School of Arts
Recent Submissions
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HOURGLASS: MARK-MAKING IN AND AS PERFORMANCE
(Book chapter)In 2015, the author was commissioned by Dance4 to make an improvised dance performance, titled Hourglass, in response to artefacts from Robert Wilson’s seminal opera Einstein on the Beach (1976) exhibited at Backlit Gallery, ... -
In Bed with Mae West: Movie Magazine Revelations of the Boudoir as Creative, Training and Central Scenic Space
(Book chapter)Whether suggestively reclining on a Leda-inspired golden swan bed in her self-penned hit film, She Done Him Wrong (1933) or carried aloft on a decadent chaise longue by loin cloth clad muscle men in her Las Vegas shows ... -
Africanist choreography as cultural citizenship: Thomas ‘Talawa’ Prestø’s philosophy of Africana dance.
(Book chapter)This essay addresses how Africanist choreography operates as a practice of cultural citizenship, focussing on the work of Thomas ‘Talawa’ Prestø as a leading figure in shaping the cultural sphere for choreography based on ... -
Elroy Josephs and the hidden history of Black British Dance
(Book chapter)This chapter gives a brief overview of the career of the black British dance artist and teacher Elroy Josephs and reflects on the reasons for his relative obscurity. Josephs danced with Les Ballets Nègres in 1952. From the ... -
A Study in Solo: Steve Paxton's Goldberg Variations
(Book chapter)Steve Paxton's Goldberg Variations, which he performed nearly 200 times between 1986 and 1992, fits uneasily into accounts of recent dance history because it was an improvisation. This essay discusses the problems of ... -
The Ethics of Participation and Participation Gone Wrong
(Article)This article examines the way that ethics underpin and affect audience participation in contemporary theatre, illustrated in the performance practice of British-German ensemble Gob Squad. It looks at how a proliferation ... -
Please Do Touch
(Other)Collaborating on a research project entitled 'Body of Knowledge', dance artists and academics Sally Doughty, Lisa Kendall and Rachel Krische explore how the dancer’s body can be considered as a living, corporeal archive. ... -
Slapstick and Comic Performance
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Battles, Blows and Blood: pleasure and terror in the performance of clown violence
(Article)This article will explore the performative structures of comic violence enacted by, and on, clown bodies, drawing on filmic examples such as Chaplin’s The Kid (1920) and The Circus (1928), Fellini’s The Clowns (1970) and ... -
Connect: Katowice - London
(Other)Arts Council England & British Council funded, British-Polish exchange, collaboration and displays. -
Housed
(Other)Exploring the interplay between the artist, the viewer and the location setting. Housed: seeks to explore the interplay between the artist, the viewer and the location setting… the latter being a ‘display space’ within ... -
The Performativity of Painting
(Other)The Performativity of Painting, a choreographed meeting. 'Painting – the performance of structures, fragments and use of space within the perceived painted frame, and the relating inherent surround'. Curator: Alex ... -
Ways of Something, episode 2, Minute 20
(Other)“Ways of Something” is a contemporary remake of John Berger’s BBC documentary, “ Ways of Seeing ” (1972). The project consists of one-minute videos by over 113 network-based artists who commonly work with 3D rendering, ... -
A Silver Nutmeg and A Golden Pear
(Other)Who is to say what objects mean to us, or which relationships they manifest and reify? What propositions of care can be explored through this platform's specific taxonomies and terms of engagement? Deep among Collectibles ... -
#unicornthings
(Other)#unicornthings is a media archaeology of the GIF as performance to camera and as experimental cabaret. -
Turn Right At The Statue of Love
(Other)In 'A Berlin Chronicle' Walter Benjamin describes his autobiography as a space to be walked. The invited contributions to The Lost Diagrams respond to the invitation to accompany Benjamin in reproducing the web of connections ... -
Veritas Temporis Filia
(Other)Four short experimental texts responding to the 'Calais Crisis' COBRA Committee meetings and the refugee crisis in Europe. -
Command Plus: Molly Morin and Nia Davies.
(Other)Command Plus with Molly Morin and Nia Davies was the first online exhibition by collective And Or, running from February-June 2014. For this inaugural show, And Or brought together art, text, poetry and design by a web of ... -
The catalogue of Unsatisfied Desires
(Other)A micro-fictional response to technologies of desire as they play out across social media in late capitalism. -
Pacific Binaries: Anya Schaffner from analogue to digital
(Other)For this new online exhibition, And Or presents a photographic series on Los-Angeles by Berlin-based artist Anya Schaffner, documenting the last days of iconic Angeleno twilight, prior to the city's shift to more ...
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