Live Art & The Cyborg Body
Thursday 20th October, 2016
Goldsmiths University
Supported by the Goldsmiths Graduate Fund
The conference Live Art and the Cyborg Body pulls together an international and multidisciplinary group of artists and academics who explore the idea of the cyborg in its most expanded forms within their practice or research. Working between the boundaries of the natural and the artificial, the social and the virtual, the private and the public, the speakers discuss how these polarized sites have been used as a tool to rigorously and creatively engage with self-representation, by re-imagining and destabilising gender norms, sexual politics, racial paradigms, physical (dis)abilities, health, our relationship to death and the occult.
Presentations by:
BayB Jane [CANCELLED]
Dr. Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
FoxGlove & Pure Venom
Lizzie Masterton
Oreet Ashery
Quimera Rosa
Victoria Sin
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This event is organised by CUNTemporary and is part of the live art event and multidisciplinary exhibition ‘Deep Trash from Outer Space’ taking place at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club on Saturday 22nd October 2016.
More information about the conference here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1783201228625905/
Moderators: Giulia Casalini & Diana Georgiou
Documentation: Lauren Angelkov Cummings & Alexandra Penelope
Editing: Lauren Angelkov Cummings
Production Assistance: Anjali Prashar-Savoie, Michalis Intzieyianni, Daisy Shayler
Dr. Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Dr. Jennifer Parker-Starbuck is the Head of Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance, and Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Roehampton, London.
She is the author of Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field (co-authored with S. Bay-Cheng and D. Saltz, University of Michigan Press, 2015), and co-editor of Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices (Palgrave, 2015). Her essay “Animal Ontologies and Media Representations: Robotics, Puppets, and the Real of War Horse” (Theatre Journal, Vol. 65, Number 3, October 2013) received the ATHE 2014 Outstanding Article award. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Theatre Journal, PAJ, Women and Performance, Theatre Topics, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Western European Stages, and others. She is a contributing editor for PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, and an Advisory Board member of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. Parker-Starbuck currently serves as the co-Editor of Theatre Journal.
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