Dr Stuart Andrews
Lecturer in Theatre Studies
Qualifications: BA PhD
Email: s.andrews@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 9639
Room no: 10A NC 01
Further information
Biography
I joined the University of Surrey in 2008 to develop the BA programme in Theatre Studies. Previously, I led undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the University of Hull and conducted research into performing arts in higher education for PALATINE, the then Learning and Teaching Support Network for Performing Arts, at Lancaster University.
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Research Interests
My research focuses on the practice and politics of immersive, site-specific performance, mobile and tourist performance, and responses to the everyday. Recent work has included Chromatic Play at the Great Tower of Guildford Castle (July 2012), funded by EPSRC Bridging the Gaps. This durational, interactive light installation was created by Tine Bech with the Surrey Light Project, of which I am a member. The installation was part of a longer research project on creative engagement with light.
Research Collaborations
As Deputy Director of the Digital World Research Centre (DWRC), I am actively engaged in debating the ways in which theories and practices of performance can contribute to the increasingly digital world.
The Surrey Light Project contains members from Sociology, Theatre, Physics, Civil Engineering and the Advanced Technology Institute. The second phase of research is being conducted at the Universities of Surrey and Swansea.
Publications
Journal articles
- . (2012) 'Now, where was I? Negotiating time in digitally augmented autobiographical performance'. Intellect Limited Journal of Media Practice, UK: 13 (3), pp. 269-284.
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(2010) 'Performance and the City'. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Theatre Research International, 35 (3), pp. 312-313.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/209772/
- . (2007) 'A Performance Cosmology: Testimony from the future, evidence of the past'. Studies in Theatre and Performance, Great Britain: 27 (3), pp. 307-308.
Conference papers
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'Surge, Sway and Yaw: Performative moorings in The Boat Project and A Room for London'. Barcelona: RE-ROUTING PERFORMANCE / RE-CAMINANT L’ESCENA (FIRT/IFTR)
[ Status: Accepted ] - . 'Building Brockhole (again): (Re-)Living Landscape in the Lakes'. Aberystwyth: Living Landscapes
- . 'Return to Isla Blanca: Embodied thinking in family ciné film'. Utrecht: Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience
Book chapters
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(2008) 'Walking between: Through place and practice'. in Cecchetto D, Cuthbert N, Lassonde J, Robinson D (eds.) Collision: Interarts practice and research
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Press Article number 11 , pp. 163-178.Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/741312/
Abstract
This chapter reports on processes of walking as performance research, both in the discipline of performance but also beyond that discipline, reflecting on the walking that can occur beyond both places and disciplines. The chapter proposes a mode of ‘living enquiry’ that brings together theories in and beyond performance. The research proposes a mode of engaging with intended (tourist) and actual (our individual) performances of place and theories of performing place. It speaks to interdisciplinary research, conducted through individual, experiential enquiry and to research on connections in and between performance, art, experience and place.
Performances
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(2009) Particles in Space. Ion Beam Centre, British Science Festival, University of Surrey:
[ Status: Unpublished ]Full text is available at: http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/741308/Abstract
Particles in Space is a model of tourist performance for revealing ideas in a scientific laboratory, in which technology can appear more dominant than the practices and ideas being applied. As scientists examine the back-scattering of particles fromthe use of an ion beam, this performance intervention creates a similar back-scattering of multiple, fragmentary and divergent artistic practices, to be considered by participants. The tourist performance walk engages in scattered practices, which are themselves responses to laboratory practices. The research reframes the movement of tourist practice, using performance to reveal ideas, practices and effects of intervention.
- . (2008) Please wait with me. Sightsonic: York International Festival of Digital Arts:
- . (2007) Call Centre. Leeds Metropolitan University:
- . (2006) TIDE (IDE Art). Queen Mary's University:
Teaching
My teaching focuses on site-specific practice and the stage. In 2010, I directed 21 Tables, a series of twenty-one one-on-one performances at The Mill Studio, part of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford. In 2013, I am directing a performance based on the River Wey, which runs through Guildford.Departmental Duties
I have led the admissions process since the BA Theatre Studies programme began. If you are interested in the programme, please see our programme page, or email me with any queries.Affiliations
I am a member of the International Federation of Theatre Research (FIRT/IFTR) and the Walking Artists' Network (WAN). Theatre Studies is a member of the Standing Conference of Theatre Studies Departments (SCUDD).
Doctoral Research Students
I supervise doctoral research students in performance, with particular focus on site and experience. I would be very interested to hear from potential PhD applicants.
