Workshop - Performing Laboratories

The Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network and Civic Matter Faculty Research Group are holding an afternoon workshop entitled Performing Laboratories next Monday, 19th January. The event brings together speakers from Performance Studies, Visual Arts, Medicine, History, and Anthropology and includes keynote papers from Mike Pearson and Roger Kneebone, together with a panel on laboratories in Africa.

Contributors share an interest in science and performance. From the performance of landscape in contemporary archaeological excavation and  site-specific theatre, to taking seriously the operating theatre as a performative space by re-enacting 1970s surgical practices; from the well-marketed reality-TV thrills of contemporary emerging virus science, to the quiet stage of an abandoned research station in the rainforest, and its reanimation by aged protagonists, the participants will engage in a conversation about the contact zones of science and theatre, and the possibilities and pitfalls of performance, staging and re-enactment in the history and anthropology of science.

Further details, including the schedule of events, are available here.