KeepHouse Performance –A Performance Art Collaborative
Joanna Bucknall / Karen Savage
KeepHouse Performance explores contemporary issues through interdisciplinary approaches and practice as research (PaR) methodologies. We interrogate autobiography and heritage, particularly in relation to female representation and domesticity. We are keen to record and document our processes in innovative and interactive ways.
In May 2011 we presented Revisiting Mother at the symposium ‘Articulating Practice’ at the Courtyard Theatre, London. In February 2013 KeepHouse began a two-year project in collaboration with the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth, as part of the Make Your Mark rebuild project. We presented our work You, Hope, Her & Me, a series of one-on-one and micro encounters. This project sought to document and map the communities’ ‘hopes’ for the future of the theatre.
Her Hats, My Shoes: re-visiting is a performative presentation exploring and interrogating the role of documentation in the dissemination of PaR practices. Through a task-based dramaturgy we unpack the nature of the role of documentation within our own process as collaborative artists. There may be an option for delegates to collaborate with us, by participating in the documentation process during the event, through a series of task-based strategies.
Biography
Karen Savage has recently worked as Principal Lecturer at The University of Portsmouth and part-time at the University of Lincoln. She is interested in the juxtaposition of live performance with mediatised images. She explores this through the practical and theoretical processes of intermediality, practice as research and the political. Joanna Bucknall is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Performance at the University of Portsmouth. Her primary research interests are in the production and reception theory of experimental contemporary performance, specifically immersive, one-on-one, micro performance and participative dramaturgies. She is interested in explicating the nature of risk and investment in such dramaturgies and the implications of that upon the audience’s role.