Biography

Nick is a Chilean cultural theorist and performance practitioner based in London. He is currently a Lecturer in Dance and Digital Arts at the University of Surrey, having previously worked there as Research Fellow. He previously worked as Research Assistant at Goldsmiths College and the London School of Economics, and as Visiting Lecturer/ Director at East 15, University of Essex. 

Nick's work focuses on the study of mathematical languages and computer languages in movement analysis and the digital performing arts. In 2008 he co-founded with Juley Hudson C8 (Digital Performance Objects), an artistic collaborative that has produced a number of performances and installations in this area, including at the Antonin Artaud Building (Brunel University), Milton Gallery London, Lockwood Studios (Goldsmiths) and Ivy Arts Centre (Guildford).

Nick is also a Member of the board of directors of Performance Studies international, and Chair of the Independent Scholar Committee (PSi). In 2011, alongside Professor Rachel Fensham (University of Melbourne), Nick set up an independent research platform for the development of new research in the area of new media and movement visualisation called MoVe (Movement Visualisation in e-Research).
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Publications

Books


• Theatres of the Surd: mathematical thinking and its influence on avant-garde theatre (1890-1980). Lambert Academic Publishing (forthcoming)



Book chapters



• ‘404… Not Found: the politics of misperformance and cyber-errorism in Ricardo Dominguez’s Electronic Disturbance Theater’. In Lada Cale Feldman and Marin Blazevic (eds.) Misperformance London: Palgrave (forthcoming, Spring 2013)
• Set in Poland, that is to say nowhere: Alfred Jarry and the politics of topological space,’ in
Benjamin Wihstutz and Erika Fischer-Lichte (eds.) Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology (October 2012) . London: Routledge 
• ‘Paradox and Paradance: a study of Configur8’s I am not I,’ in Johannes Birringer & Josephine Fenger (eds.) Tanz und WahnSinn / Dance and ChoreoMania Yearbook of the German Dance Association (June 2011). Leipzig: Henschel.
• ‘The performance of the disappeared (Chile 1973-1988),’ in Johanna C. Kardux et al (eds.) Performing Migration: Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media and Music (June 2010). New York: Routledge
• ‘Marx, mathematically.’ In Tom Bunyard (ed.) The Devil’s Party: Marx, Theory and Philosophy (December 2009). London: Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College



Peer reviewed journals



• ‘Laban's choreosophical model: movement visualisation analysis and the use of graphic media in dance studies' In Dance Research (forthcoming Dance Research).
• 'Laban and Topology: a videography’: in Celia Lury (ed.) Space and Culture. London: Sage (forthcoming January 2013)
•  ‘Binary coded performance’ In Susan Broadhurst (ed.) Body, Space and Technology Journal Vol. 10, Number 2 (June 2011), London: Brunel University
•  ‘The body manifold: mathematics (mis)performed by the Vitruvian and Acephalic Man’ In Lada Cale Feldman and Marin Blazevic (eds.) ‘Misperformance’, Performance Research, Vol. 15, No. 2 (June, 2010), London: Routledge
• ‘Antonin Artaud’s decisive transfusion: from theatre to mathematics’ In Ric Allsopp and Phillip Warnell (eds.) ‘Transplantations’, special issue of Performance Research, Vol. 14, No.4 (December, 2009). London: Routledge
•  ‘Mutilations of play: Latin American media sports by numbers’, in Hermien Lankhorst (ed.) ‘Play’, special issue of Nyx, a Noctournal,Vol. 1 No. 2 (June, 2009), London: Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London
• ‘What’s in your wardrobe, Mr Morales? A study in political dress’. In Cornel Sandvoss and Lee Harrington (eds.) Popular Communication: International Journal of  Media and Culture Vol.7 No. 2 (April, 2009), London: Routledge
• ‘Maradona Inc: performance politics off the pitch.’ In John Hartley (ed.) International Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 11, No. 4 (January, 2009) London: SAGE
• ‘Subversive identities: ethno-techno and Gómez-Peña’s cross-cultural performance’, in Susan
Broadhurst (ed.) Body, Space & Technology Journal Vol. 7, No. 1 (June, 2008). London: Brunel University

