{"id":1498,"date":"2016-11-07T10:01:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2016-11-07T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:01:52","slug":"9-november-2016-seminar-on-performance-ethics-audience-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/11\/07\/9-november-2016-seminar-on-performance-ethics-audience-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"9 November 2016: Seminar on Performance, Ethics & Audience Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please join us for the next PEP Talk (as part of\u00a0the seminar series of the\u00a0Performance.Experience.Presence research group at Plymouth University):<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>“Bordering on anxiety: on the politics and ethics of unsettling the audience”<\/b>
\n<\/b>By Patrick Duggan (University of Surrey)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, 9th November 2016, 4.30 \u2013 6.00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Roland Levinsky Building room 207, Plymouth University<\/p>\n

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Through recourse to theories of fear (e.g. Svendsen, 2009; Virilio, 2012) and anxiety (e.g.: Critchley, 2009; Ronen, 2009), this paper investigates the political, ethical and socio-cultural implications of two contemporary performances that deliberately attempt to unsettle their audiences: Greg Wohead\u2019s\u00a0The Ted Bundy Project<\/i>\u00a0(2014) and Action Hero\u2019s multimedia, immersive installation\u00a0Extraordinary Rendition<\/i>\u00a0(2015). These pieces deploy aesthetic, dramaturgical and phenomenological strategies intended deliberately to place the spectators\u2019 into a state bordering anxiety. This\u00a0paper considers how contemporary performance can create an anxious (spectator\u2019s) body as a means through which to perform and scrutinise pervasive ideologies and structures of fear that operate in\/as the contemporary structure of feeling.
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\nDr Patrick Duggan is Director of the Institute of Performance\u00a0 & Director of Research at Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey. He is Series Editor of Intellect’s Playtext Series and has recently published<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis, Extremity\u00a0(Palgrave, 2016), co-edited with Lisa Peschel.<\/i><\/p>\n

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The PEP Talks organising team:\u00a0Chris Green, Teri Bailie, James Harper,\u00a0Katheryn Owens &\u00a0Beth Emily Richards<\/p>\n

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