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Mr Robert John Brocklehurst
Tel: +44 01509 222957
Role: Lecturer in Technical Theatre
Email: R.Brocklehurst@lboro.ac.uk
Room NN.1.26, Martin Hall building, East Park
Publications
My position within the Department is Lecturer in Technical Theatre. I teach drama and performance for television and the stage. I am also involved in the postgraduate development of virtual theatre work within the MA in Performance and Multi-Media.
As a practising artist my work always focuses on visual symbolism, looking into ritual objects, appendages and environments and the effects they can have upon textual/political interpretations of bodies in performance.
I exchanged the world of commercial television for education in the early 1990s and have never looked back. I am currently working on two 'memory performance' projects set in Poland and Bosnia Herzegovina. Both are filmed performances dealing with how to show/represent traumatic experience in present-day Europe.
I am also conducting research into the links between performance and politics amongst Yucatec Mayan communities, Mexico. Next year I return to carry out fieldwork developing ancient ideas of 'road ritual'. The project is based within the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester.
My book titled Excessive Narratives: Georges Bataille, Self-Sacrifice & the Communal Language of the Yucatec Maya is available on-line (ISBN 0-9551829-4-8). Go get it!
My most recent publication is The Virtual Cabinet of Dr. Freud in Performance Research (Routledge, Jan 2008) looking at potential links between psychoanalysis and computer-generated objects in performance.