Narratology and Its Discontents: Narrating Beyond Narration
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2 Narratology and Its Discontents: Narrating beyond Narration 2017 International conference Narratology and Its Discontents: Narrating beyond Narration Rationale Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb April 6th–8th 2017 Zagreb, Croatia http://artandscienceresearch.hr/our-seminars- workshops-conferences/narratology-and-its- discontents-narrating-beyond-narration/ The scope of this Conference is intended to represent a wide range of top- Organizer: ics related to the study of logic and principles of narrative production, but Academy of Dramatic Art, also to “postclassical” narratology that goes beyond its structuralist back- Department of Dramaturgy http://dramaturgija.adu.hr/ ground, focusing on the ways that narrative structures our perception of social and cultural phenomena and helps us construct meaning in general. Organizing committee: We are interested in the contextuality of the modes of narrative rep- Prof. dr. Sibila Petlevski Prof. dr. Saša Vojković resentation, in its historicity, and in its pragmatic and artistic functions Lela Šupek across different media. Ljubica Anđelković Džambić What is relevant is the philosophy of action in the theory of narrative, Goran Pavlić in the narrative as communication, in cross-cultural narration, in cognitive Production assistants: theory of narrative acts, and the concept of performativity in narratology Tajana Bakota connected to the embodied ways of knowing. Romana Brajša A narrative explanation in science and knowledge transfer in education is Visual identity, abstract also examined, and in a whole range of other topics that transform narrato- book design and lay-out: logical study into a plethora of different, often interdisciplinary, mixed-meth- Rafaela Dražić od research approaches. Print: Our special guest is a Dutch cultural theorist, critic, video artist and Zelina filmmaker. Mieke Bal. Hence, the motto of our conference is taken from Mieke Bal’s thesis on the use of narratology for cultural analysis where she defines narrative as a cultural attitude, and narratology as a perspective on culture. “What I propose we are best off with in the age of cultural studies is a conception of narratology that implicates text and reading, subject and object, production and analysis, in the act of understanding. In other words, I advocate a narrative theory that enables the differentiation of the place of narrative in any cultural expression without privileging any medium, mode, or use; that differentiates its relative importance and the The conference “Narratology and Its Discontents: effect of the narrative (segments) on the remainder of the object as well Narrating beyond Narration” is part of the scientific as on the reader, listener, viewer. A theory, that is, which defines and de- project “How Practice-led Research in Artistic scribes narrativity, not narrative; not a genre or object but a cultural mode Performance Can Contribute to Croatian Science” (IP-2014-09-6963), supported by Croatian of expression.” (Bal, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Science Foundation. Second Edition, 1997: 222) Topics to be discussed include: Classical and Postclassical Narratology Narrating Film: Narration and Reconstruction of Subjectivity Performing Narrative in Contemporary Performance Practice and in Daily Life Narrative Performance and Its Aesthetics Beyond Mimetic Models: Unnatural Narratology “Denarration” and Extreme Narration in Contemporary Drama and Fiction Transmedial Storytelling Narrative through Nonlinguistic Media Narrative and Digital Media Conversational Storytelling Orality and Narration Cyberspace Textuality Narration and Memory Documentary Storytelling and its (Un)Reliable Narrators Narrating Violence and Trauma Visual narratives; Narrative in contemporary visual practice The Fine Art of Storytelling and Narration in the Fine Art Cross-cultural Narration and Migrating Selves Narrative and Embodied Knowing in Dance and Performance Program Narrative and Ideology Political Narratives Cognitive Narratology: Narrative Thinking, Stories and Minds Narration in Science – Narration or Science? The conference takes place at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, Frankopanska 22, in the F22 hall. Wednesday, April 5th Thursday, April 6th LIDIJA Fištrek: 18.00 FILM SCREENING 9.00 INTRODUCTORY wordS SIBILA PETLEVSKI, SAŠA VOJković Stelarc and the Posthuman Body Reasonable Doubt (2015) Performance in Contemporary Art D. MIEKE BAL; 98 min. KEYNOTE LECTURE MIEKE BAL: ANA FAZEKAŠ: In the Absence of Post- Auto/Biography of Hurt: Representation & Representability of Rape in 10.30 PRESENTATIONS Feminist Performance Art MARIO VRBANčIć: In Shower with Hitchcock: 13.30 – 15.00 Film Narration and Theatricality Lunch Break of