or partner calls you (nickname) 3– the city you live in 4– what you ‘do’ 5– your home town 6– University course you are doing or did recently (course, subject and location) 7– the subject and result of your lowest GCSE grade 8– a job you had in 2008 9– a book you are reading for pleasure 10– a book you have not read because you tried and found it off-putting or too difficult 11– your worst job ever 12– current writerly fascinations 13– Football team your partner supports 14– what job you are doing now 15– the most you have been paid for a art/writing commission 16– a book you are really looking forward to reading 17– favourite word 18– a mild fascination that could develop into an obsession if you had more time.
Respondents
Lis Austin
Lis Austin is a PhD candidate in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Roehampton University. She writes on pedagogies that stage oppositionality, paying specific attention to pedagogical praxis in Performance Studies.
Performance Studies has been described as displaying a 'general rhetoric of oppositionality'; in 2009 Jill Dolan asked 'Where's the room for opposition now, and what are we opposing at this point?' Lis offers a reading of Performance Studies that doesn't attempt to resolve contradictions but respond to and remain within.
She proposes a definition of Performance Studies as pedagogy that writes toward interaction in the public realm, taking as its foundation the unresolve between theatre and performance. In various case studies Lis locates this unresolve between subjects and objects of study, between learning as personal and public activity and between pedagogy as theory and practice and suggests that in the moments of rupture between these two 'oppositional' forces there is located political and public potential.
Lis teaches across the Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies programme at Roehampton.
João Florêncio
João Florêncio is a Portuguese scholar based in London. His first contacts with 'performance' occurred during his teenage years in the Portuguese countryside as a member of the local theatre company, and while trying to 'perform' in order to avoid being bullied for being a queer.
João was awarded his first degree by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa after having read Musicology in Lisbon and Film Studies in Venice. He then moved to London, where he completed the M.A. in Media Arts Philosophy with distinction (Greenwich) and where he is now an Associated Researcher for the AHRC Performance Matters project while researching for his PhD in Visual Cultures (Goldsmiths).
João is funded by the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal) and his research interests include performance, subjectivation, monstrosity, ecosophy, agency and change in late capitalism, queer politics, and the schizoanalytical thought of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Efrosini Protopapa
Efrosini Protopapa joined Roehampton University to embark on a practice-based PhD in Choreography in 2003, after gaining an MA in Dance Studies with distinction from Laban, City University. Her doctoral studies have been funded by the State Scholarships Foundation, Greece, the A.S. Onasis Public Benefit Foundation, Greece, and Roehampton University. She is a practising choreographer and the artistic director of the international London-based performance group Lapsus Corpi. She lectures on choreography, dance composition, and theoretical approaches to performance, and contributes articles to various journals in Greece and the UK.