{"id":1385,"date":"2016-03-10T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2016-04-04T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T21:47:44","slug":"nuts-nz-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2016\/03\/10\/nuts-nz-9\/","title":{"rendered":"NUTS NZ #9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial<\/h1>\n

Welcome to the\u00a0ninth edition of\u00a0NUTS NZ\u00a0<\/strong>– the Newsletter for University Theatre Studies New Zealand. The purpose of the newsletter is to help us\u00a0communicate more effectively as a community of scholars interested in Theatre and Performance. We have an interesting selection of stories and items for you in this first issue for 2016. In this issue Martyn Roberts has kindly provided us with an outline of his latest project, Dark Matter. <\/em>We have included a flyer and link to a newspaper article about Head Wound, <\/em>directed by Angie Farrow, that should be of interest. We have details of the upcoming ADSA Conference “Resilience: Revive, Restore, Reconnect,” as well as details regarding the upcoming Symposium “Empowering Performance.” \u00a0There are a few prizes and competition to note too. Unfortunately, we could not\u00a0 include out “NUTS People” segment\u00a0 in this edition but it will b featured in the tenth edition.<\/p>\n

We plan to circulate our\u00a0tenth edition of\u00a0NUTS\u00a0NZ\u00a0on the 13 of May\u00a0, and we will need items of news by\u00a029 April (especially an academic\u00a0 and\u00a0 postgraduate student\u00a0to\u00a0 showcase). As always, submissions should be sent to the NUTS NZ editor Jane Marshall:\u00a0\u00a0j.g.marshall@massey.ac.nz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Newsletter Issue\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nInformation Required by\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nDate of Circulation<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Issue 10<\/td>\n29 April\u00a02016<\/td>\n13 May 2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Issue 11<\/td>\n29\u00a0July 2016<\/td>\n12 August 2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Issue 12<\/td>\n28\u00a0October 2016<\/td>\n11 November 2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Kind regards,<\/p>\n

NUTS NZ editors: Jane Marshall and Rand Hazou.<\/p>\n

Performances<\/h1>\n

Dark Matter<\/h2>\n

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Martyn Roberts, Lighting Designer and Professional Practice Fellow in Theatre Studies at The University of Otago presented Dark Matter<\/em> at the Dunedin Fringe Festival in March 2016. This work presented for the first time, since graduating in 2014, a public showing of his MFA Theatre Studies material.\u00a0Martyn\u2019s MFA focused on his practice as a lighting designer and in particular the development and refinement of his methodology which involves creating states or scenarios that sit at the edge of perception and understanding. This was explored through three workshops and Dark Matter<\/em>, a final showing where audiences were engaged in an open and \u2018meaning-making\u2019 process creating threshold states.\u00a0\u2018Threshold state\u2019 refers to a point of perception that compels the viewer to engage with an image or sound to create meaning before it vanishes. It was Martyn\u2019s intention to create threshold states across the disciplines of light, sound and site specific space. He also used photography to bring a greater understanding to how meaning, perception and recognition occur in these threshold moments.\u00a0Dark matter, as in use it here, is a metaphor to describe the unseen, intangible or emergent elements of a performance. Martyn sought to use how we experience these elements to examine aspects of his design process. He is interested primarily in visual design work that privileges the partial and the unseen in order to invite audiences to take an increasingly active role in the meaning-making process. This has long been a focus of his practice as a designer. In this project, Martyn worked to develop, refine and articulate his approach through experimenting with the design tool of light, and by corollary, with sound and space.<\/p>\n

Head Wound<\/h2>\n

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Soldiers who survive war might be considered lucky, but they can suffer lifelong psychological damage. A bold new performance work explores the human horrors of war through one man\u2019s struggle to piece together fragments of memory and identity shattered by a traumatic head injury. This performance\u00a0installation, presented at Palmerston North\u2019s Te Manawa Museum, is directed by\u00a0Massey University Associate Professor Angie Farrow in\u00a0collaboration\u00a0with puppeteer Leda Farrwo, digital lighting designer Luke Anderson, musician and composer Suzie Hawes, and\u00a0writer\u00a0John Downie.<\/p>\n

For more information access the Massey News story here<\/a>, or visit the link to the article “Installation Brings Museum to Life”<\/a> in the Manawatu Standard.<\/em><\/p>\n

Conferences<\/h1>\n

ADSA Conference 2016 Resilience: Revive, Restore, Reconnect. Update<\/h2>\n
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Publication reminder<\/strong>
\nThe deadline for submissions for the e-conference proceedings publication for ADSA\u2019s 2016 Conference is rapidly approaching (12th February). The publication will be in two parts.\u00a0Part One will feature academic papers that can be written and reviewed ahead of time. This part will be published prior to, and launched at the conference.\u00a0Part Two will feature research that due to its nature and\/or mode of presentation can only be properly represented and\/or peer reviewed during the conference itself.\u00a0If you wish to have your work considered for either part, you MUST prepare a submission by Friday 12th February.\u00a0For Part One, this submission must be your full paper.Please note that the full papers need to closely resemble the work you will present at the conference (rather than a re-write or an extended version), approximately 3000 words in length, and follow the ADS journal style guide.\u00a0For Part Two this submission will consist of a more fulsome abstract (up to 1000 words detailing research methodology, questions and influences) and a justification of why the work can only be peer reviewed properly during the conference itself as well as a proposal of how the media-rich content (if applicable) will be captured.<\/p>\n

Peer review<\/strong>
\nAll people submitting work for consideration in the publication are reminded that by submitting their work they are also agreeing to act as a peer reviewer for up to 4 other submissions at the discretion of the editors. For Part One, these reviews will be due back to the editors by Friday 4th March<\/strong>.\u00a0All peer reviewers will be acknowledged as part of the publication. If people who are not submitting their work, wish to volunteer to be a peer reviewer, the editors would welcome your expression of interest via emailing a brief bio to them.<\/p>\n

Conference Registration<\/strong>
\nRegistration for the conference is now open.Early Bird discounts are available until Friday 29th April. For more details about the conference or to register please follow this link.<\/a><\/p>\n

Call For Papers<\/h1>\n

Empowering Performance:\u00a0Maori & Indigenous Performance Studies Symposium<\/h2>\n
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Te Ara Poutama, Faculty of M\u0101ori and Indigenous Development invites proposals for papers and other presentations on the power of contemporary Indigenous performance. Here we ask participants to stake a position in a conversation about the relationship between performance and power in the development of M\u0101ori and Indigenous identities and communities.<\/p>\n

Where:<\/strong> Auckland University of Technology
\nWhen:<\/strong> 8-9 September 2016<\/p>\n

For further information, contact\u00a0Dr. Valance Smith <\/strong>by emailing:\u00a0vsmith@aut.ac.nz
\nor visit #KAHAKA2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Prizes\/Competitions<\/h1>\n

The Marlis Thiersch Prize<\/h2>\n
The Marlis Thiersch\u00a0prize is designed to recognise research excellence in English-language articles anywhere in the world in the broad field of drama, theatre and performance studies.<\/div>\n
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Eligibility<\/b><\/div>\n