Consciousness and Cognition: Theatre Practice and Performance
Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th May 2014 | Western Gateway Building, University College Cork
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Performance Practice at the School of Music and Theatre (UCC) in association with CACSSS Graduate School (UCC) and the Irish Society for Theatre Research
ISTR 2014 | Book of Abstracts (pdf)
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Friday 23rd May 2014
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9:30 Registration
Venue: Western Gateway Building (Rear Atrium), UCC Campus, Western Road.
Note: Registration Desk (open until 4pm)
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10:00-11:00 Working Groups
- Room G09 – Performance Philosophy
- Room G13 – Comedy and Performance
- Room G18 – Gender and Performance
11:15 to 13:00 Panel 1
Room G09 | Irish Theatre : Death, Subjectivity, Transcendence
Chair: Dr. Eamonn Jordan (UCD) |
Room G13 | Considering the Spectator
Chair: Dr. Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic (UCC) |
Room G18 | Calling to Mind : Memories and Hidden Voices
Chair: Dr. Mary Noonan (UCC) |
Drama LabConnolly Building, Western Road | Practice DemoKristin Linklater (Shakespeare Clinic) *** Max Capacity 35 – Please sign-in on registrationChair/Facilitator: Dr. Bernadette Cronin |
13:15-13:45 Lunch (Available for purchase in Western Gateway Café)
Lunchtime performance :
Spelling by Inma Pavon (concourse outside WGB Café)
Chaired by Dr. Bernadette Cronin
13:45-14:15 Young Scholars Forum (Dr. Eamonn Jordan) – Room G09
14:15-16:00 Panel 2
Room G09 | Performance Philosophies
Chair: Dr. Marie Kelly (UCC) |
Room G13 | Setting the Scene: Minds, Mirrors, Images
Chair: Prof. Maria Kurdi (University of Pécs) |
Granary Theatre, Mardyke,Cork | Performance PanelBeckett’s Not IPerformed by Regina Crowley / Directed by Ger Fitzgibbon / Sound by Mick O’Shea** Please sign in on registrationChair: Dr. Ger Fitzgibbon |
16:15-17:30 Granary Theatre, Mardyke, Cork
Keynote 1:
Kristin Linklater ‘Breath, Thought, Voice, Word’
Chair: Dr. Bernadette Cronin (UCC)
18:15-19:00 Granary Theatre, Mardyke, Cork
Performance : Cabinet of Curiosities
(A performance by Gaitkrash Theatre Company: Bernadette Cronin, Regina Crowley, Mick, O’Shea)
Chair: Dr. Marie Kelly
19:30 Conference Dinner (Serendipity Restaurant, Western Rd)
Saturday 24th May 2014
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9:30 Registration
Venue: Western Gateway Building (Rear Atrium), UCC Campus, Western Road.
Note: Registration Desk (open until lunchtime)
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9:30-10:30 Room G402 Zazen Meditation Practice Session
** Max capacity 20 book at registration
Zazen Practitioner/Guide: Padraig Mac Suibhne
Session facilitated by Dr. Bernadette Cronin (UCC)
This meditation practice, which allows the ego to become quiet and the emotions calm, is not just useful to us in our daily lives but allows us as artists to better access our creative impulses, to quote David Feldschuh from his essay Zen and the Actor: ‘Zen [..] views creativity as flowing from a region beyond the conscious mind. Intuition, like a stream, is waiting to bubble forth through the artist. Although this flow cannot be forced, the individual can learn how to get out of the way, to eliminate blocks and more readily alllow the creative unconscious to manifest itself.’
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10:30-12:15 Panel 3
Room G402 | Thinking and Re-thinking Beckett
Chair: Dr. Ger Fitzgibbon (UCC) |
Room G13 | Moving Bodies : Moving Minds
Chair: Dr. Finola Cronin (UCD) |
Room G09 | Performance PanelTelling StoriesDonard McKenzieChan E ParkMind Reading / Mind ControlScotty Walsh (Independent Researcher): ‘BR41NW45H3D ? Down the Rabbit Hole of Mind Reading and Mind Control’Chair: Dr. Marie Kelly (UCC) |
12:30-14:00 Panel 4
Room G09 | Theatre and Performance in Ireland : Gender Consciousness
Chair: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick (University of Ulster) |
Room G13PAPER PANEL | Marks of the Material
Chair: Gabriella Calchi-Novati (TCD) |
Drama Lab,Connolly Building,Western Road | Practice Demos(1)Dance Demo ‘Make Your Own Spelling’ (Inma Pavon MA, UCC)(2)Michael Chekhov and the Power of Centering (Mary Moynihan MA, DIT)Chair: Prof. Franc Chamberlain (Univ. of Huddersfield) |
14:00-14:30 Lunch (Available for purchase in Western Gateway Café)
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14:30-15:00 AGM – Room G05
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15:00-16:45 Panel 5
Room G09 | Consciousness and the Actor
Chair: Dr. Bernadette Cronin (UCC) |
Room G18 | Speaking Ireland on Stage : Utterances and Dialects
Chair: Dr. Meliss Sihra (TCD) |
Room G402Drama LabConnolly Building, Western Road | Performance Panels
Chair: Dr. Marie Kelly (UCC)
Liminality and Mind (Performed Papers)
Chair: Dr. Aoife McGrath (QUB) |
17:00 Room G05
Keynote 2:
Dr. Bruce McConachie ‘An Ethics Based in Pragmatic Naturalism for Theatre and Performance Studies’
Chair: Dr. Marie Kelly (UCC)
Concluding Discussion Panel:
Prof. Franc Chamberlain (Univ of Huddersfield), Dr. Aleksandar Dundjerovic (UCC), Dr. Bernadette Cronin (UCC)
18:45 End of Conference Drinks
Common Room, Main Campus, UCC