PSi #10 SINGAPORE 2004
PSi PERFORMANCE STUDIES international
PSi is a professional association founded in 1997 to promote communication and exchange between scholars and practitioners working in the field of performance. The organisation has staged numerous international conference and festival gatherings that have moved between the discourse and practice of performance. PSi conferences have been held in the United States, Wales, and Germany. PSi #10 took place in Singapore in 2004.
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The Substation, 45 Armenian Street |
Pre Registration |
1900 |
The Fat Frog Bar, The Substation |
Informal Drinks |
DAY 1: TUESDAY 15 JUNE 2004
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0900 |
Registration |
Coffee & Tea |
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1000 |
Opening & Main Session 1 |
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Perform: State: Translate |
Opening film excerpt by Ho Tzu Nyen, Visual Artist, Singapore
Lee Weng Choy, The Substation, Singapore (moderator) Jennifer Lindsay, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Goenawan Mohamad, Writer, Indonesia |
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1200 |
Lunch |
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1215 |
Meeting of PSi Committee on Undergraduate Performance Studies |
Chair: John Bell |
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1230 |
Book Launch |
focas 5: Second Front – Interrogating Art, Religiosity and Violence |
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1300 |
Main Session 2 |
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States of Theory — G/lo/b/cal Densities? |
Sanjay Krishnan,
University of Pennsylvania (moderator) Jon McKenzie, Dartmouth College Trinh T. Minh-ha, University of California, Berkeley Yao Souchou, University of Sydney |
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1500 |
Tea Break |
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1515 |
Parallel Panel Session 1 |
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1.1 Subsequent Performances |
Mika Eglinton University of Tokyo Constructing and Consuming Hamlet Huang Yin-Ying National Taiwan University The Writing Body: Reading Performance Works Based on Literature in Contemporary Taiwan. Clarissa OonWriter, Singapore The Eunuch’s descendants Marianne König Setiadi Theatre Anthropologist, Switzerland/Indonesia “It needs all things to make a world”: An appreciation of Mbah Roedjito |
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1.2 In Terra Gators: Looking at the Performance Grounds Walked (Crawled?) Upon |
Sunetra Fernando University of Malaya Interrogating the Rhythm in Bronze Project Mohd Anis Md Nor University of Malaya When the Arts Interrogate State: The Story of Zapin Revival in Johor Rohaizad SuaidiUniversiti Putra Malaysia Performance of Race: A State University Under InterrogationSusan Philip Australian National University/University of Malaya Hybridity as an Interrogation of Authoritative Discourse in Huzir Sulaiman’s Eight Plays. Charlene Rajendran (moderator)Nanyang Technological University |
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1.3 States of Politics and Performance: Considering Theatre between Nation and Globality |
Peter Eckersall University of Melbourne 21st century enjoyment plaza: theatre and Mori’s world Satoh Makoto Theatre artist, Japan Theatre and/as political work Edward SheerUniversity of New South Wales Karaoke Charisma: On Bad Actors and Other Political Performances. Tadashi Uchino University of Tokyo Globality's Children: Thinking through the “Children’s” Body as a Strategy of Flatness in Performance. |
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1.4 Performing Gay Identities |
Jonathan Bollen University of New England Intercorporeal Choreographies: Gay Performance Practices and the Interstices of DesireIvy Chang National Chiao Tung University Queering Glocally: The Camp Aesthetics and Politics in Taiwan’s Queer TheatreChia-Hsin Chou Trinity College, Dublin Queering Barthes Unbinding Sexuality: The Politics and Social Means of Mary Mullen Frederick Corey Arizona State University Chance in Our LivesBenny Lim The Fun Stage, Singapore Indifferent, or Strictly Oblivious? |
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1.5 Pedagogy & Performance Studies |
John Anderson Emerson College The Local Politics of Performance Studies at Emerson College: An Institutional Genealogy John Bell Emerson College Ubiquitous & Invisible: Performance Studies in Undergraduate Teaching. Charles Garoian Penn State University The Embodied Pedagogy of Performance ArtYvonne Gaudelius Penn State University The Embodied Pedagogy of Performance Art |
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1.6 Asian Performance Aesthetics and Actions: Contemporary Interpretations |
Paula Murray Cole, Ithaca College and East Coast Artists and Rachel Bowditch, East Coast Artists and New York University Lecture Demonstration of the Rasaboxes: Training the actor as athlete of the emotions Sangeeta IsvaranDancer and Activist, India Rasa – a life-skillHim SophyComposer, Cambodia Recognizing the problem of Sound in Traditional Cambodian Music. Martin Welton (moderator)Queen Mary, University of London |
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1745 |
