Rabe, Carsten (DE). Fine-art photographer and curator living in Hamburg. He has exhibited his photographs in national and international solo and group shows since 2000. In Carsten Rabes art-works he uses documentary photography to explore the beauty of the ordinary and the present. His motives reflect on our everyday actions and examine people in their living environments. His Fotobook blossom was nominated for the German Fotobook Award 2016.

Rae, Paul (AUS). Performance Scholar and Theatre Maker. From 1997: Artistic Co-director, with Kaylene Tan, of spell#7 performance (a theatre company). From 2007: Assistant Professor on the Theatre Studies program at National University of Singapore. Author of Theatre & Human Rights (Palgrave 2009), and many scholarly articles on performance theory, and on contemporary theatre in Southeast Asia and beyond.

paul.rae@unimelb.edu.au

Rainer, Lucia (DE). Freelance Artist and Professor for Aesthetics. MSH University for Applied Sciences Hamburg. Hamburg/Germany. Publication: On the Threshold of Knowing: Lectures and Performances in Art and Academia.

mail@lucia-rainer.com

Rains, Joshua (USA). Visual Artist, Los Angeles/USA.

http://www.drawjoshdraw.com

Ramos, Ivan A. (USA). President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. UC-Riverside. Department of Ethnic Studies.

iramos09@gmail.com

Raven, Simon (UK). Performance Artist and Ph.D. student. Northumbria University/UK.

ravenorama@gmail.com

Reinelt probes issues of belonging and exclusion in immersive theatre practice in relation to spectatorship. Recent scholarly studies (Alston, Lavendar) have focused on issues of responsibility and engagement in the context of the ‘experience economy’ of neoliberal culture. But what is being experienced, and what constitutes an ethical claim in simulative experiences that are both ‘real’ and fictional—often in the same breath? Do these performances have the possibility of calling into being a community or at least a certain counter-public? Examples will come from British and European artists ranging from Punch Drunk to Ontroerend Goed. The role of the spectator and the methodological question of how best to research it will be the focus of this paper.

Ribeiro, Felipe (BRA). Artist, Professor of Dance and Film Studies. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Ph.D. student at the Visual Arts Institute at UERJ/ Brazil.

felipekribeiro@gmail.com

Ritter, Julia M. (USA). Chair of Dance Department. Rutgers University. New Jersey/USA. juliamritter@gmail.com

Roach, Shoniqua (USA). Ph.D. student. Department of Performance Studies Northwestern University/USA.

ShoniquaRoach2017@u.northwestern.edu