- BOOK CHAPTER
Campbell, Lee, ‘HECKLER. Performance, participation and politeness : using Performance Art as a tool to explore the liminal space between art and theatre and its capacity for confrontation'
in Remes, Outi, MacCulloch, Laura and Leino, Marika (eds.), Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters (Oxford: Peter Lang Ltd., 2013).
Publication date to be announced. Expected Autumn 2013.
- IMPOLIN: IMPOLITENESS AND INTERACTION.
Kazimierz Wielki University, BYDGOSZCZ, POLAND 23-24 MAY 2013 impolin.com.pl/
Lee Campbell and Mel Jordan will present Oh heckler, where ART thou?
The figure of the heckler and the relationship between rudeness and contemporary audience participatory art practice
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska - University of Silesia,
Derek Bousfield -Manchester Metropolitan University
Dániel Kádár - Huddersfield University
Małgorzata Marcjanik - University of Warsaw
Marek Łaziński - University of Warsaw
Ljiljana Šaric - University of Oslo
The aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for discussion over linguistic and nonlinguistic impolite behaviour across languages and cultures. The focus of the conference will be pragmatic and sociolinguistic aspects of impolite behaviour analysed both in terms of verbal and nonverbal communication, however we also welcome presentations across a wide variety of topics stemming from neighbouring fields of research, such as social studies, political studies, psychology, intercultural communication, media studies, etc.
- disagreement
- rudeness
- ignorance
- aggravation
- offence
- verbal aggression
- sarcasm
- mock politeness
- humour and impoliteness
- using taboo words
- swearing and expletives, etc.
- CREATIVE ARTS AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES: COLLABORATION IN PRACTICE
21 June 2013, 9:00am to 22 June 2013, Manchester Metropolitan University,Creative Arts New Building.
I will be presenting a collaborative paper with Dr Claire Makhlouf Carter on Friday 21 June 2013.
http://creativeartscollaboration.eventbrite.com/#
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=2433
Collaboration is an issue at the centre of practice research. It is understood differently in different practices, whether in music, dance, drama, fine art, installation art, digital media or other performance arts. Practice research might incorporate practice-led or practice-based work: practice may be the outcome or the stimulus for the research.
Welcoming the diversity within creative practice and the creative industries, this conference seeks to reassess how such research can be explored while going beyond definitions of practice-led, or practice-based research, different artists engage in research using a variety of objects and performance methods, and report research in diverse ways, which in turn raise questions regarding the research process, its collaborative dimensions, as well as the sharing of research findings. Practice resides within the working processes of performance, installation and practice-led research outcomes when they are articulated to an audience.
This two-day symposium will explore issues surrounding the collaborative process on two levels:
• as it occurs between academic researchers in the creative arts and professional practitioners in commercial organisations in the creative arts industries (and beyond) • as it focuses attention and understanding on the tacit/implicit dimensions of working across different media (including music, dance, design, creative writing, architecture and the creative industries).
The key themes of the symposium, arising from these two aspects of collaboration, will include:
• Collaboration 1: researchers working alone and together using different media and/or materials”
• Collaboration 2: in relation to knowledge exchange and research “effectively shared
• Performativity: exploring the process of doing research;• Articulation: how research collaborators communicate their methods and findings to each other and their audiences; • Ethics: exploring issues of authorship in collaborative projects.
Keynote addresses include: Mine Dogantan Dack (Middlesex University), with a presentation entitled “Why collaborate?: Towards a philosophy and politics of creative collaboration”, and Anthony Gritten (Royal Academy of Music), with a presentation entitled “Trust in Collaboration, from Policy to Practice”.
Hosted by: Practice Research Unit (Kingston University) MIRIAD (Manchester Metropolitan University), in association with PARCNorthWest, Institute for Performance Research (MMU Cheshire), Centre for Music Performance Research, Royal Northern College of Music.
- HECKLER
Call for paper-based and performative presentations and provocations to be included in the symposium entitled, HECKLER: Tactics to heckle, hiss, howl and holler organised by Loughborough University School of the Artsʼ Lee Campbell and Mel Jordan in association with Trade, Nottingham.
Lets upend the conformist definition of the heckle as anti-social and instead think of the heckler as heroic, a kind of public
speech super hero, with the ability to suspend rhetoric, preserving the right to speak out of turn. The violence, awkwardness
and embarrassment of the heckle are signs of its political courage, fearlessness and agency. The heckler's interruption opens
up a space for public discourse. Deprived of the heckler we would have one less method of turning passerbyʼs into
assembled publics (Jordan, 2013).
