The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance
at Antonin Artaud Performance Centre
Brunel University, London
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
A
two-day conference & performance laboratory
Artaud
Performance Centre
This
symposium and performance laboratory initiates a series of annually held
research events at Brunel University's Antonin Artaud Performance Centre,
bringing together an invited group of international theatre and dance
artists, musicians, digital artists, art theorists and researchers engaged
in creative practices that reflect on major innovative performance traditions
of the past century and their impact on current performance knowledge
and physical (or physical-digital) techniques.
The
first instalment of the ARTAUD FORUM is dedicated to the memory of Kazuo
Ohno and the complex convergences/ differences between Japanese and Western
performative methods. The symposium and workshop are composed of dialogue
and performance practice, intermixed with film screenings, a live performance
and a photographic exhibition
Participants
observers are welcome to enrol for a fee of £ 60 (£ 45 concession)
which includes catering.
The
"Workshop Words," as the late Kazuo Ohno called reflections
on his practice, are published online on our ArtaudForum website and links
to performance films/documents are below insided the program.
The
keynote speakers provide important stimulus to the conference from various
perspectives, informing & challenging our thinking onthe conference
theme.
Biyo
Kikuchi (Choreographer/dancer, Kazuo Ohno Studios/Maison Artaud, Tokyo)
Olu
Taiwo (Choreographer; lecturer in performing arts, University of Winchester)
Edward
Scheer (Assoc. Professor in Theatre/Performance Studies, University of
New South Wales & President PSi, Performance Studies international,
Sidney)
Steve
Dixon (Professor of Digital Arts and Performance, Brunel University)
Katsura
Isobe (Choreographer/dancer, London)
Katarzyna
Pastuszak (artistic director of Amareya Theatre & curator of the Gdansk
Dance Festival / Club ZAK, Gdansk, Poland).
Sebastian
Prantl (Director, Tanzatelier Wien, Austria)
Damien
Serban (Filmmaker, Paris)
Peter
Sempel (Filmmaker, Hamburg)
Karolina
Bieszczad-Roley (Researcher/photographer, Oslo)
Michèle
Danjoux (Designer, Principal Lecturer, Fashion, De Montfort University)
Gordana
Novakovic (Artist-in-Residence, Computer Science Department, University
College London, Tesla Art and Science Group)
Ksenia
Yakunicheva (Researcher in design and performance, St Petersburg)
Soenke
Zehle (director XMLab, Academy of Arts Saarbrücken)
- - -
Performance
(Katsura
Isobe, with Manabu Shimada)
(Biyo
Kikuchi)
Physical
Workshop
Biyo
Kikuchi (day 1) and
Olu Taiwo (day 2)
Film
Screening [UK Premiere]
Peter
Sempel, "Just Visiting this Planet" (1991)
Video
Installation
(Yann
Bertrand & Damien Serban)
Exhibition
of photography
Karolina
Bieszczad-Roley (Oslo)
Coordinated
by Johannes Birringer (Professor of Drama and Performance Technologies,
School of Arts) with Hironobu Oikawa (director, Maison Artaud, Tokyo)
Monday,
April 4
10:00
Registration / Coffee (Artaud Performance Centre)
11:oo
Keynote: Steve Dixon on the theatre and its doubles
12:00
Welcome address, Vice-Chancellor, Brunel University
Roundtable
1 (with presentations by Johannes Birringer, Katarzyna Pastuszak &
Olu Taiwo)
13:00
Lunch break
14:00
16:30 Physical Lab (Biyo Kikuchi)
17:00
Roundtable 2 : Reflections on "Artaud System"
18:30
Reception / dinner buffet Artaud Performance Centre
19:30
Opening: Video installation & Photography Exhibition
20:30
Performance "I'm here" Katsura Isobe with Manabu Shimada
21:oo
"Just Visiting this Planet" UK Film Premiere (Peter Sempel)
Tuesday,
April 5
10:00
Keynote: Edward Scheer: Body without Organs: Artaud and butoh
11:00
"Cell Dislocation" Live Performance (Biyo Kikuchi)
11:30
Roundtable 3
(with
presentations by Michèle Danjoux, Ksenia Yakunicheva, Gordana Novakovic,
Karolina Bieszczad-Roley, Soenke Zehle and Damien Serban)
13:30
Lunch break
14:30
Physical Lab (Biyo Kikuchi, Olu Taiwo, Katsura Isobe, Johannes Birringer)
17:00
Roundtable 4
18:00
Concluding Remarks
We
look forward to see you at the lab!
We
are proud to present the UK premiere of 'Just Visiting this Planet,' Peter
Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to the late Kazuo Ohno, first released
in 1991 and shown all over the world, including Int. Filmfestival Berlin,
Filmfestival Sao Paulo, Anthology Film Archives New York, Fantasia Filmfestival
Madrid, Cinemateque Tel Aviv, Festival Int. Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Hall
Walls Buffalo, Rockefeller Music Hall Oslo, Festival Int. du Film d'Art
Paris, Int. Filmfestival Helsinki, Museo Nacionale Brasilia, Festival
Monumental Lisboa, Int. Tanzfilmtage Dresden, Ex+Pop Berlin, etc.
Premiere Screening in London
April 5, 18:oo
Daiwa Foundation JAPAN House 13-14 Cornwall
Terrace London NW1 4QP
Tickets are free if you call and make
reservation
Peter
Sempel grew up in the Australian outback, studied at Hamburg University:
physical education + literature, loves to visit opera and punk concerts
on same day, is a fanatic of culture, loves performance of the sun, and
doubts that the sun is round. He started MusicFilms in 1981, Most of his
films are supported by Filmfoerderung/Culture-department of City Hamburg,and
distributed by Pandora,SilverCine; his screenings have often been supported
by Goethe-Institute, and since 2003 the films are shown on German art-tv:
ZDF/3sat and ARTE. He also presents photo exhibitions and videoshows in
galleries, museums & cinemas.
For
registration and film tickets contact: artaud@brunel.ac.uk or call Janette
West at 01895 267823
Accommodation
at special rates available at:
Lancaster
Conference Suite
Brunel
University
Kingston
Lane
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB8 3PH
Tel:
01895 268001_Fax: 01895 269696 email: 'Lancaster-staff@brunel.ac.uk'
This
event is programmed by the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance
and supported by the Brunel University Graduate School, Goethe-Institut
London, and DAIWA Foundation Japan House.
(c) 2011
The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance, Johannes Birringer
(acting director)