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Jungian Psycho-Social Studies: Akira, Greta Thunberg and Archetypal Thematic Analysis (ATA)
No full textThis paper establishes a specifically Jungian and Post-Jungian contribution to psycho-social studies. It locates the position an analytical psychological approach may occupy within existing debates before turning its attention to developing archetypal thematic analysis (ATA) as a psycho-social method that may be employed in qualitative research. Using 2019 as a focal point, the authors argue that an archetypal thematic analysis of texts related to two ‘events’ – the release of the 30th anniversary edition DVD of Akira and the announcement of Greta Thunberg as Time magazine’s ‘person of the year’ – supports the assertion that the archetype of the child has been constellated. This paper proposes that a Jungian hermeneutic may usefully be mobilised to bring structure to a dataset, and to deepen the researcher’s interpretation of the data. Utilising Jung’s theory of synchronicity, and extending Main’s (2006) argument for a synchronistic approach to a reading of contemporary events, where appropriate, the authors provide an interpretation of the data’s possible meaning
Documenting crisis: artistic innovation and institutional transformations in the German-speaking countries and the UK
No full textThe unprecedented suspension of cultural events across Europe in March 2020 had a profound impact on the performing arts. Alongside the proliferation of digital and hybrid modes of theatre-making the Covid-19 pandemic has also precipitated a substantive shift in how theatres operate at both institutional and organizational levels in an attempt to respond to the volatile economic impact of the pandemic on the culture sector. This has provided a decisive moment for the reinterpretation of the theatrical landscape raising fundamental questions relating to institutional transformation that challenges precarious working models and entrenched hierarchical divides. Drawing on wider transnational research as part of the ‘Theatre after Covid’ project, this article examines the institutional effects of the pandemic on theatre and performance in the United Kingdom and the German-speaking countries. It will detail the findings of a wide-ranging survey conducted in 2022 with theatre workers and organizations that addresses how the industry is adapting and transforming in response to the crisis. Using this new data as a starting point it will analyse how new forms of artistic innovation have emerged during Covid-19. By focusing on these institutional and aesthetic developments this article argues that the pandemic has produced a paradigm shift that has crucially reinscribed how theatre is created, programmed, and understood
Jake Elwes: Queering Artificial Intelligence with Deepfake Drag
No full textAn article explore the work of artist Jake Elwes, in particular their work Zizi: Queering The Dataset, produced in relation to the Among the Machines Exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection (2022)
Jungian Psycho-Social Studies: Akira, Greta Thunberg and Archetypal Thematic Analysis (ATA)
No full textThis paper establishes a specifically Jungian and Post-Jungian contribution to psycho-social studies. It locates the position an analytical psychological approach may occupy within existing debates before turning its attention to developing archetypal thematic analysis (ATA) as a psycho-social method that may be employed in qualitative research. Using 2019 as a focal point, the authors argue that an archetypal thematic analysis of texts related to two ‘events’ – the release of the 30th anniversary edition DVD of Akira and the announcement of Greta Thunberg as Time magazine’s ‘person of the year’ – supports the assertion that the archetype of the child has been constellated. This paper proposes that a Jungian hermeneutic may usefully be mobilised to bring structure to a dataset, and to deepen the researcher’s interpretation of the data. Utilising Jung’s theory of synchronicity, and extending Main’s (2006) argument for a synchronistic approach to a reading of contemporary events, where appropriate, the authors provide an interpretation of the data’s possible meaning
Transembodiment as translation: staging the Włast/Komornicka Archive
No full text'My intention in considering transembodiment is to analyse the effects and limitations of physical and fictional bodies as they appear within the mimetic, representational and concrete frame of the theatre space. Ultimately, I argue that the body is itself a paradigmatic site of translation, which can neither be reduced to nor fully dislodge from language, and which is both submitted to and escapes processes of mimetic representation. In this way, I do not with to consider transembodiment as a methodology but rather as a structure and a consequence of the process of transmission in the theatre.
A New Performing Arts Centre for the International School of Uganda
No full textPrague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2023
PQ Talks: Acts of Assembly: Projects from the Performance Space Exhibition
The Performance Space Exhibition at PQ 2023 provides a forum for reconsidering how theatres and performance spaces operate as acts of assembly and sites for community. Four selected projects will be presented, offering insights into diverse venues.
