Claudia Kappenberg : research




Claudia Kappenberg	:	research & publications
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		Research
Jan 2009 - present		Blog: 'The Art of Sabbatical'.
February 2011		Screendance Symposium at the Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, UK; an AHRC funded Symposium which disseminates the research of the Screendance Network and presents extracts of the forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Screendance; guest speakers are Catherine Wood, Curator Contempoarry Performance, Tate Modern, Siobhan Davies, Choreographer, Miranda Pennell, Film-maker and David Hinton, Film-maker.
June 2010		The AHRC Screendance Network launched the new International Journal of Screendance, the first-ever scholarly journal dedicated to the growing area of inter-disciplinary practice of Screendance. Launch at the American Dance Festival, Durham, North Caroline, June 2010. Editors: Douglas Rosenberg and Claudia Kappenberg. incl. Kappenbrerg, C., The Logic of the Copy, From Appropriarion to Choroegraphy, Vol1, Spring 2010
April 2010		What If… festival, A festival drawing from work in film, dance, live and visual art co-curated by 5 artists with a background in dance, visual art and film-making. The co-curators are Lucy Cash, Becky Edmunds, Claudia Kappenberg and Chirstinn Whyte with Gill Clarke from Independent Dance. Slideshow of documentary photos by Andrew Downs. The festival breaks new grounds in the curation of screendance, situating it within a wider discourse of moving-image, live performance and choreographic practices. What if… has commissioned 10 writers to respond to the works exhibited in the festival and the writing will be published in a dedicated issue of the Dance Theatre Journal in 2011.
December 2009		'Discourse and Publication in Screendance', paper given at Archiv/Praxis, Universitaet Leipzig, Germany November 2009.
April 2009		Awarded AHRC Network Grant for research into Discourse and Publication on Screendance. The project runs for 2 years and includes US and UK-based researchers and scholars. http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/screendance
April 2009		“Does Screendance need to look like dance?”, paper given at Exploring the screen as a site for choreography, Screen dance research event, University of Bristol, Department of Drama, Theatre, Film & Television, Cantocks Close, Bristol, UK. publ in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Isue 5, 2&3., January 2010
Dec 2008		‘Bread Tools and Mittens’; performance presentation for Bodies In Motion: Exploration In Perception And Performance, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, US.
June 2008		“Does Screendance need to look like dance?”, paper given at ‘Screendance State of the Art 2’, American Dance Festival, Duke University, North Carolina, US.
November 2007		‘Exhausting the Screen’, paper given at Open Source {Video-Dance}, 2nd International Conference for Screendance, Findhorn, Scotland. publ in OpenSource{Videodance} Symposium 2007: Findhorn Scotland 21st - 24th November 2007 (Eds McPherson, K., and Fildes, S.). Dundee: Goat Media Ltd
June 2007		'A reading of the film Entre’acte', paper given at MOVES, International Screen Choreography Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/visualculture/inc/moves
Since Oct 2006		PhD at the University of Brighton. The research project is entitled The Body as Site Beyond Purpose; it proposes a critical inquiry into some key concepts of Georges Bataille and their relevance for contemporary live and performance art.
June 2006		Scribe/ Documentor for Open Source - Video Dance, a conference at Findhorn, Scotland, exploring the current state of Dance for the Camera through new strategies for debate and documentation.
March 2006		Reconstructions of dances from the 1920ís by Choreographer Hilde Holger at the Laban Centre, London, as part of the Hilde Holger Centenary, performed by students of the Dance and Visual Arts Course, University of Brighton.
October 2005		Hilde Holger Centenary, video presentation for centenary of Choreographer Hilde Holger, Austrian Cultural Forum, London.
June 2004		The Use of Uselessness, presentation for Plato's Symposium, The Leleg Institute, Bodrum, Turkey.
June 2003		Paper at Improvisation Conference Liverpool entitled 'The Unknown Other in Performance'. Liverpool John Moore's University.
July 2003		T/Reason presentation and screening of work for public research debate for the Royal College of Art at the Serpentine Gallery, London.
July 2003		Chair of panel discussion with Yvonne Rainer and Deborah Hay, London International Summerschool, Greenwich Dance Agency, London.
		Publications
June 2010		Kappenberg, C., 'The Logic of the Copy, from Appropriation to Choreography', International Journal of Screendance, Wisconsin: Parallel Press, Spring 2010 Vol1
January 2010		Kappenberg, C., 'Does Screendance need to look like dance?', International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (Ed by Prof Sherril Dodds). London: Intellect, Issue5, 2&3.
May 2009		Kappenberg, C., Exhausting the Screen, in OpenSource{Videodance} Symposium 2007: Findhorn Scotland 21st - 24th November 2007 (Eds McPherson, K., and Fildes, S.). Dundee: Goat Media Ltd To order OSVD books online go to www.go-at.co.uk
June 2007		Documentation of Symposium in images and text with postscriptum published in: OpenSource{Videodance} Symposium 2006: Findhorn Scotland November 2006 (Eds McPherson, K., and Fildes, S.). Dundee: Goat Media Ltd Videodance Blog
January 2006		Kappenberg, C. and Aggiss, L., Hilde Holger, Spirit and Maracas, in Anarchic Dance, London: Routledge (2006). The chapter discusses the work of Austrian Choreographer Hilde Holger.
		©2006-2011 Claudia Kappenberg