The symposium will explore the potential of the heckler as a speaker that can offer a revised understanding of social exchanges within contemporary debates on participation, linguistics, ethics and communication. Artists’ Campbell and Jordan argue that the heckler, a person who disrupts performances, speeches and public addresses should be considered as a metaphorical figurehead of impoliteness.
At any rate the heckler should appear on the menu of communicative speech acts and as a tactic for understanding the performers relationship to an audience. Furthermore the notion of the heckler enables a review of the troublesome divisions presented in the dichotomies inherent in the coupling of speaker and listener, performer and audience, official speaker and unauthorised respondent. There is no doubt that the philosophies of impoliteness as a behavioural activity have been attacked by some within sociolinguistic circles as ʻdeviantʼ and ʻto be avoidedʼ (Leech 1983:105), Campbell and Jordanʼs admiration for the heckler as an embodiment of impoliteness may just be the tip of the iceberg, but an iceberg that surrounds a contemporary surge of interest in the whole territory of impolite behaviour as a means of looking at the construction of social relations.
Keynote speakers:
• Daniel Z. Kadar, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Director, Centre for Intercultural Politeness Research, University of Huddersfield. Provisional paper title: ʻThe heckler's 'impoliteness': A mimetic-relational perspectiveʼ
• Peter Bond (Senior Lecturer, Performance theory and practice, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design). Provisional paper title: ʻOff-sideʼ.
• Dr. Ian Bruff (Political Scientist, Lecturer in International Relations at Loughborough Universityʼs Department for Politics, History and International Relations).
Other contributors include Dr Claire Makhlouf Carter (Artist), Adrian Lee (Artist), Andrew Brown (Artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, UK), Robin Bale (Artist and PhD candidate) and Joanne Lee (Artist/writer, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, UK).
Proposals for presentations are welcome which interrogate what constitutes the heckler and how his/her actions may have significance within multiple contemporary discourses / study disciplines.
HECKLER will also be taking place at Artsadmin, London in September 2013.
Submission guidelines
Please send:
• A 300–350 word proposal/abstract including keywords outlining your presentation and state institute affiliation (if any).
• A short biography including any websites as relevant
• Please do not send any further attachments with your submission.
• Please indicate any particular technical support in your submission.
Timetable:
7 June 2013 – 5pm GMT UK time, deadline (all submissions to be sent via email to Lee Campbell L.Campbell@lboro.ac.uk and Mel Jordan M.Jordan@lboro.ac.uk with the word HECKLER in the subject heading.
15 June 2013 – Notification of successful applicants.
13 July 2013 – Symposium held at Trade, Thoresby Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Jordan, M. Heckle, Hiss, Howl and Holler in Art & the Public Sphere Volume 1 Number 2 APS 1 (2) (Intellect Limited, 2013) 117–119. Leech, G., 1983. Principles of Pragmatics, Longman.
Heckler lapel image designed by Mel Jordan.
The event acknowledges the support of Loughborough University's' Graduate School Research Culture Fund.
RECENT PROJECTS
- Recently I was invited to speak at Beyond the authority of the ‘text’: performance as paradigm, past and present CRASSH,Cambridge University (April)
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/acts-of-creativity-audiences-and-us
Download my paper 'Confrontations, Collaborations, Humours and Hecklers' which was part of a collaborative presentation as artwork with Claire Makhlouf Carter from Academia.edu
http://www.academia.edu/3393409/Confrontations_Collaborations_Humours_and_Hecklers
- Collaborative paper given with Claire Makhlouf Carter at Performing Documents conference, Arnolfini, Bristol (April 2013)
Tweets by drpaulhurley
2013-04-12 19:35:12
Gaps in factual analysis when they also function as reflective documents - Burden explicitly excludes personal. Burden of proof.
2013-04-12 18:14:23
Non-heckling in set up project as heckle. A double bluff CMC? Heckling opened up as an invitation. Physically destroying documents
2013-04-12 18:13:17
CMC: Participation contracts. LC: Burdenesque factual analysis of meetings and preparation for presentation heist.
2013-04-12 18:12:51
CMC: 12m long live document of medical graphs (pulse, breath, perspiration, etc.) undertaken during viva voce exam.
2013-04-12 18:11:53
LC: Modes of writing as heckling academic writing.
2013-04-12 18:11:36
LC: 'On your marks' - acts of drawing and marking as gestures of hospitality, conviviality. Actions become artworks in own right
2013-04-12 16:34:31
Lee Campbell and Claire Makhlouf Carter on antagonism, heckling, and art happy slapping.
