Highlights Performing Arts and Film

© Thies Rätzke
© Thies Rätzke

    «Research is searching, seeking and striving, not arranging. It is intuition, intrusion and desire, rather than appeasing, evaluating and structuring. Having too many rules paralyses, ignores the unexpected and unpredictable. Excessive regulations prevent causality from roaming freely, strangle the long breath needed for departures, the time to listen, to hear and share, e.g. the sounds of bells now gone in the new Kunsthaus annex: ‹You must move in order to know›, said the dancing hunchback William Forsythe.»

    Prof. Anton Rey, Head of the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (IPF)
     

        Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

        The subTexte series includes five new publications: «DisAbility on Stage» (in a low-threshold hybrid media format); “Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland” (the outcome of an SNSF research project); and «Sinn und Sinne im Tanz» (the proceedings of the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung). See www.subtexte.ch for all volumes published in the series.

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          Promotion of Talents and Careers

          The IPF further developed its PhD programme, which was submitted to swissuniversities for funding. In addition, with the launch of the Peers Programme for young artistic and academic researchers, a new, low-threshold format for promoting young researchers was established, which aims to help develop a sustainable research landscape.

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            Cooperation and Internationality

            Every year, the RESEARCH ACADEMY invites twelve artists, practitioners and theorists from the field of theatre and performance to an international research laboratory. The 2020 edition, «The Situational Self: Acting and Identity» was held online and co-hosted by Gunter Lösel and Rick Kemp.

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              External Funding

              The four ongoing projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation entered their final phase in 2020. Three new submissions were completed in time for the spring deadline, but unfortunately were unsuccessful.

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                Award-Winning

                Patrick Gusset received the Best Practice Award for the most outstanding presentation of a PhD project at the international festival ARTikulationen. Hosted by the PhD School of Graz University of Art and Design, this artistic research festival explores artistic and scientific research approaches.

                New Scholars Award in Disability Performance in honour of Yvonne Schmidt. The International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), the largest international network in theatre research, has established an award in honour of Yvonne Schmidt, head of the SNSF research project «DisAbility on Stage» (2015–2019). From 2021, the award will be given annually to «emerging disabled scholars/artists» from underrepresented countries to enable them to become members and to participate in IFTR conferences.

                Dr. Yvonne Schmidt

                  Reading Tip

                  «subTexte 18: Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland» by François Bovier, Adeena Mey, Fred Truniger, Anton Rey and Thomas Schärer.

                  Did Switzerland have an experimental film scene? As the first comprehensive exploration on the subject, this book traces the development of Swiss experimental film from the mid-1960s to the early 2000s.

                  Minor Cinema

                    Event Highlight

                    Shortly before lockdown in Switzerland, the IPF hosted the symposium «Schwarz auf Weiss. Politische Zeichnungen und Bildräume». Invited guests included Hannes Binder, Leela Corman, Prof. Dr. Monika Dommann, Anja Kofmel, Prof. Ulli Lust, Kai Pfeiffer and Hamid Sulaiman.

                    Using picture series, comics and graphic novels, diverse forms of graphic storytelling were discussed that capture and condense an exploratory view of historical events, political and social issues through autobiographical, documentary or fictional drawing styles.

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