You are warmly invited to attend our next PEP Talk (the seminar series for the Performance. Experience. Presence research group at Plymouth University) Wednesday 2 March 2016 ,16.30 – 18.00pm in Roland Levinsky Building room RLB 309, Plymouth University There will be two papers, by Helen Billinghurst and Kayla Parker, who both research at the intersection of visual… Continue reading 2 March 2016: research seminar on the location & performance of art-making
Month: February 2016
Music Research Seminar on Astor Piazzolla’s tango for solo flute: 2 March 2016
You are welcome to attend the next MUSIC RESEARCH SEMINAR on Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at 2 pm in Rolle 015, Plymouth University: ‘I didn’t quite catch your accent’: A recording analysis of accentuation in Astor Piazzolla’s Etude 6 for Solo Flute (1987) for a fresh approach to tango performance’ by Dr. Jessica Quiñones Despite the… Continue reading Music Research Seminar on Astor Piazzolla’s tango for solo flute: 2 March 2016
Talk by BAFTA-winning director Esther May Campbell: 1 March 2016
You are welcome to attend the next artist talk in the First Tuesdays Media Arts Lecture series ESTHER MAY CAMPBELL: WRITER-DIRECTOR Tuesday 1 March 2016 from 4pm to 6pm in the Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building Talk by BAFTA-winning film director Esther May Campbell, plus Q+A discussion Campbell is a self-taught photographer and film-maker. She has directed… Continue reading Talk by BAFTA-winning director Esther May Campbell: 1 March 2016
Ground-breaking performance by ICCMR’s The Paramusical Ensemble
Four individuals with complex neurological conditions have, for the first time, taken part in a live musical performance with a string quartet. The film of this ground-breaking musical performance will premiere at Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2016. It showcases an extraordinary project led by Plymouth University and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability which saw four patients at the… Continue reading Ground-breaking performance by ICCMR’s The Paramusical Ensemble
Feature: “Improvisation, Joint Action & an Uncanny Golden Retriever”
BY ADAM BENJAMIN In 2014, I was in Berlin to lead an improvisation workshop, as part of an initiative to make a place for integrated dance (dance for disabled and non-disabled dancers) within the summer festival of the Tanzfabrik School. Amongst the dancers to arrive on the first morning was lawyer and dancer, Silke Schöenfleisch,… Continue reading Feature: “Improvisation, Joint Action & an Uncanny Golden Retriever”
Introduction to screening of ‘Stories We Tell’ (2012)
The following text was written and presented by Roberta Mock, to introduce the screening of Stories We Tell on 22 February 2016 as part of the Peninsula Arts Women & Cinema season. Our film tonight, Stories We Tell, was made by Sarah Polley, who is an actor, writer and director from Toronto. She started performing as… Continue reading Introduction to screening of ‘Stories We Tell’ (2012)
‘An Accident of the History of Technology’ podcast with Guy Edmonds
CogNovo Research Fellow, Guy Edmonds, has published a podcast with Roger Malina on the very early days of cinema. It has the title “The Divorce of Eye and Ear is an Accident of the History of Technology” and is available on the international, interdisciplinary, multi-lingual online platform, Creative Disturbances. Creative Disturbances is a new Leonardo… Continue reading ‘An Accident of the History of Technology’ podcast with Guy Edmonds
Arts & Humanities Research for Radio Audiences – workshop on 23 March
The Arts Institute invites arts & humanities researchers at Plymouth University to the following workshop. If you are not based in these disciplines, or at Plymouth University, and wish to attend, please email to find out whether there are places available for you. “Arts & Humanities Research for Radio Audiences” by Dr Ed Baxter (Resonance… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research for Radio Audiences – workshop on 23 March
24 February: Land/Water & the Visual Arts session on research residencies in Nicosia, Cyprus
You are welcome to attend this session run by the Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group: Wednesday 24 February 2016 3.30-5.30pm in Scott Building room SCB102 Nicosia Residency – Cyprus – 2013-2015 featuring work by Liz Nicol, Hannah Drayson and Carole Baker and with an introduction by Professor Liz Wells Following her residency in… Continue reading 24 February: Land/Water & the Visual Arts session on research residencies in Nicosia, Cyprus
Creative Writing Showcase Research Seminar: 24 February 2016
You are welcome to attend the following English & Creative Writing Staff Research Session. Feel free to bring friends, students and well-behaved pets. Wednesday 24 February, 3.30 – 5.30 pm in Babbage BGB405. This Creative Writing roundtable event will showcase the department’s best recent work by Prof Anthony Caleshu Dr Miriam Darlington Dr Lucy Durneen Dr David Sergeant Dr… Continue reading Creative Writing Showcase Research Seminar: 24 February 2016