Action and Delay
a symposium on temporality in performance and media arts
30-31 May 2014 - AUT University Auckland
We are pleased to invite you to send an abstract for blind peer review for an academic paper and/or performance for participation in a two-day symposium in the School of Art & Design at AUT University, Auckland. Topics may be situated across a range of disciplines in relation to notions of temporality in performance and media arts. We anticipate a broad exploration of disciplines such as dance, theatre, public art, social practices, online media, sound works, performance art and video installation.
Live actions and recorded events have multiple modalities in contemporary performance and media arts practice; live in the sense of 'being there', as an audience/performer in physical space, or, a mediated understanding of an event and its remote unfolding. This discussion asks questions about spectatorship (how performance is experienced) and temporality (when does performance happen). In this context, performance and its relationship to media arts might provoke reflections on multiple temporal schemas, or the potential of broader social access generated through live-casting or streaming. We invite forays into the unstable binaries of proximity and remoteness, liveness and delay, the spontaneous and the staged, bodies and technologies, performance and reenactment, the 'delegated' performance and 'live' installation.
In the 1960s experiments with 'liveness', 'real-time' and 'feedback' spread through avant-garde media and performance practice. Nam June Paik delighted in the spontaneous affects of the closed circuit loop of real-time video, Joan Jonas rolled with the camera, Lygia Clark introduced 'dialogue goggles' and Hans Haacke fused real-time social, ecological and informational systems. By the early 1990s Stelarc's robotic arm could be manipulated by audiences in distant countries. In New Zealand in the 1970s Jim Allen conjoined performance and the camera in live actions and, this year at Te Papa, Shigeyuki Kihara exhibited herself as a live museum exhibit. With these histories in mind, on day two of the symposium AUT's performance space and motion capture facilities will become sites for experimenting with how so-called moments of live creation become entangled with emergent media technologies.
Convened by Greg Bennett, Chris Braddock and Janine Randerson in conjunction with the Art & Performance Research Group and in association with the Masters of Performance and Media Arts Degree, School of Art & Design at AUT.
Paper length: 20 minutes; suggested performance length: 20-40 minutes
Free Registration
Please submit a 150 word abstract using the form overleaf to Robyn Ramage by March 31st 2014 email robyn.ramage@aut.ac.nz<mailto:robyn.ramage@aut.ac.nz>, Postgraduate Coordinator, School of Art + Design, Faculty of Design & Creative Technologies, AUT University.
Dr Janine Randerson
Senior Lecturer
Programme Leader Masters of Performance and Media Arts (MPMA)
AUT University
Building WM 208
ph: +64 9 921 9999 extension 6261
mb: 021 166 4096
email: jranders@aut.ac.nz
web: http: janineranderson.com
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