The Politics of Collaboration – European Currents
A research event at Middlesex University, London (Hendon)
Saturday 24th September 2016 (9.00am – 7.30pm)
Within the current European political developments, the notion of collaboration has arguably gained acute new relevance. Following two symposia in 2012 and 2013, as well as the recent publication of the edited collection Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures (Palgrave 2016), Noyale Colin and Stefanie Sachsenmaier will hold a full-day research event on the Politics of Collaboration with a specific focus on current European dynamics at Middlesex University, London, on Saturday 24 September 2016. The event will be hosted by the Theatre Arts Department at Middlesex University, in collaboration with the Performing Arts Department at the University of Winchester.
In order to initiate a new phase of what is an ongoing project, we welcome the attendance and participation of researchers, artists and students to engage with the following issues:
The event will feature presentations, roundtables and performances. We will also launch the new edited book on collaboration as part of this event.
Confirmed Keynotes
Rudi Laermans, Gigi Argyropoulou, Bojana Cvejic
Roundtable contributions (selection)
Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll, Nikki Tomlinson (Artsadmin), Valeria Graziano, Dog Kennel Hill Project, Alice Chauchat, After Performance (research collective), Vierte Welt Kollaborationen: Judith van der Werff and Marcus Reinhardt.
Performances
Dog Kennel Hill Project, Our True Feelings (Etudes in Tension and Crisis)
Alice Chauchat, Togethering, A Group Solo
Angela Woodhouse, In the Eye of the Beholder
In order to initiate a new phase of what is an ongoing project, we welcome the attendance and participation of researchers, artists and students to engage with the following issues:
- Can collaboration offer ways of exploring and addressing political issues through performance? What kinds of social life are we producing in performing Europe today?
- Can ways of co-working in performance respond to the crisis of togetherness?
- To what extent can collaborative performance practice be a means of challenging dominant modes of production in contemporary society?
- How does collaboration in performance practice speak to wider conditions of contemporary society including precarious labour, composite subjectivity, cultural boundaries and conflicting ethics?
- Could the artist employing collaboration as a strategy to resist alienated modes of production constitute the ideal ‘elite worker’ through her/his intended escapism of precarious working conditions?
- Can modes of working together in performance act as a significant force in fostering social change in times of crisis?
The event will feature presentations, roundtables and performances. We will also launch the new edited book on collaboration as part of this event.
Confirmed Keynotes
Rudi Laermans, Gigi Argyropoulou, Bojana Cvejic
Roundtable contributions (selection)
Gob Squad, Rimini Protokoll, Nikki Tomlinson (Artsadmin), Valeria Graziano, Dog Kennel Hill Project, Alice Chauchat, After Performance (research collective), Vierte Welt Kollaborationen: Judith van der Werff and Marcus Reinhardt.
Performances
Dog Kennel Hill Project, Our True Feelings (Etudes in Tension and Crisis)
Alice Chauchat, Togethering, A Group Solo
Angela Woodhouse, In the Eye of the Beholder
Location: Hendon Campus: Grove Building
Venue Details: The Burroughs - Hendon - London NW4 4BT
More Information:
Directions to the Middlesex University London Campus can be found here:
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/get-in-touch/directions-london
Photo: Dog Kennel Hill Project, ‘Our True Feelings’ by David Monteith-Hodge