26th Jan 2009 4:00pm-5:30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
Babel of Tower is a performance-lecture that functions as an alternative project report for an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, undertaken during 2003-2006. A comedic autocritque about failure, stupidity and free association, it takes the form of a staged dialogue with computer projection. Charting the illogic of a personal obsession with concrete and tower blocks, it maps both personal and cultural experiences of collapse as they converge in the psychic realities of a time of 'terror'. Recent performances include invitations to research events at the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge and Birkbeck College.
Simon Bayly is director of the London-based live arts company PUR and Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at Roehampton University. Currently co-developing a new MA in Performance and Creative Research, his interests include research and activism, the aesthetics and politics of participation in contemporary performance and the arts of organisation. Recent performance projects include Dear All, an event for formal conference rooms, non-actors and archives of all-user email lists from large institutions.
Enquires to M.A.Francis@bton.ac.uk
Chaired by Mary Anne Francis, Critical Fine Art Practice