Online Articles

•  ‘Carnival post-phenomenology: mind the hump’, in Ingie Hovland (ed.) Anthropology Matters
Volume 10: 2 (November, 2008)
http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2008-2/salazar-sutil_2008_carnival.html
• ‘Inmigración, suplicancia y la política de asilo en la Antigua Grecia’ in Cyber Humanitatis No 38 Santiago de Chile: Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad de Chile (Autumn, 2006)
http://www.cyberhumanitatis.uchile.cl/CDA/vida_simple3/0,1251,SCID%253D21053%2526ISID%253D730,00.html



Recent conference proceedings (selected)  

• 'A very brief history of Nothing: Beckett, Badiou and null space' Centro GAM, Santiago de Chile, April 2012.
• 'Artaud's mountains of signs, a surd theatre: the concrete, the gestural and sound maths' Artaud Forum 2, Brunel University March 2012
• 'Dancing Icosahedra: Laban and Space Harmony' Dance Studies Research seminars, March 2012
• 'Mathematextual Performance' Performance Research Seminars, Brunel University, February 2012
• ‘Oh Bottom Thou Art Changed: stigma symbols and corporeal codings of shame’ ISEA International symposium on Electronic Art, Istanbul September 2011.
• ‘Diagrammatic performance’ response to prelude panel by Brian Rotman, PSi17 Camillo 2.0 Technology, Memory, Experience with Brian Rotman, Performance Studies International PSI17 conference, Camillo 2.0 Technology, Memory, Experience, May 2011
• Platonic Theatres’ panel organised for PSi17 Camillo 2.0 Technology, Memory, Experience with Brian Rotman, Performance Studies International PSI17 conference, Camillo 2.0 Technology, Memory, Experience, May 2011
•  Geometric microscopy as theatrical space relation: a comparative analysis of Beckett’s Quad and Kagel’s 'Pas de Cinq,’ presented in Cells: Coding Configuration Confinement, University of Hertfordshire (November 25, 2010)
• ‘Binary coded performance’, presented at the Zoom Theatre Festival and 15th annual
Performance Studies International (PSI) conference, Rijeka, Croatia  (September 2-5, 2010)
• ‘Euler tours, Whitechapel: a study on urban topology’, presented at A Topological Approach to  
Cultural Dynamics (ATACD) conference ‘Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change’ University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (10-12 December 2009)
• ‘Topologies of bodily form: who killed the Vitruvian Man?’ 15th annual Performance
Studies International (PSI) conference MISPERFORMANCE: Misfiring, Misfitting, Misreading. Centre for Drama Art, Zagreb, Croatia (June 27, 2009)
• ‘Chirologia: mathematical classification of gesture’ Theatre Border  Inter-Arts Studies
Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, FU Berlin (April 15, 2009)
• ‘An analogy from Eugenio Barba’s theatre anthropology: extra-daily balance-sheets and
balance alteration as mechanisms in the dynamic quality of finance’ Sonic Diaspora Laboratory, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London (November 5, 2008)
• ‘The performance of disappearance in Chile (1973-1988)’. Sixth Biennial MESEA Conference:‘Migration Matters’, Leiden University, the Netherlands (June 28, 2008)
• ‘Performing Andean ethno-politics’. ‘This is what a chameleon looks like: Imagination, Illusion, Immersion’. InterArt Studies, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin (January 31, 2008)
•   ‘Carnival time: The Bielsa Valley winterfest and its chairological (dis)order’. Crossing Time Zones Colloquium, co-sponsored by Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies and the Research Network of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Frankfurt. Goldsmiths College (November 16, 2007)
•   ‘The Athenian ritual of suppliancy: ritual origins of democracy’, presented at Pan, Trans, Inter: Cultures in Contact, American Comparative Literature Association, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico (April 29, 2007)

Teaching

Convenor HE2 Choreographic Analysis 

Convenor HE3 Professional Practices

Convenor MA London Casebook

Convenor MA Professional Internships

Departmental Duties

Programme Director MA in Contemporary Theatre Making

HE1 Tutor

PTY Tutor