ADSA 2020: ACTS OF GATHERING. PERFORMING FUTURES. ROARING CHANGE.

Tue, 1 Dec 2020 to Fri, 4 Dec 2020

Type of event:	Annual Conference
Venue:	University of New South Wales, Sydney
Description:	ACTS OF GATHERING. PERFORMING FUTURES. ROARING CHANGE. Goodbye–Hello. Hello–Goodbye. Starting from here… What do we leave behind? What do we hold onto? What do we play forward? Shifting registers of performance Challenging rehearsal practices Moving margins to the centre Welcomes and farewells Making contact, encountering others Rituals of hospitality and accommodation Meetings – formats and procedures Conversations – listening, speaking and turn-taking Performing negotiation, seeking reconciliation Critical communitas – arts of assembling Recollections and projections Lapses of attention, multiple distractions Missteps, misfires and misdirections Spaces of transformation Communities of decision Decolonising the future ‘Hope in the dark’ Visit the conference website at http://actsofgathering.org for details of the program. The 2020 ADSA conference is convened by Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of the Arts and Media at UNSW Sydney, Australia, 1–4 December 2020. Conference presenters must be members of ADSA. Become a member, or renew your membership, at https://www.adsa.edu.au/membership For enquiries, contact: Jonathan Bollen, j.bollen@unsw.edu.au.