- Presentation 'BAD HOST: Comedy as a Curatorial Workshop', solo performative lecture, Lionel Dobie Project, Manchester (December 2012)
see http://youtu.be/AwQVgJ7bGIg for video documentation. With thanks to Helen Collett, Lois Macdonald and Mike Chavez-Dawson.
PREVIOUS:
Lee Campbell and Claire Carter:
PERFORMANCE, PARTICIPATION, AND POLITENESS
4.30 to 6pm
as part of
Beyond the authority of the ‘text’: performance as paradigm, past and present
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
Registration open now
For full details details see
http://
Cambridge University Centre for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) one-day conference, Tuesday April 16th 2013, 10am-10pm
‘Performance: a paradigm shift?’
Music, theatre, literature, film, painting, sculpture – what these and other cultural phenomena have in common is the capacity to simultaneously exist as an object (fixed, a record) and an experience (time-specific and body-specific). ‘Performance’ can be seen as the negotiation of these ontologies. The idea that ‘texts’ have fixed or stable ‘meanings’ has been effectively challenged in the last century by an increasing privileging of the receiving context. But this move has traditionally been discussed in terms of singular, stable, unitary readers and viewers, and individual acts of reception. Performance as a hermeneutic approach repositions the intelligibility of works of art as a function of their multiple and mixed audiences, or the implicitly public nature of their messaging, however privately created and consumed. In the case of re-perfomance, the recognisable work (or ‘classic’) can be seen less as a ‘text’ which travels through time than as a space of opportunity for engagement with a present, i.e. as enacting a live meeting point for audiences: implied and embodied, individual and multiple, past and present.
The conference proposes performance as a useful conceptual tool for grasping what different acts of cultural communication have in common. It asks how what is going on the modern art gallery, for example, is related to what is going on in literary studies, or music, and how they may be responding to similar environmental prompts…performance invites us to ask not what things are, but how we know and think about them - and how 'we' are already part of their gesture. It is a paradigm shift which derives from and reinforces the need to challenge existing definitions and boundaries. By discussing these and other issues from the perspective of the both the present and the past, the conference will take advantage of other periods and cultures in which concepts of art, theatre, dance, music, literature and the public may be completely different from our modern (post-1880s) categories and the logocentric distinctions and values they enshrine.
Lee Campbell and Claire Carter:
BAD DOCUMENT
The document as antagonist.
As a 30 minute conversation, we will take the figure of the heckler as a person who undoes comfortable differentiations between polite/rude, social/antisocial, speaker/listener, performer/spectator etc and reflect upon a recent collaborative performance-based arts project, in which we set up an artistic situation which interrogated the live performance, performance document as witness, and the characteristics of a heckler.
During our conversation, we will refer to the document as heckler and will address how our use of a contract and a factual analysis operated as performative documents. Through an understanding of the performative as related to ‘action’ in response to John Langham Austin’s ideas surrounding the speech act, we will describe how the actions between us generated moments of confrontation throughout the project. Our contract set out conditions to be performed and was seen by both of us as having a multi-function; as legal agreement, artwork, and performative document. Claire ultimately referred to our contract as a heckle as the reality of using the contract as a working performative document had a difficult yet exciting and challenging antagonistic quality. Similarly, the factual analyses which we wrote to state our own versions of the project’s events also generated problems.
on Friday 12th April 2013 at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
as part of Performing Documents conference
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RECENT PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS.
Performing Research Creative Exchanges:Lee Campbell and Claire Carter, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, January 2013
Dialogues in Performance I : Collaboration. Central Saint Martins, November, 2012
LEE CAMPBELL: PERFORMATIVE LECTURE 'COMEDY AS A CURATORIAL WORKSHOP' at Lionel Dobie Project, Manchester, December 2012.
Video documentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwQVgJ7bGIg
MICHAEL PORTNOY'S EXPERIMENTAL COMEDY TRAINING CAMP, BANFF CENTRE, CANADA.
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1218&p=detail
Here are a selection of my solo performances as part of the residency.
Performing Research Creative Exchanges:Lee Campbell and Claire Carter, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, January 2013
Dialogues in Performance I : Collaboration. Central Saint Martins, November, 2012
LEE CAMPBELL: PERFORMATIVE LECTURE 'COMEDY AS A CURATORIAL WORKSHOP' at Lionel Dobie Project, Manchester, December 2012.
Video documentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwQVgJ7bGIg
MICHAEL PORTNOY'S EXPERIMENTAL COMEDY TRAINING CAMP, BANFF CENTRE, CANADA.
