INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND INVITED GUESTS

The PERPHOTO research project dedicates its REBECCA SCHNEIDER CHRISTOPHER BALME

final international conference to the multiple Rebecca Schneider is Professor in the Christopher Balme holds the chair
challenges, opportunities, and limits that arise Department of Modern Culture and in theatre studies at the University
Media at Brown University.  Awarded of Munich.
from the encounter and intersection between
a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021, He was born and educated in New
photography and performance, in theoretical she is the author of The Explicit Body in Zealand where he graduated from
and practical issues. Performance (1997); Performing Remains: the University of Otago. He has lived
Apparently based on an ontological paradox, Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reproduction (2011); Theatre and worked in Germany since 1985 with positions at the
and History (2014); and Remain (with Jussi Parikka 2018). universities of Würzburg, Munich and Mainz. From 2004 to
due to the ephemeral and eventual fictional
A student of Black Feminist Thought and invested in speculative 2006 he held the chair in theatre studies at the University
nature of the performative act as opposed and fabulous acts for the (re)surgence of otherwise worlds,  she of Amsterdam. He has published widely on German theatre,
to the petrification and alleged transparency recently published This Shoal Which is Not One: Island Studies, intercultural theatre and theatre and other media.
of photography, the relationship between Performance Studies, and Africans Who Fly (2020), and the award- Balme is past-president of the German Society for Theatre

CROSSING PHOTOGRAPHY
winning essay That the Past May Yet Have Another Future: Gesture Research and of the IFTR. He was Senior Editor of Theatre
photography and performance opens a wide
in Times of Hand Up (2018). She has published extensively on Research International from 2004-2006. His publications
and challenging field of experimentation,
AND PERFORMANCE
media and performance, and serves as a consortium editor for include European Theatre Iconography (co-edited, Bulzoni
rich in reciprocal suggestions, either in stage TDR: The Drama Review. She is currently working on two projects: 2002);  Pacific Performances: Theatricality and Cross-

IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

photography in its strictest sense, in the a digital book on gesture across media to be titled Standing Still Cultural Encounter in the South Seas (Palgrave Macmillan,
Moving, and a book on littoral dance in the afterlives of slavery’s 2007); Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies 
different forms of performed and staged
capitalism to be titled Shoaling in the Sea of History. (CUP 2008); The theatrical public sphere (CUP 2014).
photography, or through the appropriation of
photography as dramaturgical issue or optical
LISBON device in stage productions. AMELIA JONES
Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE PERPHOTO PROJECT
Filipe Figueiredo (CET, University of Lisbon/ IADE-UE)

20–23 SEPTEMBER 2022

Although these topics have been addressed Cosimo Chiarelli (CET, University of Lisbon)
and Vice Dean at Roski School of Art & Maria João Monteiro Brilhante (CET, University of Lisbon)
over time by scholars coming from different Design at University of Southern California. Cláudia Maria Guerra Madeira (Nova University of Lisbon – NOVA FCSH)
disciplines, such as visual culture, theatre Publications include Seeing Differently: Paulo Artur Ribeiro Baptista (National Theatre and Dance Museum)
Arianna Novaga (IUSVE University, Verona and Venice)
studies and Performance Art, it still seems A History and Theory of Identification
Raquel Montez Raimundo (CET, University of Lisbon)
and the Visual Arts (2012), Perform
necessary to undertake an in-depth theoretical Mariana Pancada (Nova University of Lisbon – NOVA FCSH)
Repeat Record: Live Art in History (2012), co-edited with Adrian
reflection, even beyond the possible practical Heathfield, and Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art MANAGEMENT AND SECRETARY
applications. The processes, perspectives, Histories, co-edited with Erin Silver (2016). The catalogue Queer CET/FLUL - Centro de Estudos de Teatro
and limits emerging from the intertwining of Communion: Ron Athey (2020), co-edited with Andy Campbell, Tatiana Dinis Ribeiro, Mariana Pancada

photography and performance still need to be and which accompanies a retrospective of Athey’s work
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
at Participant Inc. (New York) and ICA (Los Angeles), was
questioned, considering, namely, the archive, listed among the “Best Art Books 2020” in the NY Times,
Maria Ines Aliverti (University of Pisa)
Joel Anderson (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London)
the body, and the medium.  and the exhibition was listed among Top Ten 2021 exhibitions Christopher Balme (University of Munich)
The conference aims to stimulate a in Artforum (December 2021). Her book entitled In Between David Bate (Westminster School of Arts)
Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (2021) Maria João Monteiro Brilhante (CET, University of Lisbon)
transdisciplinary debate counting on Cosimo Chiarelli (CET, University of Lisbon)
is published by Routledge Press.
contributions that critically discuss these Filipe Figueiredo (CET, University of Lisbon/ IADE-UE)

