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https://eastapconferencelisbon2019.wordpress.com/conference/ Click here for Portuguese and French versions CALL FOR PAPERS SHARED MEMORY(IES): CREATION, RESEARCH AND POLITICS IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY STAGE. The II EASTAP Conference (European Association…

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CALL FOR PAPERS

SHARED MEMORY(IES): CREATION, RESEARCH AND POLITICS IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY STAGE.

The II EASTAP Conference (European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance) will take place at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and the National Theatre D. Maria II on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of September 2019. The theme proposed for debate is Shared Memory(ies): creation, research and politics in the European contemporary stage.

The working of memory has been an object of inquiry by history, cognitive science, psychoanalysis, linguistics, literature, cultural and performance studies, sociology. In other words, by the sciences that aim at understanding how we process our experience in the world. Memory, associated with conservation and access to knowledge, is materialized through mnemonic devices that Frances Yates (1966) showed always connect space and the sum of knowledge. This was done, for example, in the 16th century, by the memory theatres of Giulio Camillo and Giordano Bruno. Today, the mass of information (big data) and the connection of objects online (internet of things) have us facing the same need to understand how and what we register from that mass of information within our reach, but especially the role played by memory in the configuration of individual and collective identities.

Throughout the last century, we talked about collective memory (Halbwachs, 1925), memory theatres (Banu, 1987), memory-habit (Connerton, 1989), memory locations (Nora, 1984-1994). More recently, following the debates about the Holocaust, we talked about incorporated memory (Taylor, 2003), post-memory (Hirsch, 2008) and memory as a continuous performative act (Schneider, 2011). These terms were used to describe processes which move us between past and present, community and individual, in a word, between specific types of performativity; between the apparent fixity of ritual and of celebration and the wandering so characteristic of memory, sometimes leaving traces and producing stratifications, other times selectively erasing. In this connection, memory industry and memory tourism have also been discussed (Traverso, 2005; Schneider, 2011). The obsession with the production and the use of archives, seen as repositories of experiences and knowledge to be reactivated, has also invaded the artistic field and governs the artistic practice as research.

The quest to understand how memory works and what it represents for the individual and the collective of which the individual is a part, what it means to remember and to forget, has had consequences in the appreciation of certain human practices and representations: the production of life stories, photographic records of public and private acts, documentary cinema, the creation of archives and databases, the use of narrative in medicine, the construction of memorials and the celebration of certain monuments, in sum, the deletion, the uses and misuses of memories that excluded, revised or reinforced narratives accepted as dominant.

On the one hand, we recognize the different amnesias of our times, the fear of robotization, of artificial intelligence, of expanded reality and the hologram. On the other hand, we are faced with the compulsive recording of our actions “for future memory”. Where can theatre and performance be situated in this problematic? As the art of memory? As a mnemonic device which makes a community temporarily remember together and, especially, produce memories and project memory in a space-time of sharing? The theatre memorabilia created for the pleasure of collectors is not the only expression (albeit the most evident one) of the modalities of the mnemonic recording and recovering of personal, cognitive and collective experiences of the theatre and the show.

The topic of memory relates to theatre and the performing arts precisely through their performative dimension. We see how it acts on the power of testimony, on the material dimensions of the real, on the non-segregation of the private sphere from the public sphere, on the prevalence of the process that connects artists and spectators in the meeting/confrontation of memories. We can speak of a theatre perceived as a palimpsest that lets you see how and what is written, erased and re-written in the body-memory of the actors, but also on the body of those present, who rework and reforge their memories in permanence.

In this II EASTAP Conference, we aim to promote discussion regarding the role of memory in contemporary theatre creation through three fundamental axes that are intertwined:

I. Memory in Theatre – The process of creation in its relation with the work of memory

Shared memory of experiences and knowledge
Theatre practice as testimony of (the) memory: text, body and annotation memory
Memory and anthropology: observation, recording, storage and archive in the creative process
Memory and political identity(ies)

II. Memory of Theatre – Research and the limits of memory

Artistic practice as research: performativity of the memory and cognition
Theatre between history and memory
Makers, audience(s) and memory(ies) of the theatre: the discourses of the observer community, the spectators, the actors, the directors, the critics
On memory as a territory under construction (texts, images, narratives)

III. The Theatre of Memory – The politics of memory in current societies and new theatre forms

Identity, narrative(s) and memory sharing
Memory and forgetfulness: the power(s) of theatre in the politics of memory
Artificial and digital memory: artistic experimentation
From “stock memory” to “flux memory”
Memory and the irruption of the Real: from documentary theatre to the theatre of the Real

The conference theme aims, therefore, to bring together diverse (inter)disciplinary perspectives (arts and performance studies, visual studies, cognitive sciences, social sciences, literary studies, cultural history), as well as to invite artists, that will be announced very soon, whose creative practice does not separate the three axes mentioned above. Thus, artists and researchers will be on an equal footing while discussing the theme and can present their points of view through communications, performance-speeches, interviews or commented audiovisual records of their work.

