This exposition consists of material presented at the Performance as Research Working Group meeting in Hyderabad as well as material documenting the work undertaken during the meeting. The meeting took place as part of the IFTR (international Federation for Theatre Research) conference "Theatre and Democracy" in Hyderabad, India 6th to 11th July 2015. These proceedings are compiled by Annette Arlander and Manola K. Gayatri on behalf of the working group.

Performance as Research Working Group

Proceedings of the meeting at the IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) conference, University of Hyderabad, India 6.-10.7.2015.

Program of the Performance as Research Working Group meeting at the IFTR conference in Hyderabad 2015

Meetings in room 106 at the S.R.K Lecture Hall Complex and adjacent areas

6 July 9.00-11.00 am

Introductory session (chaired by Annette Arlander)

Video by Emma Meehan and Jonathan Heron

Website (by Juan Aldape Munoz)

Documentation (choice of those responsible)

Publications (by Bruce Barton)

6 July 11.30 – 1 pm

Workshop session Group 1

Organized and based on papers by Juan Manuel Aldape Munoz, Johnmichael Rossi, Walmeri Ribeiro, Annette Arlander

Click here to view material

6 July 2 pm – 3.30 pm

Workshop session Group 2

Organized and based on papers by Manola k. Gayatri, Bruce Barton, Emma Meehan and with participant Laurelann Porter

Click here to view material

7 July 9.00 am – 10.00 am.

Discussion of papers – how to articulate practice, Group 1

Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz:

Violent Democracies: Performance Practices of Death and Brutality as a claim to justice in Mexico and the United States,

Comments chaired by Johnmichael Rossi

Johnmichael Rossi:

Reading and Writing Postdramatic Plays: Digital and Democratic Practices

Comments chaired by Juan Manuel Aldape Munoz

Walmeri Ribeiro:

Sensitive Territories: Performative research and humanitarian actions

Comments chaired by Annette Arlander

Annette Arlander:

Vegetal Democracy and performance as research,

Comments chaired by Walmeri Ribeiro

10.00 am – 11.00 am.

Discussion of papers - how to articulate practice, Group 2

Manola k. Gayatri:

Towards Democracy: Ethico-Political Horizon as Chora in PaR

Comments chaired by Bruce Barton

Bruce Barton:

Intersections: The Possibilities of/in Intimacy in Interdisciplinary Performance

Comments chaired by Laurelann Porter

Emma Meehan:

Ethics of Care in Revisiting The Archives of Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre

Comments chaired by Bruce Barton

7 July 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm

Working Group Open Session – Panel

(Chaired by Annette Arlander)

Mark Fleishman:

Beyond Capture

Lynette Hunter:

PAR Methodologies for emergent democratic politics in the work of Duskin Drum

Myer Taub:

The Social Life of Waste/Art: Recycling exchange as a transversal mode of translating research from the relationship between waste and artistic practice.

8 July 9.00 am – 11.00 am.

Closing Session (chaired by Annette Arlander)

Sharing of documentation and reflection on Group 1 workshop session

Sharing of documentation and reflection on Group 2 workshop session

Discussion of future plans

back to introduction

Papers presented in the open panel. Click paper title to view.

Mark Fleishman:

Beyond Capture

Lynette Hunter:

PAR Methodologies for emergent democratic politics in the work of Duskin Drum

Myer Taub: