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Performance Writing was pioneered at

visual art, sound art, time-based media, installation, electronic literature, bookworks, and performance art.[1]

History

Performance Writing was inaugurated as a

cris cheek, Peter Jaeger, Barbara Bridger, Melanie Thompson, Jerome Fletcher, and many others, and enriched by a program of visiting artists from around the world.[2] The external examiners for the BA and MA programmes were Allen Fisher, Rod Mengham and Robert Gavin Hampson
.

As a result of the merger of DCA and

University College Falmouth ( now Falmouth University in 2010, the undergraduate Performance Writing course was relocated to a new performance centre at Tremough Campus (now Penryn Campus) near Penryn, Cornwall. The course ceased taking applications for new students from 2010 onwards pending a reconfiguration of its Performance Writing courses.[3]
Recruitment has not resumed.

The Falmouth University post-graduate Master of Arts course in Performance Writing led by Associate Professor of Performance Writing Jerome Fletcher ran for two years at the Arnolfini in Bristol.[4] Recruitment to the MA Performance Writing was ceased in 2012. Performance Writing continues at the postgraduate and research level at Falmouth University.

Performance Writing has been adopted and adapted by both independent and academic researchers, practitioners, pedagogs, and institutions in Oakland, California

The Banff Centre in Canada.[6] In the UK, Performance Writing methodologies and sensibilities have spread – primarily through graduates of the program at Dartington – into a rich diversity of artistic forms and institutional formulations.[7]

Development of definition

As an emerging field, its definition and limits are the subject of ongoing debate. John Hall's lecture Thirteen Ways of Talking about Performance Writing explores definition as a process, using playful and precise language to establish the complexity of reflexive descriptions: a performance of writing about writing as such.[2]

At the symposium launching the field, Performance Writing was described by Caroline Bergvall as exploring "relationships between textual and text-based work when developed in conjunction with other media and discourses," and opening "the investigation of formal and ideological strategies which writers and artists develop textually in response or in reaction to their own time and their own fields"[8]

She also understood it as "not primarily [a] unified academic discipline [or] one delineated, hybridic artform", but rather as an "area of joint practical and critical investigation of the many uses writing and language are being put to and push themselves into."[8]

Events

Performance Writing events so far include two symposia; one at Dartington College of Arts in 1996 and a second at the Theatre School in Utrecht in 1999.

In May 2010 Bristol's

J.R. Carpenter.[9] In May 2012 PW12 was held at Arnolfini
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References

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  2. ^ a b John Hall, Thirteen Ways of Talking about Performance Writing: a Lecture, Plymouth, UK: Plymouth College of Art Press, 2007. (A more extensive list of performance writers is given on p.35.)
  3. ^ "Performance Writing BA(Hons) | Writing, Courses, Bahons, Performance | University College Falmouth - University College Falmouth". Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2011-01-22.
  4. ^ "Professional Writing MA | Falmouth University".
  5. ^ "What is performance writing?". Jacket2. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  6. ^ "In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge". The Banff Centre. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  7. ^ "Writing on Writing on Performance Writing". J. R. Carpenter. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  8. ^ a b Bergvall, Caroline. "Keynote Paper for Performance Writing Symposium, Dartington, U.K. 1996" (PDF).
  9. ^ Arnolfini Programme 2010 Archived 2010-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
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