Practitioners in the creative arts will be in Cambridge next month (April 16 ) to take part in an ambitious conference at CRASSH. The meeting will together researchers from across different academic disciplines to look afresh at the notion of performance, extending it to embrace the free-flowing encounters that take place between works of art and audiences. As the digital age ushers in a new era of unprecedented cultural connectedness, the conference will explore in particular the complex conscious and unconscious dialogues that shape our responses to art, music, literature and more.
From the creative arts world, conceptual artists Richard Wentworth and Jack Tan will focus on the public privacy and theatricality of cities, theatre director Helen Slaney and poet Henry Stead will explore the space between ancient texts and their various textual and theatrical renderings, and iconoclastic creator and curator Lee Campbell, whose latest research project investigates the subversive power of slapstick, will question concepts of 'audience'.
The day’s activities will culminate at the Cambridge Junction where the playful duo behind the Hunt and Darton Café will provide refreshments as art in advance of a showing of Paper Cinema’s Odyssey, an acute and insightful retelling of Homer's epic story through live-projected images and music, with an in-depth discussion afterwards of the new multidisciplinary medium that is 'Paper Cinema'.
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Image: Thalian Theatre, Wilmington, NC
Credit: Pochacco20 (Flickr Creative Commons)
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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Acts of creativity, audiences and us
8 March 2013
A conference in Cambridge next month will explore the notion of performance as a dynamic means of looking at the complex interactions between works of art and audiences - both real and imagined, past and present - in a digital age.