This panel offers insights into four selected projects from the Performance Space Exhibition. It explores how contemporary theatres and performance spaces facilitate different acts of assembly and operate as sites for communal action and cultural production. The four selected projects are: the re-building of the Australian experimental theatre, La Mama, after it was gutted by fire in 2018; a new performing arts centre for the International School of Uganda in Kampala; AGORA, a temporary meeting place for an assembly of active citizens built at the 2019 National Eisteddfod in Llanrwst, Wales; and, this space is for you / cet espace est pour toi, a site-responsive XR installation and conceptual site for considering ‘refugia’ and spatial reorientations of performing place.
About the moderator
Andrew Filmer is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK, and is Curator of the Performance Space Exhibition.
About the speakers
Meg White (La Mama) is an architect, designer & performer. She was the design architect for Rebuild La Mama.
Helen Hopkins (La Mama) is an actor, scriptwriter & producer. Helen is deputy chair of the La Mama Committee of Management.
Andreas Skourtis (A New Performing Arts Centre for the International School of Uganda) is a London-based architect, scenographer and lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Robert Kiggundu (A New Performing Arts Centre for the International School of Uganda) is the principal and founding director of ArchForum and President of the Uganda Society of Architects
Marc Rees (AGORA) is an interdisciplinary artist/curator/director of groundbreaking site-specific projects around the world
Jenny Hall (AGORA) is an architect, carpenter, artist and director of the architecture studio Craftedspace
Shauna Janssen (this space is for you / cet espace est pour toi) is a performance designer and professor at Concordia University, Montreal.
Kévin Pinvidic (this space is for you / cet espace est pour toi) is a performance designer based in Montreal and a PhD candidate at Concordia University
‘Transembodiment as Translation: Staging the Włast/Komornicka Archive’
No full textIn this chapter, I consider how translation pertains to the body on stage as a site of multiplicity and propose the term ‘transembodiment’ in my analysis of Weronika Szczawińska and Bartosz Frąckowiak’s Komornicka. Biografia pozorna (Komornicka. Ostensible biography, 2011). My intention in considering transembodiment is to analyse the effects and limitations of physical and fictional bodies as they appear within the mimetic, representational and concrete frame of the theatre space. Ultimately, I argue that the body is itself a paradigmatic site of translation, which can neither be reduced to nor fully dislodged from language, and which is both submitted to and escapes processes of mimetic representation. In this way, I do not offer transembodiment as a methodology but rather as a structure and a consequence of the process of transmission in the theatre that invites new subjects to emerge and come into being
Hello Stranger: East London Exhibition
No full textHello Stranger: East London (Society of British Theatre Designers' National Exhibition of UK Design for Performance 2019-2023) featured a curated selection of regional talent, celebrating the work of theatre designers and highlighting the critical role that design played in the success of a production. It was co-curated by David Shearing and Khadija Raza.
The exhibition was hosted at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and celebrated the work of regional designers. Through the exhibition we showcased the dynamic and exciting world of theatre design between process and outcome.
As part of the exhibition, we hosted an artist-in-conversation talk between Khadija Raza and David Shearing where we examined the intricacies of the design process and explored the creative decisions that brought "The Flood" to life. It offered a rare opportunity for audiences to get a behind-the-scenes look at the inspiration and collaboration that shaped the design of this emotive new show. We hosted an industry event, with local and regional venue to look at the Future of Design and school’s workshop in design-led and puppetry performance.
Exhibition March 2023
A full transcript of the in-conversation is provided here.
For more information about the national celebration of design: www.hellostrangernationalexhibition.org.uk
The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and Politics
No full textThe aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic autonomy, to impulsively reassert art as an effective form of social engagement. But it equally challenges those on the flipside of the efficacy debate, who insist that art's politics is limited to a recondite space of 'autonomous resistance'. The book shows how each side of the efficacy debate overlooks art's exceptional status and its social mediations. Mobilising philosophy and cultural theory, and employing examples from visual art, performance, and theatre, it proposes four alternative tests to 'effect' to offer a nuanced account of art's political character. Those tests examine how art relates to politics as a practice that articulates its historical conjuncture, and how it prefigures the 'new' through simulations capable of activating the political life of the spectator