Artist Talks: Research Presentation Series

Bardsley’s Reading Rooms:

staging spaces for acts of re(w)riting, reverie & wild thinking

28^th April 2020

Goldsmiths, University of London

Department of Theatre & Performance

hosted by Professor Anna Furse

29^th April 2020

University of Roehampton

Department of Drama, Theatre & Performance

hosted by Dr Eleanor Roberts

18^th May 2020

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Department of Contemporary Performance Practice

hosted by Dr Laura Bissell

23^rd June 2020

De Montfort University

School of Visual & Performing Arts

hosted by Dr Harriet Curtis

Performance Hangout Event – Performative Paper

Invited contributor to A Performance Hangout (off offline) - a four-hour event with research interventions.

for IASH, The University of Edinburgh at Edinburgh College of Art. 24th June 2019

The invitation from Dr Owen G Parry, Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Edinburgh, was to present an intervention/reflection/fiction paper on bees and how 'the hangout' features/functions in Bardsley’s practice.

Bardsley's performative research intervention was delivered within the hangout in the persona of the female bee-ing from Reading Room_03 An Apian Paradox. Her notion of the 'hive party' and the creation of spaces for reverie, riffing and wild thinking, is contextualised in relation to the performance hangout. During her research presentation Bardsley distributed 27 Provocation Prompts into the hangout arena for rumination.

Invited panelist on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking series

Programme: Is British Culture Getting Weirder?

Bardsley's contribution called on her Reading Room research project RR_03: An Apian Paradox with specific reference to the nature/culture & human/animal spectrums explored in that project and its relation to notions of wildness and 'the weird'.

• Live audience recording at Cafe Oto, London 28th February 2019
• Broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 12th March 2019
• Podcast available online at: BBC Programmes

RR|RR: READING ROOMS RESEARCH RESOURCE

On-line resource for the Reading Rooms project; an ongoing research, documentation, dissemination and dialogue platform.

            Access available on QM website