Performing Space 2024 Programme
The full programme with abstracts is available for download here
Wednesday, 3 July
9:00 Registration
9:15 Welcome address
First Session. Spatial Performativity
Chair: PhD(C) Alba Balmaseda Domínguez
9:30 Dr Dragana Konstantinović. Architecture Plays! Spatial Narratives in Architectural Documentary.
9:38 Gosia Miernik. The Spatial Performativity: Unveiling the Dialogue Between Space and Human Experience Through Embodied Imagery.
9:46 Dr Miljana Zeković. The Liminal Revival: Towards the Non-extractive Spatial Practice.
9:54 Dr María del Pilar Pastor Altaba. It’s not Just Another Pile of Old Stones.
10:04 PhD(C) Damaskini Bogri. Medical Performance in the Asklepieion of Epidaurus.
10:12 Discussion
10:22 Coffee break
Second Session. Performative Space
Chair: Dr Athena Stourna
10:40 Prof Dorita Hannah. Towards a Theory of Performative Spacing.
10:55 Dr Tyrone Grima. Performative Spaces and Queerness in Malta: 1973-1990.
11:10 Dr Kathrine Sandys. Margins, Edges, Borders and Botany.
11:25 Andreas Skourtis. Performing Architectures: Space as Protagonist in Performance Design and Embodied Scenographies – Methods and Practices.
11:40 Prof Olav Harsløf. The Body in the Theatre - The Body on the Operating Table. Super Hospital With Performative Entertainment.
11:55 Discussion
12: 15 Break
Third Session. Spatial Embodiment
Chair: Dr Pablo Berzal Cruz
12:25 Dr Maria Konomi. Performing Objects in Public Space: Material Agencies and Performance Pedagogies.
12:40 Dr Adonis Volanakis. A Space for Prophecies.
12:55 Dr Rafik Patel. Circumambulating the Kaaba: Drawing the Space of the Heart.
13:10 PhD(C) Niya B. Emplacement, Myth, and the Performing Body: Exploring Trans Ecologies in the North-East Peloponnese.
13:25 Dr Gina Giotaki. Embodying the Site: Architectural Structure, Tridimensionality and Soundscape.
13:40 Discussion
14:00 Lunch
16:00 – 20:00 Workshops
Dr Adonis Volanakis. The Body Image Workshop
Prof Dorita Hannah. Mediterranean Spacing Workshop
Prof Alberto Morell, Dr KIMVI Nguyen and Dr Gina Giotaki. Space-Consciousness Workshop
21:00 Opening party
Opening Ceremony. Performance by KIMVI Nguyen
Thursday, 4 July
Fourth Session. On the Collective
Chair: Dr Philip Hager
9:00 PhD(C) Howl Yuan. Artists Home Swap: A Practical Examination of Artist Residency as an Embodied Space for Cultural Exchange.
9:08 Dr Andrés Garcés Alzamor & Ingrid Skåland Lia.Kinesis: Intangible Geometry Between Body and Place.
9:16 Dr Prokopios Orfanos.Performance, Social Space and Hospitality: Sociological Investigation of Participatory Art.
9:24 Dr Christina Vasileiou. Spaces of Care: Exploring the Performance of Caring as a Teacher With a Doll’s House.
9:32 Discussion
9:40 Break
Fifth Session. Memory and Belonging
Chair: Dr Bill Psarras
9:48 Eleni Tsantali, Dr Sofia Almpani & PhD(C) Georgia-Konstantina Atzampou. Exploring Collective Memory and Trauma Through a Site-Specific Performance at Lazaretta.
9:56 Dr Eftihia Mihelakis & Dr Lucille Toth. Performing DNA Spacing:Technopoiesi, Posthumanist Feminism, and Dissonant Genealogies.
10:04 Zoe Drakopoulou. "As strangers". From the Collective to the Personal. Awaking Memory and Trauma in the Streets of Kalamata.
10:12 PhD(C) Frida Robles Ponce. Buhlebezwe Siwani: Sangoma Practices Towards the African Land.
10:20 Discussion
10:28 Coffee break
Sixth Session. Regular. Liminal Territories
Chair: Dr Maria Mikedaki
10:40 Dr Dimitri Szuter & Rennie Tang. Exploring Performative Liminality.
