LIVENESS SYMPOSIUM II

NEUROLIVE celebrated and concluded its 5-year interdisciplinary investigation of liveness with a 3-day symposium that took place at Siobhan Davies Studios from 2-4 June 2025.

‘What are you working on?!
Have you found anything yet?!
What have we done?!’
– Seke Chimutengwende and Steph McMann, words spoken in NEUROLIVE Performance 1: Detective Work

Using these questions that were spoken in Performance 1 to playfully frame the different sessions, the symposium brought together contributors from a range of fields for a programme of discussions and presentations, all reflecting on the themes and methods of the NEUROLIVE project.

The team of scientists and artists who have been part of NEUROLIVE shared findings and reflections on the research, alongside invited guests from the fields of cognitive neuroscience, theatre and performance studies, dance studies and artistic practice who hosted discussions focusing on different aspects of the project. We were delighted to be joined by guests including Maaike Bleeker, Efrosini Protopapa, Beatriz Calvo Merino, Scott Delahunta, Annie Pui Ling Lok, Kat Bridge and Siobhan Davies.

The symposium formed part of the series of closing public events of the NEUROLIVE project, which also comprised a 5-day series of artistic research workshops, and a lecture performance.

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MONDAY 2 JUNE 2025, Part 1: Have you found anything yet?
Performance 1/ Detective Work


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MONDAY 2 JUNE 2025, Part 2: Have you found anything yet?
Performance 4/ Readings of what was never written with Jamie Forth, Guido Orgs, Robin Ren, Matthias Sperling


MONDAY 2 JUNE 2025, Part 3: What have we done?
Revisiting debates on conceptualising liveness - Facilitated by Maaike Bleeker, with Guido Orgs, Matthias Sperling



MONDAY 2 JUNE 2025, Part 4: What are you working on?
Addressing challenges of disseminating interdisciplinary outputs - Facilitated by Efrosini Protopapa, with Charlie Ashwell, Haeeun (Hennie) Lee, Guido Orgs, Laura Rai, Matthias Sperling

TUESDAY 3 JUNE 2025, Part 1: Have you found anything yet?
Performance 2/ How Shall We Begin Again?  with Sonia Abad Hernando, Albane Arthuis, Mirko Febbo, Jo Fong (video contribution), Guido Orgs, Matthias Sperling



TUESDAY 3 JUNE 2025, Part 2: Have you found anything yet?Workshop 3/ Performing and Not Performing, performed by Jia-Yu Corti with Albane Arthuis, Jia-Yu Corti, Guido Orgs, Matthias Sperling



TUESDAY 3 JUNE 2025, Part 3: What are you working on? Contributions from Co-Investigators with Daniel C. Richardson, Jamie A. Ward, Jamie Forth



TUESDAY 3 JUNE 2025, Part 4: What have we done? Scientific practice reflections - how did it go? Facilitated by Beatriz Calvo Merino, with Sonia Abad Hernando, Albane Arthuis, Jamie Forth, Guido Orgs, Daniel C. Richardson, Jamie A. Ward



WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE 2025, Part 1: Have you found anything yet?
Performance 3/ ~ snakeskin in the wild ~


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WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE 2025, Part 2: What have we done? Reflections on Interdisciplinary Practice - Facilitated by Scott Delahunta, with Iris Chan, Haeeun (Hennie) Lee, Guido Orgs, Laura Rai, Matthias Sperling



WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE 2025, Part 3: What next? Looking to the future - with Kat Bridge, Siobhan Davies, Annie Pui Ling Lok, Guido Orgs, Matthias Sperling



Film documentation: Ana de Matos
Audio technician: Francesco Angelini