Research
Performance Research Group
Relevant research and research activities by Performance Research Group members for this year includes:
Sola Adeyemi is currently exploring the relationship between multiple cultures, the politics of identity, the profiles of power in African Diaspora communities in London. He also has book chapters forthcoming on Femi Osofisan’s dramatic ideology in Kene Igweonu & Osita Okagbue (eds.) Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3: Making Space, Rethinking Drama & Theatre in Africa, and on reassessing intercultural performance on British stage in New Directions in African Theatre and Performance, edited by Jumai Ewu and Victor Ukaegbu.
Jennifer Cooke will be reading her poetry at The Situation Rooms, Unit 12, 7 Fountayne Rd, Tottenham, London, N15 4QL, 27th November, 7.30 pm. (FREE & open to all). Her poems can be heard here. She has just completed a manuscript entitled *not suitable for domestic sublimation.
Kerry Featherstone reads his poems here.
He’s recently been published here.
He is now working on a commission for the Museum Buddies project, at Alford Manor House in Lincolnshire. Next year he will be reading and discussing his series of poems entitled “Landscape With Single Figure” at Loughborough University’s “English and Welsh Diaspora” conference in April 2011.
Deirdre O’Byrne will be reading from Beckett’s work with Brian McCormack at ‘Waiting for Beckett’, Lowdham Book Festival, 26 June.
Hannah Nicklin is a final year PhD candidate in the School of Arts at Loughborough University. Her thesis is considering new and re-emerging first person performative techniques arising in the context of the digital age, and how they form a new politics-as-personal. She has presented papers at the TAPRA post grad and annual conference on pervasive games, and soundwalks. Her thesis is partially practice-based and in Autumn of 2011 she ran The Umbrella Project - a 5 week pervasive storytelling project across the city of York. A practicing theatre maker, Hannah has worked with new and innovative companies such as Third Angel, Pilot Theatre, Forest Fringe, Fierce Festival, MADE in Birmingham, Hazard Festival and Contact Theatre, Manchester. She also runs a solo-performance night in the city of Leicester, has spoken at many industry conferences, runs training sessions for companies in theatre and digital technology, and is a well-respected theatre and tech blogger; often quoted on the Guardian Theatre Blog.
Michael Pinchbeck Michael Pinchbeck is currently undertaking a PhD exploring the role of the dramaturg in contemporary performance. He is a writer, live artist and performance maker based in Nottingham. He co-founded Metro-Boulot-Dodo in 1997 after studying Theatre and Creative Writing at Lancaster University and left the company in 2004. Michael was commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse to write The White Album (2006) and The Ashes (2011). In 2008, he was selected by Arts Council England to represent the UK at the Biennale for Young Artists in Italy. In 2009 and 2011, his work was selected for the
British Council¹s Edinburgh Showcase. He has a Masters in Performance and Live Art from Nottingham Trent University and was a senior lecturer at the University of Chester. He has written articles for Studies in Theatre and Performance and Dance Theatre Journal. Michael is a co-director of Hatch, a performance platform, and works as an artistic assessor for Arts Council England.
www.outsideeyeproject.wordpress.com
Catherine Rees is currently editing a volume for Cambridge Scholars on post 1980s Irish Studies, looking at the recent upheavals in cultural, theatrical, literary and political aspects to Irish society in recent years. She also has a book chapter forthcoming on re-assessing the theatrical significance and legacy of Sarah Kane's career in Methuen's Modern British Playwriting, edited by Aleks Sierz.
Daniel Watt is co-investigator in the AHRC funded ‘Object Theatre Network’ whose first meeting ‘Foundations for Object Theatre’ was held at NTU in December 2011. The second meeting of the network, ‘Object Theatre – Methodology and Pedagogy’, is scheduled for June 2012. He has book chapters forthcoming; ‘Esse est Percipi: Beckett and Berkeley’s silent conversation’ in Re-membering Beckett with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ‘Becoming Headless, or “my body doing its best without me”: performance against thought’, in In the Spirit of Creation: Readings in Art, Magic and the Occult with Mandrake Press and a journal article ‘Kantor’s “Last Room”: Thinking the Object, Bio-Object and Death’in Polish Theatre Perspectives, 1.3, (Special Issue: Tadeusz Kantor, Twenty Years On). He is currently working on a monograph, The Consciousness of Objects (Amsterdam: Rodopi) and a co-edited collection Final Stages: Death, Performance and Culture (Bristol: Intellect). His novella, The Ten Dictates of Alfred Tesseller, is forthcoming with Ex Occidente Press, as is his short story, ‘The Subjugation of Eros’, in the Bruno Schulz homage collection, This Hermetic Legislature. Another short story, ‘The Phantasmagorical Imperative’, will appear with Hieroglyphic Press in their new journal Sacrum Regnum. Recent short fiction has appeared in The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies, Sein und Werden: Wunderkammer, and Delicate Toxins.