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Performance Research Seminar:
Wednesday 7 December 2016, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Drama Studio, Gaskell Bldg, Brunel University London, Cleveland Rd
Fabrizio Manco (Roehampton University):
“Ear Bodies: Acoustic Ecologies in Site-Contingent Performance”
This presentation, based on Manco’s recently completed PhD thesis, delves into
a philosophy and a performance practice of the ear. It is a theoretical
reflection as well as a discussion on his hearing/listening and performance
practice, research and workshops. Here is where sound and the body move and
perform by relating to the constantly changing acoustic environment. It is an
enquiry into and a corporeal experience of sound as the ear body, a bodied
experience of sound and listening where the whole body becomes an ear.
This is explored through his experience of chronic tinnitus, a criticism of
over-determined technology and through a discussion on the trance-dance therapy
of Tarantism. With a focus on environmental awareness, the research encompasses
an ecophenomenological investigation in Manco’s theory of site contingency,
where he connects his ecophenomenological approach to contingency – contingency
intended as a necessary experience of the world – and to acoustic ecology.
Fabrizio Manco is an artist, scholar and visiting lecturer at the University of
Portsmouth and University of Roehampton. He obtained his PhD from the
University of Roehampton, entitled Ear Bodies: Acoustic Folds and Ecologies in
Site-specific Performance. His research applies acoustic ecology, drawing and
ecophenomenology to what he calls site contingent performance, exploring and
engaging 'bodiment', perception and experience of the auditory in
choreographic, kinaesthetic, spatial and visual forms. Past projects include
[STATES OF]TRANCEformation (2005) on Tarantism at Chisenhale Dance Space
and Ringing Forest (2005), a sci-art project on tinnitus at the Ear
Institute (Wellcome Trust award), Building:Sound (2010) a collaboration with
Finer (AHRC Beyond Text initiative).
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Research Seminar Theme: Precarity and the Politics of Art: Performative and
Critical Empowerment after Democracy
This Research Seminar Series aims to probe troubling interpretations of the
increasing impact of unrestrained capitalism in the Western hemisphere and its
impact on all social-economic, cultural, creative, and educational sectors in
the developed world. How sustainable is democracy in the face of political
unrest caused by precarity, migration, refugees and the resulting labour and
welfare issues?
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Contact: +44 (0)1895 267 343
All Research Seminars are co-produced with dance-tech live TV and streamed
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