1st International Conference

Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 

Aberystwyth, Wales, UK, 7-9 May  2005

Draft Schedule  

Saturday 7 May

Saturday 7 May 8.30 - 9.30                  

Registration, Penbryn Halls of Residence, Reception

Saturday 7 May 9.30 – 10.00               

Welcome and introduction to the conference Hugh Owen, A12

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Conference Director

Councillor David J Evans, Chairman of Ceredigion County Council

Professor Noel Lloyd, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Wales Aberystwyth

Saturday 7 May 10.00 – 11.30

Keynote Lecture Hugh Owen, A12

Ralph Yarrow, University of East Anglia, UK

The performance of consciousness: the consciousness of performance

Chair: Ioan Williams, UK

Saturday 7 May 11.30 – 12.00             

Break and Book Stalls

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room

Saturday 7 May 12.00 – 13.00

Plenary Session, Hugh Owen A12

Daphne Grace, UK

21st Century approaches to postcolonial studies: applications of consciousness and global education

Ronald Schleifer, USA

Consciousness, Semiotics, and Systems: Peirce's Index and the Affect of Poetry

Chair: William S. Haney II, UAE

Saturday 7 May 13.00 – 14.00             

Lunch and Book Stalls

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room

Saturday 7 May 14.00 – 16.00             

Parallel sessions

Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A12.

Theme: Philosophy (1)

Chair. Dan Watt, UK

Papers:

MES van den Berg, South Africa

The question of consciousness and existence: art as transformative dialogue

Gerald Cipriani, Japan

Self-Retraction as the Act of Seeing the Taking Place of Meaning - Between Ethics and Zen

Graham Forst, Canada

The Bridge of Game: Play as Mediation in the Arts

Milan Jaros, UK

The Neo-Baroque Toyness of the Narratable Self

Panel 2: Hugh Owen, A14.

Theme: Cinema: clairvoyance, consciousness and the matter of memory

Chair: Martin Barker, UK

Papers:

Michael Punt, UK

Cinema Technology and Clairvoyance

Martha Blassnigg, UK

A Cinema of Memory

Robert Pepperell, UK

Cinema and Consciousness

Mike Phillips, UK

Cinema Futures

Panel 3 , Hugh Owen C 164

Theme: Change

Chair: Alison Forsyth, UK

Papers:

Shari Burnard, Canada

The Use of Videos in the Classroom to Improve English Skills: An Action Research Project

Barbara Schaefer, UK

Moreno's Psychodrama - the Opposite of Acting? Or: How do we change

Charles Whitehead, UK

Social Mirror Theory, the Arts, and the Evolution of Human Self-Consciousness

Elpida Sophia Christianaki, UK

Aspects of political consciousness in Jean Anouilh’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone.

Panel 4: Hugh Owen C 165

Theme: Acting Theory

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Papers:

Jaynie Oram, UK
 The Actor & Creativity
Jade McCutcheon, USA

The Actor's Altered State in Performance, Actor as Shaman : Explorations
Under (Below) Standing Consciousness

Jessica Bockler, UK

The Actor’s Self: A transpersonal exploration of the actor-character relationship

Karla Shacklock,UK

Delving in to the dancer’s consciousness -‘The Dance Consciousness Model’

Saturday 7 May 16.00 – 16.30            

Break and Book Stalls

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room

Saturday 7 May 16.30 – 18.00             

Parallel Sessions

Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A12.

Theme: Text (1)

Chair: William S. Haney II, UAE

Papers:

Isabel M. Andrés, Spain

‘O, Let’s Keep Together!’ The Blurring of Individual Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s Novels

Jennifer Stebick, USA

Performing Consciousness: Virginia Woolf’s Freshwater

Barbara Ciccarelli, USA

The Trauma of Loss: Charlotte Salomon's Life? Or Theatre?

Panel 2: Hugh Owen, A14

Theme: Philosophy (2)

Chair. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Papers:

Dan Watt, UK

Us and Them! The consciousness of puppets and other abject objects

Karoline Gritzner, UK

The 'fading of the subject' in Sarah Kane's later work

Alison Forsyth, UK

Life Art and The Theatre of Testimony

Panel 3: Hugh Owen, C164

Theme: Acting and Performance (1)

Chair: Amy Ione, USA

Papers:

Jude James, UK

BEYOND CONVENTION: Border Crossing From The Social Body To The Porous Body: The Porous Body As Ontological Site - Interface For A-Located Realities.

