Nerve Scales Live performance
Adapted and directed by Barry Edwards
Original text Le Pèse Nerfs by Antonin Artaud
An Optik production in partnership with piLab
The Boilerhouse London 2008
Shiver Film 35 mins
Produced and directed by Barry Edwards
Text by Andrea Brady Art Editor Nada Stevanovic
Premiere screening Shunt, London 2007
16.shiver performance
Edwards, B in association with Brady, A
Optik production in partnership with piLab
London July 2006
dust DVD 12 mins
Edwards, B direction and ccncept, Stevanovic, N filming and editing, Jarlett, B sound and video processing
Released July 2006
Mirror of Water, Still Sky DVD 14 mins
Edwards, B + Go, Hyeon-Jeong
Videodance Festival Thessalonika 2005
14th Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video Toronto 2005
Dance on Film Arts Council England London November 2005.
space: performance
London February 18 + 19 2004
Original performance. Directed / created by Barry Edwards. Collaborating artists Howie Bailey (live video), Ben Jarlett (electro-acoustic sound), performers, actors, dancers: Clare Allsop, Simon Humm, Jennifer Lewin, Jeremy Killick, Hannah Seaton, Nam Eun Song, Alison Williams-Bailey.
Presented by Optik in collaboration with London Borough of Camden and Total Theatre Network.
Xstasis performance
Montreal Canada May 2003
Original performance. Directed / created by Barry Edwards. Collaborating artists Howie Bailey (live video), Ben Jarlettt (electro-acoustic sound), Clare Allsop + Simon Humm (performers). Presented by Optik. Curated by Kate Bligh / temenos in collaboration with Place des Arts and Concordia University. A new site specific piece for twelve performers, four sound artists and live video.
stream performance
ICA London October 2002
Original performance. Directed / created by Barry Edwards. Collaborating artists Billy Currie (live music), Howie Bailey (live video), Ben Jarlett (granular synthesis), Clare Allsop, Jennifer Lewin, Simon Humm (performers). A new piece for three performers, live music, electronic sound and live video. Presented by Optik in partnership with the Advanced Interactivity in the Arts Project, Brunel University.
takingbreath performance
SKC Belgrade Serbia October 2001
Original performance. Directed / created by Barry Edwards. Collaborating artists Ben Jarlett (granular synthesis, electronic sound, digital projection), Terence Tiernan (video documentation), Clare Allsop, Jennifer Lewin, Simon Humm (performers). Presented by Optik, curated by Olga Glisin and Ivan Pravdic and the Multi-disciplinary arts team SKC Belgrade. A site-specific piece for three performers, live electronic sound and web cam projection.
In the Presence of People performance
Sao Paulo Brazil October 2000
Original performance. Directed / created by Barry Edwards. Collaborating artists Simon Edgoose (live percussion), Clare Allsop, Simon Humm, Hannah Seaton (performers). Curated Tracey Warr and commissioned by Renato Cohen, Sao Paulo University and Karman Theatre Brazil. Karman - Kompanhia Teatro Multimedia Placa da Se
My2
Helsinki Finland 1998
National Theatre Sofia Bulgaria 1998
Barry Edwards / Optik
Balkan Theatre Festival + amorph Performance Art Festival
human(s) live(s)
Biella Italy 1997
Barry Edwards / Optik
Differenti Sensazione Festival Partners: Pistoletto Foundation, Stalker Teatro
six.6.x
Brno Czech Republic 1997
Barry Edwards Research Production
Festival of Experimental Theatre Janacek Academy of Music and Theatre
X 2
London 1996
Barry Edwards / Optik
Union Chapel
Optik Performance
Barry Edwards / Optik
Next Wave Festival Roxy Theatre Prague Czech Republic July 1995
Tacheles Berlin 1995
Sadlers’ Wells London 1994 + 1995
Meeting
Barry Edwards / Theatermerz
Graz Austria 1994
Tropik
Barry Edwards / Optik
Alexandria, Damanhur Egypt 1994
Britisch Deutsches Theater Woche Köln Germany 1994
Arena Festival Erlangen-Nürmberg Germany 1994 (winner Arena Festival Prize)
Diskurs Festival Giessen Germany 1994
Warsaw, Poznan, Krakow, Gardziniece Poland 1993
Physics of Human Pleasure
Barry Edwards /Optik
Diskurs Festival Giessen Germany October 1992
Time Being Festival Prema / Cheltenham October 1992
Tank
Edwards / Smith London 1992
Crossing
Edwards / Smith London + Nurmberg 1991
No Strings
Edwards / Smith
London. Szeged Hungary 1991
Medea Project
London + Szeged Hungary 1990
| PRODUCING |
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GroundWork 1
Festival of new theatre work
PI Network Theatre Technis London September 2005
GroundWork 2
Festival of new theatre work
PI Network Hoxton Hall London February 2006
Reveal
International festival of theatre
Arts Depot London April 2006
GroundWork 3
Festival of new theatre work
PI Network Theatre Technis London July 2006
GroundWork 4
Festival of new theatre work
