M3P:Symposium 2012

The 2nd M3P Symposium will take place in conjunction with a TaPRA colloquium on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documenting Performance at the University of Hull's School of Arts & New Media in Scarborough (UK) on 24 March 2012. The event is presented in collaboration with the University of Hull's Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Practices cluster.

The TaPRA working group on Documenting Performance provides a platform for mostly UK-based researchers to share their works-in-progress or finished projects with others working on similar studies and/or practical applications for documenting performance. The group is particularly keen to provide a platform for examples of different approaches to documenting performance, as observed and practiced in disciplines other than theatre and performance, such as architecture, digital humanities, visual arts, archeology, etc. It is therefore a natural partner for the M3P, particularly as the academic activities of the M3P Foundation are based primarily at the University of Hull's Scarborough Campus, specifically within the newly founded Media & Memory Research Institute headed by Dr Toni Sant.

• The registration form is available here

Schedule

09:30: Registration (Tea & Coffee)

10:30: Introduction

10:40: KEYNOTE - Prof Barry Smith, Honorary Research Fellow HATII, University of Glasgow

Creating Digital Archives: A View from Retirement

11:30: M3P Session: Documenting Performance

Preserving the Present: Initial Work on the Malta Music Memory Project

Toni Sant with Tony Grimaud and Darren Stephens

The Underlying Principles of Documenting Performance

Laura Molloy, HATII - University of Glasgow

12:30: Lunch

14:00: KEYNOTE - Simon Wilson, Senior Archivist, Hull History Centre

Born-digital Archives @ Hull: a case study

See also: http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/aims/whitepaper/

14:45: TaPRA Panel 1

Glancing Back at Performance Remains

Tracing the Pathway

Joseph Dunne, University of Lincoln

Cara Davies, University of Bristol

An Exhibition of Hidden Stories: Research into methods of staging an oral history archive

Panayiota Demetriou, University of Bristol

The Lives of NT Live

Claire Read, Roehampton University

15:45: Cara Davis: iOWE You A Body. (performance/demonstration)

16:15: Tea & Coffee Break

16:30: TaPRA Panel 2

Documenting Practice With The Body

Nik Wakefield, Royal Holloway, University of London

Performance Reproduction Parody Pastiche: Is there something inherrently comic in mechanical reproduction?

Lee Campbell, Loughborough University

The Ontologies of Observation: Performance Documentation

Steve Fossey, University of Northampton

Performance Poetry as Experiential Documentary Practice

Ursula Troche, Indepdendent Artist & Community Worker

18:00 Wine reception announcing the formation of the University of Hull's Media & Memory Research Institute