QUALITATIVE METHODS, SITUATED KNOWLEDGE & THE MAKING OF PERFORMANCE
Studio Stage (Studiobühne) of the Institute for Theater Studies, Neuturmstrasse 5, 80331 Munich / July 5-7, 2023 / Organized by Ulf Otto, Luise Barsch, Anna Raisich
Please note that the times in the flyer are no longer current for Thursday, July 5! The corrected schedule as follows:
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
13.30-14.45 KEYNOTE I
Translating Practice to Research. Methodological Aspects of Praxeological Performance Research
Gabriele Klein, Hamburg University, DE/University of Amsterdam, NL
15.00–16.30 POSITIONALITIES: BODIES IN RESEARCH (I)
Positioning, Orientation, Relationalization. Doing Research on Disability Performance as a Multimodal Process
Elena Backhausen, Mirjam Kreuser and Benjamin Wihstutz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE
17.00–18.15 KEYNOTE II
The Power of Fragility: A Pragmatist Approach to Performance
Albena Yaneva, University of Manchester, UK
Thursday, July 6, 2023
09.45–11.15 POSITIONALITIES: BODIES IN RESEARCH (II)
The Body as Research Instrument? – Methodological Reflections and Empirical Insights from an Ethnographic Theater Study
Hanna Voss, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE
Who Am I? And If So, How Many, Where, and Why? – Autoethnographic Reflections on Field Research in Theatrical Contexts
Tamara Quick, University of Bayreuth, DE
11.30–13.00 TEMPORALITIES: CAPTURING PROCESSES (I)
Autoethnographic Process: Reflecting on William Forsythe’s Duo
Elizabeth Waterhouse, University of Bern, CH
Digital Ethnography in the Field – Documenting and Researching Choreographic Process
David Rittershaus, University of Applied Sciences Mainz (Motion Bank), DE
15.00–15.45 TEMPORALITIES: CAPTURING PROCESSES (II)
Theater in the Making, Subjects in Becoming: Writing on Processes of Production and Arts Education from Within
Benjamin Hoesch, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, DE
16.15–17.45 CONTEXTS: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (I)
Ethnography and/or Performance Analysis for Researching Rehearsals
Lisa Großmann, Bern Academy of the Arts, CH
In the eye of the Protest. Perspectives and Challenges of Performance Analysis and/as Ethnographic Research
Sebastian Sommer, Freie Universität Berlin, DE
18.00–19.30 CONTEXTS: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (II)
Staging Differences. Mis-en-scene and Interference of Human Categorisation in Contemporary German-speaking Postdramatic Theater
Friedemann Kreuder and Stefanie Husel, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, DE
Friday, July 7, 2023
09.30–10.45 MATERIALITIES: MAKING THINGS WORK (I)
“The Art of Crafts: A Praxeography of the Theater Apparatus” – Project Presentation
Luise Barsch, Ulf Otto and Anna Raisich, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, DE
11.15–12.30 MATERIALITIES: MAKING THINGS WORK (II)
Stage Lighting and Industrial Boredom
Martin Young, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Backstage Cartographies: Labor as Community in Midtown Manhattan
Christin Essin, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, US
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The conference is part of the research project The Art of Crafts. A Praxeography of the Theater Apparatus funded by
