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SUMMARY:Performance and its Objects: From Collective to Collection - Dr Ge
 orgina Guy (Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at King’s Colleg
 e London) and Alan Read (Professor of theatre at Roehampton\, currently Ki
 ng’s College London)
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CONTACT:Jonas Tinius
DESCRIPTION:Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network seminar\, Mond
 ay May 19th 2014\, 5pm\, SG1\, CRASSH\n\nhttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/event
 s/25591\nPerformance and its Objects: From Collective to Collection\n\nPro
 fessor Alan Read and Dr Georgina Guy (King’s College London)\n\nChair: E
 llie Lavan (Univerity Cambridge)\n\n\nAbstract and Biographies\n\nAlan Rea
 d’s work concerns radical inclusion and the expansion of the collective.
  Performance in this operation becomes a means through which the collectiv
 e can remain open to claims from those (things) it commonly excludes. Geor
 gina Guy’s research centres on the exhibition as a dynamic context in wh
 ich established traditions of display and performance interact. The frame 
 of exhibition provides a strong basis for reflecting on performance in ter
 ms of duration and in relation to the object. In this presentation\, Read 
 and Guy will work through a number of specific examples in order to articu
 late points of interconnection between their research interests in terms o
 f a move from the collective to the collection. This exchange is offered b
 y way of response to the third question asked by the Cambridge Interdiscip
 linary Performance Network: How do we understand objects (fixed\, a record
 ) when they cannot exist separate from their experience on the part of som
 ebody or other (time-bound\, embodied)?\n\nAlan Read is a professor of the
 atre (Roehampton\, currently King’s College London)\, a theatre and perf
 ormance maker (Het Werkteater\, Societas Raffaello Sanzio\, Goat Island\, 
 Forced Entertainment\, The Royal Court\, The Young Vic\, The National Thea
 tre and Liverpool Everyman) a past Director of Talks at the Institute of C
 ontemporary Arts\, and is responsible (founding the Performance Foundation
 ) for the architectural development of the Anatomy Theatre and Museum on t
 he Strand and the Inigo Rooms in the East Wing of Somerset House. He is th
 e author of Theatre & Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance (Routledge: 
 1993/1995) and Theatre\, Intimacy & Engagement: The Last Human Venue (Palg
 rave: 2008/2009)\, and the editor of The Fact of Blackness with art-work b
 y Steve McQueen (Bay Press: 1996) and Architecturally Speaking (Routledge:
  2000)\, twenty essays on the urban realm compiled during the Space Out se
 ries of talks he curated at the ICA between 1994 and 1997. As a founding C
 onsultant Editor of Performance Research Alan Read has edited two issues o
 f the journal “On Animals” (2000) and “On Civility” (2004). His mo
 st recent book is Theatre in the Expanded Field: Seven Approaches to Perfo
 rmance (2013) http://facultimedia.com/tag/alan-read/ (*)\n\n\nDr Georgina 
 Guy (Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at King’s College Londo
 n) works on contemporary intersections between theoretical thinking and pr
 actices of performance\, visual culture and display. She has undertaken co
 llaborative research with the Courtauld Gallery\, Tate and the Science Mus
 uem (London) and her current book project\, _Displayed & Performed_\, arti
 culates an emerging field of arts practice distinct from but related to gr
 owing curatorial provision for 'live' performance. She curated the seminar
  series 'FAO: For Attention Of' (2014)\, a cross-period investigation of h
 ow attention is cultivated and distributed in criticism\, art and performa
 nce and 'Performing from…' (2013)\, a series of dialogues between artist
 s\, theatre makers and scholars addressing the relevance\, or otherwise\, 
 of being 'from' in relation to performance.\n\n\nEllie Lavan is a writer\,
  performer\, and PhD candidate in the Faculty of English\, researching the
  circus in Ireland (Cambridge).\n\nOpen to all. No registration required\n
 \n\nFor more information\, see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/perf
 ormance-network\n\nTo join the mailing list for those in and around Cambri
 dge interested in the concept of performance\, email clef3@cam.ac.uk\, jjl
 t46@cam.ac.uk\, or visit https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-per
 formance-network.
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Seminar room SG1\, Ground floor  
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