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Thoughts on Decolonising the Curriculum

I’d been reading around ideas apropos decolonising the curriculum for a little while, but Black Lives Matter made me sit up and pay attention and compelled me to engage with the movement with a greater level of rigour .I first …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021Categories ReflectionsTags #Decolonising #WoosterGroup, #Education, Higher Education, racism, Teaching, Theatre

Forced Entertainment, Media Reality and Chairman Mao

Forced Entertainment’s corpus ‘can be broadly categorised as being driven by questions about the viability of theatre as a representational medium in an age of simulation’ (Gorman 2015, p.190). The company’s director Tim Etchells succinctly describes their work as theatre …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on February 4, 2021February 4, 2021Categories Blog

The Internet as a Performance Medium

‘Art is presented on the Internet as a specific kind of reality: as a working process, or even life process, taking place in the real, offline world’

(Groys 2018, p.174)

Live performance has migrated online since theatres closed in March …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on December 9, 2020December 9, 2020Categories BlogTags Digital, Internet Theatre, Lockdown, Theatre

To Be A Machine by Dead Centre

They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Transhumanists disagree with the first one. This Silicon Valley sub-culture treat death as a disease that can be cured if humans learnt to update our wetware for purely artificial …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on November 30, 2020November 30, 2020Categories BlogTags Digital, DocPerform, Dystopia, Internet Theatre, Lockdown, Theatre

Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – Mangrove

We mustn’t be victims, but protagonists of our own story

I want this line spray painted across every government briefing and policy document relating to modern race and racism. It feels like it could be spoken by a Spiked contrarian …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on November 19, 2020November 19, 2020Categories BlogTags Academia, Higher Education, racism, Small Axe, Theatre

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  • Thoughts on Decolonising the Curriculum
    In Reflections
    I'd been reading around ideas apropos decolonising the curriculum for a little while, but Black Lives Matter made me sit up and pay attention and compelled me to engage with the movement with a greater level of rigour .I first became interested in […]
  • Forced Entertainment, Media Reality and Chairman M…
    In Blog
    Forced Entertainment’s corpus ‘can be broadly categorised as being driven by questions about the viability of theatre as a representational medium in an age of simulation’ (Gorman 2015, p.190). The company’s director Tim Etchells succinctly […]
  • The Internet as a Performance Medium
    In Blog
    ‘Art is presented on the Internet as a specific kind of reality: as a working process, or even life process, taking place in the real, offline world’ (Groys 2018, p.174) Live performance has migrated online since theatres closed in March 2020. […]
  • To Be A Machine by Dead Centre
    In Blog
    They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Transhumanists disagree with the first one. This Silicon Valley sub-culture treat death as a disease that can be cured if humans learnt to update our wetware for purely artificial models. In […]
  • Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – Mangrove
    In Blog
    We mustn't be victims, but protagonists of our own story I want this line spray painted across every government briefing and policy document relating to modern race and racism. It feels like it could be spoken by a Spiked contrarian or conservative […]
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