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| <nettime-ann> [call] Transversalities conference at the University of Reading |
There are still some places for delegates at the conference: Transversality: Crossing Disciplines, Cultures and Identities - September 16-18 September 2005. The University of Reading The Departments of Film, Theatre & Television and The Department of Fine Art Keynote speakers include Philip Auslander Liveness >From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and PostModernism. Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance. Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Jean Fisher freelance writer on issues of contemporary art practice and multicultural debate and former editor Third Text Bryan Reynolds Performing Transversally: Reimaginging Shakespeare and the Critical Future Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England Playwright and founder of the Transversal Theatre Company Susan Hiller A major survey exhibition of Hiller's career to date initiated by BALTIC Centre of Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2004) has recently toured to Museu Serralves, Porto (2004) and the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2005). Other exhibitions include Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde (2002); Gagosian Gallery, New York (2001); Artangel, The Chapel, London (2000); Her most recent exhibition 'The J-Street Project' was at the Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (2005). She will be 'in conversation' with the art critic Ian Hunt. Invited Performer Aaron Williamson Writer, choreographer and performance artist. Profoundly deaf, Williamson has evolved a physical approach to realising texts, where vocal, gestural and signed language combine with his uniquely exertive approach to performance. He has toured extensively in Europe and America. Most recent work: Wild Boy, The Showroom, London, April-May 2005. Publication: Aaron Williamson, Hearing Things, Bookworks There is a full programme of papers, performances, screenings and installations. Further information is at: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/fineart/Conference/mainpage.htm Lib Taylor -- Lib Taylor Head of Department Department of Film, Theatre & Television The University of Reading Bulmershe Court Reading RG6 1HY Telephone: Direct Line 0118 378 5877 Department Office 0118 378 8878 e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann