As part of my practise based PhD, I am looking for examples of contemporary intermedial* performers and companies. Examples I have found are Jo Scott and Shana Moulton, and the companies Forkbeard Fantasy and the Theatre group…
Can we talk about a influence of the languages of New Media on the perceiving of stage? Mark Coniglio, in a conference in Mexico City this year, made again his point about that, although decades of use of new media in dance, there is no real influence of new media in the way choreographers create.…
This group will discuss a range of intermedial possibilities, transformations and/or issues at the interart juncture of live and recorded performance. We shall open up a forum to discuss the communicative systems of a range of art forms, which interact within the medium of performance. A media-saturated world has inevitably transformed traditional notions of performance and has inspired new perspectives and aspects of performance theory. The whole framing act of communication has been brought up to re-evaluation, since in intermedia transfer, more than one communicative systems are yoked together, but never solely into parity, or purely into rivalry. This is the exciting area which we are going to discuss and interrogate. There will be seminars and symposium/conference. Convener: Dr Clara Armand