Wed 6 December 2023
3-5pm
Silverstone Building 302
University of Sussex

Can we develop research about absence? Discover the beauty of negative findings, lost opportunities, impossible selves, unlived experience. 

We heard from Professor Susie Scott, Principal Investigator to the Narratives of Nothing Leverhume Research Project. Susie’s work includes an interest in nothingness, shyness, embarrassment, boredom, stage fright/performance anxiety, total institutions, asexuality, politeness, surprise, and particularly draws on narrative and life-story approaches. We also met a magician (or don't) in The Disappearing of Vincent Gambini, a slight-of-hand response to a cancelled tour in Covid lockdown. Augusto Corrieri, the creator of Gambini, uses research-by-practice methods to explore how magic, as a ‘popular’ form of entertainment, can be approached and dissected through performance art and meta-theatre. Augusto also introduced his current work about people selling mirrors as a further work about disappearance.

Participants then enjoyed the opportunity to play with their own work in ‘turning nothing into something’ (that can be funded). Prof Margaretta Jolly facilitated.

Seasonal drinks and nibbles were provided at this end of term gathering. This wass an in-person event only.

Registration required at: Eventbrite 

Questions please contact: m.jolly@sussex.ac.uk