Quorum

Nicholas Ridout: "The dead are always with us, or the theatre of modernity" Quorum welcomes Nicholas Ridout, Professor of Theatre at Queen Mary University of London, for a seminar on the topic of theatre and death.

Our next Quorum event is this Wednesday (29th Oct) when we'll be presenting a talk by Professor Nicholas Ridout on theatre and the presence of the dead in modern life. (Spooky!🎃) Starts 5.30pm, either in-person at QMUL's Mile End campus or online. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicholas-r...

Emre Koyuncuoğlu: "Rewriting History and the Staging of Political Memory" Quorum welcomes the Istanbul-based director/playwright for an exploration of theatre's role in the rewriting of histories.

Quorum is back next week (Wed 15 Oct, 5.30pm) for the first of our Autumn 2025 events, welcoming Istanbul-based director/playwright Emre Koyuncuoğlu to discuss her work and the role of theatre in the rewriting of histories. Hybrid event. Register free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emre-koyun...

Next Wednesday! Please do join us for our last Quorum of the semester, online or in-person.

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "Mojisola Adebayo, Queer quests for 'The Normal Life': from occupied Palestine to the stars. Mojisola will share insights and background to the play script and film she is currently writing entitled, resisters, which focusses on creative non-violent resistance to occupation, war and genocide by women and queer people in Palestine and beyond. Mojisola will also discuss her latest stage production, STARS, which won the OffWestEnd Award for Best New Play after premiering at the ICA, London and is coming back soon to BrixtonHouse Theatre in June 2025. STARS explores the politics and power of pleasure through the story of an old woman who goes into space in search of her own orgasm. Time permitting, Mojisola will also screen the short film, STARS which had its premiere at Berlinale Film Festival this year. 30 April, 3PM, online only."

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "Mojisola Adebayo is a Black British, London born, theatre artist - playwright, performer, director, producer, facilitator, mentor and Professor of Theatre Writing and Performance Practice at Queen Mary, University of London. She trained in Theatre of the Oppressed and Physical Theatre and has worked internationally in theatre, television and radio for over 25 years, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. During this time she has acted in over 50 theatre, television and radio productions, devised and directed over 30 scripts for stage and video and has lead countless workshops and training courses."

For our April talk, we will hear Mojisola Adebayo's "Queer quests for 'The Normal Life': from occupied Palestine to the stars" on 30 April, online only. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mojisola-a...

We are pleased to announce that Cecilia's talk has been rescheduled for 14 May! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cecilia-we...

Tomorrow!

Tomorrow!

(Third time's the charm. Apologies for broken links and other mistakes in previous posts.)

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "For those interested in learning more about Shane’s current research on this topic, he will be giving a separate talk on 25 March hosted by the Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production at Queen Mary University of London titled, “Never Enough: Artistic Production and the Problem of Raw Material.” Details can be found at https://www.claspblog.org/events/never-enough-artistic-production-and-the-problem-of-raw-material. 25 March, 4-6PM, Room 2.41, Bancroft Building, Mile End Rd, E1 4PA, London."

For those interested in learning more about Shane’s current research, he will be giving a separate talk on 25 March at Queen Mary University of London titled “Never Enough: Artistic Production and the Problem of Raw Material”. Details: www.claspblog.org/events/never...

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "Shane Boyle, Marxism and Theatre Ecology: The Metabolic Performances of Otobong Nkanga and Zina Saro-Wiwa. This talk looks to demonstrate the usefulness of Marxist ecological thought for performance studies by examining several recent works by Otobong Nkanga and Zina Saro-Wiwa that engage with the colonial histories of resource extraction in West and Southwest Africa. These performances—staged atop abandoned mines and oil pipelines—give aesthetic form to what Marx called the “metabolic rift” between humanity and nature. 26 March, 6PM, Rehearsal Room 2, ArtsOne, Mile End Rd, E1 4PA, London."

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "Shane Boyle is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts at Queen Mary University of London. His books include The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism (Stanford 2024) and the co-edited collection Postdramatic Theatre and Form (Methuen Bloomsbury 2019). For the 2024-25 academic year, Shane is a Global Dis:connect research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich."

Tickets now available for Shane Boyle (@shaneboyle.bsky.social)'s presentation "Marxism and Theatre Ecology: The Metabolic Performances of Otobong Nkanga and Zina Saro-Wiwa", 26 March 6PM: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shane-boyl...

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "This project, for which Patrick was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, is based on his experience serving on the commission charged with conducting community-based oversight of the San Diego Police Department. It is both ethnographic ­– providing a perspective on the inner workings of policing in a large city – and theoretical – using the tools and methods of theatre and performance studies to understand police practice and to argue for an abolitionist future. 19 March, 6PM, Rehearsal Room 2, ArtsOne, Mile End Rd, E1 4PA, London."

