Audience Research

The Routledge book series in Audience Research. Inviting proposals for monographs & edited collections. Editor (& tweets by) @KirstySedgman

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Elizabeth Swift points out that theatres and computers have a lot in common. They’re both illuminated rectangles that we’re meant to sit and stare at #ARITAconf

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.@matthewAreason’s conclusion is that theatres of learning disability produce a postdramatic mode of spectatorship, in that audiences feel constantly invited to “actively think of themselves & their mode of watching in relation to disability” #aritaconf

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Now in the #aritaconf Ways of Engaging panel, where @matthewAreason is kicking us off with a paper about Theatres of Learning Disability. Using Kuppers framework to explain how disabled people are either painfully invisible or hyper-visible.

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Each of these modes of valuing - these aesthetics of spectatorship - were underpinned by a driving force of social ethics, but can then be dismantled via underlying critique, @matthewAreason points out. Spectators tend to loop thru these modes, which all have problems #aritaconf

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@matthewAreason #audiencejam

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Hoe Su Fern giving us more grist to the mill - that just cos audiences report feeling warm fuzzies towards the arts, this doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll actually attend #aritaconf

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@nicolatwynham @LocalTrust Absolutely. The @UEParticipation lot have done some fascinating work on this!

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Jennifer Eigo: audiences from low-engaging social segments simply ARE NOT BENEFITING from public arts funding thru the Arts Council’s National Portfolio Orgs - funding that is given to NPOs (in part) to enable them to engage precisely those people! #aritaconf

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BUT @markrt’s research finds that ACE-funded venues actually DO mitigate inequalities when it comes specifically to dance (whilst somehow reinforcing them in literature?!)

Also, contemporary dance isn’t as socially stratified as other forms of dance (esp ballet) #aritaconf

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(still teehee-ing about the segment Cummuterland Culturebuffs, which I’m guessing is a typo) #aritaconf

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Popular music sells out early; experimental & physical theatre sells late; art gallery visits tend to be a snap decision made on the day. Fab #aritaconf presentation on a fab Cultural Trends article by Sarah Price & @OliverMantell

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@KarenFricker2 @SignyLynch @queensjenn Wasn’t it @newaudiencesold who thought she’d misheard a scholar’s name, but turned out she hadn’t? Pen, can you remember whose paper that was in?

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@SignyLynch, introducing you to some other awesome critics/academics/academics studying criticism (acacritics????!) - @churlishmeg @BustingFree @shakespeareanLK @maddydeliqette @Daisy5660 @KarenFricker2 @DianaADamian @margheritalaera #csar2019

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Next up, @KarenFricker2 & @LMichelleMac on 'The Emancipated Amateur", using Rancière's emancipated spectator to ask what an 'emancipated critical practice' might look like in theatre reviewing cultures (cc @churlishmeg, @BustingFree, @shakespeareanLK, @daisy5660) #csar2019

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Oops sorry that was Anne's anecdote (Anne-cdote?) - typing too fast!

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Kathleen Gallagher & Anne Wessels talking theatre and youth. Theatre audience research may have looked to sociology for its methods, but not for analysis. #csar2019

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Kathleen telling us a story of the time a group of schoolboys crashed a matinee - snuck past the ushers, moved from seat to seat, were loud & disruptive, & probably drinking (later she found bottle caps under seats = material evidence to back up research suspicion!) #csar2019