The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance
at Antonin Artaud Performance Centre
Brunel University, London
Image: Kimosphere no.2, Vanessa Michielon in origami dress by Michèle Danjoux, graphic projection by Chris Bishop, sound by Jonathan Reus & Johannes Birringer, created by DAP-Lab and TuDelft, IMF Madrid 2015.
International Metabody Laboratory
Artaud Performance Centre, Brunel University London
Monday through Saturday, April 4 – 9, 2016
THE FULL PRELIMINARY PROGRAM IS HERE
Metabody is a collaborative European project that works to redefine bodies in media, performance and design in less reductionist ways than is usual in current information technologies. Metabody develops new architectures which behave like living organisms that have an auditory, visual, and tactile sensory quality, with subtly changing states and affordances, they can be worn and breathed, felt and imagined, transported and taken off. Metabody counteracts dominant technologies and their prevalent tendency to negate differences by reducing bodies and movements to prescribed forms in current surveillance culture. Metabody emphasizes the openness and indeterminacy of embodied expressions as a key factor for a sustainable society. This project foregrounds the need for a new politics. The workshop & performance laboratory probes troubling interpretations of the increasing unrestrainment of capital in our current era, and capitalism’s impact on all social-economic, cultural, creative, and educational sectors in a shared developed world now expanded by massive migration and refugee movement. The sustainability of democracy is an urgent theme for all those in the performing arts/creative fields becoming intensely aware of the multiplication of realities (virtualization; networked infrastructures, diasporas) and the tightenng of our bodies into technological environments.
We invited proposals for symposium papers as well as workshop propo sals: all studio spaces are available for practical physical and conceptual workshop encounters over a period of three days (Thursday through Saturday, April 7-9), including public performances, exhibitions, screenings, and urban situations.
There will be a registration fee of £ 75.00 for all participants.
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Past workshops
ARTAUD FORUM 4
Contested Exchanges: Space, Place and the Performance of Democracy
International Conference-Workshop
March 27-29, 2015
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ARTAUD FORUM 3:
Theatre and Resonant Politics
Struggle between students and teachers against government forces, Oaxaca 2006 © photo: Israel Rosas
International Conference-Workshop
March 23 - March 24, 2013
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ARTAUD FORUM 2:
Konnecting Gestures
Helenna Ren in DAP-Lab rehearsal with camera and Kinect interface (c) DAP-Lab 2011
International Conference-Workshop on Performance and Sound Technologies
March 30 - April 1, 2012
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ARTAUD FORUM 1
The World from within and without
(in memoriam Kazuo Ohno)
Yumi Sagara and Biyo Kikuchi (Maison Artaud, Tokyo) performing at Artaud Performance Centre, West London
April 4-5, 2011
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All Keynotes and Roundtables are co-produced with DAPLabTV and streamed online as well as archived.
DAP-lab.TV
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(c) 2015 The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance, Johannes Birringer (acting director)
