dead blog

i’m not really planning on using this blog anymore… for current news go to: www.dialogicmusic.com

to be british

Yesterday I passed the ‘Life in the UK Test’ (aka Britishness Test – a problematic exercise indeed). After over 9 years in the UK I am now one step closer to Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILTR = permanent residency / settlement). The test was brought in for those seeking settlement in April 2007. For information on the test you can visit the following websites:

http://www.lifeintheuktest.gov.uk/htmlsite/index.html

http://www.cititest.com/life-in-the-uk-test/downloads

I texted several friends with the news that I had passed the test. The following are extracts from the responses I received:

• ‘…does this mean you’r not american any more? good show!’
• ‘What ho. Fancy a brew old prune? Jolly hockey sticks.’
• ‘Welcome 2 the family of jellied eels, morris dancing and football hooligansim. It’s an honour to have you on board.’
• ‘Congratulations, now u just have to pass the british aesthetics test in which u must demonstrate ur ability 2 hold a pen like dickens and grow a beard like shakespeare…’
• ‘Jolly good old fellow. One of the natives now. Wot-wot? Tally ho chap! “God save the…”‘
• ‘Eating digestives and supporting a football team?’
• ‘… do you feel at one with the british way?’

Question: Does any other country require immigrants seeking settlement to pass a ‘way of life’ test? I know that in the USA a test exists for citizenship, but I don’t think one exists for permanent residency??

Dialogic Evidence @ Digital Representations of Performing Arts

Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events is the title of a presentation delivered by Paul Stapleton at the AHDS Performing Arts Summer School: Digital Representations of Performing Arts.

The abstract is available here.

A different presentation under the same title will be delivered at DRHA 2007.

Both presentations aim to contextualize and reflect on the recently finished research project Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events.

Centre for Suburban Research Residency

Paul Stapleton’s CSR Residency Blog

Games, Life and Utopia

8 days (the early evening of the 8th till the 16th of April 2007) of performance making, improvising, conversing and other shenanigans with Ben, Mona and Nick in Manchester, Preston, Glossop and Cardiff.

We performed in two of these locations, Cardiff and Preston. The first performance took place as part of Improvisation Continuums Conference.

Mona sent us a beautiful text after our parting following the Preston performance, and Ben wrote the following blog which has left me smiling…

http://beninbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2007/04/blogging-in-uk.html

Sunday With Me

The following is a response by Paul Stapleton to a performance lecture by Simon Bowes titled Sunday With Me.

References

This list will be updated from time to time. It currently includes primary references for the Dialogic Evidence project.

Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events

Dr. Paul Stapleton
University of Central Lancashire

This research project seeks to explore the possibility of a productive co-existence between performance and documentation practices.