The Monday Lecture Programme has been running since 1997 as a series of weekly presentations by contemporary artists and cultural practitioners, who work across disciplines. This is an opportunity to hear artists, writers, cultural activists talk about the history of their practice and show examples of their work. The lecture series is coordinated by Mine Kaylan for The School of Arts and Communication and as part of the Sallis Benney public lecture Programme.
Warner van Wely is a theatre maker/director/teacher from Amsterdam. His work is based on performance art and working in the public space. From 1975-1990 he was the artistic director of the internationally acclaimed theatre company Dogtroep ( which he co-founded), creating side specific performances for large audiences. From 1993 until now he is the artistic director of Warner&Consorten, a laboratory-theatre company, researching interdisciplinary arts and street arts.
Warner gives workshops for artists from different disciplines all over the world . He has written two books.
The Art of Wild Theatre (Amsterdam, 1992); Theater voor de Openbare Ruimte (theatre for the public space) (Amsterdam 2003).
In the lecture, titled ‘FOUND SPACES – MOVING AUDIENCES’, he will talk about basic principles in his work, starting from video fragments from different periods. Main topics are: non-narrative interdisciplinary actions; non-formalised relationships to audiences; group creation processes.
