Archival CV - Richard James Allen
CONFERENCE PAPERS, AWARDS JUDGING,
FESTIVAL DIRECTION, EDITORIAL, AND OTHER
2009 The Incarnations and Media Platforms of ‘Thursday’s Fictions’
A presentation on Thursday’s Fictions, a fantastical parable about reincarnation which has transmigrated across a series of artforms and media platforms to become a cross media work for the stage, the page, the screen and most recently the new media creative platforms of Second Life (a 3D online immersive interactive story world), machinima (cinema made inside a games engine) and mixed reality performance and film (layering, interlacing and interacting images from real life and Second Life). Each incarnation of the work extends and develops the central themes into the medium at hand. A presentation for SNIP at AFTRS.
2009 Entanglement Theory – World Time: Entwining Dance and Virtual Technologies
A presentation on the underlying questions of Physical TV’s Real Life and Second Life dance research: what can be artistically achieved through engagement of dance with virtual world technologies? What are the themes and ideas asked for by this mix, if any? Is there an affordance for consideration of spiritual themes that this technology is uniquely able to provide? Research by Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman presented by Karen Pearlman at the time.transcendence.performance Conference at Monash Univeristy in Melbourne.
2009 Entanglement Theory – Dancing in the Architecture of the Mind
A presentation on the underlying questions of Physical TV’s Real Life and Second Life dance research: what can be artistically achieved through engagement of dance with virtual world technologies? What are the themes and ideas asked for by this mix, if any? Is there an affordance for consideration of spiritual themes that this technology is uniquely able to provide? Presented at SEAM 2009 Spatial Phases at Critical Path, Sydney, in collaboration with the University of Technology, Sydney, and the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
2008 Thursday’s Fictions – You are going to die
Ideas for future development of Thursday’s Fictions in Second Life
Presented at Gam Jam 08, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Sydney.
2008 Thursday’s Fictions – Production and Distribution
An industry presentation at New Media Incubator, presented by Screenworks in Byron Bay. Also an industry mentor for Speed Pitching session and panel member on Pixel Players, presenting ideas about Second Life.
2008 Thursday’s Fictions – A Creative Project in Second Life
an educational presentation for the staff and students
at the University of Technology, Sydney.
2008 Imaginary Friends, Pitch for an interactive literature publishing venture for mobile
phones as part of the Mega Project, at Telstra Innovation Centre, Sydney
2008 Thursday’s Fictions in Second Life, featured in a “Drawing stories, playing with
poems”, an exhibition at the Australia Council for the Arts, 1 Feb to 1 May 2008
2008 Sad Song, directing a play by US playwright Anna Ziegler for the Sydney season
of Short and Sweet
2007 Thursday’s Fictions – A Reincarnating Idea in Movement and Media,
an educational presentation for the staff of the Australia Council in Sydney.
2007 The Physical TV Company and Thursday’s Fictions, a presentation of the work of
Physical TV with a particular focus on it’s latest multi-platform production, Thursday’s Fictions, at Opensource: Videodance Symposium in Findhorn, Scotland
2007 Interviewed by The Book Show, ABC Radio National, about Thursday’s Fictions
and The Kamikaze Mind – adaptations of literature for new media platforms
2007 Thursday’s Fictions in Second Life, an introduction to this multi-platform work for
the Australia Council’s The Story of the Future Seminar at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image as part of the Melbourne International Writers Festival
2007 The Kamikaze Mind, a presentation on this cross-platform work for the Australia
Council’s The Story of the Future Seminar at the Mercury Cinema, Adelaide
2006 Physical TV: Dance Film Workshop, a three day workshop on the theory, art and
practice of creating dance for the screen at Mileni High School in Queensland
2006 The Physical TV Company: Dance on Screen, a retrospective screening and lecture
at Bates Dance Festivial, Bates College, Maine
2006 Stories Told by the Body, a curated screening and paper highlighting ways that
drama and narrative intersect in selected Australian/New Zealand films that are physically told. Presented at Screendance: The State of the Art Conference, American Dance Festival, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2005 The Physical TV Company: Two Day Retrospective Screening and Lecture,
Performing Arts in the Screen Exhibition, Arts Wonderland
– Festival in the Square, Taipei Arts International Association
2003 Action And Actions: Directing In Dancefilm, a paper presented at the
Dance, Corporeality, The Body And Performance Practices Symposium, UNSW.
Pitch at the Forum for Audiovisual Co-Productions,
IMZ Dance Screen/Monico Dance Forum, in Monte Carlo.
2001 Co-Judge of the Poetry Video Award, Australian Poetry Festival.
2000 Member of Judging Panel, Poetry Olympics, NSW Writers Centre.
2000 Pitch at the International Market Simulation,
IMZ Dance Screen/Monaco Dance Forum, in Monte Carlo.
1999 MC and member of Judging Panel, Inaugural NSW Writers Centre/
Gleebooks Poetry Sprint at Spring Writing Festival.
1999 MC and performer at Spring Writing Festival, NSW Writers Centre,
Tongue Studs session.
1999 Festival Director of the 1999 Australian Poetry Festival for the Poets Union Inc
- The first major national festival of Australian Poetry: an overview of contemporary Australian poetic practice, included readings, performances, screenings, book launches, competitions, coaching booths, held at the Balmain Town Hall, with the assistance of the Australia Council for the Arts and the NSW Ministry for the Arts.
1999 the word is…the future
- A forum/panel discussion designed and chaired by RJA, with Martin Harrison, Komninos Zervos and Amanda Stewart, discussing future directions of the artform of poetry, for the Australian Poetry Festival.
