Performance as Commemoration
- Submitting institution
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University of Lincoln
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33864
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Performances and publication
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- January
- Year
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The four-year project Performance-as-Commemoration, double-weighted to reflect its extensive scope, was a collaboration between Andrew Westerside (PI), Conan Lawrence, Michael Pinchbeck, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC North, Proto-type Theater, the RAF, and the Armed Forces.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The four-year project Performance-as-Commemoration, double-weighted to reflect its extensive scope, was a collaboration between Andrew Westerside (PI), Conan Lawrence, Michael Pinchbeck, BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC North, Proto-type Theater, the RAF, and the Armed Forces.
Research Questions:
1. How might works of theatre and performance operate as commemorative acts, and how might they respond to the tension between performance’s implicit liveness and commemoration’s widely theorised need for permanence, fixity, and repetition?
2. How might we explore, through practice, the relationship between performance and the commemorative via performances that a) fall on significant regional, national, and international anniversaries or b) fall within commemorative ‘cycles’ (ie, 2014-2018)
3. Where does the personal act of remembrance meet the public or political act of remembrance?
4. Where is the boundary between commemorative and performative acts, and how might it be blurred, broken, or interrupted?
Research Outputs:
1. Introduction, Chapter 1 and Conclusion, in Pinchbeck, M. & Westerside, A. (2018), Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2. Performance: Leaving Home: Friesthorpe. (BBC North / Lawrence & Westerside) (2015).
3. Performance: The Forgotten Suffragette (writer and director: Westerside) (BBC Radio Lincolnshire / University of Lincoln / Proto-type Theater) (2016).
4. Performance: Fallen (co-writer and director: Westerside) (BBC broadcast documentation included) (2016).
Wider engagement included an invitation to develop commemorative performance works for the International Bomber Command Centre digital archive and opening ceremonies, developing new and best practices in integrating performance work into historical and digital archiving; a week of local BBC radio programming influenced and inspired by The Forgotten Suffragette on the subject of women’s rights; and the uncovering of ‘lost’ music composed by men who fell at the Somme which has never previously been played or broadcast.
Leaving Home won the Judges’ Commendation for Innovation at the New York Festivals Radio Awards.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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