Research Seminar - Postcards from the Edge of Collapse
Postcards from the Edge of Collapse
Presented by: A/Prof Stephen Carleton and Dr Chris Hay
Date: Friday 30 October 2020
Time: 12–1pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Abstract
In this presentation, we examine the postcard as pandemic performance, by considering how Playwriting Australia’s Dear Australia online performance project responded to both organizational collapse and global stasis. Combining a reading of the postcard’s functions and the critical responses to Dear Australia, we suggest while the postcard is a practical medium for performance in response to global lockdowns and physical distancing protocols, it compromises the ability of playwriting to intervene in the situations that it depicts and imagine how things might be different.
Presenters
Associate Professor Stephen Carleton is the Director of the Centre for Critical and Creative Writing at the University of Queensland, and teaches into the Drama major in the School of Communication and Arts. He is a playwright and theatre scholar, with particular research interests in Australian theatre, Gothic drama, cultural landscapes and playwriting.
Dr Chris Hay is a Lecturer in Drama and ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. He is an Australian theatre and cultural historian, whose research examines the history of arts subsidy in Australia, and the impact of state funding on the nation’s live performance culture.
About Research Seminar and Workshop Series
School of Communication and Arts Research Seminar Series
The research seminar and workshop series occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.
Friday, 11 March Online via Zoom | Research Seminar - Tuning In with the Stethoscope in the Nineteenth Century | Dr Melissa Dickson (University of Birmingham) |
Friday, 25 March Hybrid | Dr Chris Hay | |
Friday, 8 April Online via Zoom | Invention and reinvention in the landscape symbolism of Joachim Patinir | Michael Levy |
Friday, 29 April Online via Zoom | Negotiating balance of cultures among Chinese Australians to facilitate ageing well | A/Prof Shuang Liu |
Friday, 13 May Hybrid | Redefining crisis in museums: insider’s perspectives on digital engagement | Dr Caroline Wilson-Barnao, Craig Middleton (National Museum of Australia), and Lisa Enright |
Friday, 3 June Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | A journey through the Australian environmental movement ecosystem | Dr Robyn Gulliver |
Friday, 10 June Online via Zoom | TBA | Dr Alex Bevan |