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27- 30 July 2000
Centre for the Study of Environmental Change & Department of Theatre Studies
Lancaster University
Lancaster
United Kingdom
BETWEEN NATURE will be a major regional, national and international gathering for anyone concerned with ecology or performance. By bringing together these two domains the event aims to generate new understandings and modes of engagement appropriate to a time when rapid technological and cultural change is disrupting many received boundaries - between aesthetics and ethics, nature and artifice, private and public, knowledge and politics.
BETWEEN NATURE will explore performativity in ecological practices and the employment of ecological models in performance. The Event will be innovative in its approach, including all types of presentations from academic papers to interactive events, workshops and performances. BETWEEN NATURE presents an unique opportunity to re-think and re-perform our relationship with nature.
BETWEEN NATURE will address topics such as:
recasting technologies - democracy as theatre - art as social practice - situationism and ecology - staging science - convening the city - landscape and embodied memory - the presentation of the ecological self - dance and nature - body and dwelling - ecological rites – gift, sacrifice and patent - TECH_gnosis - performing places - the feeling of the land - industry, design and agency - vernacular and global knowledges - timescales of technology - the politics of speech acts and silence - risk and security –
institutions as theatre – environmental justice
Event planning group
Gabriella Giannachi, Department of Theatre Studies
Wallace Heim, Department of Philosophy
Nigel Stewart, Department of Theatre Studies
Bronislaw Szerszynski, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change
Claire Waterton, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change
To receive an Advance Booking Form, or for any other correspondence, please reply to Janet Hamid
at the address below.
Please let us know if you have any special needs. Almost all areas of the campus are accessible to wheelchair users. A portable induction loop is available and we can arrange for signing. Braille transcripts may be available for some papers.
CONFERENCE FEE
If paid by institutions ………………………………………. UK £ 105
If paid by individuals ………………………………………. UK £ 85
Concessionary rate (limited number available) ………… UK £ 55
ACCOMMODATION / MEAL PACKAGE
En-suite accommodation (includes all meals) ………………… UK £ 170
Standard accommodation (includes all meals) ………………… UK £ 140
Meals only (tea and coffee, lunch and dinner) ………………… UK £ 75
Please note that all costs incurred by converting from one currency to another must be bourne by the delegate. Creche facilities may be available for an additional charge.
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