Invitation for Media and Performance panel: Déjà vu in Japan-land

[Katherine Mezur]

Please circulate 
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>///// Workshop: "Déjà vu in Japan-land: Robots, Butoh-fu, Fairytales, and 
>White-out"
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>This workshop explores shifts between the senses and new technologies and their 
>use of "memory acts" in works by Japanese artists. 
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>Memory and its erasures have been central to contemporary politics in Japan. We 
>emphasize the relationships among corporeal acts and new media and how these 
>relationships play with memory and memory acts' "play back."
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>Stanca Scholz-Cionca, Chair of Japanese Studies, Trier Universität
>(Discussant)
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>M. Cody Poulton, University of Victoria, Canada
>(From Puppet to Robot: Technology and the Human in Japanese Theatre)
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>Hayato Kosuge, Keio University, Japan
>(The Creation and Transformation of Butoh Body Movements)
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>Peter Eckersall, University of Melbourne, International Research Centre 
>"Interweaving Performance Cultures", Freie Universität, Berlin
>(Whiteout as a grey zone between – dumb type’s Memorandum)
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>Katherine Mezur, International Research Centre "Interweaving Performance 
>Cultures", Freie Universität, Berlin
>(Soft Shock: Yanagi Miwa's Still Lives)
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>/// Monday May 23, 2011, 14:00-17:30 
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>International Research Centre "Interweaving Performance Cultures", Freie 
>Universität, Grunewaldstraße 34, 12165 Berlin
>RSVP to: holger.hartung at fu-berlin.de
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>http://www.interweaving-performance-cultures.com/
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>--  Prof. Dr. Katherine Mezur
Research Fellow
International Research Center
"Interweaving Performance Cultures"
Freie University Berlin
Grunewaldstr. 34
12165 Berlin(-Steglitz), Germany
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From: faith <faithbach at yahoo.co.jp>
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 11:23:51 AM
Subject: Re: more Hara Setsuko


Sorry, Dick, for expressing an opinion that differs from your own.  Rest assured 
I'll be more careful in future.
FB

--- On Sun, 2011/4/24, Dick Stegewerns <dick.stegewerns at xs4all.nl> wrote:


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>Thanks, Faith, for your short comment. The 'worthy' was mainly intended in the 
>objective sense of 'complete and in good condition'. Guess we can nowadays enjoy 
>plenty of 1930s B-films by merely watching Skapa, so I assumed there was no need 
>to make a special effort to see this if you do not have a special interest in 
>the distinct bonus element of Hara Setsuko. Look forward to reading the results 
>of your study (already available?).
>DS
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>On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:58:17 +0900 (JST), faith wrote:
>> Thanks, Dick, for your exhaustive summary of the latest Shincho 45
>> film clip. Personally I found it fascinating to study the location
>> camerawork, character stereotypes and acting schtick of an authentic
>> "B" film from that far back and I am indebted to Mr Yasui for giving
>> me the chance to do so. Guess we all have our own whimsical ideas of
>> what is and is not "worthy."
>>  FB
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