Camera 15.00 PRESENTATIONS BOžENA PANDžA-MANDURIć: Holocaust in Film and Book: MONA Khattab: Narratology In Selected Works Narrating Walls: of Holocaust through the Scope Visual Narratives of Graffiti of Film and Literature from the Egyptian Revolution BORIS RUžIć: MERSIHA ISMAJloska: Lost in Narration: Lewis Carroll’s Alice, from Protests, New Media and John Tenniel to Salvador Dali the Absent Storyteller and further MARIJAN Tucaković: 11.30 PRESENTATIONS Narration through Performance: Embodiment of Pianism HrvoJE Turković: and Conducting ‘Norm of Visibility’ vs. ‘Norm of Invisibility’ in 16.00 PRESENTATIONS Classical Film Narration AMRA MEMIć: SAŠA VOJković: Structural Presentation of The Humanist Vision in Dramatic Time in the Neo- Neorealist Films: Circularity Historical Political Theatre of Influences in World Cinema Leo Rafolt: MARIO Slugan: Performing Oppression The Lecturer as the Earliest (Narrative): Freire, Boal, Gutiérrez Controlling Fictional Narrator in Cinema GORAN Pavlić: Narrating the Political Self 12.30 PRESENTATIONS 18.00 FILM SCREENING UNA Bauer: Collaboratively Scripted Madame B (2013) Performances of Life Events D. MIEKE BAL and MICHELLE WILLIAMS GAMAKER; 96 min. Friday, April 7th Saturday, April 8th VLADIMIR CERIć: SENKA BOžIć-VRBANčIć: 9.00 KEYNOTE LECTURES 9.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE Space and Storyworld Narrative and Compassion: JEREMY Lawrance: in Epic Fantasy JOSETTE FÉRAL: Heteronormativity, Citizenship Memory and Trauma among The Return of Meta-Narratives and the Role of Feelings Exiled Sephardim: A Curious Katarina DAMčEVIć: Edition of Targum Shir Ha-Shirim Communicating Polyamory 10.00 PRESENTATIONS 13.00 – 14.30 (Salonika 1600) through Obscene Language Lunch break DUNJA PlazonJA: Stefan IVERSEN: 13.30 – 15.00 Narrative and Myth: Giving Voice 14.30 PRESENTATIONS Immersion and Defamiliarization Lunch break to Penelope in Margaret Atwood’s Christian STENICO: in Unnatural Narratives The Penelopiad 15.00 PRESENTATIONS Narrative Authority Ivana BULJUBAŠIć: and Audience Expectation in 10.30 PRESENTATIONS LIANNA MARK: Paratext in Narratology and Its Podcast Storytelling Mischa Twitchin: “The Discourse of [Staged] Usage in Fiction “The Mirror and the Corpse…”: Narrative”: Caryl Churchill’s Ivana Zovko: Some Reflections on the Phantasm Escaped Alone NINA DUJmović: Yo soy una puta verbal: of the Subject Maupassant – An Analysis Attitudinal Positioning in ANđELA Vidović: Malena Pichot’s Video Sreelakshmi SURENDRAN: Twists and Turns in Narrating 11.00 PRESENTATIONS Blog Performance The Kathasaritsagara: Violence: From Booming ‘90s A Telling Text to Conformist ‘00s CORRINA JERKIN: DIJANA Protić: The Translator’s Voice in the Exploring of the Narratives in OFER Peres: ANDREA FENICE: Paratexts of Huck Finn in Croatian the Multimedia Performance and The Weeping King and the Nymph: That Elusive Thing – Exhibition Cathedral (1988) South Indian Strategies of Rhythm in Narration and Nada KUJUNDžIć: Narrative Adaptation Why Is It often Overlooked Narrative Space in the Grimms’ 15.30 PRESENTATIONS Fairy Tales: The Case of PRESENTATIONS MARIJANA JANčeska: 11.30 PRESENTATIONS 16.00 “The Frog King” The Political Narration SIBILA PETLEVSKI: LJUBICA ANđelković DžAMBIć: LUCIA LEMAN: in the Macedonian Historiographic Narration Narrating the Self in Facing The Narratology of Illyrian Governmental Commercials: and (Post)Narrativist Philosophy Personal Trauma through Art: Discontent – The Tale of the How did the Television Cheat of History artist Satan Panonski Occidental Other from The Reality? Byron to Bregović Olga MARKIč: Jurga JONUTYTE: žELJko LUKETIć: Narrative as a Tool for Sense Telling and Re-telling: Reasons 12.00 PRESENTATIONS Your Face Sounds Bigoted: Making: From Folk Psychology of Conflicts in the Narratives Cross-dressing and Low Camp to Science of the Past Eva SIMčIć: Narrative of Croatian These Violent Delights Have Television Shows BORIS KOžNJAK: MARIO Županović: Violent Ends: Intermental Mind Narrative in Science: Informative Narrating Trauma in Latin in Westworld Iva-MatiJA Bitanga: and Formative Aspects American Women’s Cinema Ganga Museum Nataša Govedić: FILM SCREENING 12.30 PRESENTATIONS 18.00 Female Coriolanus, Her Desire IRIS Šmidt PELAJIć: and Indestructible Dialogue in The Grimms’ Fairytales’ MIRELA HOLY, MARY GEIGER ZEMAN, A Long History of Madness (2011) Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac New Clothes Zdenko ZEMAN: D. MIEKE BAL and MICHELLE WILLIAMS Facts and Fiction in the GAMAKER; 120 min. 17.00 CLOSING wordS Communication Environment of SIBILA PETLEVSKI, SAŠA VOJković the Brave “Wild” World 12–15 Movies 16–20 Keynote 21–79 Lectures 14 Wednesday, April 5th, 18.00, F22 hall 15 Reasonable Doubt 2015 | 98 min | Color | theoretical fiction / docudrama BY MIEKE BAL “Whenever anyone has offended me, I try ject of creating an Academy that