Performance Research Lab
- Written byPost-Grad Community
- Published date 28 November 2024
A platform for performance researchers to share research projects to a shared space investigating the critical frameworks and enquiry-driven creative methods underpinning performance practices.
In this series of meetings, we will examine the value of critique in performing arts and embodied research practices today. The seminars are aimed particularly at PhD students where performance is central to their research, but it is open to all students, supervisors, and practitioners interested performance as a mode of critique. The main aim is to enable PhD students to make and elaborate the critical positions they take in relation to their research.
The meetings will proceed through shared readings of texts, performances, and other critical art and cultural practices. Responsibility for selecting and introducing materials will be rotated. Reading of the material is required before the session so then we can discuss it in relation to our practice during the seminar and help articulate our own critical approaches.
Frequency: Monthly during term time
First meeting: Tuesday 3 December, 2—5pm, D117 Chelsea College of Arts
Reading: Preciado, Paul (2021) Can the Monster Speak? trans. Frank Wynne, Fitzcarraldo Editions. Available here
To register, please email: i.cipollari0620231@arts.ac.uk
Professor Adrian Kear (Professor of Theatre and Performance) and Ilenia Cipollari (PhD Candidate)
Post-Grad Interest Groups at UAL
UAL’s Post-Grad Community Programme supports a growing number of issue-specific, cross-disciplinary interest groups led by postgraduate students and academics.
These groups connect creatives with shared research/practice interests across different specialisms and subject areas.
Students have launched interest groups in the past to coincide with exhibitions and symposiums that they have organised under the same theme, or have used Interest Groups as a working group towards research or a standalone event or series.
Interest Groups are a great way to build new networks at UAL for MA and PhD students with shared interests, a useful tool for finding cross-disciplinary students to work with on planned projects/activities, creating new audiences and ways to formally promote your practice.