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McGill Colloquium

Throughout the duration of the ICASP Project, McGill University will present seven international colloquia on a number of exciting aspects of improvisational research.

Current Colloquium

2015 Improvisation and Community Health

Past Colloquia

2014 Improvisation and the Politics of Everyday Sounds: Cornelius Cardew and Beyond

2013 Time Forms: The Temporalities of Aesthetic Experience

2012 Skin-Surface-Circuit: Embodying the Improvisatory

2011 The Ghost in the Machine: Technologies, Performance, Publics

2010 Social Aesthetics Colloquium: Improvisation & Social Research Group

2009 Suoni Per Il Popolo Colloquium: Lex Non Scripta, Ars Non Scripta

2008 Suoni Per Il Popolo Colloquium: Text, Media, and Improvisation

...the innovative working models of improvisation developed by creative practitioners have helped to promote a dynamic exchange of cultural forms, and to encourage new, socially responsive forms of community building across national, cultural, and artistic boundaries.

– Ajay Heble