Event overview
Part of the Centre of the Body programme of events - 'Exploring the Body: Interdisciplinarity in Practice' supported by the Wellcome Trust
The Centre of the Body is delighted to host Theatre Director Jenny Sealey MBE and Live Artist Noemi Lakmaier for our third interdisciplinary dialogue 'Disability and the Artist's Presence', supported by the Wellcome Trust.
Sealey and Lakmaier, each from a very different approach to performance, make significant and imaginative contribution to inclusive presence in live work for audiences today. Sealey co-directed the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony and continues as Artistic Director of the ground breaking Graeae theatre company to create extraordinary theatre with an uncompromising political and artistic vision. Lakmaier, working with her own presence, makes works that are quietly and ironically challenging, committed and arresting. The event is hosted by Danny Braverman (Theatre and Performance Department).
The talk will focus on perceptions and realities of disabled artists' work in the field - in which the UK has been pioneers - from our guests' own perspective.
Jenny Sealey has been Graeae’s Artistic Director since 1997. In 2009, she was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Honours and became an Artistic Advisor for Unlimited 2012 Festival. Theatre credits for Graeae include: Reasons To Be Cheerful (2010 co-produced with The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and Theatre Royal Stratford East, 2012 national tour co-produced with the New Wolsey Theatre and 2012 performance at Southbank Centre); Signs of a Star Shaped Diva; Static (co-production with Suspect Culture); Blasted; Whiter than Snow (co production with Birmingham Rep); Flower Girls (co-production with The New Wolsey, Ipswich); peeling; Bent; Iron Man and Rhinestone Rollers. Other theatre and outdoor credits include: Blood Wedding (Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo); Romeo and Juliet (Saitama Arts Theatre, Tokyo); Against the Tide (GDIF, Milton Keynes International Festival and The National Theatre’s Watch This Space) and The Garden (GDIF and Southbank Centre). In 2012 Jenny co-directed the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony alongside Bradley Hemmings (GDIF). She also won the Liberty Human Rights Arts Award and was named on the Time Out London and Hospital Club h.Club100 list of the most influential and creative people in the creative industries. http://www.graeae.org/
Noëmi Lakmaier studied for both her BA (2003) and her MA (2004) in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including We Are For You Because We Are Against Them, The LAB, Dublin, Essence, Beldam Gallery, Brunel University, London 2008, The Works of Others, Whitechapel Gallery Project Space, London 2006, Redundancy, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth 2005. In 2008 she was artist in Residency at Camden Arts Centre, London and from 2008 – 2009 she held a studio residency at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin. She has won awards and bursaries including NAN New Collaborations, the Adam Reynolds Bursary, a Fire Station Studio Award and an Arts Council England Grant For The Arts. Lakmaier has guest lectured at the University of Brighton, Brighton, the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield and NCAD, Dublin. http://www.noemilakmaier.co.uk/
The 'Exploring the Body: Interdisciplinarity in Practice' series is supported by the Wellcome Trust.
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Dates & times
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21 Mar 2013 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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