Browsing Performing and Screen Arts Conference Papers by Date Published
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Landscape, isolation, and belonging in performance: The art of directing in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(2021-06)Key features of the domain; landscape and identity SETTINGS • Isolation • Social mobility and access; ‘one degree of separation’ • Co-operative effort • Belonging • Detail/ big picture dichotomy • Genuine exploration ... -
‘Here is my space; the nobleness of life is to do thus’: democratizing performance and emboding presence at the Pop-up Globe Theatre in Auckland
(2020-06)This paper considers elemental, performative, and spatial opportunities available to actors, directors, and audience in the construction of performance on the open-air stage. This stems from reflection and evidence gained ... -
Sowing the seeds of collaborative curiosity : fostering academic research skills in pre-bachelor creative arts students
(International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2020-03)Conducting and presenting academic research is an acquired craft. Most students who enter higher education have no previous experience in the research domain, and many spend the first semester (or more) of their bachelor ... -
Because the internet : re-framing film school for the 21st century
(Mobile Innovation Network & Association (MINA, Australia) & University of Nottingham (Ningbo, China), 2020-01-18)This research argues for a fundamental re-imagining of screen education. Once upon a time, motion pictures were destined solely for the cinema. But developments over the past few decades have ushered us into an era of ... -
How to start a creative (r)evolution. empowering women, growing artists, and reclaiming the real through live performance
(2019-11-18)Every two years, the multi-media show Tarnished Frocks & Divas employs ‘used’ objects, garments, and at the centre, women’s bodies to challenge assumed realities, and to bring to life the essence of different narrative ... -
ALI EAST : an agent for change - a legacy of dance education in Aotearoa
(2019-11-16)I’m going to set a scene and tell a story that begins over 30 years ago. I tell this on the back of a celebration of 30 years of contemporary dance training in Auckland just this week. The Unitec students Showcase honoured ... -
‘SHARP’ skills : the need for creativity for tomorrow’s learners
(2019-10)Now, perhaps more than ever, the world needs creativity and the complete set of attributes that traditionally lie in the creative sector. All sectors are being asked to find fast alternative solutions to both new and age-old ... -
Wang Guangqi 王光祈: the man who introduced the Berlin School of Comparative Musicology to China
(2017-03)Wang Guangqi 王光祈 (1892-1936) was a man of many achievements. A student of international law, he had already achived national prominence as an influential social activist, a charismatic youth leader, an acute journalist, ... -
Cities of wrecked desire : post-apocalyptic cinema and ruin pornography
(Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2017-01)Ruin pornography – the photographic aestheticization of architectural decay – has a long history in cinema and television and is linked to spectacles of apocalypse and its aftermath. More recently, these representational ... -
Te reo kiriti : when Euripides speaks Maori. Intercultural collaborative practice as instinctive teaching methodology
(2016-12)This paper takes the form of a report on an artistic project [a Māori Bacchae] and the task I have been given bring matauranga Maori into mainstream tertiary teaching of our department, of performing and screen arts at ... -
Storytelling around the 21st century fireside : using filmic storytelling and world-building concepts to connect with media savvy audiences
(2016-08)The purpose of this session today is not to bemoan the fragmentation of television and film. I love the fact that we all get to watch what we want, when we want it. The world is very different than at the time of ... -
Disseminating Chinese music in New Zealand : Jack Body and China, 1985-2015
(2015-11)Despite the early presence of Chinese music in the Antipodes in the 1860s, as evidenced by the musical activities of Cantonese miners in the goldfields of Otago, the active dissemination of China’s rich and diverse musical ... -
Collaboration and the Poutasi Project : it takes a village to create a documentary film
(2014-12)The South Pacific has a long history of colonisers and outsiders imposing their own projections and viewpoints upon the different island nations, rather than seeking a perspective that is authentically engaged with the ... -
International collaborations in student-centered mobile moviemaking : combining online tools for an innovative global pedagogy
(Pixel, 2014-06)In the last few short years, interconnectivity has brought about new levels of artistic collaboration. Businesses, schools and artists alike are now engaging in multimedia remote collaboration as a matter of course. The ... -
An analysis of Interiors for string quartet and the influence of Scelsi's sonorist aesthetic.
(The Author, 2014)This presentation discusses my recent compositional interests through analysis of Interiors (2012) for string quartet and the influence of Giacinto Scelsi’s sonorist aesthetic. The central focus of Interiors is to create ... -
Adventures in International Collaboration: Facilitating Globally-Created Student-Generated Mobile Movies Using a Blend of Online Tools
(International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), (Valencia, Spain), 2014)The burgeoning of international connectivity has, in the last few short years, opened up new arenas of artistic collaboration. The next generation of filmmakers will certainly engage with an ever-greater degree of remote ... -
A living curricula: Conversations about learning and teaching
(Canadian Association for University Continuing Education, 2011-05)Unitec New Zealand’s ‘Living Curricula’ is both an Academic Strategy and an aspiration for a unique institutional culture. The Department of Performing and Screen Arts has developed course curriculum that crosses discipline ...
