Dr Paul Stapleton email: p.stapleton [at] qub.ac.uk phone: +44 (0) 2890 975423 fax: room:
Dr Paul Stapleton is an artist-researcher born in Southern California. His primary research interests are: new musical instrument/sound sculpture design; experimental improvisation; dialogic approaches to performance; social web technologies and performance archives; site-specific and environmental intervention art practices; and performance research methods. Paul is also a founding member and co-director of the interdisciplinary performance group theybreakinpieces. Further information on Paul's work can be found here. RECENT SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PROJECTS: 2008 (Forthcoming) ‘Performing the Document: Navigating the Terrain of Practice as Research’, in Dylan Robinson, et. al. (eds.), Collision: Inter-arts Research and Practices (title tbc), Cambridge Scholars Press. 2007 (Forthcoming) ‘Dialogic Instruments: Virtuosity (Re)Located in Improvised Performance’, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press. 2006-2007 Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events. AHRC funded research project that included the following outcomes: Covivencia Symposium Live Archives Workshops LiveArchives.org A presentation at the AHDS Performing Arts Summer School: Digital Representations of Performing Arts A residency with theybreakinpieces as part of the Collision Symposium 2006 A paper on this project will be delivered at the DRHA 2007 conference in September 2007. An article in the Body, Space & Technology Journal. 2007 theybreakinpieces: a performative lecture (in collaboration with Ben Evans). Improvisation Continuums: theorising improvisation across disciplines, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan. 2006 theybreakinpieces: Cuerdan Valley Park. Site-Specific Creative Residency and Archive Screening , Bamber Bridge, Preston. Additional Screening at Performance and Reception Conference, University of Manchester. Funded by Arts Council England and Preston City Council. 2006 theybreakinpieces residency at The Buddle Arts Centre, North Wing, Wallsend. Funded by Arts Council England. 2006 Dialogic Perspectives on Recent Soundings. Conference Paper, Sonic Arts Network Expo, University of Manchester. Co-Authored with Simon Bowes. 2006 ‘Documentation in Performance-Led Research’, Media International Australia, 118. 77-85. (ISSN: 1329-878X) 2006 ‘Dialogic Relationships in Extra-Disciplinary Performance’, in Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe (ed.), Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, Cambridge Scholars Press, 358-367. (ISBN: 1904303633) Revised from 2005: Dialogic Relationships in Extra-Disciplinary Performance. Conference Paper, Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. 2005 theybreakinpieces: a performative lecture. Collision: A Symposium of Interarts and Interdisciplinary Practices, University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Funded by Arts Council England. 2005 theybreakinpieces: Victoria Baths. Site-Specific 4-hour Durational Performance, Manchester. Funded by Arts Council England. Archive screening on The Bigger Picture (Aug06), BBC Big Screen, Manchester.