WG Intermediality in Theatre and Performance

Day 1 / Sunday, July 25 & Day 2 / Monday, July 26

_{Venue & Room: LMU Leopoldstr. 13, Room 1503}

Conveners: Andrew Lavender (Central School of Speech and Drama, UK), Sigrid Merx (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

Day 1 / Sunday, July 25

• Johan Callens (Free University Brussels, Belgium):
  The King is Dead, Long Live the King. Stephen Petronio's Post/Modernism
• Klemens Gruber (University of Vienna, Austria):
  Proto-digital Gestures of the Early Avant-Garde
• Chiel Kattenbelt (University of Utrecht, Netherlands):
  The Theatre's Attempt to Catch up with Modern Life
• Katia Arfara (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France):
  Performing the Space, Reshaping the Body. On Kris Verdonck's Theatrical Installations
• Sigrid Merx (University of Utrecht, Netherlands):
  Intermediality as a Micro-Politics of Perception
• Jean-Marc Larrue (Centre de Recherche sur l'Intermédialité, Canada):
  "Demediation". The Case of Reproduced Sound on Stage in the 1920s
• Marina Turco (University of Utrecht, Netherlands):
  A Modern Approach to Technology. Exhuming Ghosts and Machines in Club Video Performances
• Kurt Vanhoutte (University of Antwerp, Netherlands):
  Haunted Performance. Spectral Illusions Past and Present
• Nele Wynants (University of Antwerp, Netherlands):
  Techniques of the Spectacular. Immersive Viewing Apparatus and Performance

Day 2 / Monday, July 26

• Sarah Bay-Cheng (University at Buffalo, USA):
  From the Avantgarde to the Avatar. The Modernist Body's Legacy in Contemporary Media Performance
• Rosie Klich (University of Kent, UK):
  Performing at a Distance. Place, Pattern and Posthumanism
• Ralf Remshardt (University of Florida, USA):
  Blue Man's Burden. Avatar and the Colonizing of Performance
• Andrew Lavender (Central School of Speech and Drama, UK):
  Murder, Fun and Games. Werewolf, The Goody Bullet and a Phenomenology of Engagement
• Erica Magris (Université Paris III, France):
  Expanding Theatres. Theatre as an Intermedial Laboratory beyond Postmodernism?

_{Please contact your conveners for programme details.}