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SESSION 25:
creative RESEARCH symposium

SATURDAY, 25 Mar 2023

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SUNDAY, 26 Mar 2023

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13:45 - 14:45 UTC

15:00 - 20:00 UTC

MFA group meeting/discussion

MFA RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULE

SESSION ONE
GUEST REVIEWER: LAURA LEVIN
15:00 - 15:30 UTC - CADEN MANSON
15:30 - 16:00 UTC - HEIDI STRAUSS
16:00 - 16:15 UTC - BREAK

SESSION two
GUEST REVIEWER: sarah bennett
16:15 - 16:45 UTC - ANNE LIVINGSTON
16:45 - 17:15 UTC - RENE MEYER-GRIMBERG
17:15 - 17:45 UTC - RENEE BROWN
17:45 - 18:00 UTC - BREAK

SESSION three
GUEST REVIEWER: fawz kabra
18:00 - 18:30 UTC - SOPHIA wright EMIGH
18:30 - 19:00 UTC - vanessa lustig
19:00 - 19:30 UTC - kahlil i. pedizisai

Guest Reviewer Bios

Laura Levin is Associate Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies and Associate Dean, Research in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University.

She teaches courses on contemporary theatre and performance art, devised theatre, and practice-based research. Her research focuses on site-specific, immersive, and urban intervention performance; performing gender and sexuality; activist and political performance; performance, human rights, and environmental justice; intermedial and digital performance; research-creation methodologies; and performance theory. She is Associate Editor of Canadian Theatre Review (former Editor-in-Chief) and Co-Editor of Performance Studies in Canada (with Marlis Schweitzer)—winner of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research’s (CATR) 2018 Patrick O’Neill Award for Best Edited Collection. She is Editor of Theatre and Performance in Toronto and Conversations Across Borders, a collection of dialogues on performance, politics, and border culture with performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Laura has also edited special issues of journals on a wide range of topics: performance art, performing politicians, performance and space, digital performance, performing publics, choreographies of public assembly, and more. She is author of Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage, and the Art of Blending In, winner of the CATR’s 2015 Ann Saddlemyer Award for best book in English or French, and currently writing a book on performance and political culture in Canada.

Laura has worked as a director, dramaturg, and performer on a number of performances in North America and co-curated research-creation projects that investigate intersections of art, geography, archives, and digital technologies. Examples include staging performance art works at international festivals (e.g. TALIXMXN with Jess Dobkin at the Encuentro Performance Festival in Mexico City, 2019), art installations at museums (e.g. MetroARCADE at the Bata Shoe Museum, co-curated with Shauna Janssen, Stephen Lawson, and Aaron Pollard, 2016), and activist performance interventions with the feminist art collective, the Queen’s Beavers (with Kim McLeod and Helene Vosters). She is currently serving as dramaturg for Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective, a performance art exhibition slated to open in fall 2020 at the Art Gallery of York University.

Laura is Principal Investigator for Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices (2020-2027 SSHRC Partnership Grant), a project that brings together a group of universities, community organizations, artists, and activists across Canada, the US, and Latin America to study “hemispheric performance” as a research-creation methodology, a pedagogical strategy, and a tool for social change. This work builds on earlier SSHRC-funded research conducted by the Canadian Consortium on Performance and Politics in the Americas for which she served as Co-Investigator (PI Peter Kulchyski), a research initiative that assembled Canadian researchers studying political performance and linked them to the activities of NYU’s Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. Laura is also co-curator, with Marlis Schweitzer, of the Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series, which emerged out of the SSHRC-funded Performance Studies (Canada) Project, an ongoing collaborative study that seeks to explore how cultural conditions have produced alternative articulations of “performance” in Canadian contexts.

Sarah Bennett is a practicing artist and academic. She has exhibited regularly in the UK and Europe. Bennett has 35 years experience in Higher Arts Education – previous posts include Head of Fine Art, and Head of the School of Art and Media at Plymouth University. She has recently retired as Head of the School of Art and Architecture at Kingston University, London, but continues to supervise PhD candidates and undertake research at Kingston. She also has experience in delivery of international collaborative Masters and PhD programmes in Fine Art. Bennett is on the Board of EQ-Arts, (based in Amsterdam), and participates in international quality assurance processes across Europe, as well as being a panel member for Validations and Periodic Reviews in the UK. She has a practice based PhD from Plymouth University (2010) and is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education academy.

In her art practice Bennett engages an archival/historical lens to explore institutional or dominant systems and codes - in order to flip the historical viewpoint back towards contemporary contexts and concerns. She uses a range of artistic research methods from facsimile object making to observational drawing to digital recording (photo, sound, video), with artworks more often than not installed in non-gallery settings. Her PhD by practice was awarded in 2010 and her artistic research and writing traverses fine art practice, cultural geography, visual anthropology, museology and the history of psychiatry. She regularly exhibits in the UK and Italy.

 http://www.sarahbennett.org.uk

Fawz Kabra is founder and director of Brief Histories gallery in New York City, where she collaborates with artists on exhibitions and publication projects. As a curator and writer, Kabra was previously Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (2013-2016) and organized symposia and exhibitions including, the 13th Global Art Forum, School is a Factory? (2019); No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2017); The Way Things Can Go, The New York Armory Show (2015); BRIC Biennial: Volume I, Downtown Edition, BRIC Brooklyn (2014). Her writing and interviews appear in Protozine, Art Papers, Canvas, Ibraaz, and Ocula.

www.briefhistories.art