School of Arts
Recent Submissions
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Cemetery
(Book)Cemetery Raimi Gbadamosi Cemetery is about a collection of significant thinkers, makers, and individuals that have had a profound impact on collective thought. Starting from, and relying on, my own mental archive, ... -
Davy Takes to the Hills: Dialogic Enquiry and the Aesthetics of the Prospect View
(Article)A study of the social culture in which the science of geology was developed. -
A Recalibration of Theatre’s Hypermediality
(Book chapter)The unique capacity of theatre, as often proposed, is that it allows all media hosted within it to manifest themselves in their own particular forms, expressed by Claudia Georgi as ‘its ability to integrate other media ... -
Chapter 18 Mela in the UK: A 'travelled and habituated' festival
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The Artists’ Magazine as Archive: High Performance, 1978-1983
(Conference)Between 1978 and 1983 High Performance, a magazine based in Los Angeles and devoted solely to performance art, ran open submissions for documentation of live performances made within one year of the published issue. With ... -
“End Rape in Los Angeles”: Restaging Suzanne Lacy’s Three Weeks in May for the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival
(Conference)In 1977, artist Suzanne Lacy created Three Weeks in May, an expanded performance piece that recorded instances of reported rape in Los Angeles over a three-week period, aiming to expose the extent of sexual violence in the ... -
Documenting the Live, in History: High Performance Magazine, 1978-1983
(Conference)Between 1978 and 1983 High Performance, a magazine devoted to performance art, ran open submissions for documentation of work performed within one year of the published issue. This paper considers High Performance not only ... -
The Politics of Cultural Critique: Vomit and Disgust in Paul McCarthy’s Performances of the 1970s
(Conference)In the 1970s, Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy made visceral performances which appealed to audiences’ innermost feelings of disgust and revulsion. Using everyday materials such as hot dogs, ground meat, ketchup, ... -
Sensibilities and Censorship: John Duncan’s Blind Date (1980)
(Conference)In 1980, artist John Duncan participated in the Public Spirit festival, performances from which were documented in High Performance magazine. Duncan used conceptual, performative and sound elements in works that explicated ... -
Practice-based-research in the arts
(Conference)What are the methods and methodologies of practice-based-research in theatre, performance, and arts practices, and what might these offer to students in an educational context? Performance practitioners (particularly those ... -
Document, Audience, Affect: Johanna Went’s L.A. Club Performances
(Conference)How can we make sense of performances that continually slip between categories of art and entertainment, and which also seem to alienate and/or aggravate audiences? Such performances might be described as ‘messy’ in relation ... -
Aftermaths of Performance: Artists who make an “awful mess”
(Conference)In 1983, Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy organised a programme of ‘like-minded artists’ whose performances make ‘an awful mess and walks an erratic line between horror and humor’ (1983). Featuring the work of the ... -
Document, Audience, Affect: Festival Performances in Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s
(Conference)In 1980, John Duncan, an artist who has used conceptual, performative and sound elements in works that explicated nascent themes of violence, trauma, and male sexuality in his work, created a performance called Blind Date. ... -
Please Do Touch
(Other)This abstract is for a live dance performance titled Please Do Touch, which responds fully to the themes of the ‘Modes of Capture’ symposium. Collaborating on a research project titled Body of Knowledge, dance artist/academics ... -
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. ... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age.
(Book)Slapstick has rarely been analyzed in any detail and it is only in very recent years that popular forms of performance have been given any serious consideration in a way that focuses on what the performers actually do ... -
The Body
(Book chapter)An undeniable feature of the live theater event is the physical presence of the actor’s body. Some facets of comedy demand or are highlighted by the physical presence of the actor’s body on stage and, therefore, emphasize ... -
Pantheistic Poetry; Geological Touring; Chemical Experimentation: Coleridge and Davy in the Mountains and on the Page
(Article)COLERIDGE‘S CONTINUING ENGAGEMENT WITH PANTHEISM has been a staple of scholarly discussion since, at least, Thomas McFarland‘s Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition.1 More recently, historically-nuanced revisions of ... -
Modern movements: women’s contributions to the success of Rudolf Laban’s ideas and practice in England 1930-1941
(Article)This journal article considers women who could all be said to have been working in the shadow of Rudolf Laban. During the 1930s and 40s in England a number of them developed the new modern dance as independent performers ... -
This is...where we are now
(Book chapter)This chapter responds to the heading of ‘Disruptions and Confluences of Dance Studies’ and is informed by the performance This is… where we are now that was presented by the two authors at the Dance Fields conference. The ...
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