Maya N. Ozturk, Turkey

Encounters through the body: Experience at the performance site

Jennifer Ewing Pierce, USA

Emotional “Lifeworlds”: A Paradigm Shift for Acting Theory

Monica White Ndounou, USA

The Paradox of Acting for an African American Actress

Panel 4: Hugh Owen C 165

Chair: Peter Aniago, Nigeria

Theme: Africa (1)

Chijioke Uwah, South Africa

Disempowering the Theatre for Development: Donor Agencies and Ulterior Motives

Barine Saana Ngaage, Nigeria

Political-Economic Consciousness: Songs of Mosop and Fowa

Osita C. Ezenwanebe, Nigeria

Feminist Consciousness and Nigerian Theatre

Saturday 7 May 18.30 – 19.30             

Dinner, Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room

Saturday 7 May 20.00                          

Book Launch and Kudiyattam Performance

Joseph Parry Hall, Laura Place (downtown!)

Sunday 8 May

Sunday 8 May 9.00 – 10.30               

Keynote Lecture Hugh Owen, A12

John Danvers, University of Plymouth, UK

….of the spangled mind: art, awakening, being, becoming…  

Chair: Amy Ione, USA

Sunday 8 May 10.30 –11.00              

Break and Book Stalls

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room

Sunday 8 May  11.00-11.30                

Plenary Session, Hugh Owen A12

Rashmi and Raj Fulchand, UK

Consciousness, The Art of Living and the Arts

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Sunday 8 May 11.30 – 13.00

Keynote Lecture Hugh Owen, A12

William S Haney II, United Arab Emirates

Biotechnology and What Makes Us Human: The Insights of Speculative Fiction

Chair: Patrick Colm Hogan, USA

Sunday 8 May 13.00 – 14.00             

Lunch and Book Stalls

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room

Sunday 8 May  14.00 – 16.00             

Parallel sessions

Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A12.

Theme: Music and Film

Chair: Ralph Yarrow, UK

Papers:

Anthony Palmer, USA

Unconscious Apprehension of Metapatterns Expressed Consciously Through Musical Form

Manjiree Gokhale, India

The Importance of Yoga in Music Education

Anthony Kubiak

Musical interval and the performance of the unconscious

Harri Kilpi, Finland

The Levels of Consciousness and Memento (2000)

Panel 2: Hugh Owen, A14.

Theme: Asian Performance

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Papers:

Margaret Coldiron, UK

Trance and Transformation: The Consciousness of the Masked Actor

Ornella Corazza, UK

Consciousness and Japanese martial arts

Sreenath Nair, UK

The Philosophy of Breath

Arya Madhavan, UK

Performing Breath

Panel 3: Hugh Owen, C164.

Theme: Text (2)

Chair: William S. Haney II, UAE

Papers:

Attilio Favorini, USA

The Remembered Present in Beckett, Pinter and Gerald Edelman

Adrian Page, UK

At the Inexistent Centre of a Formless Place’ : Samuel Beckett’s Cartesian Prose 

Ioana Sion, Canada

Beckett and the Jungian Mandala

Chris Hanley, UK

Music and Consciousness in A Clergyman’s Daughter

Panel 4: Hugh Owen, C165

Theme: Actor Training

Chair: David Blumfield, UK

Papers: 

William Weiss, Canada

How do you apply “spirituality” in theatre training?

Alex Dower, UK

The Science of Acting and Consciousness

Michael Morgan, USA

Creative Chaos in Fitzmaurice Voicework

Sunday 8 May 16.00 – 16.30             

Break and Book Stalls

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room

Sunday 8 May 16.30 – 18.00             

Workshops

Catherine Fitzmaurice

Chaos and Conscious Breathing: Creating Sound Sense

Anjali (Anne Marie Gaston)

From Formula to Feeling: Creating rasa (emotion) in Indian Classical Dance Traditions

Alex Dower, UK

The Science of Acting and Consciousness

Sreenath Nair and Arya Madhavan, UK

Restoration of Breath

Sunday 8 May 16.30 – 18.00             

Parallel sessions

Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A12

Theme: Philosophy (3)

Chair: Karoline Gritzner, UK

Papers:

Marianne O’Brien, UK

Attentive Minds: Aesthetics and Ethics at the Intersection

Myer Taub, South Africa

The Scond Mowing

Hector Jasso, USA

Your Analogies and Conceptual Blends are Served on the Internet, Sir

Panel 2: Hugh Owen, A14.

