Undergraduate Prospectus 2013 - University of Winchester

A selection of our expertise
Dr Yvon Bonefant
Yvon is an
extended voice
artist and
performer. He has
made small-scale
live art style work,
durational work,
art for audiovisual
media, artist
publications and sound recordings, as
well as larger scale performances, alone
and collaboratively. His research has
been funded by the Arts Council, the
Arts and Humanities Research Council
and the British Academy, and his work
has been shown in many countries
including the UK, Europe, Canada, the
USA and Brazil.
Annie McKean MBE
Annie is Artistic
Director of the
Playing for Time
Theatre Company,
an innovative
prison theatre
project that
links the Drama
programme
with HMP Winchester. The project
first began in 2003 and since then
it has received Arts Council funding
and staged eight productions. Annie
is actively involved in developing a
portfolio of work in drama and theatre
in education and applied drama and
theatre. She was awarded an MBE
in the 2010 New Year Honours List
for outstanding services to higher
education.
Dr Richard Cuming
Richard is a
performer, director
and deviser. His
teaching focuses
on theories and
practices of
contemporary
performance,
especially in
devised and cross-disciplinary practice.
Richard’s specialism is physical and
visual performance and the synthesis
of different forms, including clowning,
circus and street arts.
Dr Olu Taiwo
Olu teaches in
street arts, visual
development and
contemporary
performance in
a combination
of real and visual
formats. He has a
background in fine
art, African percussion, physical theatre
and the martial arts. He has performed
in national and international contexts.
His main interests are to propagate
twenty-first century issues concerning
the interaction between body, identity,
audience and technology.
Focus on
Excellence and
Innovation in the Arts
BA Street Arts was recently
established at Winchester, and it
is the first degree of its kind within
the UK and mainland Europe.
The University’s street arts
activities have attracted a high
level of international interest with
various invitations to develop
work. Also, Winchester is a Higher
Education Partner with the Arts
Council’s National Strategy for
the Outdoor Arts, which identifies
the opportunity for British artists
to deliver a range of high quality
outdoor arts activity throughout the
Cultural Olympiad 2008-2012.
Street Arts at Winchester was a
finalist in the category of ‘Excellence
and Innovation in the Arts’ in the
prestigious Times Higher Education
(THE) Awards 2010.
©Adrian Harris. Salisbury International Arts Festival
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