Present Futures
Present Futures

Performance in a Pandemic

Dr Laura Bissell, Dr Lucy Weir and Other Speakers

Online Panel Discussion

Present Futures

Exhuming Exhuming Johnny, Robert Walton and Company, performed by Contemporary Performance Practice students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland at Nexus #1IN/ACTION December 2020.

© Florence Logan

In response to this unprecedented situation and its immediate, enduring effects on contemporary performance practice, Dr Laura Bissell (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and Dr Lucy Weir (University of Edinburgh) are editing a publication exploring the impact of the pandemic on artists and artistic output during this time. The volume will comprise an edited collection of essays artists’ reflections and responses to the unique challenges to contemporary performance (live art, dance, theatre) posed by the initial period of lockdown in the UK. This panel event is framed as a conversation between the editors and authors and includes reflections on the experience of audiences and programmers of “live” work on digital platforms. This panel event will discuss the evolving situation for live arts and explore how this moment is blurring borders and boundaries, as well as hybridising mediums. 

Panel:

The panel includes an author from each thematic area of the book (Precarity/Vulnerability, Art in an emergency: “It’s work”, how marginalised and excluded groups were impacted throughout lockdown, and how curatorial practices adapted to the global pandemic and how the cultural, economic and artistic impact has been felt across the sector).

Chair: Laura Bissell and Lucy Weir

Panelists:

David Gutiérrez Castañedad (with Denise Espirito Santo) (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): Embrace your vulnerability: Cultivating the arts, theatricalities, performativities in times of catastrophe

Shona Macnaughton (Glasgow-based Independent Artist): Here to Deliver: conversations with the ghosts of gig work. 

Rebecca Stancliffe (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance): Moving (together) in distributed settings: The impact of online music and dance delivery for older adults’ lived experience

Tamsin Hong (Tate Modern): Our Bodies, Our Archives: a collision course of curating during COVID-19.

Performance in a Pandemic

Dr Laura Bissell, Dr Lucy Weir and Other Speakers

Online Panel Discussion

Present Futures

Exhuming Exhuming Johnny, Robert Walton and Company, performed by Contemporary Performance Practice students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland at Nexus #1IN/ACTION December 2020.

© Florence Logan

In response to this unprecedented situation and its immediate, enduring effects on contemporary performance practice, Dr Laura Bissell (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and Dr Lucy Weir (University of Edinburgh) are editing a publication exploring the impact of the pandemic on artists and artistic output during this time. The volume will comprise an edited collection of essays artists’ reflections and responses to the unique challenges to contemporary performance (live art, dance, theatre) posed by the initial period of lockdown in the UK. This panel event is framed as a conversation between the editors and authors and includes reflections on the experience of audiences and programmers of “live” work on digital platforms. This panel event will discuss the evolving situation for live arts and explore how this moment is blurring borders and boundaries, as well as hybridising mediums. 

Panel:

The panel includes an author from each thematic area of the book (Precarity/Vulnerability, Art in an emergency: “It’s work”, how marginalised and excluded groups were impacted throughout lockdown, and how curatorial practices adapted to the global pandemic and how the cultural, economic and artistic impact has been felt across the sector).

Chair: Laura Bissell and Lucy Weir

Panelists:

David Gutiérrez Castañedad (with Denise Espirito Santo) (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): Embrace your vulnerability: Cultivating the arts, theatricalities, performativities in times of catastrophe

Shona Macnaughton (Glasgow-based Independent Artist): Here to Deliver: conversations with the ghosts of gig work. 

Rebecca Stancliffe (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance): Moving (together) in distributed settings: The impact of online music and dance delivery for older adults’ lived experience

Tamsin Hong (Tate Modern): Our Bodies, Our Archives: a collision course of curating during COVID-19.