
programme.
Access to the conference is free, no registration is needed, no fee charged
9.00: opening session
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Cripta di Sant’Andrea - via G. Ferraris 116, Vercelli
Opening address
The conference curators: Prof. Marco Pustianaz, Dr. Giulia Palladini, Dr. Annalisa Sacchi
PSi International Committee Chair: Marin Blažević
10.00-13.00:
panel 1: THE LESSON OF ART IN RELATION TO PASSING AND PASSER-BYS»
curated by Claudia Castellucci/Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Participants
Marin Blažević (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Enhancing the affective potential of performance through writing: the case of Goat Island»
Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
What if this Were an Archive? Dance Company Emio Greco|PC’s interactive installation Double Skin|Double Mind»
Viviana Gravano (Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milano)
La clé des songes. Documentation as archival dislocation»
Rebecca Schneider (Brown University, USA)
The Hard Labor of the Live»
13.00-15.00: lunch break
15.00-18.00:
panel 2: PARTICIPATING AND FORGETTING»
curated by Cesare Pietroiusti
Participants
Fabrizio Deriu (Università di Teramo)
Variation lies in waiting. “Conserving” performance between archive and repertory»
Aleksandra Jovičević (Università “La Sapienza”, Roma)
Real Crimes and Symbolic Memory»
Joe Kelleher (Roehampton University, London, UK)
'"...to which something in us that rejects all memory already belongs". Of Friendship.'»
Annalisa Sacchi (Università di Bologna)
Extinguish me”: on memory, leaving, and the power to bind»
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the forgetters
Cesare Pietroiusti
9.00-13.00:
Piscina comunale ENAL - piazza Cesare Battisti, Vercelli
panel 3: THE HUMAN VOICES»
curated by Massimo Bartolini
Participants
Marco Pustianaz (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli)
One at a time. The secret archive of one-to-one performance»
Alan Read (King’s College University, London, UK)
Dust My Broom»
Valentina Valentini (Università “La Sapienza”, Roma)
The dwelling of female voices from Italian theatre. A radio broadcast»
Alessandra Violi (Università di Bergamo)
If toys could speak: affective resonances from Joseph Cornell’s toy archive»
13.00-15.00: lunch break
15.00-18.00:
Piccolo Studio - via G. Ferraris, Vercelli
panel 4:
THE GAME»
curated by Lois Weaver
Participants
Susanne Franco (Università di Salerno)
Archiving modern dance: Rudolf Laban between affects and documents»
Giulia Palladini (Università di Pisa)
A Map of Deposits for an Urban Childhood»
Heike Roms (University of Aberystwith, UK)
Performing the Gift of the Archive»
Jurgita Staniškytė (Vytautas Magnus University, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Structuring Passion: Performances of Personal Histories in Post-soviet Baltics»
11.00-13.00:
Conference hall, Teatro Gobetti, via Rossini 8, Torino
Forum: BEING WITH: PRAXIS AND POLITICS OF SHARED CREATIVITY»
Introductory address: Nick Ridout (Queen Mary University, London)
:: We, the workers and the spectators»
università degli studi del piemonte orientale amedeo avogadro
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