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "Patrick Anderson is a Professor in the departments of Communication, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of Autobiography of a Disease (Routledge, 2017) and So Much Wasted (Duke University Press, 2010) and the co-editor, with Jisha Menon, of Violence Performed (Palgrave, 2009). His most recent book, The Lamentations: A requiem for queer suicide, was released by Fordham University Press in 2024."

Tickets now available for Patrick Anderson's presentation "Ephemeral Terror: Policing and Performance Theory", 19 March 6PM: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patrick-an...

CLS friends - this is going to be a great event - Anderson's article in Theater Journal is terrific. muse.jhu.edu/article/8457... Ping @henriquecarvalho.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @dansheikh.bsky.social

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "For those who wish to engage in greater depth with Patrick's work, Prof Nicholas Ridout will be holding a reading seminar at Queen Mary a week beforehand, on Wednesday March 12 at 3 pm, to talk about the first article Patrick published as part of this project, 'Dramaturgies of Policing: Performance Theory, Police Violence, and the Limits of Accountability." Theatre Journal 73.4 (2021): 533-549. If you would like to join us for this session, please get in touch with Prof Ridout or email Quorum at queenmaryquorum at hotmail.co.uk and we will send you a pdf copy of the article."

For those who wish to engage in greater depth with Patrick's work, Prof Nicholas Ridout will be holding a reading seminar at Queen Mary a week beforehand, on Wednesday March 12 at 3PM. Please email us or get in touch with Prof Ridout (www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/ri...) to receive the PDF:

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "This project, for which Patrick was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, is based on his experience serving on the commission charged with conducting community-based oversight of the San Diego Police Department. It is both ethnographic ­– providing a perspective on the inner workings of policing in a large city – and theoretical – using the tools and methods of theatre and performance studies to understand police practice and to argue for an abolitionist future. 19 March, 6PM, Rehearsal Room 2, ArtsOne, Mile End Rd, E1 4PA, London."

Poster for Quorum with the Queen Mary University of London logo and a teal and white marble accent bar on the right hand side of the page. It reads: "Patrick Anderson is a Professor in the departments of Communication, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of Autobiography of a Disease (Routledge, 2017) and So Much Wasted (Duke University Press, 2010) and the co-editor, with Jisha Menon, of Violence Performed (Palgrave, 2009). His most recent book, The Lamentations: A requiem for queer suicide, was released by Fordham University Press in 2024."

Tickets now available for Patrick Anderson's presentation "Ephemeral Terror: Policing and Performance Theory", 19 March 6PM: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patrick-an...

Sadly, Cecilia's presentation has been postponed due to an illness! We will be publishing a rescheduled presentation date as soon as possible. We apologise for the short notice and thank everyone for their understanding.

Tickets now available for Dr Cecilia Wee's presentation "Making narratives as an act of decolonial resourcing", 12 Feb 6PM: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cecilia-we...

Tickets now available for Dr Cecilia Wee's presentation "Making narratives as an act of decolonial resourcing", 12 Feb 6PM: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cecilia-we...

Poster for Dr Cecilia Wee's presentation "Making narratives as an act of decolonial resourcing", containing the following bio of Dr Wee: "(she/they) is a UK-based Peranakan artist, curator, researcher, educator, and equalities activist. Cecilia works with diverse media including illustration, printmaking, sound, performance and text, creating experimental strategies and environments for dialogue, resistance and flourishing. Their practice explores bonds created through formal and informal learning spaces, such as cultural institutions, and the legacies of trade union and community organising. Cecilia wrote their PhD on the documentation of Live Art. She has created artist works, books, and exhibitions with organisations including Akademie der Kunste Berlin, NHS Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service and Tate Modern. Cecilia is Tutor at School of Communication, Royal College of Art and part of ecologies and economies artistic duo (CWxWC). www.ceciliawee.com".

We kick off with Dr Cecilia Wee's "Making narratives as an act of decolonial resourcing" on 12 February. Online and in-person at the ArtsOne building at 6PM. Refreshments and nibbles will be available for in-person attendees after the presentation. Tickets here: t.co/Gu11uHQCAX

Programme for the Spring 2025 semester of Quorum: 12 February, Cecilia Wee; 19 March, Patrick Anderson; 26 March, Shane Boyle; 30 April, Mojisola Adebayo (online only). All presentations both online and in-person at 6PM

Quorum returns—and debuts on BlueSky! We look forward to welcoming you to ArtsOne on our Mile End campus for presentations from the following artists and/or academics: