Text, Action and Space

Performative language and topographical patterns

as converging areas in modern drama, prose fiction and film

3rd TAS Workshop,

Bergen, 23-25 June 2008

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Space and Its

Performative Installations

 

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 Humanities 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, 22 June: Arrivals. No programme

Monday, 23 June: First workshop day (9:00 - 15:30)

Tuesday, 24 June: Second workshop day (9:00 - 17:00)

Wednesday, 25 June: Third workshop day (9:00- 15:30) - Departures

 

Workshop moderators:

Patrizia Lombardo, Svend Erik Larsen, Atle Kittang and Lars Sætre

Literature -

Important notice:

In case you have literary or theoretical text materials to share on beforehand, please submit them per e-mail in PDF format to Marianne, Anders and Lars as soon as possible, and they will be made available for downloading from this net page. -->

Technical equipment - Important notice:

At your earliest convenience, please notify Marianne, Anders and Lars per e-mail about special technical needs in connection with your paper presentations: Marianne.Eskeland@lle.uib.no, Anders.Gullestad@hffa.uib.no, Lars.Saetre@lle.uib.no

 

 

 

MONDAY 23 June 

 

 

 

| Monday 23 June

Workshop programme |

 

 

9:00

Words of welcome

 

SPACE AND THE LANGUAGE OF ACTION

 

9:05

Atle Kittang  (Bergen):

"Labyrinths and Open Spaces: Some Comments on Spatial Forms in Prose Fiction"

 

10:15

Lars Sætre (Bergen):

“Duras’s Space and Textual Action”

 

11:30

Svend Erik Larsen  (Aarhus):

"Missing (In) Action. On The Merchant of Venice"

 

13:00 LUNCH

 

SPACE AND TEXTUAL CREATIVITY (1)

 

14:30

Ingrid Nielsen  (Bergen):

"Melancholy, Vision and Creation in W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

| Monday 23 June

Fringes |

 

 

 

 

13:00

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

Midsummer Eve / St. John’s Eve:

Boat Excursion in the Bergen archipelago (M/Y "Sporen").

Boarding at Bryggen (The Hanseatic Wharf)

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 24 June

 

 

 

| Tuesday 24 June

Workshop programme |

 

MAKING SPACE HAPPEN: CONVERGING, IMPURITY, TRANSFORMATIONS

 

9:00

Patrizia Lombardo (Geneva):

"Action and Emotions and the Dynamics of External and Inner Space (literature and film)"

 

10:30

Laurent Darbellay (Geneva):

"The Power of the Body: Performance and Painting in the Filmic Space of Jarmann’s Caravaggio and Pasolini’s Ricotta"

 

12:00

Asbjørn Grønstad (Bergen):

"Performing Landscape in Recent Art Cinema – Short Clips, Long Takes"

 

13:30 LUNCH

 

SPACE AND TEXTUAL CREATIVITY (2)

 

15:00

Ragnhild Evang Reinton (Oslo):

" Georges Perec and the (...) of Memory "

 

16:00

Anders Marcussen Gullestad (Bergen):

“Making Raids on Human Consciousness – the Longing for Performative Action in DeLillo's Mao II

 

 

 

 

 

| Tuesday 24 June

Fringes |

 

 

 

13:30

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

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

 

 

 

19:00

Organ Recital in St. Mary’s Church

Cantor Karstein Askeland

 

20:00

DINNER at Restaurant “Krystall”, Kong Oscars gate 16, N-5017 Bergen

http://www.krystall.no/

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY 25 June

 

 

 

 

| Wednesday 25 June

Workshop programme |

 

SPACE AND TEXTUAL CREATIVITY (3)

 

9:00

Tone Selboe (Oslo):

"Some Notes on Domestic Modernism"

 

10:00

Anemari Neple (Bergen):

"Disappearance, Moves, Escapes. Constructive Strategies to Knowledge in Tor Ulven's Prose"

 

11:30

Anders Kristian Strand (Bergen):

"The River and the Margins of Language. A Reading of Book 1 in W. C. Williams' Paterson"

 

12:00 LUNCH

 

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE: SPATIAL AND PERFORMATIVE EFFECTS

 

13:30

Jorunn Svensen Gjerden (Bergen):

"Reader Address in the Late Nathalie Sarraute"

 

14:30

Merete Sæbø Torvanger (Bergen):

"Psychoanalysis in Interpretation"

 

 

 

 

 

 

| Wednesday 25 June

Fringes |

 

 

 

12:00

LUNCH at "Spisestedet På Høyden", Fosswinckels gate 18, N-5007 Bergen

http://www.spisestedet.no/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 3rd TAS Workshop Participants:

Patrizia Lombardo (Geneva) - Park Pension (PP) Sat till Wed

Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus) - PP Sun till Wed

Lars Sætre (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Atle Kittang (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Laurent Darbellay (Geneva) - PP Sat till Thurs

Anemari Neple (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Ingrid Nielsen (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Anders Marcussen Gullestad (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Ragnhild Evang Reinton (Oslo) - PP Sun till Wed

Tone Selboe (Oslo) - PP Sun till Wed

Jorunn Svensen Gjerden (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Asbjørn Grønstad (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Anders Kristian Strand (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Merete Sæbø Torvanger (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Network affiliates:

Lars Mossefinn (Voss/Bergen) - PP Sun till Wed

Knut Ove Arntzen (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Per Buvik (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Morten Auklend (Bergen) - Mon till Wed

Jena Habegger (Bergen) - Mon and Wed

Adm. officer:
Marianne Eskeland (Bergen) - Mon till Wed