Text, Action and Space

Performative language and topographical patterns

as converging areas in modern drama, prose fiction and film

2nd TAS Workshop,

Bergen, 25-26 June 2007

Update 20.06.07

Venue:

Bergen Maritime Museum,

(Bergens Sjøfartsmuseum), University of Bergen

(Seminar room and Auditorium)

Haakon Sheteligs plass 15

N-5007 Bergen

(Right next to the Faculty of Arts and to the University Library)

http://www.bsj.uib.no/

 

University of Bergen:

http://www.uib.no/info/english/  - http://www.uib.no/

 

Map of Bergen:

http://www.uib.no/it/pers/edpev/bykart.jpg


Accommodation:

Hotel Park Pension

Harald Hårfagresgate 35

N-5035 Bergen, Norway

Phone + 47 55 54 44 00 - Fax + 47 55 54 44 44

http://www.parkhotel.no/

http://www.dehistoriske.no/hotell/hotel-park/

 

Sunday, 24 June: Arrivals. No programme

Monday, 25 June: First workshop day (9:00 - 17:00)

Tuesday, 26 June: Second workshop day (9:00 - 17:00)

Wednesday, 27 June: Departures

 

Moderators:

Patrizia Lombardo, Svend Erik Larsen,

Atle Kittang and Lars Sætre

 

 

MONDAY 25 June 

 

 

| Monday 25 June

Workshop programme |

 

 

9:00

Lars Sætre (Bergen): Words of welcome

 

9:10

Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus):

"Performance in the text and the text as performance"

[Materials: Dinesen/Blixen: "Negroes and Verse" (from Out of Africa) and Kafka: "Ein Hungerkünstler"]

 

10:45

J. Hillis Miller (Irvine):

"Performativity as performance - Performativity as speech act.

The use of performativity theory and the stakes in performativity studies:

The case of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876)"

 

12:30 LUNCH

 

14:00

Lars Sætre (Bergen):

"Duras's space (Agatha)"

 

15:15

Merete Sæbø Torvanger (Bergen):

"Spaced space, performativity and thirdness"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

| Monday 25 June

Fringes |

 

 

 

 

12:30

LUNCH at

"Bølgen & Moi"

Bar & Brasserie

Bergen Art Museum, Rasmus Meyers Allé 9, N-5015 Bergen

http://www.bolgenogmoi.no/frame.html?artid=81&botnav=1

 

 

 

17:00

BOAT EXCURSION in the Bergen archipelago (M/Y "Sporen").

Boarding at the Fish Market

Light food and refreshments

http://www.maritimetours.no/default.asp?kat=351&id=968&sp=1

 

 

20:00

DINNER at Restaurant "To Kokker", Bryggen, N-5003 Bergen

http://www.tokokker.no/

 

    TUESDAY 26 June   

 

 

| Tuesday 26 June

Workshop programme |

 

9:00

Patrizia Lombardo (Geneva):

"Can cinema help us to think about theory? Space and performance in Gangs of New York"

 

10:15

Margareth Hagen (Bergen):

"Natural/everyday and scientific space in Calvino"

 

11:30

Randi Koppen (Bergen):

"Performing Modernity: Fashion and the Metropolitan Condition"

 

12:45 LUNCH

 

14:00

Jorunn Svensen Gjerden (Bergen):

"Shared experiences of reading"

 

15:15

Atle Kittang (Bergen):

"Textual action and space: concluding remarks"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

| Tuesday 26 June

Fringes |

 

 

 

12:45

LUNCH at "Stragiotti", Vestre Torggate 3, N-5015 Bergen

http://www.bt.no/bergenpuls/restaurant/article239140.ece

 

 

 

19:00-19:30

Aperitif at USF Verftet (="The Wharf" = ex United Sardines Factory

 = Bergen's Art and Cultural Centre),

Georgernes verft 12, N-5011 Bergen

http://usf-verftet.no/

 

20:00-21:10

CONCERT at Club Sardinen, USF Verftet:

Jazz vocalist Eldbjørg Raknes

and her band TINGeLING perform

topographically transformative art

(literary texts, voices, music, performance)

Line-up: Eldbjørg Raknes: vocals and live sampling;

Maria Kannegaard: piano;

Nils-Olav Johansen: guitar bass and vocals;

Stian Westerhus: guitar bass and vocals.

Sound engineer: Tom Svendsgård

http://www.eldbjorgraknes.com/

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldbjørg_Raknes

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/TINGeLING

 

21:15

DINNER at “Kafé Kippers”, USF Verftet (frutti di mare)