The Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium brings collectively working towards Pageant artists with students to contemplate the intersection of puppetry with different disciplines and concepts. Earlier than 1912, the yr the Little Theater of Chicago was based within the historic Nice Arts Constructing, the time period “puppeteer” didn’t even exist. Little Theater director Ellen Van Volkenburg wanted a program credit score for the actors she had skilled to control marionettes whereas talking the textual content of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Evening’s Dream, and she or he coined the phrase “puppeteer.” That marked the daybreak of the motion that has introduced us to the wealthy artwork kind now practiced world wide.

This yr’s Symposium will function Pageant Artists on 4 completely different artist panels discussing the materiality of the puppet in each principle and apply. It additionally options e book talks by puppet students of 4 new US publications launched this yr. Mexican-American author, artist and thinker, Manuel DeLanda requires a brand new materialism noting that by splitting the supposedly indivisible atom, trendy physics has demolished the tangible solidity on which Aristotle outlined the “actual.” Taking “materials pictures of people, animals, or spirits which are created, displayed, or manipulated in narrative or dramatic efficiency,” as performing objects in anthropologist and folklorist Frank Proschan’s phrases, the theme of the Symposium collection will transfer from materialism to materials efficiency, to materials characters, to the precise materials of the puppet asking, what’s it made from and the way is it made whereas taking a look at what the design and the supplies allow object efficiency to precise about materials existence.
 

Artist Panels and E book Talks

Friday, January 19 at 5 p.m. CST

Creator Colette Searls: A Galaxy of Issues: The Energy of Puppets and Masks in Star Wars and Past
A Galaxy of Issues explores the methods through which all puppets, masks, makeup-prosthetic figures are “materials characters,” utilizing iconic Star Wars characters like Yoda and R2-D2 for instance what makes them so compelling.

Saturday, January 20

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST

Panel 1 – Mechanisms explores the query: How do mechanisms, each digital and mechanical, ingenious and easy work to animate the fabric characters and efficiency?

Panelists:
Matthew Gawryk & Dan Kerr-Hobert, Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: A Toy Theater Atlas
Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins, The Hip Hopera of SP1N0K10
Michael Vogel, Spleen

Sunday, January 21

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST

Panel 2 – Supplies explores the query: What tells the story? How does the efficiency begin with the number of supplies chosen for the puppet and set fabrication?

Panelists:
Iwan Effendi & Maria Tri Sulistyani (Ria), A Bucket of Beetles
Jacqueline Serafín & Iker Vicente, The Beast Dance
Hamid Rahmanian, Tune of the North

Tuesday, January 23 at 5 p.m. CST

Creator Dr. Paulette Richards: Object Efficiency within the Black Atlantic
Provided that slaveholders prohibited the creation of African-style performing objects, is there a traceable connection between conventional African puppets, masks, and performing objects, and modern African American puppetry? This examine approaches the query by wanting on the entire efficiency complicated surrounding African performing objects and examines the fabric tradition of object efficiency.

Friday, January 26 at 4:30 p.m. CST

Creator Dr. Claudia Orenstein: Studying the Puppet Stage: Reflections on the Dramaturgy of Performing Objects
Drawing on the writer’s twenty years of seeing, writing on, and educating about puppetry from a crucial perspective, this e book affords a set of insights into how we watch, perceive, and admire puppetry.

Saturday, January 27

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST

Panel 3 – Manipulation explores the query: How does the fabric used to assemble the puppet have an effect on the manipulation approach used to animate it? How do the wants of the efficiency affect the selection of supplies and manipulation methods?

Panelists:
Michael Montenegro, Little Carl
Basil Twist, E book of Mountains and Seas
Yael Rasooly
Tita Jacobelli and Natacha Belova, Chayka

Saturday, January 27 at 4:30 p.m. CST

Authors Dr. Claudia Orenstein & Tim Cusack: Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Faith, and Performing Objects
The connection between human consciousness and the fabric world raises ontological questions in regards to the nature of actuality itself. In The Puppet and Spirit asks “What’s the ontological nature of a supposed spirit perceived as performing via objects?”

Sunday, January 28

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST

Panel 4 – Building Strategies explores the query: How do varied constructing methods – easy and direct, or complicated – impression character, presentation, and storytelling?

Panelists:
Dagmara Sowa and Paweł Chomczyk, Krabat
Fedelis Kyalo, Tears by the River
Federico Restrepo, Lunch with Sonia

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