A special event during the symposium will be devoted to Tadeusz Kantor. To commemorate Kantor’s centenary celebrations, Ewa Hevelke and Michał Januszaniec made a film called Kantor/Technologies. The makers of this documentary complemented found footage with interviews of artists and theatre theoreticians, asking about Kantor's inspirations. He could perfectly match his own work methods with ideas of great foreign authors.
The symposium programme:
7th November 2015
10:00-13:00
The symposium will start with a three-hour workshop led by the Identity Problem Group from Wrocław. Łukasz Twarkowski, Bogumił Misala, Jakub Lech and Dominika Kluszczyk, together with the participants, will talk about ways of finding new technological solutions applicable to particular plays. They will also present materials from their own performances, show ways of testing technologies (exploring new technologies and VR), and demonstrate improvisation techniques used by actors when talking to a speech synthesiser AI.
http://identityproblemgroup.com
14:00
Sophie Motley will present a work in progress of Override, a play by Stacey Gregg about the future of our most intimate relationships with technology.
15:00
A presentation of Ewa Hevelke and Michał Januszaniec’s film Kantor/Technologies created as part of a project that required a “documentary with found footage elements”. The film juxtaposes Kantor's practices with strategies by contemporaries of media theatre such as Katie Mitchell, the Rimini Protokoll collective, Rabih Mroué, and the 59 Productions collective. The authors will interview artists and theatre theoreticians to show the transfer of inspirations in an accessible and interesting for the foreign audience way.
16:00
A debate featuring artists from the IPG group, Irish artists, and the award-winning digital artist Akhila Krishnan from the London-based 59 Productions collective.
19:00
The work-in-progress GRIND/R at The Grand Social club.
A play about people forming intimate relations using phone apps, translated by Joanna Crawley and directed by Ronan Phelan, a director from The Abbey National Theatre.
20:00
DIP – a multimedia performance by the Identity Problem Group
diP from IP Group on Vimeo.
8th November 2015
15:00-18:00
Masterclass with Akhila Krishnan
Theatre and Technology symposium
7th November - 8th November 2015
Wood Quay Venue
Dublin City Council Civic Offices
Dublin 8, Ireland
Source: press materials, compiled by WK, translated by ND, 25 Oct 2015