LIMINALITY AND PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE Brunel University, West London 27 April - 30 April 2000 According to Victor Turner 'limen' is 'A no-man's-land betwixt-and- between… a fructile chaos, a fertile nothingness, a storehouse of possibilities … a striving after new forms and structures.' This interdisciplinary conference brings together an international range of artists and writers who are using the concept of liminality to research into new ways of practising and theorising in the performing, literary and visual arts. Liminality is not concerned with the old strategies of the edge, the avant garde and the marginal. Instead it is a notion offering a new way to experiment and create using the in between spaces, the interstices. Liminality is fluid, open, unfixed, inclusive, diverse. It offers a kickstart for new performance practices in this new century. The conference will include performances, installations and interventions by artists and writers from USA, Australia, Europe, Israel, Canada and the UK. Performers include Michael Atavar; Catriona Scott; Petra Kuppers, Richard Povall and Sang Kyung Kim. There will be papers by speakers including Barry Smith (Live Art Archive); Professor Shimon Levy (Tel Aviv University); Dan Friedman (Castillo Theatre, New York); Jeffrey Scott-Longstaff (Laban Centre), Dee Reynolds (University of Manchester) and Alec Robertson (De Montfort University). The full conference programme and registration form with details of accommodation, how to get here and conference social events are on the conference website at www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/pfa/liminality.htm Conference proceedings will be published in a special issue of the forthcoming journal, Body, Space & Technology. The conference venue is the Twickenham campus of Brunel University situated near Richmond and the River Thames. Registration is £40/20. Deadline for registration is 17 March 2000. Conference Organisers: Sue Broadhurst, Barry Edwards, Ross McKim. Conference Administrators: Sue Ramus, Tracey Warr. Further information: Sue Ramus, Department of Performing Arts, Brunel University, 300 St Margaret's Road, Twickenham TW1 1PT. Tel 020 8891 8488 x 2368. Fax 020 8891 8316. Email sue.ramus@brunel.ac.uk -- Tracey Warr
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