Finding the Funny Peculiar: Autumn Clown Classes for Adults Starting 29 September 2016, 6.30 – 8.30 pm at the Kennaway Centre, Exmouth, Devon These classes, led by Dr Maggie Irving, are about letting your hair down and revealing your strangely smart yet fabulously foolish side. Maggie’s AHRC-funded practice-as-research PhD at Plymouth University explored clowning for… Continue reading Autumn clown classes for adults in Exmouth
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Installation about Michael Jackson in Exeter by Beth Emily Richards
Monday 12 September – Saturday 12 November 2016 Gallery 333 at the Exeter Phoenix. All welcome – free This new installation by Beth Emily Richards explores the fact and fiction surrounding pop legend Michael Jackson’s bizarre appearance at Exeter City’s football ground, St James’ Park, in 2002. In conjunction with this installation, on Tuesday 4… Continue reading Installation about Michael Jackson in Exeter by Beth Emily Richards
Feature: “Remembering Archaos: circus with attitude”
BY ROBERTA MOCK It was the summer of 1989 and my heart began beating double-time from the moment Archaos entered their tent on Edinburgh’s Leith Links. The maniacally grinning clown positioned two feet from my head started smashing a flaming baton against a metal tent support. To my left, sparks were flying from a similar confrontation… Continue reading Feature: “Remembering Archaos: circus with attitude”
Arts PhD researchers win prestigious placements
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
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”
Feature: “Reflections on the arts & humanities doctoral thesis & training”
BY ROBERTA MOCK In the UK, we are moving from a position in which the doctoral thesis, programme, research and examination are largely homogenous and singularly focused to one in which they are increasingly divergent, in order to meet a variety of external drivers. This shift has significant implications for the ways that arts & humanities PhDs are… Continue reading Feature: “Reflections on the arts & humanities doctoral thesis & training”
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)
‘Stories We Tell’: screening 22 February 2016, introduced by Prof Roberta Mock
22 February 2016 at 7pm in the Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University Screening of Stories We Tell (2012, directed by Sarah Polley) as part of the Peninsula Art Women and Cinema series Save event This film will be introduced by Roberta Mock, Professor of Performance Studies and Director of The Arts Institute… Continue reading ‘Stories We Tell’: screening 22 February 2016, introduced by Prof Roberta Mock