Theatre/Library and Information Science Academic
Yesterday, I attended the Unboxed: Artists and the Archives event at the Hayward Gallery. In attendance were curators, performers, and researchers who all shared an interest in the archive’s generative potential.
The most intriguing contribution was from Barbara Cleveland, …
The events of the TV series of Games of Thrones have now surpassed those of George R R Martin’s books. The books and the drama are now divergent entities that show alternative pathways for the story to develop. It’s an …
The Times has published a story about a furore at the University of Manchester regarding the university library’s decision to keep the Holocaust denier David Irving’s books on public display. Critics of the decision have argued that the books should …
http://documentingperformance.com
“Instead of focusing on the impermanence of live, embodied acts, it is far more useful to think of the live and the recorded as mediums that facilitate communication between spectators and performers; both of these groups oscillate between the …
Rather than castigate students for supporting the no-platforming policy, it would be more productive to ask what they think it achieves
The argument goes like this:
Universities are sacred places of learning, debate, critique and innovation. They offer a once …