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Research Bulletin, June 2009

Recent Publications Josh Abrams  „Thriving in Hard Times: The Contemporary London Scene,‟ in Western European Stages Vol. 21, no. 2, Spring 2009 (co-authored with Jen ParkerStarbuck) Simon Bayly  (2008) „Figuring the Face‟, Performance Research: „On Appearance‟, 13(4): 25-37 Ernst Fischer  Untitled performance/talk on ghosts, documentation and LEIBNIZ‟s performance practice as part of New Work Network‟s „Base encampment‟ at National Review of Live Art (NRLA), Glasgow, 13 February 09  Writing Home, tour of poetry performance (director) in conjunction with Exiled Writers Ink: Mostar and Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina), April 09  Ghost Letters, performance at King‟s College, London: Queer Autobiography conference, 12 June 09 Sarah Gorman  „The End of Reality: Exploring Acting with New York City Players‟, in Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes, ed. Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender, Manchester University Press, Summer 2009  „Wandering and Wondering: Following Janet Cardiff‟s Missing Voice‟, Performance Research, 8 (1): 83-92 (2003) to be re-published in Performance and the Contemporary City ed. Nicholas Whybrow, Palgrave Macmillan, Summer 2009 Susanne Greenhalgh:  „Listening to Shakespeare‟ published in Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio: The Researcher’s Guide (BUFVC, March 2009)  „Dream Children: Staging and Screening Childhood in A Midsummer Night’s Dream‟(2007), reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism 121 ed. Michelle Lee, Gale-Cengage (May 2009)  Multiple entries, including on „Radio‟, „Television‟, „Domestic Shakespeare‟ and „Children‟s Literature‟, to the five-volume Shakespeare Encyclopaedia ed. Patricia Parker (Greenwood, publication October 2009) Adrian Heathfield:  Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh (Live Art Development Agency and MIT Press, 2009)  co-authored durational text „Long Relay‟ published in Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist‟s Experiment Marathon (Koenig Books, 2009)  „Intangibles of Performance‟ published in Babylon Europe: Boundless Languages, (Marsilio, 2008)

Joe Kelleher:  Theatre & Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009  'How to Act, How to Spectate (Laughing Matter)', Performance Research (On Appearance) 13.4, 2009  'Con le mani piene di fantasmi', Art'O 27, Spring 2009; forthcoming in English ('Their hands full of ghosts') PAJ, 2009 Peter Majer  Translation (English to Czech) of The Dreams of Anne Frank by Bernard Kops  Translation (English to Czech) Call in the Night by Bernard Kops Emily Orley  'Getting at and into place: writing as practice and research' in Journal of Writing in Creative Practice: Edited by Claire Hind and Susan Orr, Summer 2009 Jen Parker-Starbuck:  „Thriving in Hard Times: The Contemporary London Scene,‟ in Western European Stages Vol. 21, no. 2, Spring 2009 (co-authored with Josh Abrams)  „The play-within-the-film-within-the-play‟s the thing: re-transmitting analogue bodies in the Wooster Group‟s Hamlet‟” International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Summer 2009 Ioana Szeman  Stages of Erasure: The Politics of Global Gypsy Performance, manuscript to be submitted for review to University of Michigan Press Oct. 2009  “‟Gypsy Music‟ and Deejays: Balkanism, Orientalism and Romani Musicians.” TDR, Autumn 2009 Graham White  The Ians in the Audience: Punk Attitude and the Case of Ian Stuart MacDonald‟, to edited collection, ed. by Mike Sell, Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical, Palgrave MacMillan, Spring 2010  „The Man in the Gallery with the Writing on his Face‟ to the International Journal of the Semiotics of Law, Springer Press, Autumn 09  A Bit of Explaining To Do, (radio play) part of BBC radio 4‟s „Rapid Response‟ initiative, broadcast June 15. Fiona Wilkie  '"What‟s there to be scared of in a train?": transport and travel in Greig's Europe' under consideration for edited collection on David Greig.

Forthcoming Projects Josh Abrams  Essay submitted to Patriotic Dissent, anthology, ed. Jenny Spencer, under consideration with University of Michigan Press, June 2009  “The Ubiquitous Orange Jumpsuit: Privacy, the Commons, and the Public Sphere” at Performance Studies International in Zagreb, June 2009

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„Performance and Political Protest‟ at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference in New York, August, 2009 as well as participating in two invited roundtables, one on “Theatre and Performance Studies in a time of Credit Crises” and one on “Editing and Publishing today”.

