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Why Theatre?
Why Theatre? is a series of guest lectures and meetings with theatre and dance researchers and practitioners throughout the year.
Friday 8 April 2011: Why Theatre? with CAMP -an encounter with Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran
CAMP is an international platform for art, research and collaborations, founded in November 2007 by Shaina Anand, Sanjay Bhangar and Ashok Sukumaran, partly based in India. CAMP is not an "artists collective" but a space, which considers thresholds of ownership and authority as challenging sites for art practice. Through a range of projects and events they test the ground between aesthetics and multiple ideas of the public, private, personal and the political, and the capacity to act within it. They engage with questions, claims and potentials around infrastructure: materials, systems and tools. This means working directly with such things as electricity, transport, trade, archives, video, radio and the internet; developing ways to think about these as integrated with human life, and beyond the "network" as thought-model.
Recent projects are The Edgware Road Project, a 2-year web-based archiving and "print-from-web" project, linked to investigations of landscapes of commerce and pleasure in this part of London. Al Jaar Qabla al Daar (The Neighbour before the House) is a series of video probes into the landscape of East Jerusalem. Shot with a security camera, these images show that before and after instrumental "surveillance", there is inquisitiveness, jest, memory, desire and doubt that pervades the project of watching. For a detailed description and other events, see http://www.camputer.org.
Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran were invited by the Theatre Faculty of the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU), to conduct a workshop with 15 students who are engaged in a long-term project investigating cross-over performances. The outcome of this Performance Project will be presented within the Re:Mickery shift in the Performance Studies international conference Camillo 2.0 Technology, Memory, Experience, taking place 25-29 May in Utrecht (see http://www.psi17.org).
On Friday 8 April, CAMP will temporarily ‘camp’ in Utrecht University’s theatre Studio T, to present and discuss their work. This is a public event, but also part of the HKU workshop.
Everyone interested in performative and collaborative archiving, site-specific memory, alternative forms of surveillance, or embedded sustainability (topics which closely resonate with Camillo 2.0) is cordially invited.
Ashok Sukaraman explores the intersection of spaces of living, and technologies being 'embedded' within them. Her projects are an adulterous mix of software-based art, conceptual practices, telematics, early and pre-cinema, site-based performance, and architecture. See also http://0ut.in, projects “Parkview Hotel” and “The Neighbour” are warmly recommended.
Shaina Anandi is founder of ChitraKarKhana, a fully independent, small scale unit for experimental media based in Bombay, India. [chitra+karkhana] means ‘image workshop’ or ‘picture factory’; [chitrakar+khana] refers to ‘artist food’. See http://www.chitrakarkhana.net/ for a range of archival and playful surveillance projects, for instance “Motornama” and “Arts Archival”.
Date/time/venue:
Friday 8 April 2011, 16.00-18.00 hrs.
Studio T, Kromme Nieuwegracht 20, Utrecht
Why Theatre? Archive
Previously, Why Theatre? welcomed Eve Hopkins, Sophie Kassies, Robbert van Heuven, Mirjam Koen, Frans Strijards, Andrea Bozic, Anne Karin ten Bosch, Joris Wijdom, Tereza Havelkova, Sanja Mitrovic, Nicholas Rowe, Bouam puppetry company, Alexander Karshnia (andcompany&co), Petra Kuppers, Raoul Heertje, Michal Kobialka, Mike Pearson, Bryan Reynolds, Janez Jansa (the artist formerly known as Emil Hrvatin, Ljubljana). See our archive.
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Related links
• What & Why?
What & Why is a research platform that consists of two seminars: What’s Cooking?! and Why Theatre? See MCW's Research website for more information and other upcoming events.
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