in Scott 109, Plymouth University<\/strong><\/p>\n Presentations by Dr Anya Lewin & Prof Roberta Mock<\/strong><\/p>\n Fez: The Royal Scent<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n opening up process when you don\u2019t like sharing<\/strong><\/p>\n Anya Lewin (Reader in Art & Moving Image)<\/strong><\/p>\n Fez: The Royal Scent<\/em> will complete my trilogy of moving image installations inspired by family photographs and public archives, which are used to open up questions about historical context, narrative and place and will continue my methodology of combining archival research with fictional re-creations. The trilogy will be exhibited in August 2017 and I am currently developing the final work which is Fez: The Royal Scent<\/em>. I have never enjoyed speaking about work in progress as it feels like the exposure of an intimate and internal process. Through sharing a work which has not been finished or packaged I hope to open up some of the hidden elements of research. I will wear my underpants on the outside.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Trip Around the World is Not a Cruise<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Performance Analysis from the Inside Out<\/strong><\/p>\n Roberta Mock (Professor of Performance Studies)<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1961, Pearl Williams (1914-1991) recorded her first \u201cadult only\u201d comedy album, A Trip Around the World Is Not a Cruise<\/em>. Accompanying herself on the piano, she jokes about oral sex, vibrators, adultery, promiscuity, prostitution, ethnicity and class to late night club audiences. Williams works deep \u201cblue,\u201d punctuated by a liberal sprinkling of Yiddish and a few belted song parodies. Over the course of her career, she sold over a million records and yet she is barely remembered today. A Trip Around the World<\/em> was regularly played at my parents\u2019 house parties in the 1960s and 70s; in certain company, my mother used to perform some of Williams\u2019 jokes. I have returned to the record repeatedly when writing about Jewish women and performance but have never felt able to do more than scratch its surface, and then mainly to position Williams historically in a lineage of bawdy musical comedy by American women from Sophie Tucker to Bette Midler.<\/p>\n And so, for my 50th birthday this year, I decided to perform the album myself. In exploring how the archive and the repertoire exceed the limitations of the other and \u201cexist in a constant state of interaction\u201d (Diana Taylor, 2003), this performance was not intended as a re-enactment, an homage, or an impersonation. Rather, it was an attempt to locate the material in my body by finding a Jewish voice, to interrogate the record as an act of cultural memory, and to interpret Williams\u2019 performance from the inside out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 \u2013 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\u2019t like… Continue reading 7 December 2016: Practice-research seminar with Anya Lewin & Roberta Mock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,137],"tags":[161,446,568,269,113,15,14,48],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-events-for-plymouth-university-researchers","category-histories-memory-memorialisation","tag-anya-lewin","tag-arc","tag-comedy","tag-installation","tag-moving-image","tag-pep","tag-performance","tag-roberta-mock","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Photo](\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/10\/FezThe-Royal-Scent.jpg\")
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