PI Network Camden Peoples Theatre London January 2007
evolve 1
Platform of graduate student theatre
BAC London June 2007
ScenePool 1
24 company Festival of theatre
Camden Peoples Theatre London January 2008
ScenePool 2
24 company Festival of theatre
Camden Peoples Theatre London March 2008
evolve 2
Platform of graduate student theatre
BAC London June 2008
Watching What People Are
ISBN 1 872166 49 0 Optik Ltd 1997
‘Body Waves Sound Waves: Optik Live Sound and Performance with Jarlett, B in Performance and Technology Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity Ed Broadhurst S and Machon J Palgrave Macmillan 2006
‘Performing Presence’ in Consciousness Reframed Ascott R (Ed) Intellect Books 1999 pp 191 - 196
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| CITATIONS, COMMENTARIES, REVIEWS |
Broadhurst S ‘Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approachs to Performance and Technology’ Palgrave Macmillan 2007 pp 99 - 110
Freeman J ‘New Performance / New Writing’ Palgrave Macmillan 2007 p. 2, 125
‘The World as Virtual Environment’
Chapter 7 Virtual Bodies - Serious Play
Ghislaine Boddington
TMA Hellerau 2007
‘Optik Processing and Performance’
Jarlett B
Collision 2006 Inter-Arts Symposium on Research + Practice University of Victoria Canada September 2006
Published in Body, Space + Technology Journal Vol 07 2007
Milling J + Heddon D ‘Devising Performance: A Critical History’ Palgrave Macmillan 2005 p. 88
Smart J ‘Meditations on space: talking to Optik’
Body, Space + Technology Journal Vol 4 No 1 July 2004
Warr, T ‘A Moving Meditation on a Dead Line’
Performance Research Journal Moving Bodies Issue Volume 8 No 1 pp 130 - 136
Routledge December 2003
Pavis P ‘Analyzing Performance: Theater, Dance and Film’ UMP 2003 pp 315 - 316
Helin M ‘Optik’s lines’
Taide Art Magazine Finland Winter 1998
Dodds S ‘Optik Twice Over’
Dance Theatre Journal London Volume 13 No.1 Summer 1996 pp 42 - 43
Allain P Towards a Fundamentalism in Performance; Optik in Egypt
ABWAB No 4 1995 Publisher Dar Al Sadi pp 145 -151
Keefe J ‘Spatial Tracks in Optik’
Total Theatre Journal Summer 1995
Freeman J ‘New Authenticity and Optik’
Total Theatre Journal Autumn 1994
| CONFERENCE PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, LECTURES |
Edwards, B + Irvine, K
Research and the Performing Arts Industry
‘Creativity and Enterprise’ Conference
LIPA and the University of the Arts. March 2008
Edwards, B + Irvine, K
‘Risk, Innovation and the Theatre Industry’
Paper. Palatine Conference: Creative Enterprise
University of Lancaster UK November 2005
Visiting Director Professional Workshop Programme
Drama Department University of Hull
May 2004
Guest lecture
Department of Theatre
Kingston University
March 2004
Concordia University Performance Summer School
Montreal Canada
May 2003
‘Sound capture and real-time composing in inter-disciplinary live performance’
Conference paper. with Jarlett, B
MAXIS III International Festival / Symposium of Sound and Experimental Music, University of Leeds, UK
April 2003
‘Performer and Creative Practice’
New Bulgarian University Sofia
April 2002
Guest Lecture
School of Performing Arts
Middlesex University
March 2002
‘Space-Performer-Spectator: Radionica Optik teatra’
Studentski kulturi centar Belgrade Yugoslavia 2001
Guest Lecture
School of Visual + Performing Arts
University of Kent
January 2002
‘Body and Presence’
Toynbee Studios London June 2001
‘Telepresence and physical presence’
Psi 7 Performance Studies International
Mainz Germany 2001
‘Teatro Fisico: Praxis as tecnicas corporais do grupo’
Communiçao e Artes do Corpo de PUC/SP
Sao Paulo Brazil 2000
‘Performer-Space-Spectator’
International Festival of Theatre
Varna Bulgaria
June 2000
‘Dynamogenesis and the origin of the immediate body’
Psi 6 Performance Studies International
Phoenix Arizona USA 2000
‘New structures for performance practice and analysis’
SCUDD (Standing Committee of University Drama Departments) Annual Conference
Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama
London 1999
‘Human Experience and the Physical Performance Process’
PSi 5 Performance Studies International
Aberystwyth Wales
April 1998
‘Optik Performance Phenomenology’
Arts on the Edge
University of Western Australia 1998
‘Brighton to Berlin’
Coming Down Fast: the 60’s
Wolverhampton University 1998
‘Experiencing the Future: Performance as Emergent Practice’
Summer Academy of Performing Arts Sofia Bulgaria 1997
‘Going Went Gone’
Arena Theatre Festival Erlangen Germany 1996
‘Towards a Performance Anthropology’ with Allain P
Intersects Conference
Dartington College of Arts 1995
‘Working with Complexity’ 4D Dynamics Conference
Design Research Society / De Montfort University
Leicester UK 1995
