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This conference takes place in the context of an accelerated interest in the idea of performance across many Cambridge faculties, which share a common understanding that cultural practices such as music, theatre, literature, film, painting and sculpture simultaneously exist as an object (fixed; a record) and an experience (time-bound; embodied). ‘Performance’ can be seen as the space of negotiation between these states. The assigning of fixed or stable 'meanings' to works of art has been widely challenged over the last century by an increased privileging of the receiving context as a key constituent of meaning. But this move towards indeterminism has traditionally been discussed in terms of unitary readers and viewers, and individual acts of reception.
Tuesday 16 April 2013 at CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
Full details: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2071/
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