N.B.: The event is available to TaPRA members and QMU members only. If you haven't already, please register for TaPRA membership via the following link.

This is an in-person attendance ticket. So please only sign up via Eventbrite if you would like to attend the conference in person. For those wishing to attend online here is a Teams link: Online session. The event will begin at 09:45 with a tea/coffee reception, QMU (Main building, Pod Room 2108).

During this event, we invite you to ponder collaborative relations between humans and other-than-humans. We will discuss questions that address the complex relationships that occur within technologically enabled performances in the context of posthuman assemblages. In order to develop a polyphonic discourse that recognises the heterogeneous mix of human and non-human others that operate within the nature/culture/technology continuum, we are inviting you to this hybrid event, facilitating participation by online delegates alongside those attending in person.

Link to Abstracts and Biogs

Schedule:

9.45-10.00

Online participants admission

In-person participants: tea/coffee reception at QMU (main building, Pod Room 2108)

Gallery Space: ‘Assemblages – Documentation of Practice’ (main building, Pod Room 2109)

10.00 – 10.10 Welcome by Bianca Mastrominico, Vlad Butucea, Piotr Woycicki, Anka Makrzanowska and Dan Barnard

10.10 – 12.00 Keynotes:

‘Posthuman Assemblages Made Through Scotland, Made of Humans and Other-than-Humans’

10.10 – 10.30 Helen Varley Jamieson ‘Online Performance using UpStage’

10.30 – 10.50 Suzon Fuks ‘Processes of assembling Be Like Body-Obsolete’

10.50 – 11.10 Harry Wilson ‘Remote Walking with Technology during Covid-19’

11.10 – 11.40 Q&A

11.40 – 12.40 lunch break

Gallery Space: ‘Assemblages – Documentation of Practice’ (main building, Pod Room 2109 and online gallery via Teams)

12.40 – 13.00 Luca Proietti: ‘Living a Posthuman-Technocultural Theatre Through VR in Kuro Tanino’s The Dark Master’ by, SOAS University of London

13.00 – 13.20 Jo Scott: A lecture-demo ‘Sounding ecological processes: mixing more than human growth and digital sound in geo-located walking practices’

13.20 – 13.40 Dan Barnard: ‘Shifting the Centre of authority in digital performance: an experiment in a more inclusive and polyphonic approach’

13.40 – 14.00 Ada Xiaoyu Hao: A performance provocation ’ConTactic’

14.00 – 14.30 Q&A with Luca Proietti, Jo Scott, Dan Barnard, Ada Xiaoyu Hao

14.30 – 14.50 tea/coffee break

Gallery Space: ‘Assemblages – Documentation of Practice’ (main building, Pod Room 2109)

14.50 – 15.30 Leonie Rae Gasson: a keynote

‘Interactive Talk: Expressing Queerness and Neurodivergence through a Mixed Reality Practice'

15.30 – 15.50 Q&A with Leonie Rae Gasson

15.50 – 16.00 Assembling of the open-ended points Piotr Woycicki, Anka Makrzanowska, Dan Barnard, Bianca Mastrominico and Vlad Butucea

Posthuman Assemblages and Technologically Enabled Performances