The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance
at Antonin Artaud Performance Centre
Brunel University, London

ARTAUD FORUM 3:
Theatre and Resonant Politics
International Conference-Workshop on Theatre Praxis
Saturday March 23 - Sunday March 24 2013

Booking: http://artaudforum3.eventbrite.com/

A two-day conference on theatre, the body, and politics, held at Brunel University’s Antonin Artaud Performance Centre.
‘Theatre and Resonant Politics’ examines theatre as a site of disciplining bodies towards participation in political regimes – as well as a site in which bodies, resonating with each other, might resist. Recent political events including the ‘Arab Spring’ and the Occupy movement around the world demonstrate the power and relevance of resonant politics. The sympathetic reverberations of these movements show a sense of commonality that does not rely on identification with political parties, leaders or ideologies. Rather, such events are instances of large-scale corporeal resonance — a sympathetic vibration between the bodies amassed in the public square, the park, the occupied lecture room, across networks. 

Through the lens of corporeal/bodily resonance this symposium-workshop opens up questions of performance training, spectatorship and affect. The event features practical workshops, performances, paper panels, roundtable discussions, and keynote presentations. It brings together international theatre, dance, performance and sound artists, musicians, digital artists, theorists and researchers engaged in creative practices that reflect on major innovative performance traditions of the past century and their impact on current performance knowledge & physical techniques.

Curated and organised by Johannes Birringer and Broderick Chow

Keynote Speeches from:
Jon McKenzie (University of Wisconsin): ‘Remediating Performances’
&
Sophie Nield (Royal Holloway, University of London): 'Resonance and Representation: Playing the People in the Public Sphere'

Physical Theatre Labs with:
The Dangerologists (Broderick Chow & Tom Wells): Wrestling and Corporeal Resonance – Politics Between Bodies
&
Joumana Mourad / IJAD Dance Company: Turning Social Media into Creative Media

Performances and Installations by:
Luis C. Sotelo-Castro: A Citizenship Ceremony with a difference... performative archaeology of Colombian migration into London
The Dangerologists: Untitled (Work-in-progress)
Jon McKenzie: The Revelations of Dr. Kx4l3ndj3r (Video)
Joumana Mourad/IJAD Dance Company: In-Finite (Video)

Paper Presentations by: Ava Ansari/Vasilios Arabos/Yvon Bonenfant/Stephen Bottoms/Marios Chatziprokopiou/Victoria Gray/Anwen Jones/Eve Katsouraki/Carl Lavery/Lynne McCarthy/Jochem Naafs/Andrew Quitmeyer

See full schedule at: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/artaudforum.html

This event is sponsored by the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance and supported by the Brunel School of Arts and Brunel University Graduate School.
Prices above include catered lunches and dinner buffet on 23 March. Concessions available.