1999 The ABC’s National Poetry Day at The Basement, Circular Quay, Sydney
MC with A.J. Rochester and Tug Dumbly.
1999 Interviewed on O’Loughlin on Saturday Night, ABC TV,
Saturday September 4, 1999, about the Australian Poetry Festival
and the ABC’s National Poetry Day. Also numerous radio interviews.
1999 Performing the Unnameable
- A forum/panel discussion designed by RJA, which he chaired, to discuss issued arising from Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts (edited by Allen and K. Pearlman, published by Currency Press in association with RealTime) at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
1999 Voted President of the Poets Union, Inc. Later appointed first Artistic Director.
1999 The Relic and Rethinking a Lifetime - a performance and paper (co-written with
Karen Pearlman) concerning the cycle of creativity from the body to the word and back to the body, presented at the Rethinking Creative Processes Conference organised by the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney and presented at the University of Sydney.
1999 Performance Creates Platforms For New Kinds Of Writing
- A forum/panel discussion designed by RJA, which he participated, to proceed the launch of Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts (edited by Allen and Karen Pearlman, published by
Currency Press in association with RealTime) at the 3rd National Performance Conference in Sydney.
1995-9 Co-Editor (with Karen Pearlman) of Performing the Unnamable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts, published in 1999 by Currency Press, the national performing arts publisher in association with RealTime, Australia’s innovative arts bi-monthly. The first anthology of performance scripts and texts from new form Australian theatre, performance, dance and hybrid work, from the early ‘80s to the late ‘90s.
The 21st Century Poet - a paper concerning the relationship of poetry and other media, delivered with video examples, at a forum during the Poets Union Inc.’s first draft concept of an Australian Poetry Festival at Gleebooks in Sydney.
MC and performer, Spring Writing Festival, NSW Writers Centre,
Young Tongues session.
1998 Voted Secretary of the Poets Union, Inc.
Chair of Judging Panel, Sydney Poetry Olympics, Cup Winners Playoffs, and many other Sydney performance poetry events.
CONFERENCE PAPERS, AWARDS JUDGING, FESTIVAL DIRECTION, EDITORIAL, AND OTHER (cont’d)
Chair of Judging Panel, Writers’ Sprint, A Sydney Readers’ Feast at the State Library of New South Wales.
1997 Guest MC and performer at The Walls Have Ears, poetry performing venue.
1996 Chair of Judging Panel, Sydney International Performance Poetry Festival,
Sydney International Poetry Cup, and many other performance poetry events.
1996 Member of Judging Panel, Spring Writing Festival, NSW Writers Centre,
Poetry Sprint.
1995-6 Co-Conceiver, and Co-Directors and Curators (with Karen Pearlman and Tim
Thorne) of the first and second Tasmanian Poetry and Dance Festivals.
Dance on Screen - A paper, with video examples, delivered with Karen Pearlman,
at Microdance Stage 1 Forum in Tasmania.
The Future Of Tasdance - A paper, with video examples, delivered with Karen Pearlman, on new ways forward for contemporary dance presented at the University Forum Series, University of Tasmania, Launceston.
Blue Cities - A work for performance, created and performed with Karen Pearlman, adapted for presentation at the American Association of Australian Literary Studies Conference at Vassar College at the invitation of Professor of Australian Literature,
Paul Kane.
Literature And Theatre: Professional Practice In A Community Art Context -
A paper, delivered with Karen Pearlman, for The Sydney Writers' Festival
symposium on "Mapping Microcosms: Community as Family".
Movement And Drama: An Outline For Playwrights On Writing Movement Into New Plays - A paper, delivered with Karen Pearlman, for The Australian National Playwrights Centre workshop: "You Want to be a Playwright?".
1987-94 Excerpts From The World - A lecture, created and performed with Karen
Pearlman, analysing and demonstrating the distinctions between performance
poetry, poetry in performance, plays, verse plays and dance plays. This paper has
been adapted and presented at numerous universities
In Australia including:
Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics, Sydney University,
University of Adelaide
University of Wollongong, Department of Creative Arts
University of Western Sydney, Penrith
University of Western Sydney, Nepean
University of Western Sydney, Kingswood
And in America at:
Middlebury College
Pennsylvania State University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Ohio State University, Princeton University
Waking Up In The American Dream: A Report On The Association Of Performing
Arts Presenters Annual Conference In New York City, 1993, And A Guide To U.S.
Markets For Australian Performing Arts Groups
- Co-Author and researcher with Karen Pearlman of a special report for the Australian Centre of the International Theatre Institute, undertaken with a grant from the Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts
Co-Curator with Karen Pearlman of Ausdance Video Dance Showcase:
Dance and the Child International Conference (DACi).
Dance And Cultural Context - Comparative paper, delivered with Karen
Pearlman, on the cultural context of contemporary dance in the U.S. and Australia
for The National Capitol Ballet School HSC course.
Models For Dance Service Organisations: Five New York Organisations And How They Work - A paper, delivered with Karen Pearlman, for Dance Base, a professional service organisation for choreographers and dancers in Sydney, on the structure and function of dance service organisations in New York City.
Self-Producing: How And Why – A paper, delivered with Karen Pearlman,
for The Australian National Playwrights Centre workshop on playwriting about the mechanics and rationale for co-operative productions of works for the stage.
1982-83 Co-Editor with John Hawke, Neil Whitfield and others of
Neos: Young Writers Magazine, published with assistance of
Gleebooks and the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. |
