Output details
35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Queen Mary University of London
Public Address Systems (2008-2013)
Research Project Description
A project that experiments with the use of performance methodologies as a mean of facilitating public engagement through three interlocking spheres of inquiry:
Performance – development of practices addressing political issues, exploring identity through persona and cultivating methodologies for public dialogue.
Place – transformation of recognizable institutional forms into sites where a multiplicity of voices can be collected and deployed as forms of art and activism.
Everyday – development of practices associated with the domestic and the marginal to create new and more inclusive formats for public discourse.
Findings are disseminated as open source strategies through the website
http://publicaddresssystems.org/
Research Imperatives
To identify, develop and disseminate performance based methods for effective public engagement and knowledge exchange.
To develop public enquiry into age, gender, sexuality, urban redevelopment and participatory democracy.
Peer Assessment/Quality Indicators
Edwin Booth Award for contribution to American Theatre and Performance (2012).
Awarded Rockefeller Map grant ($20,000) and £30,000 from Wellcome Trust for development/tour of Ruff (2013).
Awarded $42,000 for Lost Lounge (2010).
What Tammy Needs to Know about Getting Old and Having Sex commissioned by Chelsea Theatre (2008); profiled in Extravagant Age Exhibition, Zagreb (2013).
Library of Performing Rights redeveloped and installed in Study Room of Live Art Development Agency (2008-10).
FeMUSEum commissioned by the AHRC-funded Performance Matters (2011).
Alternative conferencing consultancies: PSi (2009); ASTR (2012).
Awarded £10,000 to develop templates for public engagement (2011).
Outputs
publicaddresssystems.org
47 public performances (2008-13).
Keynotes for two national theatre conferences: USA (2011); Australia (2012).
Miss America published in Texts for Post-Dramatic Performance, ed. Anna Furse (London: Methuen, 2011).
Long Table installed in 26 locations, 8 countries (2008-13).
Open source templates for Long Table (2011), Card Game (2010) and Creative Hosting (2012).
Development of Latin-American edition of Library of Performing Rights (2012-13).
Exhibition of FeMUSEum (2011).
