Performance Research Hub

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The Performance Research Cluster is a world leading group of artist/academics. The cluster is located across departments and disciplines – representing staff and students from the Birmingham Institute of Creative Arts and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Work produced by cluster members is diverse, encompassing photography, illustration, painting, film making, animation, written work, musical composition, play making and choreography – acknowledging the 21st century breakdown of traditional disciplinary silos, as old divisions are compromised and transgressed and new and exciting forms emerge. These performances are shared internationally in concert halls, on television and radio and online.

Despite the wide range of realisations, the work all shares an exegetic approach – looking carefully at the creative process within its intellectual/historical/philosophical/ethical and practical contexts. Crucially the group sees these ideas as the basis and launchpad for future creative explorations. This is an interchange, a yantra, an osmosis, each informing the other, cycling. This reflexive model is a key aspect of the cluster’s approach. Members explore and share these insights through books, articles, conference presentations, symposiums, residencies and visiting professorships, and are very interested in novel methods of dissemination, using recent and innovative technologies.

The Performance Research Hub was formalised in 2017. It recognises a disciplinary distinction between research about performance, and research in and through performance (Borgdorff, 2012), typified by the twin burgeoning fields of Performance Studies (including Historical Performance Practice) and Artistic Research (Performance-led Research), respectively. Both fields are reflected within the activities of the Hub, which also provides a means of connecting practitioner-researchers with the broader research community.

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Birmingham City University
Birmingham