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PerFORM
Dissemination
In addition to attracting the involvement of the award-winning artists’ collaborative SHUNT, PerFORM has garnered interest from experts in theatre design and theatre production, including Jason Barnes from the National Theatre, Juliet Rufford from the Prague Quadrinalle and Hannah Smitz from Theatre de Complicite. The research and design process has been presented to diverse audiences in the following events and publications.
Public presentations ‘PerFORM’, inaugural presentation to invited experts from theatre and industry, Centre for Creative Collaboration, London (Jan 2011). ‘PerFORM/The Scan Act 1’, experimental performance events staged to test possibilities for collaborative creativity during scanning of the RCSSD building as part of a design survey, RCSSD, London (Apr 2013). ‘The Scan’ (a collaboration between Protoarchitecture Lab, RCSSD, SHUNT and ScanLAB Projects), performance and exhibition of PerFORM, Collisions Festival: New Research in Performance Practice, RCSSD, London (Sep 2013).
International symposium presentation and exhibition Bob Sheil and Jessica Bowles, ‘PerFORM: a prototype for making theatre and theatre making’, The Architecture of Affect: IFTR (International Federation of Theatre Research) Theatre Architecture Working Group Symposium, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague (Jun 2011).
Peer reviewed conference papers Bob Sheil and Matthew Shaw, ‘Perform: a prototype for making theatre and theatre making’. Presented at the International Adaptive Architecture Conference, Building Centre, London (Mar 2011). Published as part of conference proceedings. Bob Sheil, ‘PerFORM/The Scan: experimental studies in 3D scanning and theatrical performance’. Presented at ACADIA (Annual Conference for Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture) 2013 conference on Adaptive Architecture, Cambridge, Ontario (Oct 2013). Published as part of conference proceedings.