THIS IS NOT A PERFORMANCE OR A LECTURE!

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Various locations — Information Point & Archive: Martin Hall, Loughborough University Radar presents a day of new commissions that begin a dialogue about the intersection between performance and visual practice. In recent years the division between the two has become increasingly blurred, breaking down some of the often imaginary differences between them. One area of increasing interest to practitioners working in both fields has been the performance lecture. Even though formally quite limited they offer unique and complex possibilities and challenges. On Saturday 18 June we will present seven new commissions responding to this format. They will inhabit spaces across the campus purposefully meandering from performance to lecture and back again , testing what might constitute a performance lecture rather than demonstrating a unified approach. As works combine explanation with a more overtly fictional narrative, moving between the theatrical and instructional, exchanging an authoritative voice with one that is more unreliable, the programme will challenge traditional notions of these particular forms of imparting either knowledge or entertainment. Artists: Frank Abbott, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, Robin Deacon, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Ruth Proctor, Neal Swettenham and Michael Pinchbeck, Jennet Thomas