Introduction to Issue 1, Vol. 1; On the paper floor: exploring writing practices Danae Theodoridou, Guest Editor Somewhere among those fascinating images of body and dance I hear her saying something like: ‘there are some moments when words leave us. And then dance begins’[1]. Being always even more fascinated with words, the phrase haunts me. [...]
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While entering the paper floor
Posted: 20th May 2011 by admin in e-Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1Tags: Becky Cremin, Danae Theodoridou, Eirini Kartsaki, Joe Kelleher, Johanna Linsley, Katerina Paramana, Lis Austin, Matthe MacKisack, P.A. Skantze, performance, performative writing, R. Justin Hunt, Roehampton, Tamarin Norwood, Thomas John Bacon, Tom Stone, writing
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The Inscription of Art and Everyday Life: How Being Slips into Performance
Posted: 20th May 2011 by admin in e-Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1Tags: Allan Kaprow, everday life, inscription, Lucas Samaras, Marcel Duchamp, nontheatrical performance, objecthood, performance, performative writing, readymade, restoration, writing
The Inscription of Art and Everyday Life: How Being Slips into Performance Tamarin Norwood Abstract: This article analyses practices of cultural production that bear upon the relation between the actual (the indicative: x is) and the inscription or performance of the actual (the subjunctive: as if x were). In my analysis the act of linguistic [...]
Traces of Being: a document of absence in words
Posted: 20th May 2011 by admin in e-Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1Tags: absence, Being, body, body art, documentation, Helen Spackman, live art, Martin Heidegger, performance, performative writing, phenomenology, Ron Athey, Self, Thomas John Bacon, writing
Traces of Being: a document of absence in words Thomas John Bacon Abstract: An examination of the conception of performance through the creation of a ‘pre-document’ of where the body-centric performance fails to exist: exploring the potential for the substitution of the physical presence with the written word. Heidegger tells us, “Art is the origin [...]
The Edge of Writing: John Stezaker’s ‘Cinema 1 II’
Posted: 20th May 2011 by admin in e-Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1Tags: bliss, close reading, collage, interruption, John Stezaker, performance, performative, performative writing, readerly, writing
The Edge of Writing: John Stezaker’s ‘Cinema 1 II’ Nathan Walker Abstract: Stezaker, John. 2005. Cinema 1 II [Collage] The Approach, London. This article explores the use of poetic, language based protocols to deconstruct the collage and consider its performative and textual qualities. I am interested in collage as a form of writing, a form [...]
The performing everyday: Perceptions and Drifts in a modern world
Posted: 20th May 2011 by admin in e-Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1Tags: derive, drift, modernity, performance, performative writing, self-intensification, vision, walking, writing
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The performing everyday: Perceptions and Drifts in a modern world Tom Stone Abstract: The work constructs a self-propellant conversation between the notes from a drift and a piece of critical writing (text). The notes from the drift and the critical text, together, examine the spatial interference that is produced through the marriage of two distinct [...]
Over to you
Posted: 20th May 2011 by admin in e-Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1Tags: dialogues, Freddie Rokem, Joe Kelleher, P.A. Skantze, performance, performative writing, Wallace Stevens, writing
Over to you Joe Kelleher & P.A. Skantze For this issue, staff and postgraduates from Roehampton University were invited to initiate a web-based dialogue surrounding the themes of performative writing and the event of writing. Read Joe and P.A.’s exchange by clicking below. Joe Kelleher is Professor of Theatre and Performance. He is also Head [...]
Muddle, Muddle, Toil and Trouble: Disorder and Potentiality
Posted: 20th May 2011 by admin in e-Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1Tags: choreography, disorder, failure, narrative, performance, performative writing, potentiality, systems, text, writing
Muddle, Muddle Toil and Trouble: Disorder and Potentiality Katerina Paramana Abstract: A bounded system…will spontaneously run down […] ordered patterns will get muddled. And yet…muddle may also be the very state of disorder through which new possibilities for progress or creativity become apparent (Bottoms 2007, p.15). Starting from Bottoms’s ideas on bounded systems, Muddle, Muddle [...]
Arguing in Tongues
Posted: 20th May 2011 by admin in e-Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1Tags: avant-garde, glossolalia, negation, performance, performative, performative writing, poetic image, radio art, subjectivity, writing
Arguing in Tongues Matthew MacKisack Abstract: The following article makes 1) an inductive argument for a negatory, rather than immanent, conception of utterance via 2) an examination of glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, in its manifestation as an aesthetic strategy of the 20th century avant-garde, and via 3) textually enacting or performing (1) and [...]
Performance Review: Compañia Rocío Molina
Posted: 20th May 2011 by admin in e-Journal, Performance Review, Volume 1, Issue 1Performance Review ‘Cuando Los Piedras Vuelen,’ Compañia Rocío Molina,(15 February 2011) Sadler’s Wells Flamenco Festival, London, U.K. (February 8-19, 2011) Reviewed by: Molly Beth Seremet Molly Beth Seremet is a Masters candidate and live-performance-maker on loan from New York City. Her creative endeavors are diverse, touching traditional theatre, live art, and burlesque – and all [...]