Break |
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Film Screening NIGHT PASSAGEDirected and produced by: Trinh Minh-ha & Jean-Paul Bourdier |
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1800 |
Interest Groups |
Interest Group Details |
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IG1 - Documenting Performance |
Facilitated by: Gay McAuley, University of Sydney |
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IG2 - Motion Sickness Lab
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Facilitated by: Tang Fu Kuen, Writer and dramaturg (Singapore) |
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IG3 - Performance and the Age of Terrorism |
Facilitated by: John Bell, Emerson College |
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IG4 - Workshop on the Rasaboxes: Training the actor as athelete of the emotions |
Facilitated by: Rachel Bowditch, New York University/East Coast Artists (US) Paula Murray Cole, Ithaca College / East Coast Artists (US) |
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IG5 - Developing Women’s Performance Networks |
Facilitated by: Audrey Wong and Magdalena Singapore |
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IG6 - Festival Cultures |
Facilitated by: Margaret Werry, University of Minnesota Venka Purushothaman, La Salle-SIA College of the Arts Low Kee Hong, TheatreWorks (Singapore) |
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IG7 - Glocalizing Performance Research |
Facilitated by: Jon McKenzie, Dartmouth College Heike Roms, University of Glamorgan C.J. Wee Wan-ling, Nanyang Technological University |
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1930 |
Conference Reception |
Hosted by Singapore Management University Guest of Honour: Professor Roberto S Mariano, Dean, School of Economics and Social Sciences, Vice Provost, Research, Deputy Director, Wharton-SMU Research Center, Singapore Management University |
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DAY 2: WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE 2004
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0900 |
Registration |
Coffee & Tea |
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1000 |
Main Session 3 |
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Perform: Practice: Tradition:
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Kathy Rowland, Researcher & activist, Malaysia (moderator) Richard Gough, University of Wales Ong Keng Sen, TheatreWorks, Singapore Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, University of Malaya Jung-Soon Shim, Soongsil University |
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1100 |
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Interest Groups |
Public Programme |
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See day 1 for details |
Artists’ Panel on Butterflies by Golden Bough Theatre (Taiwan) Introduced and contextualized by Yu Shan-lu, supported by National Arts Council |
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1230 |
Lunch |
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1245 |
Meeting of PSi Artists Network Committee |
Acting chair: Laurie Beth Clark |
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PSi Graduate Students’ Committee |
Acting chair: Paul Rae |
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1330 |
Parallel Panel Session 2 |
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2.1 Radical In-corporations and Visionary Crossbreeds |
Meiling Cheng University of Southern California Homixenology on Trial: Performing Alien Molting in Contemporary China. Katherine Mezur University of California, Berkeley The Superflat Girls and Alien Incorporation: Japan's Cute/Pop Nation Modified for Creative Consumption. KK Seet National University of Singapore Mothers and Daughters: Abjection and the Monstrous-Feminine in Japan's Dark Water and South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters Shannon Steen University of California, Berkeley Of Viruses and Virtue: Resisting the Asian Body as Transnational Vector of Contagion Trinh T Minh-ha : Discussant University of California, Berkeley Margaret Werry University of Minnesota Policy, Post-Ethnicity, and the Neo-Liberal Imagination: Alien Encounters in the South Pacific
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2.2 Breadcrumbs: Tracing The Way Home |
Rachel Apelt Visual artist, Australia The Skins of GilgameshMichael Lee Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Misusing the House: Making a Home: Domestic Imaginations in Contemporary Singapore Arts Susie Lingham Writer & artist, Singapore Heterotropic hauntingsSuzann Victor Visual artist, Australia/Singapore The image stammers |
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2.3 Performance, Language and Translation 1 (Asia Research Institute panel) |
Chua Soo Pong Chinese Opera Institute, Singapore Verbal and Non-verbal Languages in Contemporary Chinese Opera Performance in China and SingaporePornrat Damrhung Thailand Translating Khon for the Public: Changing Language to Make Meaning in Thai Performance CultureTan Sooi Beng Universiti Sains Malaysia Multilingualism and Humour: Comic Songs as Mediators of Pluralism in Malaysia Ward Keeler University of Texas Polyglossic Pleasures: Translation in Balinese and Javanese Performing Arts.
