Dance Theatre Journal - Trashy students get their grubby mits all over it


Cover: Penny Arcade, Photo by Christa Holka                               

Trashing Dance Theatre Journal

We are thrilled to announce the forthcoming issue of Trashing Dance Theatre Journal co-edited by João Florêncio and Owen Parry.

This special issue of Dance Theatre Journal is a dedicated and rigorous exploration of Trash in art, performance, work, and club culture. It features interviews with performance star and living-legend Penny Arcade, club performer Mouse, sex worker and activist Thierry Schaffauser, plus articles exploring the work of John Sex, Danish collective dunst, Club Wotever and the 'lowest form of performance' - living street sculptures, wasted works, and contaminated performances. Forms of trashy articulation including soap box articles, TV Chat Shows and Tabloid Newspapers interrupt and compliment more formal essays and interviews in this special issue!

Contributors include:

Augusto Corrieri
Bryony Kimmings
Eirini Kartsaki
Johanna Linsley
Lisa Wesley
Lorena Rivero de Beer
Marcia Farquhar
Marianne Mulvey
Mathias Danbolt
Oriana Fox
R. Justin Hunt
Rachel Lois Clapham
Season Butler
Tero Nahua
The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein
Vikki Chalklin

Trashing Dance Theatre Journal will be available to purchase through the Unbound stall at the Trashing Performance Public Programme.

See www.thisisperformancematters.co.uk for details

How To Do Things With Waste

Trash Salon: How to do things with waste?

2–6pm

25 October
Toynbee Studios, Court room


Tickets for the Salon are FREE on a first-come-first-served basis on the day


A Salon with Performance Matters Researchers

 

 

Join PhD researchers and artists (including me!) from Goldsmiths, University of London and University of Roehampton as they kick-start the week’s events by sharing their ‘wasted works.' At the Trash Salon, presentations, papers and performances and various show-and-tell formats will centre around those ideas, works, and projects that for various reasons were unfinished, refused, rejected, thrown out, and interrupted: the sketch in the notebook, the unsuccessful project proposal, the unaccomplished element, the event that was cancelled. What happens to these wasted works and ideas, and what are their potentials, if any?

Does showing wasted work imply salvaging it from the trash heap? Is recuperating and transforming waste enough? Or might we think about the ways we reflect upon, present and perform these wasted works? These are some of its questions.