Appropriating Space
22-23 February 2008
Goldsmiths, University of London
The Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group at Goldsmiths would like to invite to you attend their national interdisciplinary colloquium, Appropriating Space. Organised entirely by and for postgraduates, Appropriating Space will explore the many ways in which social and spatial activity and identity are intertwined.
Over the course of this two-day event, postgraduate students working in all fields across the UK will have the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and present their research in a formal conference setting. The event programme will include research presentations from emerging scholars, as well as student-led panel sessions and round table discussions, and we need you in order to make it a grand success! The colloquium will draw to a close on Saturday night with a festive celebration, where presenters and audience members alike will be able to kick back and relax over a meal and a glass of wine after two days of academic stimulation!
If you would like to attend Appropriating Space or to request a programme, please send an email to appropriating.space@gmail.com. We would like to encourage you to reserve your place early, as space is limited!
We look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely,
Anna Porubcansky and Rachel Shapiro (Co-Chairs)
Maria Kogkou, Richard Piatt O.S.A, Shanu Sadhwani and Arabella Stanger (Committee Members)
PhD Students in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Appropriating Space is made possible with support from the Graduate School and the Department of Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Saturday 9 February 2008
Appropriating Space Programme
Appropriating Space Programme
Goldsmiths, University of London
Friday, 22 February 2008
Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre
9:30-10:00 Registration and check-in open.
10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome
Anna Porubcansky, Appropriating Space Co-Chair
10:15-10:30 Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek
PhD in Communication Arts
University of Western Sydney
You Aren’t Here: Graffiti, the ‘Non Place’ and the Creative Transformation of Urban Space
10:30-10:40 Question and Answer session led by Anna
10:45-11:00 Anna Fewster
Collaborative DPhil
University of Sussex and The Charleston Trust
Black Shapes on White Spaces: Reading the Negative Space of Virginia Woolf’s Fiction
11:00-11:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
11:15-11:30 Mehita Iqani
PhD in Media and Communications
London School of Economics
Point of Sale: The Magazine Newsstand as Socio-semiotic Space
11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou
11:45-12:00 Patrik Meier
PhD Anthropology
SOAS, University of London
Weaving ‘Modern’ Practices into ‘Traditional’ Space: Young Men in the Tourist Business Shaping Aleppo’s Old City Suq
12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
12:15-1:15 Lunch
Location: Room Change to the Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 137A
1:30-1:45 Rachel Shapiro
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Giant Marionettes, Police Blockades and the Politics of Street Festival in Paris’ Goutte d’Or Neighbourhood
1:45-1:55 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A
2:00-2:15 Nick Ferguson
PhD Fine Art
Goldsmiths, University of London
My Space? Claiming the 2012 Olympic Park
2:15-2:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
2:25-2:40 Daniel Bird
Bakhtin Centre
Sheffield University
Hades Under Krakow: Reclaiming the Salt Mines of Wieliczka as a Greek Performance Space
2:40-2:50 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou
3:00-3:45 Panel Session
3:45-4:00 Break for coffee, tea and snacks
4:00-4:15 Shanu Sadhwani
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Crossing Borders: Hybrid Performances and the British Asian Stage
4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A
4:30-4:45 Jamie Furniss
DPhil, Department of International Development
Oxford University
The Politics of Space: Putting Egypt’s Garbage and Garbage Collectors in their Place
4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Rachel Shapiro
5:00-5:15 Holly Prescott
MA in Literature and Cultural Studies
Lancaster University
‘Authorised’ Personnel Only: Abandonment, Space and Power in Urban Exploration Photography
5:15-5:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
5:30-5:45 Anna Porubcansky
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Transforming the Social Performing Group: Song of the Goat Theatre and its Expeditions into Space
5:45-5:55 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou
6:00 Closing remarks
Rachel Shapiro, Appropriating Space Co-Chair
6:15 Drinks in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union
Saturday, 23 February 2008
Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre
10:30-11:00 Late registration and check-in open.
