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Welcome to the fist issue of The Rescen Papers, an online journal that will appear approximately four times a year. It belongs within the larger Performance Arts International (ePAI) publication from the School of Art, Design and Performing Arts at Middlesex University, an online journal that has three constituent parts:
Elsewhere on the site, you can find details of submitting work or idea to these various publications. The Rescen Papers and The Magazine comes under the editorial umbrella of Rescen, whose research team makes up the editorial board. ePAI has a distinguished international advisory board, and an editorial board based in the school of Art, Design and Performing Arts at Middlesex.
In this first issue of TRP, we feature the work of two of Rescen’s Research Associates: performance artist Richard Layzell and choreographer Rosemary Lee. There are two republished articles about the artists, and each of them has provided some of the writing generated during the research process at Rescen. Writing has been an invaluable tool in our early research work as we seek ways of exploring creative processes and methods for self-interrogation of artistic process. This writing, therefore, is not necessarily polished work, it is not always analytical, or objective in nature; it is wide-ranging in style and substance. These are not always finished writings, but we present them here (and will likely continue to do so) to offer a window on our research process. Richard Layzell studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. He has a proactive approach to audience engagement, which has led him into the fields of video art, installations, performance art, large scale public events and television. He has been commissioned by many national public galleries in Britain including the Tate Gallery and Serpentine Gallery in London, the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and Kettles Yard in Cambridge. He has had residencies and performance tours in the USA, Canada, Italy, Poland and France. Since 1995 he has been working as an artist with AIT plc, a computer software developer, where he has input into communication strategies, company culture and the physical environment. He is the author of Live Art in Schools(1993) and Enhanced Performance (1998), an autobiographical monograph, edited by novelist Deborah Levy. He was, until recently, a Senior Lecturer at Wimbledon School of Art, leading the Media option within Fine Art. Rosemary Lee graduated from the Laban Centre London and has been choreographing, performing and directing for twenty years. Her work is characterised by a desire to work in a variety of contexts, constituencies and media: site-specific work with mixed-age casts numbering up to 250; solos for herself and other performers; films for broadcast and television and commissioned works for dance companies in theatre settings. Her work, whether it be for hundreds of performers or only one professional or non-professional, is concerned with the relationship with the audience and the role and prominence of performers themselves. She works in a collaborative way with film makers,composers and designers. Rosemary is a board member of the Foundation of Community Dance and guest teaches nationally.
If you have any direct comments or feedback on this first issue of The Rescen Papers, I’d be very happy to hear it. Please e-mail me!
Richard Povall © 2000 Rescen/Middlesex University |
