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ResearchWorks at Guildhall School of Music & Drama hosted Artists as Adaptors, a day-long symposium for artists in research contexts to explore different facets of adaptation in their work through paper presentations and hybrid paper-performances.
A wide array of artforms were represented spanning film, literature, drama, visual art, choreography, composition, and piano performance. Topics included found materials, ekphrasis, myth, memoir, Ballardian landscapes, ecopoetics, narrative, queer theory, and improvisation.
Presentations were given by Emily Orley, Conor Wilson, Clare Harvey, Aristotelis Maragkos, Debanjali Biswas, Amanda Douge, Matthew Kaner, Ed Rice, and Bobby Mitchell.
David Fennessy from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland delivered the keynote talk on 'Conquest of the Useless' for mezzo-soprano, actor, orchestra & electronics, inspired by Werner Herzog's memoir 'Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo'.