Out of Time: Temporal Slippage in Performance and the Visual Arts
Conference Programme
A One-Day Symposium at the University of Manchester
Friday 17th June 2016, 9am – 5pm
Graduate School, Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester M15 6JA
Conference Programme
A One-Day Symposium at the University of Manchester
Friday 17th June 2016, 9am – 5pm
Graduate School, Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester M15 6JA
You are warmly invited to join us for Out of Time, a one-day interdisciplinary conference bringing together PGRs, early career researchers and established academics to explore temporality in the performing and visual arts.
Performance has a unique and dynamic relationship with time, necessarily ephemeral yet endlessly repeating. At first glance it appears to be unavoidably time-bound, dependent on bodies moving in time and space; however, the theatre is also capable of conjuring moments of temporal slippage and resistance. Whilst performance can be said to represent a state of true presence, impossible to document or freeze in time, other theorisations have focused on the ways in which performance reconstructs, re-embodies and resurrects the past.
The conference will interrogate notions of presence, recognising that the performative present is haunted by traces of the past and hints of the future. We aim to explore the risks and rewards of the temporal play inherent to performance.
Speakers on the plenary panel will include Professor Stephen Bottoms and Dr Rachel Clements, specialists in contemporary theatre and performance based at the University of Manchester.
For further information, please contact: [email protected]
Performance has a unique and dynamic relationship with time, necessarily ephemeral yet endlessly repeating. At first glance it appears to be unavoidably time-bound, dependent on bodies moving in time and space; however, the theatre is also capable of conjuring moments of temporal slippage and resistance. Whilst performance can be said to represent a state of true presence, impossible to document or freeze in time, other theorisations have focused on the ways in which performance reconstructs, re-embodies and resurrects the past.
The conference will interrogate notions of presence, recognising that the performative present is haunted by traces of the past and hints of the future. We aim to explore the risks and rewards of the temporal play inherent to performance.
Speakers on the plenary panel will include Professor Stephen Bottoms and Dr Rachel Clements, specialists in contemporary theatre and performance based at the University of Manchester.
For further information, please contact: [email protected]