10:55 Dr Eirini Koumparouli. Approaching Threshold Spatialities: The Example of the Theatrical Workshop “I Want to Fly” of Eleonas Refugee Camp.
11:10 PhD(C) Lucy Petchell. Becoming a City-Body: Embodying Space in Urban Environments.
11:25 Dr Bill Psarras. Performing Between Terra and Aqua: Reflections on Edge, Boundaries and Drifting.
11:40 Dr Gretel Taylor. Revealing and Reckoning: Curating Place-Responsive Performance on Country.
11:55 Discussion
12:15 Break
Seventh Session. The Politics of Space
Chair: Dr Gina Giotaki
12:25 Dr Tony McCaffrey. Renegotiating Theatrical Space Through Learning Disabled Theatre.
12:40 Dr Philip Hager. Performing Dissent in the Streets of Globalisation: The Right to the City.
12:55 Dr Marta Ostajewska. Indigenous Artistic Collectives as a Radical Place of Resistance (R.I.S.E, Winter Count, Postcommodity and yəhaw̓).
13:10 Dr Ece Canlı.Captive Performativities: Art and Body in the Carceral Context.
13:25 Prof Jon McKenzie. DASEIN DESIGN. Platform Performativity and Making Cures.
13:40 Discussion
14:00 Lunch break
16:00 – 20:00 Workshops
Prof Dorita Hannah. Mediterranean Spacing Workshop
Prof Alberto Morell, Dr KIMVI Nguyen and Dr Gina Giotaki. Space-Consciousness Workshop
22:00 “Drinks Meeting” (Not included in the registration fee)
Friday, 5 July
Eighth Session. Women's Space
Chair: PhD (C) Alba Balmaseda Domínguez
9:00 PhD(C) D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé. Hosting: Home Truths
9:08 Dr Ufuk Soyöz & PhD(C) Aycan Kızılkaya. Bathing in the Ghost Hamam of Napflio: Remembering Greece’s Ottoman Heritage.
9:16 Hanadi Al-Samman. Inscribing Muslim Women’s Body Spaces.
9:24 Discussion
9:32 Break
Nineth Session. Walking in the City
Chair: Prof Alberto Morell Sixto
9:40 Dr Višnja Žugić. Co-Performing City: An Urban-Topographic Rotation as an Act of Reclaiming Public Spaces.
9:48 Irini Kalogeropoulou. Cityphonic Walks: Unveiling the Sonic Performativity of Everyday Life in the Urban Landscape.
9:56 Katerina Kataki.Familiarizing the City.
10:04 PhD(C) Daniel Dilliplane. Walking Tour Performance as Reparative History: Aya Shabu’s Black Wall Street of Durham, NC.
10:12 Discussion
10:20 Coffee break
Tenth Session. Performing the Stage and the Environment
Chair: Dr Christina Zoniou
10:40 Dr Andrea Moneta & Dr Maurizio Crocco. Performing Architecture: Realising Sustainable Environments Through the Hybridisation of Theatre and Architecture Practice.
10:55 Dr Rafaël Magrou. Moving Spectators in Performing Spaces: The Auditorium Dislocated Into the Stage, or Vice Versa.
11:10 Aristotelis Kaleris. In Search of Lost Landscapes: Mt. Agchesmos in Athens and the Shift from Performative Perception to Official Cartography.
11:25 PhD(C) Alessandro Di Egidio. The Enabling Conditions: The Emergence of Performance From the Halprin Fountain to the Bridges of Venice.
11:40 PhD(C) Manuela Ciangola. Space as Event. From Lina Bo Bardi’s Oficina Theatre to Giancarlo Mazzanti’s Santa Fé Hospital.
11:55 Discussion
12:15 Break
Eleventh Session. Performing Architecture
Chair: Prof Dorita Hannah
12:25 Dr Stavros Alifragkis & Dr Kalliopi Chourmouziadou. Pavillon Relancé: Re-Tracing Leisure Modalities – Inhabiting the Archive.
12:40 Dr Rodrigo Tisi. Rethinking Performance and Space: A Seven-Factor Methodology to Design Alternative Worlds.
12:55 Dr José Vela Castillo, PhD(C) Óscar Valero Sáez, Elena Pérez Garrigues & Juan Cabello Arribas . Performative Spaces of the Quotidian.
