Papers by Georgia Seffrin
In the awarding of the tender for APAM by the Australia Council to Brisbane Powerhouse for the de... more In the awarding of the tender for APAM by the Australia Council to Brisbane Powerhouse for the delivery of the market in 2014-2018, a requirement is that a formal evaluation of the three iterations of APAM be undertaken by the Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Faculty, under the leadership of Associate Professor Sandra Gattenhof. The agreed research model delivers reporting on outcomes not only in the year in which APAM is delivered (2014, 2016, 2018) but also in the years between (2015, 2017). APAM sits within a context of other Markets internationally. Other Markets include International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) and American Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), both annual showcases/conferences held in the United States of America; Performing Arts Market in Seoul (PAMS), held yearly in October; and International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA), which holds two Congresses every year – one in New York and one in a different region of the world. Un...
Arc Centre of Excellence For Creative Industries and Innovation Drama Creative Industries Faculty Institute For Creative Industries and Innovation, Oct 22, 2014
Are contemporary festivals an empty spectacle? George Steiner for one suggested in a 1996 address... more Are contemporary festivals an empty spectacle? George Steiner for one suggested in a 1996 address that closing down of the Edinburgh Festival would be 'rare but vivid mark of honesty within excellence'. The contemporary world no longer had a need for festivals as symbols of 'the credo of a community or the aspirations of a political regime,' he argued. 1 This critique of the festival as a 'meaning-free zone' seems to be linked with a kind of revulsion at the range of excesses often associated with the phenomenon of festival in the contemporary industrialized world, and the argument goes that these excesses tend to obscure and in fact diminish the 'original purpose' of festivals as we have understood it via various anthropological and sociological discourses.
Theatre Research International, 2005
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Papers by Georgia Seffrin