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PARIP
Symposium
WORKSHOP GROUP 2 TRANSCRIPT Questioning practice
as research in ‘live’ media (drama, theatre,
dance) and ‘recording’ media (film, TV, video). What are
the differences / similarities between the production of practice as research
and practice-based research in respect of ‘live’
and ‘mediatized’ performance? Rapporteur: Christine
White, University of Loughborough We began by recognizing
that the situation of defining terms has been brought about by the politics
of funding, and there’s a problem with these media
being used to document. There’s also the problem of judgement
in terms of the aesthetic of a film object being very different to the
aesthetic of media being used to make a document. We also wanted to distinguish
between film, television and video as an art form and the use of all of
those to document live performance. The process of making film, television
and video is a self-documenting process where the outcome can be expressed
in the outtakes, which is different to the use of these media to document.
The aesthetic for documentation in live performance is very different.
A unit should perhaps be set up to look at this, how the live should be
recorded, but this also causes some worries. We also wanted to put forward
the idea that panels — RAE, AHRB,
PARIP — need to be occupied by people who understand the areas of
making this work and the aesthetics that go in to making of this work,
and the challenges of reading live performance when mediated through film,
television and video. We also wanted to say that there’s no such
thing as an unmediated document and that there’s
a difference between practice as research and practice-based research
and the differences are about artefact and potential pathways by which
the research is developed. There’s a sketch of work that might come
from film, television or video that will lead to a practice-based continuum,
which might then lead to practice as research. Comments Janet Thumim: We also spent time looking at the question that while the outcomes of theatre, film and television practice as research will be different, the processes leading up to these outcomes are similar. This is important.
Transcribed by Angela Piccini, 1 February 2002
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