13:10 PhD(C) Alba Balmaseda Domínguez. Performing Water. Bathing in Public Space.
13:25 Dr Pablo Berzal Cruz. Architects Do it Better, or They Should. Understanding the Environment Through Performance.
13:40 Discussion
14:00 Lunch break
16:00 – 20:00 Workshops
Dorita Hannah. Mediterranean Spacing Workshop
Alberto Morell, KIMVI Nguyen and Gina Giotaki. Space-Consciousness Workshop
20:00 Epidaurus Festival (Not included in the registration fee)
Saturday, 6 July
Twelfth Session. Activating the Senses
Chair: Dr Tyrone Grima
9:00 PhD(C) Türküler Topal. Another Stage is Possible: Theatre Venues Outside the Theatre Buildings.
9:08 PhD(C) Ioanna Markela Chalkia. Phycology of Visual Perception: Exploring How Theatrical Space Influences Emotion and Perception. The Dual Role of the Ancient Theatre of Pleuron.
9:16 Sofia Alexiadou. Light as Invisible Architecture: The Case of Ritsos’ Moon Sonata at the Athens Festival.
9:24 Ermina Apostolaki. Singing, Space, Focus: Live Singing as a Concentration Tool and a Definition Factor for Spatial Conditions in Site-Based Performances.
9:32 Katarzhina Zakharova. Scenography and Common Concerns of Humankind: Performance Design as a Source of Implicating the Audience.
9:40 Discussion
9:50 Break
Thirteenth Session. Site-Specific
Chair: Dr Athena Stourna
9:58 Dr Despina Zacharopoulou. Re-thinking site-specificity via long durational performance art.
10:06 PhD(C) Camille Tolila Mercier. Theatre Site Specific and Sociology of Chicago.
10:14 PhD(C) Ilias Sapountzakis. Theatre of Dionysus: A Performance and Reflexive Space.
10:22 Dr Eleni Gkini & Areti Petropoulou. Literature as the Occasion and Content of Site-Specific Performance.
10:30 Mat Diafos Sweeney & Sebastian Peters-Lazaro. Four Larks’ Katabasis: Imagining Ancient Mystery Rites as Promenade Opera in Los Angeles.
10:38 PhD(C) Cristiana Minasi. Embodiment of Landscape.
10:46 Discussion
10:54 Coffee break
Fourteenth Session. Reflections on Performance Space
Chair: Dr Christina Zoniou
11:05 PhD(C) Stella Christofi. Enacting Image (Denkraum) by the Wind: Movement Depicted in Mavroidis’ Landscapes, Fassianos’ Figure and Gyparakis’ Breath Installation.
11:20 PhD(C) Mark Turner. Directing Tempest Masque: Orchestrating the Classical and the Carnivalesque Chorus in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
11:35 PhD(C) Attila Antal. Corporeality of Space vs. Spatiality of Bodies: Site-Specific Dance on Film.
11:50 Prof Liviu Dospinescu. Spatial Settings and their Performative Function: Enhancing the Spectator’s Experience.
12:05 Discussion
12:20 Break
Fifteenth Session. Cyberspace
Chair: Dr Andrea Moneta
12:30 Dr Katerina El Raheb, Dr Anastasios Theodoropoulos & Panagiotis Papadopoulos.Extending the Performing Space Through Virtual Reality.
12:45 Dr Miral Mahgoub al-Tahawy. Anonymity in Virtual Space: Exploring the Representation of Female Body Through Virtual Identities in Contemporary Saudi Women’s Writing.
13:00 Dr Elina Roinioti. Let’s Get Phygital? Playformance and Spatiality.
13:15 PhD(C) Khairul Kamsani. Embodied Cybernetic Actor Training.
13:30 Dr Emmanouela Vogiatzaki Krukowski. Cyborgism as a Method of Transforming the Body Into a Performing Space: Actions, Interactions and Interpretations Discussion
13:45 Discussion
14:00 Conclusion
14:15 Lunch break
16:00 – 20:00 Workshops
Dorita Hannah. Mediterranean Spacing Workshop
Alberto Morell, KIMVI Nguyen and Gina Giotaki. Space-Consciousness Workshop
21:00 Closing party