Maria João Brilhante

Centro de Estudos de Teatro, Universidade de Lisboa (mbrilhante@campus.ul.pt)

Tiago Rodrigues

Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (trodrigues@tndm.pt)

HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER

If you wish to submit a paper, please see the Guidelines for Papers and send your proposal by 15th May 2019 (new date) to the II EASTAP Conference organizers at the email address eastapconference.lisbon2019@gmail.com

Papers will be allocated 25 minutes on the programme (15 minutes for the paper and 10 minutes for discussion).

The selection of panels/papers will be made by the Conference organizers in consultation with the Scientific Committee. The decisions will be made public by the 7rd June 2019.

Languages of the Conference: English, French, Portuguese.

Conference registration can be made until the 10st of July according to the guidelines explained at https://www.eastap.com/registration/ .

REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS

How to proceed to register to a Conference.

a) Make sur you are registered to the Association.

If not, this is step 1.

Go to EASTAP registration page

Choose your status (regular member, student, institutional)

And pay

You should receive by mail a notice of confirmation

b) once you have registered a new page opens up with the rates for the conference you want to register to:

II EASTAP Lisbon (22-25 Septembre 2019)

III EASTAP Bologna (27-29 February 2020)

c) click the Conference you want to attend and pay

You will receive a notice of confirmation

Thank you for having REGISTERED to the conference.

Regular members: 60€

Students: 30€

Please, note that EASTAP registration is mandatory.

All enquiries concerning registration should be addressed to the email address registration@eastap.com

GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS

Please, send:

Name, institution
Abstract with 300 words in English and in the language of the presentation (FR or PT), in a Word document, Times New Roman, 12 pt
The chosen axis
CV with 100 words
Technical needs

You may find more information at https://eastap.com

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CALL FOR PAPERS

EASTAP III CONFERENCE IN BOLOGNA – FEBRUARY 27- 29, 2020

Benoit Solbes

17 June 2019 1 h 10 min 17 June 2019

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Click here for English, Italian and French versions CALL FOR PAPERS Creating for the Stage and other Spaces: Questioning Practices and Theories Organized by Claudio Longhi and Daniele Vianello The twentieth…

Click here for English, Italian and French versions

CALL FOR PAPERS

Creating for the Stage and other Spaces: Questioning Practices and Theories

Organized by Claudio Longhi and Daniele Vianello

The twentieth century witnessed crucial changes in creation for the stage, which in extreme cases resulted in a negation of theatre itself. While trying to negotiate this legacy, two decades into the twenty-first century, further transformations and developments are taking place, requiring new theoretical languages that adopt the past as an essential matrix for examining the present and future.

The III EASTAP Conference (European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance) intends to study this specific subject as well as helping to establish and support a dialogue between different cultures and customs in a moment, our present time, when the idea of Europe is thrown into question.
As a logical follow-up to the Paris and Lisbon editions which focused on decentralisation and shared memory(ies) of the European contemporary stage, this third EASTAP Conference will examine creating for the stage from past to present and across practice and theory. With the express intention to embed the EASTAP Conference in the Festival VIE 2020 (international theatre festival), we will foreground dialogue on the creative process with artists.

Researchers have investigated creative practices and related issues from many different perspectives. Over the course of the twentieth century, these practices and perspectives were considered to be useful knowledge for understanding artistic works; later, they turned into a set of cultural objects in their own right, requiring specific approaches and publishing. In the third millennium, as the focus has moved from the culture of the product to the culture of the process, creative practices have been included in the resulting stage works as organic and inseparable parts of the same process.

The conference structure includes two main areas of investigation which, in turn, include four major interlocking topics: theories of textual composition and practices of textual composition; theories of performance creation, or ‘writing for the stage’, and practices of ‘writing for the stage’.

