Ulla von Brandenburg, 'Baisse-toi Montagne, Lève-toi Vallon' (2015), Kaaitheater, Bruxelles. Courtesy of the artist © Robin Zenner.
Presented by The Common Guild, in collaboration with the University of Glasgow’s Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, ‘Art and its Theatrical Turn’ was an informal symposium that considered the reasons for, and implications of, the many recent projects that have combined visual art, scripted drama and theatrical performance.
Discussions included questions of contingency, presence and collective encounter and experience. Rather than ‘degenerating as it approaches the condition of theatre’*, is art in fact inherently theatrical?
With contributions from: Katrina Brown, Director, The Common Guild; Dr. Graham Eatough, theatre maker, co-founder of Suspect Culture, and Lecturer in Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow; Dr. Clare Finburgh, Senior Lecturer Drama & Theatre, University of Kent; Maria Fusco, Senior Chancellor’s Fellow – Reader and Director of Research & Knowledge Exchange, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh; Prof. Joe Kelleher, Professor Drama, Theatre & Performance, University of Roehampton; Dr. Dominic Paterson, Lecturer in History of Art, University of Glasgow; Convener: Prof. Carl Lavery, Professor Theatre & Performance, University of Glasgow.
*Michael Fried in ‘Art and Objecthood’, Artforum, 1967