11:00-11:10 Opening remarks
Rachel Shapiro, Appropriating Space Co-Chair
11:15-11:30 Lucia Vodanovic
PhD Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London
Rethinking Appropriation: Reference and Difference
11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Rachel
11:45-12:00 Siobhan Peeling
PhD School of History
University of Nottingham
Soviet Facades and Backyards: Appropriations of Leningrad’s Public Spaces after the Second World War
12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
12:15-12:30 Arabella Stanger
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
William Forsythe and the Choreography of Space: Redefining the Classical Stage
12:30-12:40 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou
12:40-1:40 Lunch Break
1:45-2:00 Jennifer Laws
PhD Department of Geography
Durham University
Dissident Spaces: the Spatialities of Listening, Survivorship, and Anti-/Psychiatry
2:00-2:10 Question and Answer session led by Anna Porubcansky
2:15-2:30 Richard J Piatt, O.S.A
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
The Space In-Between: Augusto Boal’s notion of Metaxis in light of the ‘Kingdom of God’
2:30-2:40 Question and Answer session led by Rachel Shapiro
2:45-3:00 Chris Little
MPhil Interdisciplinary Studies
Manchester Metropolitan University
The Effects of Surveillance of Public Space on a Post-Millennium Youth Subculture
3:00-3:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
3:15-3:30 Break for coffee, tea and snacks
3:30-3:45 Maria Kogkou
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
How the Local took Centre-stage: The Case of the Bush Theatre
3:45-3:55 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
4:00-4:15 Laura Mansfield
MA Cultural and Critical Theory
Birkbeck College, London
Fish and Chips in Formica Fitted Cafes, Cups of Tea and Ice Creams, and the English Seaside
4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A
4:30-4:45 Stephen Parkin
PhD Sociology
Plymouth University
Purity, Danger and the Displacement of Injecting Drug Users: The Appropriation and Re-Appropriation of Space in an Urban Environment
4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Anna Porubcansky
4:55-5:00 Short break for roundtable setup
5:00-6:00 Roundtable discussion
6:00-6:10 Closing Remarks
Anna Porubcansky, Appropriating Space Co-Chair
6:30-11:00 Closing night reception for participants and their guests at Café Crema
Goldsmiths, University of London
Friday, 22 February 2008
Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre
9:30-10:00 Registration and check-in open.
10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome
Anna Porubcansky, Appropriating Space Co-Chair
10:15-10:30 Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek
PhD in Communication Arts
University of Western Sydney
You Aren’t Here: Graffiti, the ‘Non Place’ and the Creative Transformation of Urban Space
10:30-10:40 Question and Answer session led by Anna
10:45-11:00 Anna Fewster
Collaborative DPhil
University of Sussex and The Charleston Trust
Black Shapes on White Spaces: Reading the Negative Space of Virginia Woolf’s Fiction
11:00-11:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
11:15-11:30 Mehita Iqani
PhD in Media and Communications
London School of Economics
Point of Sale: The Magazine Newsstand as Socio-semiotic Space
11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou
11:45-12:00 Patrik Meier
PhD Anthropology
SOAS, University of London
Weaving ‘Modern’ Practices into ‘Traditional’ Space: Young Men in the Tourist Business Shaping Aleppo’s Old City Suq
12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
12:15-1:15 Lunch
Location: Room Change to the Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 137A
1:30-1:45 Rachel Shapiro
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Giant Marionettes, Police Blockades and the Politics of Street Festival in Paris’ Goutte d’Or Neighbourhood
1:45-1:55 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A
2:00-2:15 Nick Ferguson
PhD Fine Art
Goldsmiths, University of London
My Space? Claiming the 2012 Olympic Park
2:15-2:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
2:25-2:40 Daniel Bird
Bakhtin Centre
Sheffield University
Hades Under Krakow: Reclaiming the Salt Mines of Wieliczka as a Greek Performance Space
2:40-2:50 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou
3:00-3:45 Panel Session
3:45-4:00 Break for coffee, tea and snacks
4:00-4:15 Shanu Sadhwani
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Crossing Borders: Hybrid Performances and the British Asian Stage
4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A
4:30-4:45 Jamie Furniss
DPhil, Department of International Development
Oxford University
The Politics of Space: Putting Egypt’s Garbage and Garbage Collectors in their Place
4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Rachel Shapiro
5:00-5:15 Holly Prescott
MA in Literature and Cultural Studies
Lancaster University
‘Authorised’ Personnel Only: Abandonment, Space and Power in Urban Exploration Photography
5:15-5:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
5:30-5:45 Anna Porubcansky
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Transforming the Social Performing Group: Song of the Goat Theatre and its Expeditions into Space
5:45-5:55 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou
6:00 Closing remarks
Rachel Shapiro, Appropriating Space Co-Chair
6:15 Drinks in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union
Saturday, 23 February 2008
Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre
10:30-11:00 Late registration and check-in open.
11:00-11:10 Opening remarks
Rachel Shapiro, Appropriating Space Co-Chair
11:15-11:30 Lucia Vodanovic
PhD Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London
Rethinking Appropriation: Reference and Difference
11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Rachel
11:45-12:00 Siobhan Peeling
PhD School of History
University of Nottingham
Soviet Facades and Backyards: Appropriations of Leningrad’s Public Spaces after the Second World War
12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
12:15-12:30 Arabella Stanger
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
William Forsythe and the Choreography of Space: Redefining the Classical Stage
12:30-12:40 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou
12:40-1:40 Lunch Break
1:45-2:00 Jennifer Laws
PhD Department of Geography
Durham University
Dissident Spaces: the Spatialities of Listening, Survivorship, and Anti-/Psychiatry
2:00-2:10 Question and Answer session led by Anna Porubcansky
2:15-2:30 Richard J Piatt, O.S.A
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
The Space In-Between: Augusto Boal’s notion of Metaxis in light of the ‘Kingdom of God’
2:30-2:40 Question and Answer session led by Rachel Shapiro
2:45-3:00 Chris Little
MPhil Interdisciplinary Studies
Manchester Metropolitan University
The Effects of Surveillance of Public Space on a Post-Millennium Youth Subculture
3:00-3:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani
3:15-3:30 Break for coffee, tea and snacks
3:30-3:45 Maria Kogkou
PhD Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
How the Local took Centre-stage: The Case of the Bush Theatre
3:45-3:55 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger
4:00-4:15 Laura Mansfield
MA Cultural and Critical Theory
Birkbeck College, London
Fish and Chips in Formica Fitted Cafes, Cups of Tea and Ice Creams, and the English Seaside
4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A
4:30-4:45 Stephen Parkin
PhD Sociology
Plymouth University
Purity, Danger and the Displacement of Injecting Drug Users: The Appropriation and Re-Appropriation of Space in an Urban Environment
4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Anna Porubcansky
4:55-5:00 Short break for roundtable setup
5:00-6:00 Roundtable discussion
6:00-6:10 Closing Remarks
Anna Porubcansky, Appropriating Space Co-Chair
6:30-11:00 Closing night reception for participants and their guests at Café Crema
Sunday 2 December 2007
Welcome to Appropriating Cyberspace!
Welcome to Appropriating Cyberspace, the online extension of the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group's national interdisciplinary colloquium Appropriating Space. We hope that this blog will serve as a lively forum for postgraduates who are interested in discussing the various ways in which social and spatial activity are intertwined. Please feel free to post any questions or any resources specific to your own research that may be helpful to other students. In addition, we will be posting information relating to February's colloquium as it comes available, so check back often. Ultimately, this is your space, so appropriate it as you see fit!
Friday 30 November 2007
Something Fun... William Forsythe, algorithms, choreography, space.
Forsythe, William and Paul Kaiser, 'Dance Gemotery: A Conversation with William Forsythe', Performance Research, Vol 4, No. 2, Summer 1999, pp.64-71.
http://www.openendedgroup.com/index.php/publications/conversations/forsythe/
Follow this link to read a conversation between contemporary choreographer William Forsythe and digital artist Paul Kaiser. Here they consider Forsythe's choreographic method and its parallels to algorithmic processes in digital programming. The discussion foregrounds Forsythe's use of particular geometrical frameworks for the spatial organization of the human body.
These two artists had previously collaborated with the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe to produce a CD ROM entitled Improvisation Technologies: An Analytical Tool for the Dance Eye, (2000), [1994]. The work contains footage of Forsythe's improvisation exercises annotated with superimposed animation, which illustrates the spatial diagrams of the movement idiom.
Also included on the CD ROM is the work Solo (2005), a seven minute improvisation performed by Forsythe demonstrating the practice of his choreographic technology. Owing to the wonder of cyberspace, you can find the whole solo on YouTube:
Enjoy.
http://www.openendedgroup.com/index.php/publications/conversations/forsythe/
Follow this link to read a conversation between contemporary choreographer William Forsythe and digital artist Paul Kaiser. Here they consider Forsythe's choreographic method and its parallels to algorithmic processes in digital programming. The discussion foregrounds Forsythe's use of particular geometrical frameworks for the spatial organization of the human body.
These two artists had previously collaborated with the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe to produce a CD ROM entitled Improvisation Technologies: An Analytical Tool for the Dance Eye, (2000), [1994]. The work contains footage of Forsythe's improvisation exercises annotated with superimposed animation, which illustrates the spatial diagrams of the movement idiom.
Also included on the CD ROM is the work Solo (2005), a seven minute improvisation performed by Forsythe demonstrating the practice of his choreographic technology. Owing to the wonder of cyberspace, you can find the whole solo on YouTube:
Enjoy.
Friday 2 November 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS
Appropriating Space
A National Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students
22-23 February 2008
Goldsmiths University of London
From gaming halls to ghost towns, wailing walls to waterholes, social spaces are shaped by the people who inhabit them. Appropriating Space is a student-led colloquium for postgraduates that will explore the many ways in which social and spatial activity and identity are intertwined.
This call for papers invites students to examine the construction of space from many perspectives, identifying the various ways in which diverse groups shape and inscribe social space. The idea of social space can include (but is not limited to): professional environments, collectivities and communes, national and local territories, political imperatives, alternative spaces, performance spaces and theatres, marketplaces, pubs, art galleries and museums, annexed spaces, sacred or spiritual spaces or domestic contexts; the problematics of space and the mechanisms of globalisation.
Organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group at Goldsmiths (led by Professor Maria Shevtsova), this event will provide an opportunity for postgraduates in all fields across the UK to engage with their peers across disciplines in a challenging and convivial environment. In addition to showcasing their own research through the presentation of conference papers, students will be able to participate in several roundtable discussions and panel sessions over the course of the colloquium. This is a unique opportunity for postgraduates across the country to meet, network and exchange ideas in a truly interdisciplinary context.
We welcome submissions from postgraduate research students. If you would like to participate, please submit your name, university, conference paper title or title of practical workshop and 250-word abstract to appropriating.space@gmail.com. Deadline for applications is 31 December 2007.
Please don't hesitate to contact us with any queries you may have regarding the colloquium.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely,
Rachel Shapiro
Anna Porubcansky
PhD Students in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts
Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group
Goldsmiths University of London
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