7 December 2016: Practice-research seminar with Anya Lewin & Roberta Mock

Roberta Mock, A Trip Around the World is Not a Cruise (2016). Photo: Benjamin Graham

You are welcome to join the following research seminar, co-hosted by ARC (Artistic Research Cluster) and PEP (Performance.Experience.Presence research group) at Plymouth University: 7th December 2016, 4.30 – 6.00 pm in Scott 109, Plymouth University Presentations by Dr Anya Lewin & Prof Roberta Mock Fez: The Royal Scent opening up process when you don’t like… Continue reading 7 December 2016: Practice-research seminar with Anya Lewin & Roberta Mock

Feature: “Artistic thinking, walking and silence for well-being”

Jaana Erkkilä: Karusellista karanneet VI carborundum/ets.akv.

BY JAANA ERKKILÄ-HILL A well-known story tells about three wise men who followed a star and left their valuable presents to a newborn baby somewhere in the Middle East over two thousand years ago. It is a strange story about looking for meaning and value in something that is unknown; a story about following your… Continue reading Feature: “Artistic thinking, walking and silence for well-being”

30 November 2016: Research seminar on drowning in early photography

Hippolyte Bayard (1801-1887), Self portrait as a drowned man (1840)

English & Creative Writing Research Seminar  Breathless: the look of drowning in early underwater photography Speaker: Dr Matt Kerr (University of Southampton)  3.30-5pm on Wednesday 30th November 2016 in Babbage 406, Plymouth University This paper investigates the imaginative links between photography and drowning in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. If photography can be thought of as… Continue reading 30 November 2016: Research seminar on drowning in early photography

30 November 2016: Performing Arts research seminar

Please join us for the next PEP Talk (the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University), which will feature papers by Phil Smith and David Strang: Wednesday, 30th November 2016, 4.30 – 6.00pm Babbage Building, Room 215, Plymouth University “Using character and journey in Symbolist Theatre to make a portrait of South Devon” In… Continue reading 30 November 2016: Performing Arts research seminar

23 November 2016: Seminar on representing our environment through music

MUSIC RESEARCH SEMINAR Wednesday 23rd November 2016 in Rolle 015 (Plymouth University) at 2pm What do I have in common with Alberti and Messiaen?: Representing our environment through music Nuria Bonet Filella (ICCMR, Plymouth University) Composers and musicians have always incorporated elements of their soundscapes in their music, birdsong is perhaps the most clear example. With… Continue reading 23 November 2016: Seminar on representing our environment through music

9 November 2016: Seminar on Performance, Ethics & Audience Anxiety

Please join us for the next PEP Talk (as part of the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University):  “Bordering on anxiety: on the politics and ethics of unsettling the audience” By Patrick Duggan (University of Surrey) Wednesday, 9th November 2016, 4.30 – 6.00pm Roland Levinsky Building room 207, Plymouth University Through recourse to… Continue reading 9 November 2016: Seminar on Performance, Ethics & Audience Anxiety

2 November 2016: Artistic Research seminar on Memory, Touch, Play and Drawing

Copyright Gemma Anderson.

ARC (Artistic Research Cluster) Seminar 2nd November 2016: 4.30 – 6.00 pm in Scott 102, Plymouth University Presentations by Tabatha Andrews and Dr Gemma Anderson  Tabatha Andrews: “Memory, Touch and Play” Tabatha Andrews will discuss The Dispensary, a new work made for Alzheimers and Dementia Patients at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. The Dispensary is… Continue reading 2 November 2016: Artistic Research seminar on Memory, Touch, Play and Drawing

2 November 2016: Performing Arts research seminar on movement, touch & collaboration

Please join us for the next PEP Talk, the seminar series of the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. Wednesday 2nd November 2016, 4.30 – 6.00pm Roland Levinsky Building room 207, Plymouth University This session features the following two papers, one by Adam Benjamin and one by Abigail Jackson. Adam is a Lecturer in Theatre & Performance… Continue reading 2 November 2016: Performing Arts research seminar on movement, touch & collaboration

Introduction to “Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present” by Anya Lewin (25 October 2016)

The following text was written and presented by Dr Anya Lewin to introduce Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present by Tyler Hubby at Plymouth University on 25 October 2016. The “I remember” format of this introduction was borrowed from Joe Brainard. I remember the first time I met Tony Conrad. It was 21 years ago and I had moved to… Continue reading Introduction to “Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present” by Anya Lewin (25 October 2016)

10-13 November 2016: a festival of solo autobiographical theatre at Dartington Hall

Drop the Story: A celebration of solo autobiographical theatre Thursday 10 November – Sunday 13 November 2016 Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon Drop the Story is a festival of solo autobiographical theatre, now in its fourth year, co-organised by Plymouth University PhD candidate, Mo Cohen. Mo is undertaking a practice-as-research into the transformational effects of making… Continue reading 10-13 November 2016: a festival of solo autobiographical theatre at Dartington Hall