Two doctoral researchers in the arts at Plymouth University have been awarded prestigious placements to complement their programmes of study. Coral Manton has been awarded a placement by the British Library to investigate possibilities for the PhD thesis in multimedia and non-text forms, and how a national database of UK doctoral theses can record and make accessible… Continue reading Arts PhD researchers win prestigious placements
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Dr. Phil Smith is walking-artist-in-residence at Carleton College, Minnesota
Dr Phil Smith is travelling to America to begin a residency at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota where he will be teaching a number of media studies classes and leading short public exploratory walks. In addition he will present a public performance walk titled “Blazing Worlds” on 14 May 2016. During his time at Carleton College, Phil is participating in the ‘Walk’ 2016 festival. He… Continue reading Dr. Phil Smith is walking-artist-in-residence at Carleton College, Minnesota
Feature: “Performing the Toxic Body”
BY ROBERTA MOCK While so many of us mourn and remember Prince, who died on 21 April, the global media drips the details of his final days, expressing our collective surprise that his death appears to have been due to an overdose, the consequence of long term addiction to prescription painkillers. Over and over we read… Continue reading Feature: “Performing the Toxic Body”
4 May 2016: performance research seminar on moving, being & thinking at Plymouth University
You are warmly invited to attend the next in our series of PEP Talks, the seminar series for the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. Wednesday 4 May 2016 , 16.30 – 18.00pm, in the Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University The papers will be presented by Phil Smith and Ruth Way. Abstracts and titles for both are… Continue reading 4 May 2016: performance research seminar on moving, being & thinking at Plymouth University
20 April 2016: P.E.P. Talk research seminar on performance and the body
Performance. Experience. Presence. You are warmly invited to attend the next in our series of PEP Talks, the seminar series for the Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University. Wednesday 20 April 2016 , 16.30 – 18.00, in Roland Levinsky Building room 309, Plymouth University. The papers will be presented by Leah Dungay and John Matthews. Abstracts and titles… Continue reading 20 April 2016: P.E.P. Talk research seminar on performance and the body
Feature: “Fear of the Warping Dead”
BY PHIL SMITH In her recent book Forms (2015), Caroline Levine makes a powerful case against using media and literary fictions as direct analogies for political realities. She warns of the dangerous politics, not least a dependence on “acts of exclusion” and a “constitutive outside” that can accrue from such a tendency. Yet, that is… Continue reading Feature: “Fear of the Warping Dead”
Report on P.E.P Practice Research Symposium, 5 February 2016
BY TERI BAILIE AND JAMES HARPER We arrived at Plymouth University on 5th February 2016 for a postgraduate Practice Research Symposium, organised by Natalie Raven and Steven Paige who are PhD students in the Performance.Experience.Presence research group. We were excited to attend our first ever symposium and we were full of questions. How is a… Continue reading Report on P.E.P Practice Research Symposium, 5 February 2016
29 March 2016: “Sorcery & Desire in Performance” presentation
Thresholds: Sorcery & Desire in Performance a presentation by Christopher Danowski Tuesday 29 March 2016 at 7pm Scott Building room 109, Plymouth University (FREE – All welcome) This presentation combines live and video art, documenting three years of PhD research into performance in trance states. By offering the spectator a window into other states of… Continue reading 29 March 2016: “Sorcery & Desire in Performance” presentation
Talking About Practice (as Research)
BY LEE MILLER It’s ten years since Practice as Research in Performance (PaRIP for short) ended its five year project. Launched in 2001 with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, PaRIP’s remit was ‘to investigate creative-academic issues raised by practice as research, where performance is defined, in keeping with AHRB and RAE documentation,… Continue reading Talking About Practice (as Research)
Plymouth University Researchers perform at INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ARTISTIC INNOVATION
After its successful premiere at this year’s Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, Federico Visi (electric guitar, motion sensors, live electronics) and Katherine Williams (saxophone, motion sensors, live electronics) are performing Visi’s composition,11 degrees of dependence, this week at The International Festival for Innovations in Music Production and Composition (iFIMPaC) organised by Leeds College of Music. … Continue reading Plymouth University Researchers perform at INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ARTISTIC INNOVATION