9th Feb 2015 12:00pm-1:30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
ŒArtology, Cartology, My Aristotle (Part 2)¹ - a Lecture Performance
As the last of a handful of innovative, cross-disciplinary Performance/Theatre practice based undergraduate courses surviving since the 1970s in the UK, draws to a close, this presentation traces a history of the educational practice of three such programmes: ŒTheatre (Performance) and Visual Art¹, School of Art (etc.), University of Brighton, ŒTheatre¹ at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, and ŒCreative/Contemporary Art¹ at Nottingham Trent University. It examines some of their shared pedagogic principles in terms of contemporary Performance, Art and Theatre practices and within the context of relatively recent wave of institutional reforms/re-structuring within H.E./University in the UK. It asks if and how the prioritization of certain principles embedded in their work may have contributed to their demise. For example, their focus on: (embodied) live and interactive practice, process based and socially engaged approaches, collaborative and live interactive exchange, commitment cross-disciplinary process. Drawing on her own action research experiments, Mine Kalyan looks toward new models of alternative and creative education within and without the present university context.
This Monday Lecture is dedicated to the recent memory of Ms. Collete King who was an educational pioneer. In the early 1970s Colette argued for Œtheatre practice¹ as an academically equivalent subject to the theoretically based courses at the time, and set up (subsequently led) the first practice based B.A. Hons Theatre Language programme at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK. Mine Kaylan works as a full-time senior lecturer at the University of Brighton.
