Please see details below of this year’s first GRiT (Graduate Research in Theatre) event.
Dr Lewis Church’s talk ‘Unruly Access’ will take place on Wednesday, 11 Dec (4-5 pm) in Room 106 (43 Gordon Square).
‘Unruly Access’
This presentation will discuss how research on the experimental and sometimes seemingly inaccessible topics of experimental theatre practices of the twentieth century, contemporary live art, and subcultures can sit alongside a parallel professional practice as an arts writer and editor concerned chiefly with notions of access. Both have been enriched by the other, and the attempt to address structural issues in the creative sector, (particularly in relation to gender, race, class and disability) can perhaps benefit from a commitment and attention to the uncomfortable, unconventional and occasionally unruly.
Dr Lewis Church is an academic and writer based in London, who completed his Ph.D. in the Drama Department at Queen Mary University in 2017. In 2019/20 he holds the position of associate lecturer at Queen Mary and Birkbeck Universities, and has previously taught at Edinburgh University and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. His research has been published in PAJ, The First Line and Punk & Post-Punk. Other writing has been published in Something Other, The Art Story, Hackney Citizen, Exeunt and Loose Lips, and by SPILL Festival of Performance, the Live Art Development Agency and The Sick of the Fringe. He has worked as an artistic collaborator with Sh!t Theatre, Daniel Oliver, Ron Athey, Vaginal Davis, Franko B, Bobby Baker, Stacy Makishi and others.