The Theatre of the Life-Model: an interdisciplinary arts approach to creating new scripts for performance. (original) (raw)

Abstract

Findings presented at the Textual Revolutions conference, University of Stirling, 5th May 2008. This workshop presents findings from research in the area of contemporary life-model studies. Life-Modelling Theatre is an interdisciplinary arts form involving life-models and life-drawers in dynamic and interdependent creative exchange. It works in a cross-over of fine art and theatre practices, positing the life-model as a performer in the life-drawing space, and life-drawing artists as 'notators' in shared, negotiated, image-making. Life-model theatre works with inherited sources, re-inventing and embodying fragmented moments from culture, and performing these in situ to create new figurative works. It challenges the artists' prerogative on conventions of silence, stillness, nudity, space and time. Centrally the theatre is built through improvisation, instinct, spontaneous play with artists and the documenting of durational moments through drawing. More recently, this form has been used to create new texts for theatre writing. For the latter part of this workshop, writer and life-model performer Nina Kane will discuss the development of 'Bride-Cake, Bride-Bones' - a theatre script written through life-modelling / life-drawing exchange with artists at Leeds City Art Gallery in July 2008. She will explore her role as writer-performer in the creation of the text, offering reflection on collaboration, on physicalising imagination and on the peculiar puppetry of theatre-writing through the body.

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