Wednesday 27 November, 3pm, MediaCityUK / Salford Uni building; room 2.20; 3-4pm
Internal Speaker: Dr Richard Talbot
Devising Ridiculusmus’ Total Football: a schematic reading of performance process
This
talk critically reflects on a series of drawings created during the
devising process for Ridiculumus’ Total Football (2012). Ridiculusmus'
production, a narrative of a non-sporty bureaucrat tasked with
harnessing the enthusiasm of football fans in the interests of national
cohesion, examines the impossibility of thorough incorporation of a
national body within the Olympic mo(ve)ment. Based on an existing
convention among football commentators for contextualizing and
narrating team play, a series of photographs of sketches-in-process
discussed here capture the marks of live notation as an urgent activity
during devising. As such the reader has access to a snapshot from
Ridiculusmus’ rehearsal methods and process. The paper analyses the
notation devices employed in the sketches arguing that the approximate
qualities of sketched notation, and its failed totality, capture the
tone of comedy in this work about masculine hubris. While the sketches
attempt to keep pace with the spontaneity of tactics devised by
performers, the paper argues that performance systems and dance
notation that have paid attention to architecture and spatial
arrangement as a score do not generally notate intention or strategy.
The paper presents the idea that the sketches document a multiplicity
of tactics, and footballing metaphor in process.
Wednesday the 27th of November, Media City room 2.20; 4-5pm
External Speaker: Dr Milla Tiainen (Anglia Ruskin University)
“Ventriloquism and convulsion: Voice, aesthetics, and paradoxes of agency in Anton Corbijn’s
Control”
As recent
returns to this topic in media and cultural theory highlight, attempts
to think about the voice soon gravitate on several paradoxes. Vocal
emissions performatively produce the very (self-)articulating being and
bodily presence that presumably act as their source. Whilst delivering
selves and bodies as part of the world, vocal expressions at the same
time inevitably depart from their emitters. As projection, the voice
both exposes and replaces its source. Whether in a ‘live’ situation or
when engaged in cinematic/other mediatised experience, we arguably
strive to attach vocal sonorities to a visible origin. Yet, to
elaborate on Steven
Milla
Tiainen is Lecturer and Course Leader for Media Studies at Anglia
Ruskin University. During 2013-2014, she is working as a postdoctoral
researcher in the Academy of Finland funded project “Deleuzian Music
Studies”. Tiainen’s current research interests include the voice in
contemporary artistic practice, media culture and theory, theories of
affect, rhythm and the body in movement, sound and performance studies,
and new materialist approaches in cultural/media studies and feminist
thought. She has published widely in the areas of music scholarship and
cultural theory. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in
such publications as the edited volume
Carnal Knowledge: Towards a New Materialism through the Arts (IB Tauris, 2013),
Body&Society, and NECSUS – European Journal of Media Studies.
She is finishing a book about a new Deleuzian approach to musical
performance (under contract with University of Minnesota Press).
