Marionettes designed by Franciszka Themerson

Talk

An Aside to On Stage

RA Schools Public Programme Symposium

Thursday 30 June 2016 12 - 12.59am

The Reynolds Room and Life Room, Royal Academy of Arts

£10. Reductions £5.

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RA Schools Public Programme supported by the David Lean Foundation

Convened by artist Sarah Jones, this one-day symposium brings together lookers and listeners from art and theatre to consider the noise and voices of objects.

Programme

The Reynolds Room:

11am Registration

11.30am Welcome – Sarah Jones and Eliza Bonham Carter

11.45am Michael Meschke
Transgressing theatre borders with Franciszka Themerson
“How we came together over Alfred Jarry, cooperating enthusiastically in a Stockholm basement. The powers or abilities of the puppet and working with Franciszka on the Threepenny Opera, Mac the Knife of the United States and the puppets almost assassinated!!”

12.30pm Paula Claire
Poems
AMMONITES
PHONE
PHOS PHOR

1pm Break

2pm Anna Makrzanowska
Bio-Screen and Bio-Camera
The transmission of Cricot2 and Tadeusz Kantor’s devising methodologies.

2.30pm Marie de Brugerolle
Guy De Cointet
A tribute.

3.15pm Panel Discussion – Sarah Jones with Michael Meschke, Paula Claire, Marie de Brugerolle and Anna Makrzowska

4pm Processional Performance

Life Room:

4.30pm Paula Claire
Poems
TRICKLES FROM THE TREACLE WELL
READING THE SAVOY
IT'S ABOUT TIME
HANDS UP!

5 – 6pm Drinks Reception

Life Room and Reynolds Room Exhibition commissioned works by Wanda Wieser and Frank Kent. Drawings and objects by Franciszka Themerson. Processional performance directed by Anna Makrzanowska.

Programme subject to variation. Please note this event will be recorded for use by the Royal Academy.

Tickets are £10 / £5 reductions including a drink, and free to graduates of the RA Schools.

£10. Reductions £5.

Sold out

RA Schools Public Programme supported by the David Lean Foundation

Michael Meschke

The Stockholm Marionetteatern was founded in 1958 by Michael Meschke. He occupied the positions of Theatre Director and Artistic Director until 1999. For forty years he worked as a theatre-manager, puppet-maker, puppeteer, director, writer and teacher. Meschke developed the theatre's repertoire, typically by adapting the works of writers from Sophocles to Brecht. On the way he took in Aeschylus, Euripides, Dante Alighieri, Cervantes, Büchner, Giraudoux, Strindberg, Boris Vian, Jarry, Neruda, Saint-Exupéry and P.C. Jersild. Michael Meschke's life has been distinguished by an internationalism that also characterized the Marionetteatern. He has been deeply involved with the international puppet-theatre organization UNIMA and continues to promote cultural exchange between Europe and Asia.

Paula Claire

Paula Claire has created innovative poetry for 55 years, with interactive performances since 1969 in schools, colleges, arts centres, fields, historic sites, galleries and festivals. Her diversity of visual poetry for performance – typewriter ‘text-iles’, scorchmarks, photographs documenting her vocal interpretation of patterns on natural objects, computer graphics, iPad Scrawls – have resulted in 106 artist books, some unique, some limited editions. Since the 1970s she has exchanged her publications with other practitioners worldwide to form the Paula Claire Archive: fromWORDtoART – International PoetArtists, now comprising over 6,000 items.

Anna Makrzanowska

Anna Makrzanowska is a theatre director and senior lecturer at the European Theatre Arts, Training the Contemporary Performer at Rose Bruford Collage. Recently she directed ‘The Portrait Firm’ based on Witkacy’s work and performed by The Council of the Hand Made Crap Theatre Company and ‘Today Is My 100th Birthday or The Disappearance of Ubu Roi’ performed by Dead Iconics. Both shows were collectively created as a result of indirect transmission of Tadeusz Kantor’s approach to devising and both were performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Anna's current research focuses on the transmission of Cricot2 and Tadeusz Kantor’s devising methodologies, her project, DECODER, aims to create the digital platform for different networking models among performers, theatre makers, fine artists, musicians, performer-thinkers, theoreticians and scholars.

Marie de Brugerolle

Art historian, curator and author Marie de Brugerolle’s work investigates the development of the history of performance from the 1960s to its absorption into the 21st century’s society of the spectacle. For the past 20 years she has contributed to bringing the Californian scene and its hidden history to people's attention. Marie de Brugerolle was the laureate of the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice (2015) and the Headlands Artists in Residence, San Francisco (2016). Her publications include Guy de Cointet, portrait de l’artiste en cryptographe (JRP Ringier, 2011), the first monograph on the artist.