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The Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network brings together people from a wide variety of disciplines in Cambridge and beyond who are engaging with performance as a concept, from music and literary studies to anthropology, architecture and medicine. It asks how these varied interests might relate, intersect and interact.

Interest in performance reflects a movement away from thinking in terms of immutable objects and singular subjects. It focuses attention on collective contexts. It also models a different way to mean: so performances, theatricality, theatre, and the arts in practice are relevant, too. But the group’s main focus is on the potential of the idea of performance as an umbrella approach to culture: a ‘kind of thinking in its own right’ (Cull/Minors 2012).

What does it mean to frame, stage, display or enact? In what sense might all forms of self-consciously public statements – art, politics, academic discourse – be seen as performance?

How is our post-print digital era, with its forces of equivalence and convergence, prompting reconsideration of traditional categories and boundaries – ie of the disciplinary itself?

How do we understand objects (fixed, a record) when they cannot exist separate from their experience on the part of somebody or other (time-bound, embodied)?

How do we understand the subject when it depends on imagined and actual collectivities to position itself?

Each session will be organized around two short but very different presentations, followed by a discussion. We hope that these discursive encounters might suggest some of the potential benefits of greater dialogue between disciplines, and between the academy and creative practice more generally.

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/performance-network

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0 upcoming talks and 9 talks in the archive.

Rehearsal - Performing the Everyday

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor .

ClockMonday 10 November 2014, 17:00-19:00

Creativity and Capitalism: Opponents or Allies?

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor .

ClockMonday 27 October 2014, 17:00-19:00

Performing the Public Sphere

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Ground floor .

ClockMonday 06 October 2014, 17:00-19:00

Performance Philosophy

UserDr Laura Cull (University of Surrey) and Eirini Kartsaki (Artist, Anglia Ruskin).

HouseCRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor .

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 17:00-19:00

Performance and its Objects: From Collective to Collection

UserDr Georgina Guy (Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at King’s College London) and Alan Read (Professor of theatre at Roehampton, currently King’s College London).

HouseCRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor .

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

Movements between Art and Anthropology: Conceptual Art & Ethnographic Inquiry

UserDr Khadija Zinnenburg Carroll (Art History, Berlin/Cambridge) Adrien Sina (Curator & Art Historian, London) Dr Michal Murawski Gold Zamt (Social Anthropology, Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor .

ClockMonday 28 April 2014, 18:30-20:30

'Fourth-walls': pre- and post-dramatic theatre

UserProfessor Kate Newey (Professor of Theatre History, University of Exeter) Dr Karen Jürs-Munby (Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Lancaster) and Actress Janie Dee (winner of two Olivier Awards, Evening Standard Award, Critics Circle Award, an O.

HouseCRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor .

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 17:00-19:00

'The Work of the Audience' - The third interdisciplinary seminar on the concept of performance

UserDr Nicholas Ridout (Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies, Queen Mary University of London) Professor Steven Connor (Grace 2 Professor of English, University of Cambridge) Chair: Dr Zoë Svendsen (Director, Dramaturg and Lecturer in Drama, Universit.

HouseCRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor .

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 17:00-19:00

Performance and Cognition: Medicine, Mask, and Simulation

UserProfessor Peter Meineck (Associate Professor of Classics, New York University) and Professor Roger Kneebone (PhD FRCS FRCSEd FRCGP, Professor of Surgical Education, Imperial College, London).

HouseCRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor .

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 17:00-19:00

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