Dr Joseph Dunne7 Diana Road

London, WalthamstowE17 5LE

Email: j.j.dunne@hotmail.co.ukTelephone: 07703404980

EDUCATION

2011-2015 University of LincolnPhD in Drama

Thesis Title: Regenerating the Live. The Archive as the Genesis of a Performance Practice

Supervisors: Dr Claire Warden and Dr Andrew Westerside

Synopsis:

By contesting formulations of the live medium based on the exigencies of disappearance my argumentation posits performance as a mode of archival production. In my thesis I argue that the life of a performance does not end over a fixed duration but is instead a dialogic process with a multitude of access points. My audio walk Voices from the Village frames the Olympic Village in East London as a site of tangled imaginaries of the future. Audiences document the site in an effort to instigate debate on the politics of urban regeneration. The piece forms the basis of my theories into how an integration of documentation into a performance can engender a type of audience participation analogous to archival research.

2008-2009 University of ExeterMA in Theatre Practice: Distinction

2003-2006 University of ExeterBA (Hons) in Drama: First

PROFILE

My primary area of expertise concerns the archive’s use as a point of departure in theatre- and performance-making and live performance’s relationship to historiography. The next phase of my research will examine how performance theory and practice can be applied to the library and information sciences discipline, with a particular focus on the performativity of producing and reading documents. This is with a view to conducting practice-based experiments on the effect documentation practices have on theatre production processes and a study of how the web-based technologies and social networks are changing the definitions of the audience.

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2016 TaPRA Member

2012 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

AWARDS

2015 Rose Bruford College£1,300 to participate in Emergent, Emergence, Emergency Festival in Finland and Psi Conference Fluid States: Performances of Unknowing in Greenland

2013-14 TaPRAPostgraduate award to present at TaPRA’s annual conferences

2013 University of Lincoln£500 postgraduate award to employ actors in Voices from the Village

2011 University of LincolnDoctoral studies award to undertake PhD

PUBLICATIONS

2016 The Beckett Collection. Stanislavski Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3

An overview of the collection’s history and an evaluation of its use as an educational resource

2016 A Responsibility to Respond: Another World and The Destroyed Room. Critical Byte

Theatre review

2016 The Father. Critical ByteTheatre review

2016 Cleansed. Critical Byte

Theatre review

2016 The Encounter. Critical Byte

Theatre review

2016 Heroic Acts. Critical Byte

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Theatre review

2016 Crisis, What Crisis? Critical Byte

Essay on embedded criticism

2016 Reflections on What Makes the Perfect Lab? Submitted to ZU-UK

Summarising the salient themes of the What Makes the Perfect Lab Conference

2016 Dramaturging Personal Narratives. Stanislavski Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1

Book review

2015 Fluid Ecologies. Performance Prompt

Report on my practice as research activities

2015 Stanislavski on Stage: The Benedetti Legacy. Stanislavski Studies. Volume 3, Issue 2

Edited transcript of an event at Pushkin House regarding Benedetti’s translations of Stanislavski’s acting manuals

2013 The Archive is Present. Desearch, Issue 3

Article arguing for the archive to be recognised as a dynamic entity in theatre practice

2011 Mad Blud: A London Story

Research impact report submitted to the University of East London and Theatre Royal, Stratford East

2011 Audience as Document

Research impact report submitted to ZU-UK theatre company and the University of East London

2010 Performance, Archives, and Documentation. Online Theatre Histories Archive

Literature review

CONFERENCES

2016 Secret Cinema and Hybridised Dystopias TaPRA Annual

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Conference. University of Bristol

2016 What is a Real Document, Anyway? 21 Century Research and Performance Conference. University of Malta

2016 Keeping Research Live. Intersections Conference. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

2015 The Live Has a Legacy. People and Processes: Behind the Scenes of Theatre and Performance Conference. University of Manchester

2014 Reimagining the Future Cityscape: How the Archive can Shatter the Olympic Dream. TaPRA Annual Conference. Royal Holloway University of London

2013 The Future of the Ruin. TaPRA Annual Conference. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

2012 Creating a Continuity of Performance Presence in the Archive. CADRE Conference. University of Wolverhampton

2012 Navigating Kane’s City: Speakers in Crave as Fragments of Memory. Sarah Kane Symposium. University of Lincoln

2012 Remembering the Past to Create the Future: The Audience as Document. Postgraduate Conference. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND EVENTS

2016 The Future of the Document Symposium. City, University of London

I have organised this interdisciplinary research event in collaboration with the Library and Information Sciences programme.

2015 Fluid Ecologies. University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland; Kuntsmuseum, Nuuk, Greenland

Practice research project with Tracing the Pathway Collective using performance structures to initiate dialogues amongst audiences.

2012-13 Body Site Encounter. University of Aberystwyth; University of Bristol

Workshop creating performances by synergising documentation strategies and site-based theatre

2011 Audience as Document. V&A Museum, London; UEL IPAD Centre, London; Summerhall, Edinburgh; Oi Futuro Ipanema, Rio

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de Janeiro, Brazil

Working with ZU-UK theatre company researching through practice how audience members of Hotel Medea can be framed as living documents

RESEARCH

2014-Ongoing Research Assistant. Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance

2010-11 Research Assistant, CEDAR Project. University of East London

TEACHING

2016 Guest Lecturer. Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, BA (Hons) European Theatre Arts Degree programme

Practical class on performing memory delivered as part of the Devising Project 1- Europe in the 21st Century module

2012 Guest Lecturer. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MA/MFA Archiving Practices

Practical seminar on autobiographical performance and documentation

2011-12 Guest Lecturer. Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, Continuing Professional Practice Class

Workshop for teachers on Stanislavski’s Active Analysis

2011 Guest Lecturer. University of Nottingham, MA Issues in Theatre Research

Seminar on Diana Taylor’s ‘The Archive and the Repertoire’

2010-11 Visiting Lecturer. University of East London, BA (Hons) Drama, MA Acting and MA Theatre Directing

Undergraduate courses: Interdisciplinary Performance, Performing the Archive, and Acting Processes

Postgraduate courses: Dissertation Project and Research Methods

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