Browsing by Study Area "Performing and Screen Arts"
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Adventures in International Collaboration: Facilitating Globally-Created Student-Generated Mobile Movies Using a Blend of Online Tools
(International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), (Valencia, Spain), 2014)The burgeoning of international connectivity has, in the last few short years, opened up new arenas of artistic collaboration. The next generation of filmmakers will certainly engage with an ever-greater degree of remote ... -
ALI EAST : an agent for change - a legacy of dance education in Aotearoa
(2019-11-16)I’m going to set a scene and tell a story that begins over 30 years ago. I tell this on the back of a celebration of 30 years of contemporary dance training in Auckland just this week. The Unitec students Showcase honoured ... -
An analysis of Interiors for string quartet and the influence of Scelsi's sonorist aesthetic.
(The Author, 2014)This presentation discusses my recent compositional interests through analysis of Interiors (2012) for string quartet and the influence of Giacinto Scelsi’s sonorist aesthetic. The central focus of Interiors is to create ... -
Because the internet : re-framing film school for the 21st century
(Mobile Innovation Network & Association (MINA, Australia) & University of Nottingham (Ningbo, China), 2020-01-18)This research argues for a fundamental re-imagining of screen education. Once upon a time, motion pictures were destined solely for the cinema. But developments over the past few decades have ushered us into an era of ... -
Cities of wrecked desire : post-apocalyptic cinema and ruin pornography
(Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2017-01)Ruin pornography – the photographic aestheticization of architectural decay – has a long history in cinema and television and is linked to spectacles of apocalypse and its aftermath. More recently, these representational ... -
Collaboration and the Poutasi Project : it takes a village to create a documentary film
(2014-12)The South Pacific has a long history of colonisers and outsiders imposing their own projections and viewpoints upon the different island nations, rather than seeking a perspective that is authentically engaged with the ... -
Creating interspaces for live octophonic spatialisation of sound
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)This essay will detail the process and creation of elle – an octophonic drone interface for the CMPO 381 – Interface Design for Live Electronics paper at Victoria University of Wellington. elle – an octophonic drone ... -
‘Death to Videodrome’: Cronenberg, Žižek and an ontology of the real
(Department of Media, Film and Communication, University of Otago, 2016)The closing frames of David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983) show us the protagonist, Max Renn, seemingly in the act of suicide, his mutated flesh-hand-pistol pressed firmly against his head. Looking directly at us, Max ... -
Disseminating Chinese music in New Zealand : Jack Body and China, 1985-2015
(2015-11)Despite the early presence of Chinese music in the Antipodes in the 1860s, as evidenced by the musical activities of Cantonese miners in the goldfields of Otago, the active dissemination of China’s rich and diverse musical ... -
Embracing Western music via Japan : Chinese intellectuals, Japan, and the beginnings of modern music education in China
(Music in China, Inc with Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory in Beijing, 2018)The last decade of the Qing dynasty (1902-1912) saw the emergence of the first generation of Chinese champions of Western music.1 In Japan at the turn of the twentieth century a small number of Chinese students became ... -
Evocations of the other : treatments of the exotic and the feminine in nineteenth-century music - The redemption of Sheherazade
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)The concert hall, as much as the operatic stage, is a theatre – a place for viewing, and the observation of narratives. Music can be and often is read as the latter, whether overtly programmatic or not, and though abstracted ... -
Examining sex and climaxes in Blue is the Warmest Colour and Carol
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-21)This essay uses the films Blue is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013), and Carol (Haynes, 2015) to examine the challenges and questions which arise when a male filmmaker directs a film with a queer female relationship at ... -
Five Bodies
(2016)A note on the poems: In 2004, the Los Angeles Police Department released images from its archives of crime-scene photography. The titles of the poems in the Five Bodies sequence are taken from photographs from the LAPD ... -
"Floating Islanders: Pasifika theatre in Aotearoa"
(Peter Lang, 2020)As you read this, somewhere in Aotearoa New Zealand a Pasifika theatre maker will be crafting a performance that reflects the unique experiences borne of the artist who navigates new domain. In doing so, this act of creation ... -
Heart, Honesty and Discipline: Mask Training and the Foundation of Lab: Research Theatre Company
(2010)The culture of actor training is central in the work of LAB: Research Theatre Company. This paper explores the principles behind the development of the company’s own theatre language and the ethos that informs the utilization ... -
‘Here is my space; the nobleness of life is to do thus’: democratizing performance and emboding presence at the Pop-up Globe Theatre in Auckland
(2020-06)This paper considers elemental, performative, and spatial opportunities available to actors, directors, and audience in the construction of performance on the open-air stage. This stems from reflection and evidence gained ... -
How to start a creative (r)evolution. empowering women, growing artists, and reclaiming the real through live performance
(2019-11-18)Every two years, the multi-media show Tarnished Frocks & Divas employs ‘used’ objects, garments, and at the centre, women’s bodies to challenge assumed realities, and to bring to life the essence of different narrative ... -
Hymnals and hymnody in Late Qing and Early Republican China
(Music in China, Inc with Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory in Beijing, 2016)"That Christian hymn-singing played an important role in the daily life of many China missionaries and therefore was instrumental in the transmission of Western music in China is here plain to see. Speaking of "all the ... -
International collaborations in student-centered mobile moviemaking : combining online tools for an innovative global pedagogy
(Pixel, 2014-06)In the last few short years, interconnectivity has brought about new levels of artistic collaboration. Businesses, schools and artists alike are now engaging in multimedia remote collaboration as a matter of course. The ...
