The Performance Research Forum (PRF)
The Performance Research Forum hosts a range of events, talks and presentations.
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The Performance Research Forum is the Department of Theatre & Performance’s long-running public research event series.
The PRF benefits Goldsmiths’ scholarly community both by contributing towards undergraduate and postgraduate research, and by providing a meeting ground between practitioners and researchers, and between students and staff.
A Performance Research Forum event might be a platform for decoding an unfamiliar form of theatre or performance, or the opportunity for an artist to share and discuss their work with the audience. The events reflect the breadth of our department’s undergraduate and postgraduate curricula and the scope of academic research conducted by staff, embracing Live Art, multimedia and dance alongside theatre as a literary form.
Crucially, the Performance Research Forum emphasises our department’s focus on work beyond European cultural traditions, reflecting the cultural diversity of our students and the city in which Goldsmiths is situated.
- Mojisola Adebayo
- Mark Thomas
- Shazia Mirza
- Alan Davies
- Topher Campbell
- Sophie Sleigh-Johnson
- Franko B
- Ron Athey
- Kira O’Reilly
- Sally Jacobs
- Tim Etchells
- Phelim McDermott
- Holly Thomas
- Maria Oshodi
- Pamela Karantonis
- Alexandra Parsons
- Marcus Bell
- Cass Fleming
- Pamela Jikiemi
- Lucy McCormick
- Jen Harvie
- Andrew Cummings
- Eirini Kartsaki
- Philippa Burt
Upcoming events
New events are posted on Goldsmiths Events Page.
You can also check it from the page of Theatre and Performance Events.
Previous events
Events of 2024:
6 Feb 2024
Alexandra Parsons, Marcus Bell, Cass Fleming
"Remembering Derek Jarman’s life-writing"
20 Feb 2024
Pamela Jikiemi
“(Un)Equal Opportunities? Teaching to Redress: Actor Training and Race in Great Britain 1975–2023”
19 Mar 2024
Lucy McCormick and Jen Harvie
“Desire, Revenge and Relief”
7 May 2024
Andrew Cummings
“Arts of Public Grieving”
12 Nov 2024
Eirini Kartsaki
“The School of the Weird”
3 Dec 2024
Philippa Burt
“Embodying the Past and Imagining the Future in Complicité’s ‘everything that rises must dance’”
The Performance Research Forum is an excellent new model of imparting knowledge through the representation and discussion of artists' practices within a structured but informal context that is particularly geared to facilitating debate. The artists who have contributed […] represent some of the most influential and innovative practitioners of their generation.
Lois Keidan: Director, Live Arts Development Agency (LADA)
For further information, please email the Performance Research Forum team