Wed 6 Dec
3-5pm
Silverstone Building 302
University of Sussex
Free, all welcome
Disabled access

Can we develop research about absence? Discover the beauty of negative findings, lost opportunities, impossible selves, unlived experience.

We hear from Professor Susie Scott, Principal Investigator to the Narratives of Nothing Leverhume Research Project. Susie’s work includes an interest in nothingness, shyness, embarrassment, boredom, stage fright/performance anxiety, total institutions, asexuality, politeness, surprise, and particularly draws on narrative and life-story approaches. We also meet a magician (or don't) in The Disappearing of Vincent Gambini , a sleight-of-hand response to a cancelled tour in Covid lockdown. Augusto Corrieri, the creator of Gambini, uses research-by-practice methods to explore how magic, as a ‘popular’ form of entertainment, can be approached and dissected through performance art and meta-theatre. Augusto will also introduce his current work about people selling mirrors as a further work about disappearance.

Participants will then enjoy the opportunity to play with our own work in ‘turning nothing into something’ (that can be funded). Prof Margaretta Jolly will facilitate.

Seasonal drinks and nibbles provided at this end of term gathering! This is an in-person event only.

Registration required at: Eventbrite  

Questions please contact  m.jolly@sussex.ac.uk