Simon Bayly  Co-curating (with Cecilia Wee and Charlie Fox) Night Shift Drifts at PSi 15 in Zagreb, June 24-28th, a short-term ambulatory research project that takes a tourist‟s guided city tour as its starting point.  A Pathognomy of Performance, monograph currently under consideration with Palgrave  'Theatre, Philosophy and the Problem of the Public', submitted to Radical Philosophy Ernst Fischer  Ghost Letters, performance at London Metropolitan University, 27 June 09  Residency at Rifrazioni performance festival, Anzio & Nettuno, Italy, July/August 09 th  Ghost Letters, performance for 20 anniversary of NRLA, Glasgow, February 2010  Long-term collaboration with photographer Manuel Vason on „the face as site of performance‟ for exhibition/publication in 2011 Sarah Gorman  The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players, Routledge, New York, 2010  Book Proposal lodged with Palgrave Macmillan for Theatre & Risk Due Winter 2010  „I Got Balls, See? A Study of Working Class Masculinity in the work of Richard Maxwell‟ paper to be given at PSI 15, Zagreb, June 2009 Susanne Greenhalgh:  Contributing a paper on Shakespeare on wartime radio to the „Shakespeare in Wartime‟ seminar, British Shakespeare Association Conference, King‟s College London, September 2009.  Planning „Shakespeare and the Actress‟ Conference, July 2010, (a collaboration between the Centre for Research in Renaissance Studies and the National Maritime Museum, to be held at the Queen‟s House, Greenwich) Adrian Heathfield  Continuing to work on a co-edited anthology with Amelia Jones, Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History, to be published by Routledge in 2010.  Adrian was recently awarded a substantial research grant from the AHRC (with Goldsmiths and the Live Art Development Agency) for Performance Matters, a three year research project on the cultural value of performance. This will see a range of projects realised as part of the University‟s research culture over the next three years, including creative dialogue works, international symposia, and a series of developmental workshops. Joe Kelleher 

'Moving parts: on indifference', for panel I'm Partial, PSi#15, Zagreb, June 2009

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'On hallucination, and the hatred of images', for panel Mis-Spectating, PSi#15, Zagreb, June 2009 The School of Sisyphus, co-curated 'shift', PSi#15, Zagreb, June 2009

Peter Majer  Conference paper: “Bernard Kops: Contemporary Jewish Playwrights in Britain” at the Nine Gates Festival organised by Czech Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic, June 2009. Emily Orley  'The question of practice as research: writing on and writing as scenography', Tapra, Plymouth, September 2009. Also running site-specific workshop as part of the Scenography Working Group.  'Opiate' (performance installation) was part of the 4th 'My Site/In Space' Exhibition at the Resistance Gallery in London.  'Ivory Towers' (performance installation), part of the 6th 'You and Your Work' Festival, Bristol. Susan Painter  Forthcoming article: „Katori Hall's The Mountaintop‟ for Western European Stages, 2010. Jen Parker-Starbuck:  Cyborg Theatre, monograph under consideration with Palgrave 

Presenting “Reflective Viewing: Orlan‟s Hybridized Harlequin, the Forms of Francis Bacon, and the Animal-Human Divide” Psi conference, Zagreb Croatia, 24-28 June 2009

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Working on AHRC funding bid for a project called "Performing Animality," with Lourdes Orozco, Leeds University

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Co-convenor of the Mixed-Media Working Group, which will meet at the PSFG/ATHE Preconference, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC.7 August 2009

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Presenting “Reflective Viewing: Orlan‟s Hybridized Harlequin and the AnimalHuman Divide” for the ATHE Conference, New York City, NY, 8-11 August 2009

Ioana Szeman  Public Lecture “Performing the „Authentic Gypsy‟: Romani Musicians and Dancers on Local and Global Stages,” June 22nd, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, part of the 2nd Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month  Invited Participant, International Seminar: “The Eurovision Song Contest and the „New Europe‟,” University of Warwick, June 19-20; presentation on  “‟Gypsy Music,‟ Nationalism and Orientalism.”  “Collecting Tears: Remembering the Romani Holocaust” paper to be presented at PSi 2009, Zagreb  “Acting like Trade-Unionists: Street Protests and Theatre Reform after Socialism,” paper accepted for the “Socialist Imaginary” Working Group at the 2009 ASTR conference, Puerto Rico  “Paradise is Lost, Welcome to the (Romani) World,” article to be submitted in September 2009 to Performance Research Fiona Wilkie

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'Nothing is moving: train travel and performance', paper presentation at the Living Landscapes, Aberystwyth, June 2009. Book project :In transit: performance, transport and mobility, 2011 Research networks project :Itchy Feet: investigating the research potential of travelling, with two colleagues at the University of Surrey, to be submitted to the AHRC, 2009