‘Rites of Discovery: Approaches to Performance Structure’
First Symposium on Theatre Anthropology Centre for Experimental Theatre
Brno Czech Republic 1995
‘Live Art Performance Training Initiative’
Arts Council of England
Paul Allain, Barry Edwards
London 1995/6
‘Watching What People Are’
International Symposium
European Mime and Physical Theatre Federation
Manchester UK 1994
Reviews of Avignon Festival
Total Theatre Journal November 2005, 2006, 2007
Midi à Minuit
BST Journal Vol 6 No 1 2005
‘Cri de Coeur: the Avignon Theatre Festival’
Fuse Magazine Vol 28 Issue 4 Toronto 2005
‘A tele-presence experiment: Optik in Sao Paulo and London’
Body, Space and Technology e-Journal Vol 1 No 2 2001
‘Presence and tele-presence: one map of non-linear performance process’
South African Theatre Journal SATJ 12 May / September 1998 pp 165 - 171
‘Process of Significance: Scale, System and Singularity’
with Brook, J Performance Practice Journal vol III 1997 pp 9 - 16
‘Observing the Unpredictable: extracts from the notebooks of Barry Edwards’
Dance Theatre Journal London Volume 13 No.1 Summer 1996 pp 40 - 41
‘Optik at Tacheles’
Total Theatre Vol 7 No 4 Winter 1995 p. 10
‘From Alexandria to Warsaw’
Arena Festival Catalogue 1994 pp 7-8
‘Optik: ein Theater der Bewegung’
British-Deutsches Theater Festival Catalogue Kolner Universitat 1994 p 3
‘Visit to Egypt’
Total Theatre Vol 6 No 2 Summer 1994 pp 14-15
‘Meeting 1: die Suche nach der Performance wird zur Performance’
Merzblatt No 4 Theatermerz Austria 1994
Optik Performance 1993 – 2004
5 DVD Edited Collection of performance directed and created by Barry Edwards
Filmed and edited by Howie Bailey, Nada Stevanovic + Terry Tiernan
2005
Optik in space: Yari Films 2004
Optik in Montreal Howie Bailey 2003
Optik History Terence Tiernan 2003
Optik Belgrade Terence Tiernan 2001
Optik Brazil Terence Tiernan 2000
Optik Helsinki Terence Tiernan 1998
Optik Performance Terence Tiernan 1997
Optik Egypt Terence Tiernan 1994
Optik and the Spectator Terence Tiernan 1994
Optik Poland Terence Tiernan 1993
| CURRENT POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS: PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR |
Adel Abas PhD
Drama for social and aesthetic change in Iraq
Swedish Government Scholarship
Rubini Moschochoriti PhD
Integration of contemporary physical theatre techniques and classical Greek theatre practices
Greek Ministry of Culture Scholarship
Karolina Bieszczad-Roley PhD
Photography and butoh dance practice
Hyeon Jeong Go PhD
Techniques of transcendence: an autoethnographic approach
Kerry Irvine PhD
Commodifying Performance: An investigation into current strategies in relation to UK Industry Enterprise with specific reference to their impact on innovation and regeneration in contemporary theatre practices
| POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS: AWARDED |
Mostafa Yarmahmoudi PhD (2007)
Sponsor: Iranian Radio + TV Broadcasting Corporation Scholarship
E-motion: multi-media and spirituality
Alison Williams Bailey MPhil (2007)
Folk ritual drama and the Sami
Susan Moin Namini PhD (2006)
Sponsor: Iranian Department of Education Scholarship
Digital Arts education in the University sector: a comparative study of Iranian and UK systems post 1960’s
Rob La Frenais PhD (2006)
Fluidity and Ubiquity in curatorial practice
Peter Cheevers PhD (2005)
Subjectivity and Performance
Richard Merritt MPhil (2003)
Application of quantum theory to performance practice
John Freeman PhD (2001)
Documenting the creative production process: a case study
Sang Kyung Kim PhD (2000)
Development of physical dance performance from the integration of Western and traditional Korean dance theatre techniques
Joanna Cripps MPhil (2000)
Modes of existence: psychotic acts and the performed performer
British Council PM2 Connect £2000.00
Visit to South Korea March 2008
HEIF Funding
Enterprise and Knowledge Transfer Initiative
PI Network 2004 – 9
£315,000
SIF Brunel University [Strategic Initiative Fund]
Advanced Interactivity in the Performing Arts (BST Research Group bid)
2001-2003 £50,000
Member of Editorial Forum Total Theatre Journal London
Visiting Professional London University of the Arts Central St Martins’ Drama Centre
External Assessor AHRC Research Grants Scheme
External Examining PhD, MA + BA:
Dartington College of Arts, Winchester University, Hull University, Goldsmiths College University of London, Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford College, De Montfort University, Portsmouth University, Manchester University, Surrey University
External Consultant Reflective Practice Project (Palatine / DMU) 2000-2
External Consultant BA Circus (Circus Space) 1999-2000
External Consultant BA World Theatre (CSSD / South Bank University) 1998-9
