The Art of (Women) Walking
Published: 12 May 2010
Dr Dee Heddon, a Reader in Theatre Studies, is to deliver the prestigious BP Prize Lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh next month.
Dr Dee Heddon, a Reader in Theatre Studies in the Department of Film and Television Studies, is to deliver the prestigious BP Prize Lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh next month.
The BP Prize Lectureship in the Humanities is awarded biennially to a academic working in a Scottish Higher Education Institution with preference given to those with no more than fifteen years postdoctoral experience. Dr Dee Heddon jointly won the BP Prize Lecture with Dr Graham Paul Foster from the University of Edinburgh three years ago. The Faculty of Arts at Glasgow has a strong track record of winning this prestigious prize with Professors Murray Pittock, Colin Kidd, Rebecca Kay and Adrienne Scullion among the previous recipients.
Dr Heddon's lecture entitled: The Art of (Women) Walking: An Embodied Practice takes place at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street Edinburgh at 6pm on Monday 7 June.
"In Autobiography and Performance (2008)," Dr Heddon said: "I wrote about the intersection of place and autobiography in contemporary performance. I admitted that though I could name numerous male artists who used walking in their performance practice, I struggled to name more than a few women. This puzzled and perplexed me. Startled into action by my own gauntlet, in 2009 I started seeking out, walking with and talking to women artist walkers, finding out who they were, where they walked, why they walked, how they walked, and their history of walking… Join me for a brisk (metaphorical) stroll through this diverse and rich landscape of perambulatory, pedestrian aesthetics."
The lecture is free and open to all although registration is required in advance via the following link http://www.rse.org.uk/events/index.htm#BP
The BP Prize Lectureship in the Humanities is awarded biennially to a academic working in a Scottish Higher Education Institution with preference given to those with no more than fifteen years postdoctoral experience. Dr Dee Heddon jointly won the BP Prize Lecture with Dr Graham Paul Foster from the University of Edinburgh three years ago. The Faculty of Arts at Glasgow has a strong track record of winning this prestigious prize with Professors Murray Pittock, Colin Kidd, Rebecca Kay and Adrienne Scullion among the previous recipients.
Dr Heddon's lecture entitled: The Art of (Women) Walking: An Embodied Practice takes place at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street Edinburgh at 6pm on Monday 7 June.
"In Autobiography and Performance (2008)," Dr Heddon said: "I wrote about the intersection of place and autobiography in contemporary performance. I admitted that though I could name numerous male artists who used walking in their performance practice, I struggled to name more than a few women. This puzzled and perplexed me. Startled into action by my own gauntlet, in 2009 I started seeking out, walking with and talking to women artist walkers, finding out who they were, where they walked, why they walked, how they walked, and their history of walking… Join me for a brisk (metaphorical) stroll through this diverse and rich landscape of perambulatory, pedestrian aesthetics."
The lecture is free and open to all although registration is required in advance via the following link http://www.rse.org.uk/events/index.htm#BP
Further information:
Martin Shannon, Senior Media Relations Officer
University of Glasgow Tel: 0141 330 8593
First published: 12 May 2010
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