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Events
Seminar Day 1 03 | Seminar Day 2 03 | Seminar Day 3: Contexts 04 | Dissection 04 | Seminar Day 4 05 | Research Seminar Series 05
'Seminar Day 1'
Friday 2nd May 2003
Pierre Gorman Room, Graduate Centre, Uni of Melb.
Organised by: Rose Woodcock
Presenters:
Angela Campbell: 'Creating dialogue from points of difference' (Theatre Studies)
Abstract:
This paper looks at a particular intercultural theatre project that confronts issues of 'cultural vanishing', defined here as a process whereby one culture dominates and effectively makes the voice of the other culture 'disappear'. The project under discussion is Queensland Theatre Company's The Tempest, directed by Simon Phillips and incorporating the work of Jagera Jarjum, a traditional indigenous dance company. The Tempest production worked consciously with the dislocation between the two cultures, creating a vision and a dialogue from that point of dissonance with political concerns driving many of the aesthetic choices. This study focuses on some of the political and aesthetic issues involved in the difficult field of intercultural theatre work and underlines how with due regard to process and with acknowledgment of difference, new and unexpected dialogues can be created between totally alien and in many ways conflicted cultures.
Ronaldo Morelos: 'Performing the Presidency: Crisis and Doctrine in the Making of Bush 43' (Theatre studies)
Abstract:
George W. Bush delivered three televised speeches on the 11th of September 2001 following the attacks of that day. In these statements, the formulation and declaration of the Bush Administration's doctrine in what would become the "war against terror" served to provide both a context and a plan to deal with the unfolding tragedy of that day. In that sense, the emotive memory of those events, thus contextualised, became the foundation for the performative and communicative acts that the United States, as a nation and as an international coalition leader, became committed to and later engaged in. This paper will examine these public performances of Bush president in reponse to that crisis . It will examine the ways in which those performances were informed by and, in turn, invoked particular social, cultural, and political processes that served to "define the situation" historically and provided a blueprint for action, as a way of extracting meaning from those events and harnessing national identity. These processes thus became the frames within which the authoritative narratisation, performed as presidency, compelled a course of action within the context of conflict in a social drama, that is shaping our present and future world.
Chris Wenn: '_What_is taking place? Baudrillard, McLauhan, Virilio and America's Event' (Media Arts)
Irene Crusca: 'The Crown Casino Entertainment Complex - a representation of power or the power of representation?' (Media Arts)
Jodi Rose: 'Singing Bridges the sonic sublime and uncanny' (Media Arts)
Brian Long: 'The Cultural Rights of Indigenous Australians, a Contemporary Case Study' (Media Arts)
Julian Savage: 'Writing on Film: Print, Text and the Cinematogrpahic Word' (Media Arts)
Rose Woodcock: 'Gravamina: Fold in half, and see what happens' (Media Arts)
Abstract:
The project (thesis and production) explores the use of stereopsis as a means to construct a virtual image space.
In Gravamina, the image space on the screen is presented as a duality rather than singularity. It is
possible to do this because of the way in which normal vision operates by way of binocular parallax.
The aim of the research is to explore ways to constitute a bi-fold virtual image space in such a way that
engages the visual system directly. Via stereoscopic projection technologies that exploit the faculty of
binocular vision, the work aims to construct an image space that operates at the threshold of conscious visual perception.
At this point in my research I am using knowledge about human vision to explore both visual perception and representations of
3-D space. This paper will talk about why vision itself is important at this point in my research.
Helen Milte Bastow (Creative Writing)
Sarah French: 'Feminist Theatre Semiotics' (Theatre Studies)
Alyson Campbell: 'Sarah Kane and "experiential" theatre' (Theatre Studies)
Christy Dena: 'The Day My Book Went Psycho' (New Media and Creative Writing)
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Helpful Hint #2:
As a postgrad at the SCA you are allocated online hosting of a personalised
webpage. This is intended as a one-page overview of your academic profile and can
be easily stored in your personal folder on the School's server for uploading
by the IT Co-orindator. Such a page on the university web is an excellent way for people
who search the web for you or on topics you are researching to find your page, it offers a great opportunity for
making yourself known, and faciliates feedback from interested parties. See Dennis Claringbold
for details on how to set this up: 8344-8384, Rm: A220, d.claringbold@unimelb.edu.au
Helpful Hint #1:
Did you know that as a MCA and PhD
researcher you are allocated $300 and $500 respectively every year for buying books,
conference fees, purchasing art materials, whatever?! Ask your supervisor for details.
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