Intersections 2022: Care and Crisis: Spaces of Performances

Intersections 2022: “Care and Crisis: Spaces of Performance” will address the numerous relationships between crisis and care and ask how a focus on spaces of performance can enable us to engage them with greater clarity.

From the pandemic to climate change, migration, homelessness, health and beyond, the terms ‘crisis’ and ‘care’ resonate across public discourse on a daily basis. Indeed, one of the ways we are being asked to encounter crisis, is through revaluations of care. We are, in effect, being asked to care more and better, for our planet, each other, and ourselves. Intersections 2022 will address the numerous relationships between crisis and care and ask how a focus on spaces of performance can enable us to engage them with greater clarity.

We are delighted to welcome Dr Emma Dowling, author of ’Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?’ (Verso, 2021), as our Keynote Speaker.

Intersections 2022 : “Care and Crisis: Spaces of Performance” will be a hybrid event (combined in-person and online) to be held on Monday 21 March at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

PLEASE NOTE: This conference is open to all, but anyone wishing to attend must register in advance here.

Schedule - Monday 21 March

9:00 – Room opens with coffee and pastries available

9:55 – Welcome

10:00 – Panel 1 – 11:00 [Q&A – 11:10]

“Indoor Spaces”:

• Kate Duffy-Syedi - ‘Welcome habibi, I’m glad you’re here’: gestures of care within stories told by and for refugee youth
• Olivia Turner - Visceral Intimacies and Encounters with the Examined Body
• Holly Luton - Practices of Manaakitanga: Staging Antigone in a pandemic
• Alexandra Antoniado - Intersections of Performance, Feminism and Care

Short break

11:25 – Panel 2 – 12:35 [Q&A – 12:30]

“Pedagogical and Processual Spaces”:

• Megan Burns - Teacher Performers and Radical Care: By reimagining the Drama School Classroom as a space of care, can a radical love ethic ripple into the theater industry?
• Erin Power - ‘That’s where the magic happens’: Creating ‘safe enough’ spaces for care within the carcerally volatile prison
• Chris Dupuis - Curating Dance in a Moment of Crisis

Short break

12:50 – Panel 3 – 13:50 [Q&A – 14:00]

“Community Spaces”

• Jemma Llewellyn - Using Practices in Critical Studies in Improvisation and Applied Theatre to Live and Learn through Crisis and Recovery
• Maria Tivnan - Creating and Sustaining a Community of Care: A Study of Theatre57, an independent theatre artist collective Galway, Ireland
• Hannah Ringham - Poetry and systems of care: understanding my role as an artist in creating ‘acts of care’

Lunch

15:00 – Panel 4 – 16:00 [Q&A – 16:10]

“Bodily Spaces”:

• Hilary Baxter - The Menopause Crisis
• Broderick Chow & Eero Laine - British lads hit each other with chair: Care, Masculinity, and Speculative Possibilities
• Sarah Shear - Facilitating The Lens of Body Neutrality: Identifying and applying Body Activism concepts in Performer Practices to destabilise anti-fat bias.
• Josephine Leask - Empathy and care in New Dance Magazine’s embodied critical practice.

Break

16:30 – Panel 5 – 17:30 [Q&A – 17:40]

“Outdoor Spaces”:

• Cucuta Felicia - Care and crisis: diasporic ethics of care in Wajdi Mouawad’s spaces of performance
• Noha Bayoumy - Designing and Defeating Oppression: Nora Amin’s Theatre of Crime
• Hara Topa - (Un)veiling the disappearing body: acousmaticity and self-care

Break

18:00-18:10 Introduction to Keynote

18:10-19:00 – Keynote, Emma Dowling