Past events:

Perspective: in_between spaces

1st annual meeting Performing Arts in Contexts PAC

October 13th -October 16th, 2022, University of the Arts Zurich

report by Andreas Bürgisser

After the welcome speeches, Mira Sack invited the Participants to take part in a Speed Dating Session to establish, that this meeting looks for new practices of academic exchange. This was followed by a lecture performance, in which Bürgisser and Sack tried to summarize the history of PAC. They soon involved everyone who was present in the presentation, asking them to place their chairs in the room and telling, what everyone is working on right now. Different clusters emerged. Through deputies the digital participants were also able to locate themselves in the occurring landscape. This cluster marked the beginning of the content-related, collegial exchange, which led to new working groups via several open time windows at the end of the conference.

Lena Sade held the first presentation of a Country Report. She lined out the theatre tradition, which is currently teached in higher education in Lebanon, that is strongly influenced by a french tradition and introduced the approach of her program at the Holy University Spirit of Kaslik, that is looking for different forms and with the involvement of nonprofessionals negotiating virulent social topics on stage.

The afternoon started with a format, that was developed by Master Students from Zurich in their course “Dialog als Praxis” (Dialogue as Practice) and their lecturer, Milena Meier. A freely interpretated Tea Ceremony was the framing, in within the participants examined their professional biography and self-understandings. That format culminated in drawing a common painting made by used tea bags.

GLOSSARY of Performing Arts in Context/ Founding Conference of PAC

Dynamic practices - Static terms
Salzburg Conference 5th – 8th May 2021

report by Judith Franke

During the conference and in the days following, given a variety of feedback, it can be said, that the combination of physical and digital space as separate, from time to time distinguishing joined spaces had the capacity to enable productive hands-on work and exchange, touching urgent questions and leading to concrete further steps. Like this, it was possible to not just exchange information but actually work within the different ways in which people were present.

The Performative Arts and Pedagogy Project

Towards the Development of an International Glossary

International Conference, 1st & 2nd March 2019, University College Cork

report by Fionn Woodhouse

On the morning of 1st March 2019 a group of 22 people representing 5 different countries (Austria, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, & the U.K.), gathered in the lively surroundings of the Creative Zone in Boole Library, University College Cork, with the express aim of developing a deeper understanding of the discipline-specific knowledge bases, ideas, and operational concepts associated with Performative Arts and Pedagogy.