Making and Unmaking Text

27th - 29th January 2011

Making and unmaking text across performance practices and theories is a three day participatory event which looks to expand the notion of the academic conference, by asking participants to present and respond. We hope this direct and primary response-led work will open up discussion and offer productive cross-discipline exchange. We will be providing a performative academic forum: to explore the place of text in practice; the making and unmaking of the text; and the questioning of academic protocols by this destabilising of the text. We hope participants and will see how text functions in different practice-based disciplines and how to contextualise different notions of textuality.

This event aims to bring together practice based postgraduate students from institutions across the uk. We invite 30 participants to engage in a series of performances, responses, workshops and conversations over the course of three days. Each participant will be asked to contribute by performing, discussing or presenting their work. This event will provide opportunities for practice-based researchers from different academic disciplines to engage in dialogue and knowledge transfer with their peers, and to open up possibilities for future collaborative and multi-disciplined events to take place.

Funded by Beyond Text, an AHRC programme, in association with Royal Holloway, University of London

Details of a call for work posted on the Making and Unmaking Text website.