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TaPRA 2026

Queen Mary University of London, 2–4 September 2026

TaPRA 2026
  1. School of the Arts
  2. Research
  3. Department Research
  4. Drama
  5. Drama Research Areas
  6. TaPRA 2026 Conference
  7. TaPRA Gallery

TaPRA Gallery and Film Programme

The TaPRA Gallery brings together an exhibition and film programme of practice-based research across theatre and performance. Open throughout the conference, the TaPRA Gallery is hosted in BLOC, Queen Mary’s new studio, gallery, and cinema space, located on the ground floor of the Arts One Building.

This year’s contributors were invited to respond to the theme “Acts of Cultural Resistance.” Across the exhibition and film programme, artists and researchers explore how theatre and performance research can represent, engage with, and actively contribute to acts and struggles of resistance. The works address urgent forms of cultural and political struggle, including resistance to genocide, environmental destruction, state institutions, and the structural violence experienced by people on the basis of their identities.

See below for further details of the exhibition and film programme.

 

Film Programme

All films will be shown consecutively in a loop.

Start time each day: 10:00 and 14:00

 

Exhibition Opening Times

2 September: 10:00–17:00

3 September: 10:00–18:00

4 September: 10:00–17:00

 

Gallery Information

TaPRA Gallery Programme 2026 [PDF 10,518KB]

All films and documentation will be shown consecutively in a loop in the gallery space.

 

PROJECTIONS

  • Nicola Conibere, Holding-Still-Holding-Still-Holding
  • Chrissy Ralph, Skin (2025)

 

DOCUMENTATION

  • Sarah Bartley and Saul Hewish, Punishment Acts: Tales of Retribution, Reparation and Redemption (xxx)
  • Lorna Vassiliades and Dr Pedro Pérez Rothstein, The Suitcase
  • Bobby Smith, Komboa Ardhi, Komboa Nchi! Liberate Lands, Liberate Lives!
  • Katie Paterson, First Bite
  • Lori Delaney, A Waiting Game (43mins)

Film Programme Information

TaPRA Film Programme 2026 [PDF 14,748KB]

All films will be in a loop in the cinema.

 

FILMS

  • Sweatbox (14mins), Deborah Dean, Anna Herrmann, Caoimhe McAvinchey
  • About Love (6mins), Maggie Inchley
  • Walking our Way / Caminar Distinto (46 minutes), Lizet Chavez
  • The Mind is a Group Muscle (34mins), Ree (Henry) Bradley
  • Dramaturgies for Languaging, Part 1, 2026 (22mins), Claire French, Christian Laursen
  • The Storm (44mins), Pamela Jikiemi
  • Weird Works (27mins), Rolf Gerstlauer, Julie Dind
  • Passa Folhas (15mins), Vânia Gala
  • Art for Climate (13 mins), People’s Palace Projects
  • Re-Shaping Landscapes (4m 41s), Eva Aymami Rene

TaPRA Gallery Panels

Join contributors to the TaPRA Gallery for three conversations exploring the ideas, questions, and practices behind their work. These in-person panels will take place in Rehearsal Room Two in the Arts One Building.

 

Film as Research

3 September, 10:00–12:00

How can film practice function as research, and how does it contribute to the development of new knowledge and capacity for resistance?

  • Julie Dind
  • Rolf Gerstlauer
  • Lizet Chávez
  • Chrissy Ralph
  • Christian Houge Laursen
  • Claire French

 

Approaches to Research and Creative Collaborations

3 September, 13:00–15:00

What kinds of knowledge and understanding can research based on practical artistic collaboration generate? What resistance can it enable?

  • Lorna Vassiliades
  • Pedro Rothstein
  • Deborah Dean
  • Anna Hermann
  • Caoimhe McAvinchey
  • Saul Hewish
  • Sarah Bartley

 

Climate, Land, Displacement

4 September, 13:00–15:00

How can artistic research offer creative responses to the contemporary challenges of displacement, dispossession and  destruction? 

  • Vânia Gala
  • Eva Aymami Rene
  • Bobby Smith
  • Thiago Jesus
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