By ‘textual composition’ we understand not only play-texts, but also multiple literary as well as other verbal types of languages. Examples include texts derived from improvisation; performance-‘scripts’; materials used in documentary theatre; the dramaturg’s contributions, which enable the text to shift between author, director, actors and audience.

By ‘stage writing’ we understand that stage processes can become a writing system of their own, involving all theatrical elements. The notion applies to theatre direction as well as to avant-garde and contemporary performance art, where non-linguistic features can be afforded semiotic value, adding to the theatrical language.
Both of these main areas of enquiry – ‘textual composition’ and ‘stage writing’ – include two sub-topics, namely theoretical perspectives aspects and artistic practices. Each, in turn, can be set either in a historical or contemporary context.

Artists from the Festival VIE 2020 are invited to take part in the conference by entering into dialogue with experts, journalists, researchers and theatre professionals sharing their ideas about the topics of enquiry via presentations, performances, masterclasses, round tables and audio-visual materials.
The following list of topics is not intended to be prescriptive, but as a proposition to identify different perspectives from which to consider approaching theatre creation. Below are some examples of subjects and guideline questions:

I. Text composition – theories

a) historical dimension: What are the methods and results of the interaction historically occurring between theatrical theories, artistic aesthetics and stage practices? How have theatrical theories reflected cultural, social, political or other phenomena?
b) contemporary dimension: How do theories influence or anticipate theatrical innovation? What are the implications of the concepts of dramatic, post-dramatic and post-modern?

II. Text composition – practices

a) historical dimension: How is the relationship between textual composition and stage production changing? How is textual composition influenced by production practices, from festivals to opera, from ballet to genres including acting and music?
b) contemporary dimension: What new practices are emerging as a result of the development of new dramatic models? What is the role of the contemporary so-called dramatist? How do new technologies affect writing practices and their application on stage?

III. Stage writing – theories

a) historical dimension: What influences do early forms of stage writing have
on successive generations? How do such writing methods contribute to the development of new forms of theatre direction?
b) contemporary dimension: What has ‘writing for the stage’ meant from the late twentieth century to now? How does this concept apply to the different languages and social contexts in Europe as well as around our globalised world?

IV. Stage writing – practices

a) historical dimension: From techniques used in the Commedia dell’Arte, through to the twentieth century, from livrets de mise en scène to contemporary directors’ notebooks, what are the different historical practices of stage writing and their distinctive features? How did the early forms of stage writing influence directing techniques?
b) contemporary dimension: How have stage writing practices resulted impacted on the conception of space, time, sound, lighting, image, actor performance and the audience? What is the role of the author, director, actor and spectator, in a theatre world where workshops and community theatre promote collaborative stage writing?

HOW TO SUBMIT A PAPER

Please send your proposal by 15 August 2019 to the III EASTAP Conference organisers:

eastapconference.bologna2020@gmail.com

Presentations: max. 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion.

Applications must include:
– Name, surname, institution (if any)
– Abstract of 300 words (max.) in English and in the language of the presentation (FR or IT), in a Word document, Times New Roman, 12pt
– Selected subject(s) (among the four main topics listed above)
– 150-word (max.) biography
– Any technical requirements for your presentation

The selection of panels/papers will be made by the Organizing Committee and Scientific Committee. The decisions will be made public by the 30 September 2019.

Languages of the Conference: English, French, Italian.

Conference registration can be made until 31 October 2019 according to the guidelines https://www.eastap.com/registration/

Registration includes free access to all shows and cultural events included in the Festival VIE 2020 (booking required). The full programme of Festival VIE 2020 events and artists will be available at https://www.viefestival.com/vie2020/, autumn 2019.

Conference registration fees
EASTAP regular members: 70 Euros
EASTAP student members: 35 Euros

Please note that EASTAP membership is a necessary precondition for Conference registration.
Please register here: https://www.eastap.com/registration/

REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS

How to proceed to register to a Conference.

a) Make sur you are registered to the Association.

If not, this is step 1.

Go to EASTAP registration page

Choose your status (regular member, student, institutional)

And pay

You should receive by mail a notice of confirmation

b) once you have registered a new page opens up with the rates for the conference you want to register to:

II EASTAP Lisbon (22-25 Septembre 2019)

III EASTAP Bologna (27-29 February 2020)

c) click the Conference you want to attend and pay

You will receive a notice of confirmation

Thank you for having REGISTERED to the conference.

