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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #170: Nicola Dale
DESCRIPTION:Adventures in Objecthood  \n\n\n\nNicola Dale will discuss her position as a visual artist working between sculpture and performance\, movement and stillness\, the contemporary and archival. With reference to her performance ‘In Mourning’ for The Whitaker Museum and other recent commissions\, she will explore how her interests play out across solo\, collaborative and participatory work. Whether through reimagining the everyday\, reframing bygone rituals or inventing new objects to let loose on the public\, she will make a case for the importance of touch\, gesture and interaction. \n\n\n\nNicola Dale works in the crevice between performance and sculpture. She has performed at major national galleries including Saatchi\, The Hepworth Wakefield and Turner Contemporary\, and exhibited at publicly funded\, commercial and alternative spaces in the UK and beyond. Nicola has extensive experience of collaboration and her work is included in both private and institutional collections.  \n\n\n\nShe is based at Rogue Studios\, Manchester and is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Leeds Arts University. www.nicoladale.com
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-171-tbc-gothic-studies/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Pinchbeck":MAILTO:m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #171: REstoke
DESCRIPTION:Co-Creation: Making Performance with Communities and Young People \n\n\n\nRestoke put the people of Stoke-on-Trent at the heart of creative adventures. They make performances\, plan events and run workshops alongside people who may not usually meet\, forming new bonds of friendship\, understanding and solidarity in the city.Clare Reynolds is the co-founder and co-director of Restoke and has over 17 years’ experience creating performance with professional and non-profesional performers\, including with children and young people. Working across artforms she is interested in how co-creation can produce work that is both artistically ambitious and socially meaningful\, strengthening relationships and solidarity in a city. In this talk\, Clare will share insights from almost two decades of practice and explore the opportunities and challenges of making work with communities
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-172-restoke/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Pinchbeck":MAILTO:m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #172: Daphna Baram
DESCRIPTION:Daphna Baram is a London-based stand-up comedian\, researcher and journalist whose work explores stand-up comedy across borders. Her PhD at Lancaster University (2025) focused on how immigrant comedians in the UK negotiate their identities to live audiences in the UK. \n\n\n\nShe has performed twelve solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and regularly appears at festivals and venues across the UK and in Europe. Her comedy engages with politics\, body politics\, immigration and otherness. She is the author of Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel and has written extensively about the Middle East conflict. Her current book project\, Something to Declare\, examines stand-up comedy as a space where cultural authority is contested and redefined in real time. Working between stage and academia\, she uses both performance and analysis to explore how humour shapes – and unsettles – ideas of who gets to belong.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-173-daphna-baram-maps/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Pinchbeck":MAILTO:m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #173: TBC
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URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-nicola-dale-adventures-in-objecthood/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, 12 Higher Chatham Street\, manchester\, M15 6ED
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk 173: Sukanya Chakrabarti 
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Kolkata\, Prof. Sukanya Chakrabarti is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at the School of Film\, Theatre\, and Dance at San Jose State University. Both as a scholar and an artist\, she is interested in spaces and their contribution to meaning-making\, placemaking and storytelling. She is the Editor of the journal Theatre Topics\, and her current and ongoing research project is on performances of the South Asian diaspora in the US across generations of immigration. As an artist\, she has worked as a playwright\, director\, dramaturg\, and performer in New York\, the Bay Area\, and Kolkata. She served as the Cultural Dramaturg for Public Obscenities\, written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury\, which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2024. Recently\, she translated Rabindranath Tagore’s Kingdom of Cards\, which she directed and co-adapted with Matthew Spangler for a contemporary audience.  \n\n\n\nThis talk is presented in association with the School of English as part of GoGlobal Week at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nBunker Talks  \n\n\n\nThis event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art and the School of English\, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical\, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters\, presentations\, provocation and dialogue as part of a civic conversation.  \n\n\n\nOriginally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists\, writers\, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work\, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020\, over 170 talks have been hosted by Performance Researchers and colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All talks are recorded\, edited\, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue\, capturing how artists\, makers and curators think about the world today. Find previous talks here: https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/ 
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-173-sukanya-chakrabarti/
LOCATION:The Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor East\, Manchester\, Greater Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #174: Simon Moreton
DESCRIPTION:In 2021\, Simon’s book WHERE? was published by Little Toller. A hybrid work of prose\, drawing\, painting\, photographs and collage\, it connects themes of belonging and grief associated with his father’s death in 2017 to the folklore\, customs and social histories associated with his childhood home on Titterstone Clee Hill in Shropshire.   \n\n\n\nSimon is now revisiting Titterstone Clee as a new father\, exploring how walking\, drawing and other creative practices can be used to triangulate historical representations of place with voices in the archive and our own personal stories about the landscapes in which we exist\, especially within the paradox of personal happiness in a time of multiple global crises. \n\n\n\nSimon is an artist and writer. He is the producer of numerous zines of prose\, poetry and pictures\, including his regular series of writing and pictures documenting his life\, Minor Leagues. He is the author of Now is the Time to Know Everything (2023) a book about the bewildering excitement of pregnancy and the heartbreak of miscarriage\, written in the form of a love letter to a person who never quite came to be. His experimental memoir WHERE? (Little Toller\, 2021) documents the unexpected links between landscape\, grief\, and childhood that appeared in the aftermath of his father’s death in 2017. Gardening Beneath a Falling Piano\, a pamphlet of poetry\, was published by Bored Wolves in 2024.  He is Associate Professor of Creative Economies at UWE Bristol. \n\n\n\nThis talk is presented in association with the Manchester Centre for Place Writing.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-174-simon-moreton-place-writing/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #175: Viv Gardner
DESCRIPTION:Viven Gardner is Emeritus Professor\, Drama and Film at the University of Manchester. Their current research centres on gender\, sexuality and representation in and through performance in the period 1890-1920\, developing original work on the New Woman and the Actresses’ Franchise League. Projects include: an edited edition of the autobiography of musical comedy and music hall performer and suffragette\, Kitty Marion (with Diana Atkinson); work on the theatrical and performative lives of the 5th Marquis of Anglesey and a study of the the intersection of radical and popular discourses on gender and sexuality in performance at the fin de siecle (provisionally called ‘Staging the New Sex’). This last project covers material on the New Woman and Musical Comedy Girl\, ‘posing’ as performance\, hypo- and hyper- masculinity and the court room as a gendered and contested site for performers. Viven is also working with contemporary dancers/performance artists\, Marc Rees (‘Gloria Days’ on the 5th Marquis of Anglesey) and Liz Aggiss (‘Marjorie Irvine’) on the development of dance works that renegotiate archival performance material for the contemporary stage.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-175/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Pinchbeck":MAILTO:m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
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