CONFERENCE VENUES issues, using different chronological

or geographical focus, with a strong JOEL ANDERSON
Cláudia Madeira (Nova University of Lisbon – NOVA FCSH)
Margarida Medeiros (Nova University of Lisbon – NOVA FCSH)

CULTURGEST Joel Anderson is Senior Lecturer at the

José Quaresma (School of Fine Arts, University of Lisboa)
Victor dos Reis (FBAUL, Lisboa)
methodological implication.
RUA ARCO DO CEGO, 50 The conference is organized by Filipe
Royal Central School of Speech and Arnaud Rykner (University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris)
Valentina Valentini (University “La Sapienza”, Rome)
1000-300 LISBON Figueiredo and Cosimo Chiarelli, within the
Drama, University of London. He has
previously been a member of faculty at PARTNERS
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES research project: PERPHOTO — Performing Brunel University, has served as external
examiner at Goldsmiths and LASALLE
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon
National Theatre and Dance Museum, Lisbon
the gaze, funded by the Portuguese Foundation
UNIVERSITY OF LISBON College of the Arts, Singapore, and is currently a member of the Culturgest Foundation
for Science and Technology (FCT), and hosted
ALAMEDA DA UNIVERSIDADE by the Centre for Theatre Studies of the
international advisory panel of the Centro de Estudos de Teatro
Atelier de Lisboa

1600-214 LISBON University of Lisbon.

at the University of Lisbon. His book Theatre & Photography was
published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.
https://perphoto.ceteatro.pt
[email protected]

NATIONAL THEATRE AND DANCE MUSEUM

ESTRADA DO LUMIAR, 10
1600-495 LISBON
TUESDAY CAROLINA VENTURA
Teatro Experimental do Porto
18h00  BREAK (PHOTO SESSION) HALEY MORRIS-CAFIERO
University of Northampton FRIDAY 13h00  LUNCH
20 SEPTEMBER Preserving theatre – Photography
as an agent of preventive conser-
vation and documentation of Teatro
18h30—20h00  KEYNOTE
AMELIA JONES *
The Use of Performative Photography
as an Activist Tool for Depicting 23 SEPTEMBER 14h20  PUBLIC INTERVENTION
MANUEL VASON
FUNDAÇÃO CULTURGEST Experimental do Porto legacy Roski School of Art and Design
the Disobedient Body
MUSEU NACIONAL Artist
>> Discussion <<
Pequeno Auditório >> Discussion <<
University of South California
Ron Athey and the Archival Body
DO TEATRO E DA DANÇA The evidence of things not seen

13h00  LUNCH Auditório >> Break <<

13h00  LUNCH
of Performance
18h30—20h00 KEYNOTE
14h20  PERFORMANCE 15h00  11. STAGING
14h20  3. VISUAL 09h00  WELCOME THE VISUAL
THURSDAY
REBECCA SCHNEIDER CLÁUDIA DE SERPA SOARES
Department of Modern Culture and
CHOREOGRAPHIES Artist 09h20  9. THEATRICALITY CHAIR: ARIANNA NOVAGA

22 SEPTEMBER
Media, Brown University
Gesture and the Oceanic Interval: CHAIR: MARIA JOÃO BRILHANTE I Am Not Here to Entertain OF PHOTOGRAPHY FEDERICA STEVANIN

15h00  7. PRACTICES
Theatre and Photography in the ELIZABETH WELCH CHAIR: PAULA MAGALHÃES Università degli Studi di Padova
Wakes of History Providence College FACULDADE LETRAS DA MARIA MAENNIG
Beyond documentation: the role
“As If His Body Remembered the UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA OF EMBODIMENT Universität Koblenz Landau
of photography in Anne Imhof’s
Whole Dance”: Edwin Denby and mediagenic performances
Anfiteatro III
WEDNESDAY
CHAIR: PAULA CASPÃO Posing and Performing:
Ballet Photography’s The Tableaux Vivant
ANA JANEIRO LINDA DUSKOVA *
09h00  WELCOME
Fleshy Pleasure
21 SEPTEMBER ESCS-IPL/CREAM as an Intermedial Practice Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
SILVIA MEI University of Westminster CARINA DAUVEN * Reflections on photography
09h20  5. PERFORMING Twenty years performing
FACULDADE LETRAS DA Università di Foggia
What a photograph can do. Edwin WITH THE CAMERA for the camera: Self-portraiture
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Becoming Portraiture: On the
through actors’ bodies

UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA Denby and the “luminous dance