Theme: Africa (2)

Chair: Peter Aniago, Nigeria

Anthony Okonofua, Nigeria.

Art and Consciousness: The Confused Paradigm

Stephen Inegbe, Nigeria

What We Are Fed: The Nigerian Home Video Industry And New Awareness.

Ubong S. Nda, Nigeria

Wailings in the Wilderness: The expressions of political consciousness by Nigerian playwrights.

Sunday 8 May 18.30 – 19.30             

Dinner, Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room

Sunday 8 May 20.00 Hugh Owen A12

Public Keynote Lecture

F David Peat, Italy

The Art of Science and the Science of Art

Chair: Neville Greaves, UK

Monday 9 May

Monday 9 May 9.00 and 9.15

Hugh Owen, A12

Screening of Video

'winnow magic': Shamanism in the Malayan tribe of Kerala
Directed by Dr. C.R. Rajagopal. 10 minutes

Monday 9 May 9.30 – 11.00               

Keynote Lecture Hugh Owen, A12

Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut, USA

Compulsion and Free Will: The Brain, Imagination, and Art

Chair: Lyn Pykett, UK 

Monday 9 May 11.00 – 11.30             

Break and Book Stalls

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room

Monday 9 May 11.30 – 13.00             

Keynote Lecture Hugh Owen, A12

Amy Ione, Diatrope Institute, USA

Is Consciousness a Verb?

Chair: John Danvers, UK 

Monday 9 May 13.00 – 14.00 

Lunch and Book Stalls

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room

Monday 9 May 14.00 – 16.00             

Parallel Sessions

Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A12.

Theme: Theatre

Chair: Karoline Gritzner, UK

Papers:

Duska Radosavljevic, UK

The nature of the 'suspension of disbelief' and the possibility of 'an emotional response to fiction' in theatre

Goesta Struve-Dencher, Canada
Nothing Is Happening: theatre as the shared enactment of a non-deterministic cognitive reality

Raymond Munro, USA
Crossing the border in theatre practice: From the ego to the Witness

Erica W. Magnus, USA

Theatres of Consciousness: A Consideration of Historicized Theatrical Settings as Scopic Technologies

Panel 2: Hugh Owen, A14

Theme: Theatre and Performance (2)

Chair: Heike Roms, UK

Papers:

Avi Rosen, Israel

Art at the event horizon

Elena Cologni, UK

Present-memory: liveness versus documentation and audience memory archive

Fred McVittie, UK

Opening the three ‘I’s: Educating the Imagination in Art and Performance

Paul Stapleton, UK

Dialogic Relationships in Extra-Disciplinary Performance

Panel 3. Hugh Owen C 164

Theme: Art

Chair: Amy Ione, USA

Papers:

Geoffrey Kay, UK

What is the nature of craftsmanship in ceramics? A phenomenological enquiry

Tone Roald, Denmark

Emotions in the appreciation of visual art: a psychological-phenomenological study

Gregory Minissale, UK

Framing consciousness in the arts

Panel 4, Hugh Owen C 165

Theme: Philosophy (4)

Chair: Milan Jaros, UK

Papers:

Shilpa Venkatchalam, UK

Literature and Philosophy

Jeffrey Strayer, USA

Consciousness, Art, and the Limits of Abstraction in Art

D. Pinchbeck and B. Stevens, UK

Presence, Consciousness and Content: A perspective on the conscious processing of content-rich systems from the study of immersive computer environments, cognition and narrative models.

Anthony Enns, USA

Spiritualism, Writing Machines, and Mediations of Consciousness

Monday 9 May 16.00 – 16.30

Break

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room

Monday 9 May 16.30 – 18.00 Hugh Owen A12

Parallel Sessions

Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A14.

Theme: Text (3)

Chair: William S. Haney II

Papers:

D.C. Byrne, South Africa

Naming the unnameable: creative consciousness in Ursula K. Le Guin’s poetry

J.L. (Jaclyn) Jacobs, USA

John Ashbery, Surrealist Writing, and Religious Consciousness
Haifa Al Sanousi, Kuwait

A Woman Who Doesn't Want to Die. A reading of absurd Kuwaiti play

Performance by Elena Cologni in Hugh Owen A12

Monday 9 May 18.30 – 20.30             

Conference Dinner, Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room

Monday 9 May 20.30  

Performance John Danvers

Hugh Owen A12