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Potentials of Performance

Potentials of Performance (2011/2012) is the third and final year of Performance Matters. Led by the project’s postgraduate researchers, it features a vibrant series of commissioned process-led dialogue projects taking place throughout the year.  Exploring and exploding the dialogue as a potential format for thinking through and testing possible futures, it addresses timely questions of performance, promise and transformation. Dialogue projects cross performance’s cultural and international contexts and range from intimate conversations and collaborations to pedagogical experiments and public interventions – all asking what lies latent within performance? What is waiting to be realized, developed, and made legible? What does performance hold in store in its present-day testing of the limits of the social, the cultural, the vital and the critical?

For details of Potentials of Performance ongoing dialogue projects see the website.

Banner image credit:

Photograph: Christa Holka.

Part of Performance Matters

A three-year research project bringing together artists and academics to investigate ideas of cultural value.

Performance Matters

A three-year research project bringing together artists and academics to investigate ideas of cultural value.

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Crossovers

Screenings, talks and a DVD series of artists’ films, documentaries and dialogues, concluding Performance Matters

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Performing Idea

The first year of Performance Matters with symposia, re-dos, screenings and workshops exploring practice and discourse, event and writing.

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Trashing Performance

The second year of Performance Matters with talks, shows, films and workshops by artists working at the edges of taste and respectability.

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Glimpses of Before – 1970s Performance Art in the UK

Online Study Room Guide on 1970’s Performance Art in the UK

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Ego

A series of debates between eminent artists and scientists at the Old Operating Theatre.

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Reimagining Care: 200 Questions About Care by Rubiane Maia

Rubiane Maia’s 200 Questions about Care were developed out of her research as part of the six-month residency Reimagining Care.

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Reading Performance Art From Then Till Now

A debate as part of Whitechapel Gallery’s A Short History of Performance season.

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Monica Ross: A Symposium

Speakers who knew Monica Ross personally will explore her contributions

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Marked

A season of work at Arnolfini celebrating Gina Pane and exploring the artist’s body as a politicised site.

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Study Room Gathering on the Live Female Body in Current Feminist Performance Practice, UK & US

Poppy Jackson will discuss recent research into the feminist performance scene

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