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2.4 Perspectives on Performance in the Global Marketplace |
Chia-Che Hsieh Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh Resistance Or Surrender? The impact of performing arts festival provision on cultural identities of traditional Japanese and Chinese performing arts, and its relationship to western audience expectations: A case study of Asian productions at Edinburgh International Festival Shailaja J. Theatre artist, India Art of the voyeur and the vanishing Art: A study on Indian performing arts in global marketSheelah Grace Murthy & Anuj Vaidya Mrs Rao’s Growl, US The Role of Tourist as Seen in the Performance Piece: “The Techno Buddhist is a Tourist.” Tan Shzr Ee Ethnomusicologist, Singapore Culture vs Art; Performance vs Preservation: The role of cultural intermediaries in the case of ‘Enigma’ versus Taiwanese aboriginal singer ‘Difang’. Csaba Toth Carlow College, Pittsburgh Performing Global Japan: Gender, J-Pop, and Geographies Of Desire In Contemporary Tokyo |
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2.5 Staging the Self, Staging the Other |
Gunhild Borggreen University of Copenhagen Performing Nationhood: Mori Mariko and her Self-staging ProjectsRune Gade University of Copenhagen The Social Body within the Individual Self: The work of Tanja Ostojic. Camilla Jalving University of Copenhagen Framing Performativity. Hanne-Louise Johannesen University of Copenhagen The Unbearable Lightness of Being Digital. Malene Vest Hansen University of Copenhagen Public Places – Private Spaces: Sophie Calle’s The Detachment |
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2.6 Performing for the State: Censorship in Singapore & Malaysia |
Rey Buono Sunway College, Malaysia Lucy Davis: discussant focas, Forum on Contemporary Art and Society Singapore Jo Kukathas Theatre artist, Malaysia Dana Lam Artist & civil society activist, Singapore Kathy Rowland Researcher & activist, Malaysia Alfian Sa’at Poet, playwright & writer, Singapore
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1600 |
Break |
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1630 |
Parallel Panel Session 3 |
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3.1 Performance in Islamic Societies |
Dalia Basiouny CUNY To Conceal & Reveal: Representations of Moslem Women on StageWilliam Beeman Brown University Gender, Sexuality and Performance in Islam John Bell Emerson College Islam and Object PerformanceThomas King James Madison University Turkish and Ottoman Identity in PerformanceRayelle Niemann Researcher & Multimedia Artist Moulids in Egypt: A Traditional Phenomenon of Ritual and Sociability. |
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3.2 Self-Fashioned Identities
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Joshua Dale Tokyo Liberal Arts University “Sex is worth dying for”: Annabel Chong, The Interrogation of Identity of Identity and the Ethics of SacrificeHo Tzu Nyen Visual artist, Singapore The Clothes Make the Man – The Story of Four SuitsRachel Joseph Stanford University Performing Infinity. Daphne LeiUniversity of California, Irvine Asia Skin Deep: A Traditional Phenomenon of Ritual and Sociability |
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3.3 Seduction, Affection, Subversion and Desire |
Helena Grehan Murdoch University Seduction, Display and Power: ethics and representation in contemporary performance. Bojana Kunst University of Ljubljana Politics of Affection and UneasinessJung-Soon Shim Soongsil University Performing Emotion Interculturally: Korean Production of Hamlet Tina Takemoto California College of the Arts Sick, Exotic, and Outta Control: Ecstasies of Asian/American Performance.
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3.4 Transmissions & Spectacle |
Catherine DiamondSoochow University Fa Ngoum’s Legacy: The Impact of State, Foreign Media, and Donor Organizations on Lao Performing ArtsRay Langenbach (moderator) Theorist & performance artist, Malaysia Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez University of the Philippines Power and Performativity: The Case of Tupada (Philippines). Ingrid MuanReyum Arts Centre, Cambodia States of Panic: Procedures of the present in 1950s Cambodia. Takahashi Yuichiro Dokkyo University (Re)Invention of Japan through the Olympian Spectacle.
