Free for All Symposium (Concept of Performance)

Introduction (Jonas Tinius)

First Panel
Marios Chatziprokopiou, PhD student, Aberystwyth University, Wales (Performance Studies)
The Performance and Politics of Lamentation by Shia Migrants in Greece
Neylan Bacioglu, PhD student, University of Cambridge (Art History)
On a 1976-77 Artists Placement Group (APG) project in the mining town of Peterlee and socially-engaged art practice in 1970s Britain. 
 

Break

Second Panel

Dr Les Joynes,  FormLAB and Columbia University New York, Fellow of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), UAL)
Nomadic Sites for Art and Performance’ – exploring transcultural gallery practices and the notions of local and global art communities
Dr Scott Head, Visiting Professor, UCL/Brazil (Anthropology)
Cutting relations: staging Dis-connection through performance, photography and ethnography – exploring the conception of performance as interruption, or how ‘to cite a text is to interrupt its context’ (Benjamin, on Brecht).
 

Tea Break (we don't provide refreshments but you are welcome to join us at the ARC café)

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ‘What is performance?’
Addressed – in seven minutes or less – by Dr Ben Griffin (History), Dr Jennifer Wallace (English), Dr Les Joynes (Fine Art), Dr John Hopkins (Music) and Dr Lorna Collins (Film/Critical Theory).
Followed by an intrapanel, then open discussion (chaired by Clare Foster). 

All welcome. Many thanks to CRASSH for sponsoring this event as part of the CIPN (a Mellon/Newton Graduate Group).