TaPRA 2019: Full Schedule

Welcome to TaPRA 2019 at the University of Exeter!

2:15pm BST

Working Group Session 1: Bodies and Performance

Feeling Bad: Negative Affects, Performance and Bodies.
Session 1 - Shame, Fragility and Resistance: Bodies that feel bad.

Presenters

Royona Mitra and Simon Ellis

Dancing White Fragility.The central premise of this year’s call for proposals is that ‘as long as there have been bodies, bodies have felt bad’. We examine the construction of white bodies that both wield power and ‘feel bad’ in the UK’s contemporary dance industry. We... Read More →

Lynne McCarthy

Speaking of IMELDA and the performance of hostility/hospitality in Ireland's abortion tourism.In the work of Speaking of IMELDA (2013-2018) and its public dispute with Irish reproductive justice, the hospitality of the Irish State is humorously scrutinized through activist art interventions... Read More →

Wednesday September 4, 2019 2:15pm - 4:15pm BST
Thornlea: TS4

Working Group Sessions, WG: Bodies and Performance

9:30am BST

Working Group Session 2: Bodies and Performance

Session Title: Protrusion, Exclusions and Intrusions: Irritation as Potentiality

Presenters

Savannah Whaley

Communities of (Bad) Feeling: Exclusion and Emotion in Howardena Pindell’s Free, White and 21 and Nicola L.’s Le Manteau Pour Onze Personnes (Same Skin for everybody ).In this paper I look at Howardena Pindell’s Free, White and 21 (1980) and her involvement with PESTS, an activist... Read More →

Eirini Kartsaki

Protrusions in contemporary art and performance appear in different forms: as fragmented, bodily shapes, contagious molds, abstract shapes, viscous, fleshly folds. Female artists Renate Bertlmann, Yayoi Kusama and Julia Bardsley, amongst others, use protrusions in their photographic... Read More →

Alissa Clarke

A Hole in the Head and the Heart: Artistic encounters across arousal and replusion.In 1970 artist and LSD proponent, Amanda Feilding drilled a hole in her head to access a permanent high. Between 1969-1977 feminist sex positive multimedia artist, Penny Slinger... Read More →

Thursday September 5, 2019 9:30am - 11:00am BST
Thornlea: TS4

Working Group Sessions, WG: Bodies and Performance

2:00pm BST

Working Group Session 3: Bodies and Performance

Inscriptions, Affects and Eco-Systems: Bodies that Try

Presenters

Sarah Hopfinger

Lecturer in Contemporary Performance Practice, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Performance and Chronic Pain: Ecologies of Pain.This practice research demonstration critically and creatively explores chronic pain bodies and performance. The performance lecture will specifically focus on my current practice-led research project, Ecologies of Pain, which explores... Read More →

Sara Reimers

Making an Appearance: Exploring the Emotional Labour of Aesthetic Labour.In their analysis of fashion modelling industries, Entwistle and Wissenger argue for the emotional content of aesthetic labour, conceptualising it as “adding to, or extending, rather than supplanting emotional... Read More →

Paul Geary

Performing Offence: Indignity and Provocation in Ivo Dimchev's P-ProjectAt the Birmingham-European (BE) festival in the summer of 2018, Bulgarian artist Ivo Dimchev presented P-Project; a participatory work where audience-participants are invited onto the stage to contribute to... Read More →

Thursday September 5, 2019 2:00pm - 3:30pm BST
Thornlea: TS4

Working Group Sessions, WG: Bodies and Performance

2:00pm BST

Working Group Session 4: Bodies and Performance

Feeling Good: Bodily Fluids and Sexual Acts

Presenters

Phoebe Patey-Ferguson

Lecturer, Rose Bruford

Lifting Belly: working out with the queer fat hunkAbstractLifting Belly (1915) is Gertrude Stein’s exploration of the joy of sexual encounters with fat bodies, specifically her own fat butch body which she calls “Mount Fatty.” The effusive possibilities of lifting a large belly... Read More →

Poppy Corbett

Revolting sweat, shit and semen: Politicisation of negative affects and abjects in Kim Noble's performance piece You're Not Alone.In Kim Noble’s performance piece You’re Not Alone (first performed 2014), the stage is dominated by a large screen through which he plays documentary... Read More →

karen abadie

Performing the unspeakable on the skin (for Bodies and Performance WG)My doctoral research explores what happens when feelings in my body become intolerable, how, over time, I have developed a strategy that works, but one that other people find horrific, disgusting, impossible to... Read More →

Friday September 6, 2019 2:00pm - 4:00pm BST
Thornlea: TS4

Working Group Sessions, WG: Bodies and Performance