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CONFERENCE: WRITING THEATER / July 5-7, 2023

QUALITATIVE METHODS, SITUATED KNOWLEDGE & THE MAKING OF PERFORMANCE

Studio Stage (Studiobühne) of the Institute for Theater Studies, Neuturmstrasse 5, 80331 Munich / July 5-7, 2023 / Organized by Ulf Otto, Luise Barsch, Anna Raisich

Please note that the times in the flyer are no longer current for Thursday, July 5! The corrected schedule as follows:

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

13.30-14.45 KEYNOTE I
Translating Practice to Research. Methodological Aspects of Praxeological Performance Research

Gabriele Klein, Hamburg University, DE/University of Amsterdam, NL

15.00–16.30 POSITIONALITIES: BODIES IN RESEARCH (I)
Positioning, Orientation, Relationalization. Doing Research on Disability Performance as a Multimodal Process

Elena Backhausen, Mirjam Kreuser and Benjamin Wihstutz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE

17.00–18.15 KEYNOTE II
The Power of Fragility: A Pragmatist Approach to Performance

Albena Yaneva, University of Manchester, UK

 

Thursday, July 6, 2023

 

09.45–11.15 POSITIONALITIES: BODIES IN RESEARCH (II)
The Body as Research Instrument? – Methodological Reflections and Empirical Insights from an Ethnographic Theater Study

Hanna Voss, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE

Who Am I? And If So, How Many, Where, and Why? – Autoethnographic Reflections on Field Research in Theatrical Contexts

Tamara Quick, University of Bayreuth, DE

11.30–13.00 TEMPORALITIES: CAPTURING PROCESSES (I)
Autoethnographic Process: Reflecting on William Forsythe’s Duo

Elizabeth Waterhouse, University of Bern, CH

Digital Ethnography in the Field – Documenting and Researching Choreographic Process

David Rittershaus, University of Applied Sciences Mainz (Motion Bank), DE

15.00–15.45 TEMPORALITIES: CAPTURING PROCESSES (II)
Theater in the Making, Subjects in Becoming: Writing on Processes of Production and Arts Education from Within

Benjamin Hoesch, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, DE

16.15–17.45 CONTEXTS: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (I)
Ethnography and/or Performance Analysis for Researching Rehearsals

Lisa Großmann, Bern Academy of the Arts, CH

In the eye of the Protest. Perspectives and Challenges of Performance Analysis and/as Ethnographic Research

Sebastian Sommer, Freie Universität Berlin, DE

18.00–19.30 CONTEXTS: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (II)
Staging Differences. Mis-en-scene and Interference of Human Categorisation in Contemporary German-speaking Postdramatic Theater

Friedemann Kreuder and Stefanie Husel, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE

 

Friday, July 7, 2023

09.30–10.45 MATERIALITIES: MAKING THINGS WORK (I)
“The Art of Crafts: A Praxeography of the Theater Apparatus” – Project Presentation

Luise Barsch, Ulf Otto and Anna Raisich, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, DE

11.15–12.30 MATERIALITIES: MAKING THINGS WORK (II)
Stage Lighting and Industrial Boredom

Martin Young, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Backstage Cartographies: Labor as Community in Midtown Manhattan

Christin Essin, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, US

 

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The conference is part of the research project The Art of Crafts. A Praxeography of the Theater Apparatus funded by