Performance Art: Interart, Intermediality and Interdisciplinarity

Historical Performance: Theory, Practice, and Interdisciplinarity

Friday, May 19 8:00am Registration; no fee/open to public 8:45am Welcome and introductory remarks (Sweeney Hall) 9:00-10:00 Opening Plenary Address (Sweeney) Session Chair: Margaret Bent (All Souls College, Oxford) The sound of (sixteenth-century) music Laurie Stras (University of Southampton) Thirty years ago, in a ground-breaking chapter that lifted the veil on the music of medieval convents,...

Intermediality, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy

In their article "Intermediality, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy," Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert discuss how the notion of intermediality challenges the institutions that traditionally "mediate" culture and they discuss implications for pedagogy. First, they focus on how the museum as an institution is questioned and problematized by describing it as a "medium" that is increasingly influenced by cult...

Discourses and Models of Intermediality

In his article "Discourses and Models of Intermediality" Jens Schröter discusses the question as to what relations do different discourses pose between different "media." Schröter identifies four models of discourse: 1) synthetic intermediality: a "fusion" of different media to super-media, a model with roots in the Wagnerian concept of Gesamtkunstwerk with political connotations, 2) formal (or...

Interart Narrative: (Un)Reliability and Ekphrasis

As defined in my previous work, (un)reliability is one of five types of hypothesis or integration mechanism, whereby readers account for textual incongruities. In principle, we may always appeal to alternative logics of resolution: ambiguous data may be attributed to generic convention, as in the detective story, and/or to functional drives, like surprise, no less than to the teller’s blind spo...

Performance Art/Life Art/ Mediafication