CHAIR: CLÁUDIA MADEIRA
or Otherness Performative Potentials and Perils
VINCENZO DEL GAUDIO
Università di Salerno
Anfiteatro III intelligence”
SOPHIE DELPEUX ANA DINGER of Visiting the Mid-19th-Century
GIOVANNI FIORENTINO
>> Break << Universidade Católica de Lisboa Photographer’s Studio
09h00  REGISTRATION PAULO RIBEIRO BAPTISTA
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Fighting stereotypes by multiplicity Lisbon Consortium ISABELLE LYNCH *
Università della Tuscia
Photography as theatre:
09h20  OPENING SESSION Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança, — Identity as an investigational The body as archive and the ar- University of Pennsylvania The work of Romeo Castellucci
Lisboa space in performance-photography chive as a body: the case of Modus Still Performing: Adah Isaacs between document and intermedial
10h20  1. DOCUMENTING Actor Cardoso’s fabulous repertoire
and the performance’s dimension HANA OSTAN OŽBOLT
Operandi AND Menken Posing Between Stage dramaturgy
PERFORMANCE/ PERFORMING of his photographic series Universität für angewandte Kunst DORIANE MOLAY Performance and Theatrical
Photography
>> Discussion <<
DOCUMENTATION ANA BIGOTTE VIEIRA
Die Angewandte
The concept of ‘performative
École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales Paris >> Discussion << 16h20  COFFEE BREAK
CHAIR: COSIMO CHIARELLI The Theatrical Body in Everyday
16h40  ROUND TABLE
Universidade Nova de Lisboa photography’ in the oeuvre of Ulay
ALICE MAUDE-ROXBY JOÃO DOS SANTOS MARTINS (1943–2020) Photography 10h40  COFFEE BREAK
Middlesex University London Artist >> Break << >> Discussion <<
11h00  10. PERFORMING WITH INVITED GUESTS
Excavating the archive: exchanges Images don’t dance! For a Timeline CHRISTOPHER BALME
between live artists and their to Be — Genealogies of Dance as GIADA CIPOLLONE * 16h20  COFFEE BREAK THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS JOEL ANDERSON
photographers Università degli Studi di Pavia
16h40 
an Artistic Practice in Portugal CHAIR: FILIPE FIGUEIREDO MARGARIDA MEDEIROS
Genealogies. Photography,
SIMONE DRAGONE >> Discussion << JUSTINE VARGA * MARIA JOÃO BRILHANTE
performance, performativity in
8. THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S BODY Artist Present and Future perspectives
16h20  COFFEE BREAK
Università degli Studi di Genova Italy in the 1970s
Flowers for Torgeir. Performance CHAIR: JOEL ANDERSON on photography and performance
Staging Photography
as a Re-mediated Photographic IÑAKI ESTELLA
16h40  4. BEYOND MANUEL VASON
Archive
PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Gonçal Sobré’s Dansa de
Artist PETER RICHARDS
Artist / Flax Art Studios
18h00  CLOSING SESSION
>> Discussion <<
18h20  EXHIBITIONS OPENING
l’Afusellament or building Spanish Unframing Photography Representing, Representations
CHAIR: CHRISTOPHER BALME
11h20  COFFEE BREAK
performance art history ARIANNA NOVAGA of Representations Pedro Soares no Teatro da
EMMANUEL COHEN
>> Discussion << IUSVE Venezia-Verona >> Break << Graça: fotografia e memória do
11h40  2. HANDLING Parsons Paris - The New School
The Photographer is a dancer. Grupo Teatro Hoje
THE ARCHIVE
Performance through the filter.
Towards a methodological approach
11h20  COFFEE BREAK Preliminary study for a Choreutics MARIA CLARA FERRER
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei
of the photographic gestus Text Hack — Susana Chicó
CHAIR: RAQUEL MONTEZ RAIMUNDO to photographic documentation of 11h40  6. STAGING IDENTITIES Dramas and photograms
performances on Social Media
CHAIR: PAULO FILIPE MONTEIRO MARC LENOT *
LISA BEISSWANGER JÚNIO DE CARVALHO
Independent researcher
Technische Universität Darmstadt GAYATHRI A. * TIMEA ANDREA LELIK Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei
When the photographer IS the
Navigating the Politics of Display Jawaharlal Nehru University ASCA, University of Amsterdam PRISCILA NATANY RESENDE
performer
and Archival – An Institutional Performance Art and the Photo Double Life: Photography and Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Perspective on Performance Archive in South Asia: A Critical Performance in Lynn Hershman >> Discussion << Projeto fotocênico: Metodologias
Photography Analysis Leeson’s Crossing Between Worlds
20h00  SOCIAL DINNER
para o estudo de uma linguagem
BEATRIZ AREIAS WIEBKE LEISTER RICHARD SAWDON SMITH RESERVATION REQUESTED >> Discussion <<
Faculdade de Belas-Artes Royal College of Art London Norwich University of the Arts Place and conditions to be announced
Universidade de Lisboa Photographic manifestations of The Unknowing of Playing Myself/
Archiving a scene: the photo- female demons from Japanese Selves: Performing autobiography
graphic collection of Jorge Afonso Noh theatre and memory through staged
Garizo do Carmo at the Teatro photographic self-portraits
>> Discussion <<
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