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1218&p=detail
Here are a selection of my solo performances as part of the residency.
COPY CATS! Five Years gallery publication
Lee
Campbell invited artists Mark Harvey, Alexander Costello, Mike
Chavez-Dawson, Duncan McAfee, Sarah Bowker-Jones, Alex Baker and Mike
Ryder to create new artworks for a publication as
part of FIVE YEARS, London recent THIS IS NOT A SCHOOL programme.
VISUAL RECORDERS
A paper which is part of Brunel University's online journal BST
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol1101/home.html
go to PAPERS and then Lee Campbell 'Visual Recorders'
SCHOOL OF LAUGHTER at Space Station Sixty Five, Kennington, London
Hoopla! A solo performance with Claire Calmon using word alliteration with the Olympics as a theme.
In July I participated in The Inquisition: Summer Lodge 2012, Nottingham Trent University.
http://www.summerlodge.org/?page_id=4888
THREE ARTISTS WALK INTO A BAR. de Appel, Amsterdam.http://www.summerlodge.org/?page_id=4888
13 Apr — 13 May 2012
de Appel Boys' School, Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59, 1072 BD Amsterdam
"–
quite apart from making us laugh – it [humour] has been employed to
activate repressed impulses, embody alienation or displacement, disrupt
convention, and to explore power relations in terms of gender,
sexuality, class, taste or racial and cultural identities."
- Jennifer Higgie -
De
Appel Curatorial Programme 2011-2012 preseneted Three Artists Walk into
a Bar..., a series of works and interventions that took place outside
of the premises of the exhibition space, channelled through discussion,
dialogue, and public gatherings at the Appel Boys’ School and on the
website of the project, www.threeartistswalkintoabar.com.
Using the quality of humour to test the potential of art as a critical
instrument for the analysis of social, political and cultural issues,
this project aimed to build a community of peers, professionals and a
variety of publics. The commitment to humour, stemmed from a belief in
its social quality; in its capacity to bring subversive voices and
unexpected perspectives to mainstream awareness.
A
programme of lectures and workshops by internationally renowned
practictioners from the field of art, theory and comedy. by Joost de
Bloois, Lee Campbell, Simon Critchley, Dora Garcia, Giselinde Kuipers,
VOINA, amongst others www.threeartistswalkintoabar.com
TaPRA Working Group DOCUMENTING PERFORMANCE Interim event at the University of Hull, Scarborough, March 24th 2012
The symposium entitled Interdiscipinary Approaches to Documenting Performance
saw Prof Barry Smith as keynote speaker and included a range of papers
from presenters across the UK. Details from Dr Toni Sant.
t.sant@hull.ac.uk
WITH HUMOROUS INTENT was a two day symposium interrogating the deployment of humour within contemporary art practices from 2nd-4th March 2012 at Mostyn, Llandudno, North Wales, UK organised by Lee Campbell, PhD researcher, Loughborough University School of the Arts, UK in cooperation with Mostyn and Loughborough University School of the Arts, in conjunction with Politicized Practice Research Group to coincide with ‘Ha Ha Road’, Mostyn, 03 Dec - 11 Mar 2012. http://www.mostyn.org/whats_on/detail/ha_ha_road
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Speakers included Gillian Whiteley (aka bricolagekitchen); Gary Stevens and Dave Ball, curator of Ha Ha Road, Mostyn.
Some
of the WITH HUMOROUS INTENDERS.. L to R Dave Ball, Frog Morris, Dean
Kelland, Lee Campbell, Alison O'Connor, Waldermar Pranckiewicz.
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NEW PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION ON-LINE
'ON YOUR MARKS' residency July 2011 with Lucy O'Donnell
Video recording of performance at Parfitt Gallery, Croydon
available here
http://www.parfittgallery.croydon.ac.uk/exhibitions/past/onyourmarks/
'ON YOUR MARKS' residency July 2011 with Lucy O'Donnell
Video recording of performance at Parfitt Gallery, Croydon
available here
http://www.parfittgallery.croydon.ac.uk/exhibitions/past/onyourmarks/
puttingitintopractice.blogspot.com
PUT IT INTO PRACTICE NO.1 DECEMBER 2011
'Painting The Performance' at The Centre for Creative Collaboration January 2011http://youtu.be/-6RP45yRobE
'Lost For Words' Part II as part of Political Performance symposium, Belgrade 2011http://youtu.be/g9CiV3mfx0Q
'Lost For Words' solo performance at Testing Grounds, South Hill Park, UK 2011
http://youtu.be/ky5bjONPoek
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