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3.5 Youth Theatre in Malaysia: (What) Does it Mean Anymore? |
Fahmi Fadzil Akshen Theatre, Malaysia TraditionCarmen Nge Five Arts, Malaysia EmpowermentCharlene Rajendran National Institute of Education Reflective/Reflexive/Practice Mark Teh Five Arts / Akshen Theatre, Malaysia Methodology and PedagogySheelah Grace Murthy & Anuj Vaidya : discussants Mrs Rao’s Growl, US |
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3.6 Performance, Language and Translation 2 (Asia Research Institute Panel) |
Paul Dwyer: Discussant University of Sydney Jennifer Lindsay Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Performing Translation: Hardjo Susilo’s translation of Javanese wayang performanceGoenawan Mohamad Artist, Indonesia Sri Mulat: Politics of Orality?Alfian Sa’atPoet, playwright & writer, Singapore Out of Sync: Bad Translation as Performance
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3.7 Performing Queer in Contemporary Thailand |
Pawit MahasarinandChulalongkhorn University Performing Solo: The “Queer” Performance Artist Kuthilda Maneerat Chulalongkorn University Commodified Figure: “Queer” Body on Display at Calypso Cabaret (A Thai Female Impersonation Show for Tourists) Wankwan Polachan University of Bangkok “Queer” Presentation in Thai Comic PerformanceWannasak SirilarTheatre artist, Thailand |
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1900 |
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DAY 3: THURSDAY 17 JUNE 2004
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1000 |
Parallel Panel Session 4 |
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4.1 Intercultural and Postcolonial Frameworks for Indonesian Performance
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Michael Bodden University of Victoria “Fuedalism” and “Aufklarung” and the Faces of “tradition” in the Construction of Indonesia’s National Art TheatreJohn Emigh Brown University Years of Living Dangerously: Culture, Criticism and Killing in Bali from 1963 to 1966Cobina Gillitt New York University Taman Ismail Marzuki’s Golden Years: Continuity, Innovation and Semangat Ke-Indonesiaan in Indonesia Theatre 1968- 1978Evan Darwin Winet Macalester College “Rakyat” and “Ummat”: In search of the Islamic in Indonesian Theatre and Performance TheoryAstri Wright University of Victoria Performing the Artist’s Performance: Astri responding to Arahmaiani
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4.2 Politicised Acts, Political Actions |
Sruti Bala University of Mainz Performative aspects of nonviolent actionMaaike Bleeker University of Amsterdam Let’s Fall in Love: Performing Political Marriage. Thomas Burvill Macquarie University Resistant Performance and (State) Performatives in The Time of the TampaAntonio Prieto-Sta mbáugh El Colegio de Michoacán The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Mexican Performance ArtVenka Purushothaman LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts Ordinary Acts: Line-dancing and Apathy in Everyday Life in Singapore
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4.3 Rethinking Ritual and Authenticity |
Margaret Chan Singapore Management University Ritual is Theatre, Theatre Is Ritual: Chinese Theatre as Ritual of Transformation. Dorothy Chansky The College of William & Mary Staging the Passion: Reading Responses to Film and Theatre Versions of the “Greatest Story Ever Told.” Douglas Farrer National University of Singapore In the Shadows of Performance: Mysticism, Mystification and the Search for AuthenticityMundoli Narayanan Miyazaki International College The Over-ritualisation of Performance: Western Discourses on Indian Traditional Theatre. Sue-Han Ueng National Taipei University Performance Tactics in Taiwanese Folk Ritual Processions—Interplay with the State.
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4.4 Incorporations |
Amanda Card University of Sydney Blame it on the ButohDavid Cross Massey University Medical Rebirth in Singapore. Heike Gaessler Writer, Germany Contemporary Chinese DanceNatalie Loveless University of California, Santa Cruz Translation and Materiality: producing von Hagens Bodyworlds. Peta Tait La Trobe University Re/memberings of Muscular Aerial Bodies in Circus.
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4.5 Performance in and of Social Space |
Thomas Berghuis University of Sydney / Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Public Conduct and Private Space: Performance Art in China Today Shimon Levy Tel Aviv University Space as Meaning: The Sinking of the Titanic at Tel Aviv University. Jane McGonigalUniversity of California, Berkeley Dark Play in Public Spaces: Confessions of a Flash Mob Organizer. Michael Peterson University of Wisconsin Stateless and Under-Stated Streets: Power and Place in Entertainment Districts Nicolas Whybrow University of Warwick ‘Der Bevölkerung’/ ‘For the Populace’: performative interrogations of nationhood in the new Germany
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4.6 Organising Performance: Initiatives and Initiators |
Minako EshiSetagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo Contemporary Theatre in Asia, a 3 year Collaboration ProjectJay Koh International Forum for InterMedia Art Working Strategies in Cross-cultural Engagements Lee Wen Performance artist, Singapore The desire to perform art: representation, reception and evolution Judith McLean & Zane Trow Queensland University of Technology Organising Performance: Initiatives and Initiators
Ute RitschelUniversity of Mainz Inviting the “Other” - Asian performance artists in Germany.
