While entering the paper floor
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….
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…
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…
The Edge of Writing: John Stezaker’s ‘Cinema 1 II’
Nathan Walker Stezaker, John. 2005. Cinema 1 II [Collage] The Approach, London. Abstract: 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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
Performance Review: Compañia Rocío Molina
‘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
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