Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring
- Submitting institution
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Aberystwyth University / Prifysgol Aberystwyth
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 9949721
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Manchester
- Open access status
- -
- Month of first performance
- March
- Year of first performance
- 2016
- 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
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This large-scale participatory stage work, consisting of four distinct public productions, was realised over three years of sustained collaborative research and practical experimentation undertaken across a series of creative research residencies and involving large numbers of local public participants. This extensive project – complex in its intentions, scale, form and collaborative approaches – greatly expands the co-authors’ long-term investigations of the essential co-presence of performers and audience within the basic material realities of theatrical performance. The production, conceived as a long-duration quartet, was presented as a 7-hour public performance cycle and supplemented by a resulting co-edited book.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- A large-scale participatory stage work consisting of four public productions, realised over a three-year period, and conceived and ultimately presented as a quartet – first staged in its entirety as a 7-hour performance cycle in Manchester in 2016. The project was co-commissioned by Compass Live Art, Contact, Dublin Theatre Festival, HOME, Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival, In Between Time, Lancaster Arts, National Theatre Wales, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Northern Stage and SICK! Festival; produced in collaboration with the NXT STP network of European performing arts festivals; awarded an Arts Council England Exceptional Award; and supported by The Wellcome Trust. The project also including the resulting co-edited book: SUMMER. AUTUMN. WINTER. SPRING. Staging life and Death (2020).
The work was co-conceived and co-created within Banham’s long-term investigation and role as designer and founding co-director of the company Quarantine, and furthers the authors’ explorations of the essential co-presence of performers and audience within the basic material realities of theatrical performance. Created with local participants rather than trained performers, the work foregrounds the performance of everyday life and lives, through dramaturgies of interview, inquiry and instruction – engaging the tensions between an apparatus of representation and the structured presentation of participants’ daily lives, to interrogate and renegotiate the boundaries between conventions of performer and spectator participation.
Research questions include:
- In what ways might the modes of appearance conditioned and mediated by a work’s theatrical frames be reconfigured?
- How might we recognise and engage the role of scenographic objects as actants within performance?
- How might a theatrical apparatus invite an audience to join the process of construction being revealed to them?
- How might the mechanics of theatrical presentation, representation and presence be demystified to find and allow perhaps more egalitarian modes of participation?
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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