All enquiries concerning registration should be made to registration@eastap.com

All enquiries concerning Call or organization of the Conference should be made exclusively to segreteriaconference.bo2020@gmail.com

For any other information, please refer to:
https://eastap.com
http://eastapconference2020.wordpress.com/
http://emiliaromagnateatro.com/eastap-conference/ https://www.viefestival.com/vie2020/eastap-conference/

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

European Journal of Theatre and Performance, Issue number 2 – Deadline : 20 July 2019

Benoit Solbes

16 June 2019 1 h 20 min 16 June 2019

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European Journal of Theatre and Performance Call for Proposals Past, Present and Future of Creative Processes in European Performing Arts Issue Editors: Lorenzo Mango, Sophie Lucet, Luk…

European Journal of Theatre and Performance

Call for Proposals

Past, Present and Future of Creative Processes in European Performing Arts

Issue Editors: Lorenzo Mango, Sophie Lucet, Luk Van den Dries

Multi-diversity is undoubtedly one of Europe’s main characteristics. As the differences between cultural, political, economic and social identities in Europe are often stronger than the forces that unite, Europe remains a fragile construction that is constantly in need of critical revision. However complex and challenging the diversity at the core of European commonality may be, it is also an expression of tremendously rich and multi-layered cultural traditions that, even when they are anchored in the past, continue to dialogue with the present.

Diversity is also a common characteristic of European theatre, but for this issue of the European Journal of Theatre and Performance we attempt to examine diversity from a methodological rather than an aesthetic point of view. Europe has been, and continues to be, the laboratory of many innovative forces in theatre history, which time and again challenge aspects of dominant theatre systems, be it actor-training, playwriting, technological innovation, rehearsal methods, the rise of the director, collaborative working methods, the distribution of performances via festivals, etc. ‘Every production forms its own method of work’, the dramaturg Marianne Van Kerkhoven once wrote. As such, the diversity of the European theatre stage is intimately linked to its variety of working methodologies, and it is precisely these varieties that guarantee the flexibility and mobility of European theatre for the future.

This second issue of the European Journal of Theatre and Performance focuses on the ‘genetics’ or creative processes of theatre, or on what Marco De Marinis calls ‘seeing-making theatre’. Genetic research in the performing arts began to grow roughly from the mid-eighties under the impulse of Almuth Grésillon and many others and slowly emancipated from its older sister critique génétique or genetic criticism. Now the interest in creative processes and their documentation has widely expanded. For this issue the editors are primarily interested in essays that critically discuss working methodologies on all levels of the creative process: the dynamics and collaborative nature of rehearsals; the role and function of observers during a creative process; the documentation of the rehearsal process through notebooks, drawings, video, social media, shared file-servers, blogs etc.; strategies of artistic research as instruments of inspiration; the role and function of dramaturgy; the relation between theatre and labour, among others. More general issues regarding research into creative processes in the performing arts could also be addressed, such as the challenges of the processual nature of theatre performances for genetic scholars, or how local and international contexts (political, economic, societal) influence creative processes. As Milo Rau states in the Ghent Manifesto ‘Theatre is not a product but a production process’, and we want to chart in what sense this production process has been formulated in the past, how it is changing in our times and how much it reflects current debates about democracy, interculturalism, hierarchy, authorship and so on.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Past and present methodologies of creation;
Connections between the micro-world of creative processes and the macro-world of the larger institutional, social, intercultural, political and ecological environment;
The documentation of creative processes: drawings, notebooks, notation, aural and visual forms;
The links between methodologies of creation and political utopias;
The production and transmission of embodied knowledge;
Authorship and non-hierarchical ways of collaboration;
Digital humanities and the development of technological tools for genetic research;
Intermediality and its influence on the creative process;
Co-creation process of theatre and (live) film;
Historiographies of the creative process;
Digital memories and archives of creative processes.

Proposals should be written in UK English, in MS-Word format and be between 600 and 700 words. Proposals must be based on original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Please state in the proposal in which language(s) you intend to write the paper. If your proposal is accepted, you will be invited to submit a first draft of your article by 1 October 2019. Articles can be written in the language of author’s preference. However, at this stage of the development of the journal and EASTAP, we ask contributors to secure professional proof-reading for all articles written in languages other than English. Authors may also choose to publish their article in more than one language. Submitted articles will undergo a double blind peer-review process. The maximum length of the final article should not exceed 9000 words (including abstract in English and at least one additional language, references, a short note on the author, etc.).