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1130 |
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Interest Groups |
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See Day 1 for details |
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1300 |
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Lunch |
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1315 |
Meeting of PSi International Committee
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Chair: Sharon Mazer |
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1400 |
Parallel Panel Session 5 |
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5.1 Performance Art as Performance Art 2 (open to public) |
Arahmaiani Performance Artist, Indonesia UntitledLee Wen Performance artist, Singapore Almost untitled: interrogate the error Boris Nieslony Performance artist, Germany Koan - Daily Life Plot: Translation Seiji Shimoda Performance artist, Japan Six Chopsticks W. Christiawan Performance Artist, Indonesia Should We Light Our Spirit with Everything When the Soul has Nothing
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5.2 Producing Performance Studies |
Jessica Chalmers, University of Notre Dame, Peter Falkenberg, University of Canterbury, Sharon Mazer, University of Canterbury Perform: State: Interrogate: Be: Here: Now: Malcolm FloydKing Alfred’s College Winchester The Coaxial Gaze and Inter-Performance Reflexivity. Mick Wallis University of Leeds Negotiating disciplines: contribution to a dialogue.
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5.3 Wayang and Topeng: Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects in Indonesia and Malaysia |
John Emigh:discussant Brown University Matthew Isaac Cohen University of Glasgow Suluk Wujil & Performance in Premodern JavaJan Mrázek National University of Singapore Masks and Selves in Contemporary Java: The Dances of Didik "Nini Thowok"Laurie Margot Ross University of California Gender and agency in Cirebonese Topeng Performance Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof: discussant
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5.4 Screen Cultures & Electronic Agency |
Tricia Almeida University of Porto Dance and Technology in Body Amplification Michael Bussière Sonic Design Interactive, Canada Performance space meets BroadbandTheresa Smalec New York University The Affects of the On-line Performance. Mary Wiles University of Canterbury Lethal Performances: The Origins of the Execution Film in an "Electric Century". . |
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5.5 State & Trauma
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Marin Blazevic Academy of Drama Art, Zagreb Interrogative bodies –retro/perspective of new theatre in Croatia Laurie Beth Clark University of Wisconsin Trauma Memorials Paul Dwyer University of Sydney Political Theatre in the Age of “Transcendental Capitalism”Gay McAuley University of Sydney Place and the Performance of Memory. Graham WhiteUniversity of Surrey Memory Redacted: The ‘Bloody Sunday’ Tribunal and the Enactment of a Contested Past.
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5.6 Intercultures: Mediations and Mediators
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Maija Brown University of Minnesota Borders of Memory & History: Miss Saigon & Dana Tai Soon BurgessMargaret ColdironCentral School of Speech and Drama, London Sendatari Yunani: Negotiating the Languages of Intercultural PerformanceAlex Dea Ethnomusicologist, US Whose Culture and Who’s Cross? A Close Look and Evaluation of Three Inter-cultural Experiences in Central JavaYuji Sone University of New South Wales East Meets West: Bunraku, Intermediation, and Australian Institutional Conceptions of InterdisciplinarityMartin Welton Queen Mary’s University of London Just for Kicks?
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5.7 Figures of Power and Resistance
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Visakesa Chandrasekaram Lawyer and theatre artist, Australia and Sri Lanka Legal Theatre. Barbara Rose Haum New York University Reclaiming a Presence: Language, Identity and Transformation Luis L. Esparza Serra El Colegio de Michoacán Addressing food risks in Mexico through performance and critical researchKean WongAustralian National University Figures of power and resistance- “Ban the bands": death metal panic, Malay youth and Islamic identity
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1630 |
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Tea Break |
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1700 |
Main Session 4 |
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Real Performances, Traumatic Displacements |
Lucy Davis, focas, Forum On Contemporary Art & Society, Singapore (moderator) Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University Peggy Phelan, Stanford University Matilda Gabrielpillai, Nanyang Technological University Featuring a film by Rabih Mroué, theatre & multimedia artist, Lebanon
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DAY 4: FRIDAY 18 JUNE 2004
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0900-1200 |
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Interest Groups |
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See Day 1 for details |
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1000 |
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FILM SCREENING
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Utama: Every Name in History Begins with IDirector: Ho Tzu Nyen |
The TroupeDirector: Rabeah Ghaffari
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1200 |
Main Session 5 |
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Interest Groups Report
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1300 |
Lunch |
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1315 |
Book Launch |
Alternatives: Debating Theatre Culture in the Age of Con-Fusion |
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See Day 1 for details |
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1400 |
Main Session 5 (cont’d) |
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PSi Annual General Meeting |
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1600 |
Tea Break |
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1630 |
Main Session & Closing |
Ray Langenbach, Theorist & performance artist, Malaysia Marian Pastor Roces, Writer, Philippines Chen Kuan-Hsing, National Tsing Hua University Krishen Jit, Five Arts Centre, Malaysia
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1830 |
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