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Joseph Dunne Address: 7 Diana Road Phone: 07727074124 Walthamstow E-mail: j.j.dunne@hotmail.co.uk London E17 5LE Personal Statement

Joseph Dunne is a researcher, teacher and performance practitioner specialising in site-based performance, mediated live events, audience participation, psychophysical actor training, historical re-enactments, and interdisciplinary performance practice. Joseph completed his undergraduate degree in drama at the University of Exeter (2006) where he focused on twentieth and twenty-first century actor training paradigms and devised performances. He later returned to the University of Exeter to complete a Masters Degree in Theatre Practice (2009). Professor Phillip Zarrilli trained Joseph in his psychophysical actor-training programme. Joseph’s dissertation focused on the legacy of Michael Chekhov’s actor-training techniques and their application for contemporary actors. After developing a series of acting classes he taught on a freelance basis before being appointed a visiting lecturer and research assistant at the University of East London (2010). It was whilst working as the research assistant on the CEDAR Project (Clustering and Enhancing Digital Archives for Research) that he began to develop a practice as research methodology to experiment with theatre archives and documentation strategies. This led to his PhD Regenerating the Live: The Archive as the Genesis of a Performance Practice. Joseph’s written thesis examines definitions of the ‘live’ based on the exigencies of ‘disappearance’ in the context of digital culture and proposes that the archival documents produced from/during performances retain a potential for ‘liveness’ which regenerate ostensibly past performances. The practice component is an audio-walk, Voices from the Village, which challenges the hegemony of the Olympic Legacy by arguing sites contain multiple histories and pasts that the public can participate in in order to democratise imaginaries of future cityscapes. Joseph is an independent practitioner who integrates his scholarship into his practice and vice versa. With Tracing the Pathway Collective he has designed workshops, created installations and run residencies for site-based artists. His other skills include editing websites and editing film and audio footage. Performance and Research Interests • Performativity of archives • Mediated site-specific and site-based performance • Immersive and participatory theatre • Sonic artworks • Concepts of ‘live’ and ‘recorded’ • Archiving strategies • Digital culture • Online performance • Historical re-enactments • Documentary and verbatim theatre • Psychophysical actor training Education and Qualifications Jul 2015 PhD University of Lincoln

Regenerating the Live: The Archive as the Genesis of a Performance Practice Apr 2012 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy The Higher Education Academy Jul 2009 MA Theatre Practice: Distinction

University of Exeter Jul 2006 BA (Hons) in Drama: 1st

University of Exeter

Grants/Fellowships/Awards 2015 Funding awards to undertake research Fluid Ecologies project from Rose Bruford College and the

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2014/2015 TaPRA Postgraduate Bursary to present at their conferences x 2 2013 Funding from the University of Lincoln to pay actors in Voices from the Village 2011 Funding award from the University of Lincoln to undertake PhD study

Performance Projects Jun 2015 Artist in Residence, Fluid Ecologies (with Tracing the Pathway), Psi Conference: Fluid States

North. Kunstmuseum, Nuuk, Greenland May 2015 Artist in Residence, Fluid Ecologies (with Tracing the Pathway), LAPSody Festival: Emergent,

Emergence, Emergency. Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland Dec 2014 Dramaturge, I am the Island (with Cluster Bomb Theatre Company). Chisenhale Dance Studios,

London Aug 2014 Writer and Designer, Voices from the Village Audio-Walk, London

Mar 2012 Artist, Glancing Back (with Tracing the Pathway), Tempting Failure Festival, London

Feb-Sep 2011 Principle Researcher, Audience as Document. IPAD Dance Studios. London; Summerhall, Edinburgh; Oi Futuro Institute, Rio de Janeiro

Dec 2010 Crew, Cart Macabre, (with Living Structures Theatre Company). Old Vic Tunnels. London Dec 2009 Performer and Crew, Biosphere (with Living Structures Theatre Company), Area 10, London

Teaching and Research Oct 2014-Ongoing Research Assistant. Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. May 2012 Guest Lecturer, Archiving Practices, Practicing Archives MA Practice-Based Seminar. Central

School of Speech and Drama Apr 2012/Jan 2011 Guest Lecturer, CPD Stanislavski Practice-Based Seminar for Teachers. Rose Bruford College

of Theatre and Performance Apr-Jun 2011 Principal Researcher, Mad Blud: A London Story, University of East London Jun 2010-Feb 2011 Research Assistant, CEDAR Project (Clustering and Enhancing Digital Archives for

Research). University of East London Nov 2010 Workshop Leader, Theatre Archives. IPAD Dance Studios Oct 2010 Workshop Leader, Theatre Archives. Royal Holloway University of London Feb 2010-Oct 2011 Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Performance, First Year Course, BA Theatre Studies; Dissertation

Project, MA Theatre/Directing, Research Methods, MA Theatre/Directing; Performing the Archive (designed), Second Year Course, BA Theatre Studies; Acting Processes (module leader), BA Second Year Course. University of East London

Independent Teaching Feb 2013 Body-Site-Encounter (with Tracing the Pathway). University of Bristol Apr 2010 The Michael Chekhov Technique. The Space, London Feb 2010 The Michael Chekhov Technique. East 15 Acting School, London Dec 2009 The Michael Chekhov Technique. Birmingham University College

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Oct 2009 The Michael Chekhov Technique. Loughborough High School Aug 2009 Actor Training and Asian Martial Arts. Lister Community School, London Conference Papers Jun 2015 Fluid Ecologies (performance paper with Tracing the Pathway). Psi Fluid States North:

Performances of Unknowing Conference. Knustmuseum, Nuuk, Greenland May 2015 Fluid Ecologies (panel paper with Tracing the Pathway). LAPSody Festival: Emergent,

Emergence, Emergency. Theatre Academy and University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland Feb 2015 The Spectator and the Document: Living Legacies of Performance. TaPRA Postgraduate

Conference. University of Manchester Sep 2014 Reimaging the Future Cityscape: How the Digital Archive can Shatter the Olympic Dream. TaPRA

Annual Conference. Royal Holloway University of London Sep 2013 The Future of the Ruin. TaPRA Annual Conference. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow Apr 2013 Encounters with Site, Memory and Performance: Tracing the Pathway’s Methodology. Performing

Documents Conference. Arnolfini Arts Centre, Bristol May 2012 Creating a Continuation of Performance in the Archive. CADRE Conference, University of

Wolverhampton Mar 2012 Navigating Kane’s City: Speakers in Crave as Fragments of Memory. Sarah Kane Symposium,

University of Lincoln Jan 2012 Remembering the Past to Create the Future: The Audience as Document. Postgraduate

Conference. Central School of Speech and Drama, London Nov 2010 Performing the Archive. National Archives, London Publications Autumn 2015 Stanislavski on Stage (editor) in Stanislavski Studies (forthcoming)

Autumn 2015 Book Review: Dramaturging Personal Narratives in Stanislavski Studies (forthcoming) Oct 2013 The Archive is Present in Desearch Oct 2011 Audience as Document: Research Case Study. Submitted to the University of East London May 2011 Mad Blud: A London Story. Submitted to Theatre Royal Stratford East and the University of East

London

Feb 2011 Performing the Archive: Considering the Performing Arts Archive as a Tool and Provocation for Theatre Practice. Published on the Online Theatre Histories Archive website

Feb 2011 Literature Review: Performance, Archives and Documentation. Published on the Online Theatre

Histories Archive website