Deadline for proposals: 20 July 2019

First drafts of accepted proposals: 1 October 2019

Final drafts: 20 December 2019

Publication: January 2020

Issue-related enquiries and abstract proposals should be sent to the issue editors:

Luc.vandendries@uantwerpen.be

lormango57@gmail.com

sophie.lucet93@gmail.com

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WE HAVE THE GREAT PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE

2019 EASTAP ASSOCIATE ARTIST is SHERMIN LANGHOFF, artistic director of MAXIM GORKI THEATRE BERLIN

ArchibaldFergusson

21 April 2019 22 h 07 min 21 April 2019

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Shermin Langhoff began her professional life in publishing and television. After many years in film, collaborating on projects including Gegen die Wand (Head-On) with Fatih Akin, she worked as…

Shermin Langhoff began her professional life in publishing and television. After many years in film, collaborating on projects including Gegen die Wand (Head-On) with Fatih Akin, she worked as a curator at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) theatres from 2004 to 2008. There she founded the “Akademie der Autodidakten” (Academy of Autodidacts), which provided many talented artists with a platform for their work. Her “Beyond Belonging” project series began in 2006, for which she invited artists from other disciplines such as visual arts, literature and film – including Nurkan Erpulat, Nevin Aladağ, Hakan Savaş Mican, Ayşe Polat and Neço Çelik – to tell new stories for the theatre.

In 2008 Langhoff founded the Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district and made significant contributions to establishing the concept of post-migrant theatre. Since then this concept has become a constant in the societal debates about the country of immigration that Germany has become, and has been widely discussed in academia as well. Several Ballhaus productions, especially Verrücktes Blut (Crazy Blood) by Nurkan Erpulat and Jens Hillje, garnered attention on an international level. Erpulat’s production was invited to Berlin’s Theatertreffen and numerous other international festivals.

Langhoff has been the artistic director of the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin since the 2013/14 season. In 2014 and 2016, the Gorki was voted “Theatre of the Year” by the German-speaking critics in Theater heute magazine’s survey (together with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in 2016). Many Gorki productions have received both national and international honours. They’ve also been recognized with invitations to the Theatertreffen festival: in 2015 for the play Common Ground by Yael Ronen and ensemble, followed by The Situation, another work by Yael Ronen and the ensemble, in 2016.

Under Langhoff’s direction, the Maxim Gorki Theatre understands itself as a place in which constructions of nation, identity, and belonging are questioned by dealing with history and presenting trans-local references. For the beginning of her tenure in 2013, Langhoff organised the first Berlin Herbstsalon (Berlin Autumn Salon), an interdisciplinary exhibition-parcour, in which around 30 artists shed light on the historic area around the Maxim Gorki Theatre from a variety of perspectives over a period of two weeks. Two years later in 2015, the second salon devoted itself to flight and seeking refuge, and how visible and invisible borders separate people from one another: in this context, a special kind of encounter between political art and activism was enabled. For the third salon in 2017, the exhibition expanded to encompass the entire city. From the Brandenburg Gate, through the Maxim Gorki Theatre to the historic Kronprinzenpalais (Crown Prince’s Palace), the exhibition gathered works by about 100 artists from around the world. Under the slogan “De-integrate Yourselves!”, they presented a manifold rebellion against attributions, generalisations and simplifications and invited a broad public to engage with these social issues. More than 20,000 visitors came to the exhibition rooms alone, admission to which was free of charge.

Shermin Langhoff has received several awards for her work at the Maxim Gorki Theatre. In 2015 the B.Z. newspaper awarded her with their culture prize. In 2016 she received the East End Theatre Prize and, in the same year, the prestigious Theatre Prize Berlin from the Preussische Seehandlung foundation, together with Jens Hillje, co-artistic director. Under their leadership, the Gorki has deliberately become a radical venue “reflecting the diversity of the city’s population in its performance and discussion programme, as well as in its ensemble: German actors from around the world who perform their way out of pigeon-holes, attributions and (gender) certainties”, the jury explained. “For them identity is not a fixed category, rather an opportunity to reconsider and re-examine oneself time and again, in social, artistic and political spaces”.

In addition, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded Shermin Langhoff its KAIROS European culture prize in 2011 for her work as a cultural mentor. The Helga and Edzard Reuter Foundation has honoured her for notable achievements in the field of international understanding and integration. In 2012 she received the Moses Mendelssohn Prize from the Berlin government. She was presented with the Theodor Heuss Medal in 2014. In 2017 she was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) by German President Joachim Gauck for her achievements in culture.

Shermin Langhoff is a member of the jury at the Tarabya Academy for Culture in Istanbul and for both the Alfred Topfer Stiftung’s KAIROS award and the city of Augsburg’s Bertolt Brecht award. From 2012 to 2017, she was on the board of trustees of the Eberhard-Schultz-Stiftung für soziale Menschenrechte und Partizipation (Eberhard-Schultz-Foundation for Social Human Rights and Participation) and served as an expert and a founding member of the Germany-wide Rat für kulturelle Bildung (Council for Cultural Education).

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EASTAP conference

JOIN US!!! Coming conferences in 2019 and 2020

Benoit Solbes

15 March 2019 21 h 38 min 15 March 2019

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In Lisbon, September 2019 conference organised by Maria Joao Brilhante and Tiago Rodrigues in Bologna, February 2020 conference organised by Daniele Vianello and Claudio Longhi with VIE Festival …

In Lisbon, September 2019

conference organised by Maria Joao Brilhante and Tiago Rodrigues

in Bologna, February 2020

conference organised by Daniele Vianello and Claudio Longhi

with VIE Festival

Contact

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Great News!!!

Launching European Journal of Theatre and Performance

Benoit Solbes

15 March 2019 21 h 28 min 15 March 2019

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European Journal of Theatre and Performance https://journal.eastap.com Number 1 / March 2019 Titre: Spectres of Europe: European Theatre between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism’ Table of contents

European Journal of Theatre and Performance

https://journal.eastap.com

Number 1 / March 2019

Titre: Spectres of Europe: European Theatre between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism’

Table of contents

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IIè CONGRÈS EASTAP

Lisbonne | 23-24-25 septembre 2019

Benoit Solbes

9 March 2019 5 h 09 min 9 March 2019

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Mémoire(s) partagée(s): création, recherche et politique sur la scène européenne contemporaine. Appel à communications (FR) Call for papers (ENG) Chamada à submissão de comunicações (PT)

Mémoire(s) partagée(s):

création, recherche et politique sur la scène européenne contemporaine.

Appel à communications (FR)

Call for papers (ENG)

Chamada à submissão de comunicações (PT)

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Publication

What is the Theatre? Christian Biet & Christophe Triau

ArchibaldFergusson

8 March 2019 23 h 09 min 8 March 2019

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What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is, above all, spectacle. It is a fleeting performance, delivered…

https://www.routledge.com/What-is-the-Theatre/Biet-Triau/p/book/9781138701656

What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is, above all, spectacle. It is a fleeting performance, delivered by actors and intended for spectators. It is a work of the body, an exercise of voice and gesture addressed to an audience, most often in a specific location and with a unique setting. This entertainment event rests on the delivery of a thing promised and expected – a particular and unique performance witnessed by spectators who have come to the site of the performance for this very reason. To witness theatre is to take into account the performance, but it is also to take into account the printed text as readable object and a written proposition.

In this book, Christian Biet and Christophe Triau focus on the practical, theoretical and historical positions that the spectator and the reader have had in relation to the locations that they frequent and the texts that they handle. They adopt two approaches: analysing the spectacle in its theatrical and historical context in an attempt to seek out the principles and paradigms of approaching the theatre experience on one hand, and analysing the dramaturgy of a production in order to establish lines of interpretation and how to read, represent and stage a text, on the other. This approach allows us to better understand the ties that link those who participate in the theatre to the practitioners who create theatrical entertainment.

More informations : https://www.routledge.com/What-is-the-Theatre/Biet-Triau/p/book/9781138701656

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EASTAP conference

Thomas Bellinck – House of European History in Exile

ArchibaldFergusson

31 December 2018 9 h 40 min 31 December 2018

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Thomas BELLINCK Artiste visuel (Belgique) House of European History in Exile (Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo) Entretien de Thomas Bellinck réalisé par l’Observatoire Critique : The Belgian director Thomas…

Thomas BELLINCK

Artiste visuel (Belgique)

House of European History in Exile (Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo)

Entretien de Thomas Bellinck réalisé par l’Observatoire Critique :

The Belgian director Thomas Bellinck recreates an unsettlingly topical work that looked ahead to the future of Europe. The first international exposition on life in the former European Union…

Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo (House of European History in Exile) takes us back over half a century to the beginning of the 21st century. It is a little-known, poorly documented period, and yet it was a crucible of upheavals. It was a strange time, you see, when national borders were becoming blurred, a single currency called the Euro was used for trade, and when Brussels, not Warsaw, was the beating heart of the old continent. Despite appearances, Thomas Bellinck is not a ‘Eurosceptic’, quite the contrary, he is eager to awaken awareness in today’s Europe, where nationalism raises old demons and causes people to look inwards to affirm their identities. So before it’s too late, let’s look ahead to a future that may well look like what is starting to happen before our very eyes…

Born in 1983, Brussels-based artist Thomas Bellinck often places questions on the European construction at the heart of his work. Standing at the crossroads between performance, installation art and film, he is known in particular for his work focusing on power, politics and systemic violence which he explores with professional and non-professional actors, scientists, etc.

Thomas Bellinck studied Germanic Philology and theatre directing. In 2009, selected for the Flemish Theatre Festival for a political initiative with illegalized immigrants on hunger strike, he opened the festival with a speech entitled We were dying and then we got a prize. In 2010, he co-set up the Steigeisen theatre company, staging such documentary performances as Fobbit, Billy, Sally, Jerry and the .38 Gun, Lethal Inc., De Onkreukelbare and Memento Park. In 2013, at the Flemish National Theatre in Brussels, Thomas created Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo, a futuristic-historical exhibition on “life in the former European Union”. The as-if-museum then travelled to other European cities, including Rotterdam, Vienna, Athens, Wiesbaden and Marseille. In 2015, Thomas co-established ROBIN, an artist-run production structure for tailor-made artistic work. From 2017 onwards, he has been working as a PhD researcher at KASK / School of Arts at the University College in Ghent, where he is one of the founding members of The School of Speculative Documentary. Thomas Bellinck is currently developing Simple as ABC, a series of performances and installations about the apparatus of Western “migration management” and the visual economy of the illegalisation of migration. After an audio play about smell-based detection technology and a musical about the digitalization of “migration management”, he is now working on the next chapter, Simple as ABC #3: The Wild Hunt, which will premiere in May 2019.

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EASTAP conference

Arkadi Zaides – Border Archives

ArchibaldFergusson

31 December 2018 9 h 27 min 31 December 2018

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Arkadi ZAIDES Chorégraphe (Biélorussie / Portugal) Border Archives In this talk, choreographer Arkadi Zaides will discuss three of his recent works (one of which is in the process of…

Arkadi ZAIDES

Chorégraphe (Biélorussie / Portugal)

Border Archives

In this talk, choreographer Arkadi Zaides will discuss three of his recent works (one of which is in the process of making). A specific choreography is identified in the proximity of borders through the use of existing and assembled archives. In Archive (2014) it is the video archive of B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, from which he extracts gestures of Israeli settlers. In Talos (2017) it is an assembly of drone footage capturing the movement of migrants into Europe that he analyses to identify strategies of detection. In Necropolis (2019) it is a list documenting the deaths of refugees and migrants that attempt to access Europe, scrolling through which allows entry to the city of the dead and the collective body that inhabits it.

Arkadi Zaides, chorégraphe, né en 1979 en Biélorussie, a immigré en Israël en 1990. Sa compagnie est basée depuis 2015 à Villeurbanne (69), il travaille actuellement en Europe. Zaides est titulaire d’un Master en chorégraphie de l’école de théâtre d’Amsterdam. Il s’est produit dans plusieurs troupes israéliennes, dont la Batsheva Dance Company et la Yasmeen Godder Dance Group. Il a entamé une carrière indépendante en 2004. À travers ses projets, Arkadi Zaides aborde les questions sociales et politiques, sous l’angle du conflit israélo-palestinien tout d’abord, puis dans le contexte européen actuel. La pratique artistique de Zaides a pour but de susciter un débat critique, utilisant le corps comme médium à travers lequel les questions sociales et politiques trouvent leur expression la plus poignante. Ses spectacles et installations ont été présentés dans plusieurs lieux et festivales en Europe, en Amérique du Nord et du Sud et en Asie, dans ces pays entre autres : la Portugal, l’Portugal, les Pays-Bas, la Suisse, la Suède, le Canada, les Etats-Unis, la Chine, le Japon, la Norvège, la République Tchèque, la Pologne, l’Portugal, la Grèce, le Portugal, le Brésil et la Chine.

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