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42 Among the Gormleys Lena Simic Research output: Non-textual form › Performance 24 Downloads (Pure) Overview Fingerprint This 24-month, international networking project aims to bring together dance researchers, artists and industry stakeholders to exchange ideas on the topic of parenthood in dance practice. Through a series of three seminar workshops (1 x Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), 1 x Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), 1 x Texas Tech University (TTU)), the network Dr. Lena Simic is a Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University. Her research areas include contemporary performance practice, live art, art activism, feminist theatre and performance, and critical arts prac-tice in relation to climate crisis, ecology and environment.

Lena Simic is a Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, UK. Her research areas include contemporary performance practice, live art, in Drama at Edge art activism, feminist theatre and performance, and critical arts practice in relation to climate crisis, ecology and environment.

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In this chapter, Lena Šimić and Emily Underwood-Lee, return and respond to each other’s solo performances – Lena’s Medea/Mothers’ Clothes and Emily’s Patience, which were first shown in 2004 and 2009 respectively.

Šimić, Lena. / On medea/mothers clothes : A foreigner re-figuring medea and motherhood. In: Feminist Review. 2009 ; Vol. 93, No. 1. pp. 109-115. Lena Simic, performance practitioner, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, living in Liverpool, UK. Interested in generating an interventionist feminist arts practice which is informed by its relation to everyday lived experience. Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Liverpool Hope University.

Lena Simic is a performance practitioner, scholar and pedagogue, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, living in Liverpool. A co-organizer of The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home and Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, UK.

Dr Lena Šimić is Liverpool-based transnational performance maker, local politician, activist, pedagogue and scholar researching contemporary performance and the maternal as well as arts responses to the climate crisis. Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University.

Lena Šimić is a Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, a co-organizer of the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home and Labour Councillor for Anfield University UK Ward. Originally from Dubrovnik, Croatia, Lena identifies herself as a mother of four boys, transnational performance practitioner, pedagogue and scholar.

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This 24-month, international networking project aims to bring together dance researchers, artists and industry stakeholders to exchange ideas on the topic of parenthood in dance practice. Through a series of three seminar workshops (1 x Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), 1 x Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), 1 x Texas Tech University (TTU)), the network

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Lena Šimić’s research works
OCTOBER 2024: Stories from the Climate Future
Research Assistant in Performance and the Maternal
Contemporary Performance InterActions

Simic, Lena ; Underwood-Lee, Emily. / Matrescence performance repetitions: towards ‘letting go’. In: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 2025 ; pp. 1-17. Dr Lena Simic, Edge Hill University Local Councillor, Chair of Environment and Climate Change Select Committee at Liverpool City Council Lena Šimić is Liverpool-based transnational performance maker, activist, pedagogue and scholar researching contemporary performance and the maternal as well as arts responses to the climate crisis. Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University.

This post is for a Research Assistant in the AHRC-funded Performance and the Maternal research project led by Dr Lena Simic. The main responsibilities include gathering research towards an edited book collection on the topic of maternal art and performance, supporting website content development, conducting interviews with artists, co-curating maternal workshops and This contribution to Climate Kitchen is organised by Lena Simic (Edge Hill University) and James Marriott (Platform), Liverpool based transnational co-authors of Three Sisters – a story from the climate future. The complete audio play is available at all major audio platforms. The play and artistic research have been funded by Arts Council England and British Lena Simic is a Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, UK. Her research areas include contemporary performance practice, live art, art activism, feminist theatre and performance, and critical arts practice in relation to climate crisis, ecology and environment.

Parenting and Dance Network

Emily Underwood-Lee and Lena Šimić We created our ‘Performance and the Maternal’ research project is order to investigate the intersections between performance studies and maternal studies. To date we have organised and hosted three research gatherings at the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, Edge Hill University and the University of South Wales. Abstract Pure Overview This chapter will introduce The Study Room in Exile – a collaborative practice between the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home (The Institute) and the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). The Study Room in Exile is a radical resource centre, performance venue and Live Art library situated in the family home of The Institute in Liverpool, UK. The

We have since embarked on a number of collaborative endeavours: three research meetings at the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home (Liverpool, UK), Edge Hill University (Ormskirk, UK) and University of South Wales (Cardiff, UK), and have co-authored Live Art and Motherhood: Study Room Guide on Live Art and the Maternal (Live Performance and the Materna l is an 18 month research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council delivered by Dr Emily Underwood-Lee and Georgina Biggs at the University of South Wales (Cardiff) and Dr Lena Simic at Edge Hill University (Ormskirk). Dr Lena Šimić @lenasimic.liverpool is Liverpool-based transnational performance maker, local politician, activist, pedagogue and scholar researching contemporary performance and the maternal as well as arts responses to the climate crisis. Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University.

Meet the team behind the iCARE Research Centre. Find out more about staff and what work they are getting up to. Abstract Friday Records is practice as research project exploring maternal time. It consists of online journal and live art event Friday at Liverpool Hope University Records: A Document of Maternity Leave Online Journal containing images, videos and text (2014).Friday Records Live Art Event, performance about motherhood containing recorded text, images, video and performative action. Dublin Live Art

Learning Edge is the suite of web-based learning and teaching systems available 24/7 to students and staff at Edge Hill University. Dr Lena Simic English & Creative Arts – Reader in Drama 2009 2025 Research activity per year: undefined, undefined, undefined, containing recorded text images undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, University of Missouri Columbia Tameka Ellington Phd Toks Dele Oyedemi Lena Simic Edge Hill University Branka Cvjeticanin Misty Luminais

Abstract This article deploys three exemplars of contemporary maternal performance practice in order to position maternal performance more generally within contemporary feminist performance discourse. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s work on natality and action (1958, 1963), Lisa Baraitser (2009) on maternal subjectivity, and primarily, the work of the artist and psychoanalytic theorist Lena Simic Published by The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home 7 Bright Street, Liverpool, L6 1DL www.twoaddthree.org Dr Lena Šimić is Liverpool-based transnational performance maker, local politician, activist, pedagogue and scholar researching contemporary performance and the maternal as well as arts responses to the climate crisis. Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University.

Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing The Research Centre for Arts and Wellbeing is a unique Centre with regional, national and international reputation due to its strong emphasis on high quality research with interdisciplinary

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