Dr Jem Kelly
Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts
Tel: +44 (0)1243 816483
Email: jem.kelly@chi.ac.uk
Profile
Jem completed a practise-led PhD, Staging Recollections and Memoria Technica at The University of Reading in 2004 and has been leading modules centred on Multimedia and Inter-media Theatre.
Jem is currently working on a funding bid for the proposed Institute for Theatre and Creative Enterprise, a driving concern of which is to document vocational activities in the theatre industry and explore their potential impact on teaching, learning, research and recruitment within the academy and the wider community. A core idea of the project is to forge new synergies of industrial practise and academic praxis drawing on existing Internet technologies to enable the systematic capture, storage and retrieval of theatre artefacts: including real-time transmissions of performances, professionals and academic practitioners undertaking workshops, discussions and lectures.
On 30th September 2009, Jem devised an inter-media, interactive telematic performance staged simultaneously in The Showroom, Chichester, and University of Paris 8. The performance, Inter-Views, interrogated current debates around time, memory and perception by drawing on the lived experiences of the performers, whose projected images cascaded back through time at intervals of 45seconds (pictured).
Jem is developing a practise-led research project with Julian Maynard-Smith of Station House Opera.
Jem has also composed a new album of songs with his band, The Lotus Eaters.
Select Publications
2010 ‘Three-Way Inter-Play: devising processes and critical issues in Station House Opera’s, The
Other Is You.’ Chapter in Smart, J & Mirmikedes, A (Eds.) Devising in Process, Palgrave 2010
2007 ‘Pop Music, Multimedia and Live Performance.’ Chapter in Sexton, Jamie (ed.) Music,
Sound and Multimedia: from the live to the virtual. Pub. Edinburgh University Press, 2007
Specialisms: New Media for Performance, Devised Theatre, Auditory Space, Memory-themed Theatre and Film, Postmodern theory.