Performing, Writing 2017
Wellington, New Zealand
March 04 2017 - March 09 2017
There is something nearly indescribable yet palpable in the transfer between embodied works of art and the textual inscriptions that imagine, forecast, relate, explain, document orco-exist alongside them.
This parallel and often intersecting dialogical relationship bears out the ways that practices such as live art, performance, theatre, architecture, spatial design, dance and music depend, expand upon, repeat and exacerbate practices such as script and score-writing poetry, literary fiction, art criticism, ficto-criticism, curatorial writing, site writing and writing associated with creative practice-led research.
This synaptic condition is what John Hall calls out in On Performance Writing, with pedagogical sketches (2013) as gestures of actualisation, performing thru; writing as itself performance, the very literal taking place over time, slowly, meticulously, and performance as an event that is more than the writing where the writing’s concern is with its relation to the full context of the performance. (61)
Here we find shared attentiveness towards the shaping of words, breathe, body, object, time and space, to effectively and affectively curate subjective encounters.
Performing, Writing: A symposium in four turns imagines how a text can be conceptualised, written, presented and figured
with equal or more contingency and responsiveness to temporal and corporeal happenings, and vice versa. What creative,
dialogic, autobiographical or alternative writing approaches might elicit a text that engages with the plurality of affects of
an artwork? How might a creative work be informed, inspired, directed, scripted or critiqued with the same respect for live-
ness that unfolds spatially as it does textually? How might these parallel practices inhabit space symbiotically? How might a
new culture of criticality develop in between acts of “performing through”?
Proposals due 1 July 2016. See the website for details: www.performingwriting.com
Dr Julieanna Preston
Professor of Spatial Practice
Toi Rauwharangi College of Creative Arts
Te Kunenga o Purehuroa Massey University
Wellington, Aotearoa
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www.julieannapreston.space
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