Remediating childhood recollection: facilitating intermedial theatre based on lived-experience, recollection and remediation of digital video

This paper offers a critically informed report examining ways in which nondirective pedagogy can be an effective learning agency for Level 5 and 6 undergraduate performance makers. I draw on two case studies to illustrate different themes for student devised intermedial practice – one, Gardens Of Eden, is a response to a Bible Class the other, Together Again is a re-framing and remediation of family videos with live performer. The examples given are developed through a nondirective pedagogical framework, which offers theoretical and practical approaches to devising performance, but demands of students a high level agency, both self-directing and exploratory in nature and scope. In acknowledging the emerging status of pedagogy in higher education, particularly in new universities, there is a need for ‘teaching...to be identified with research activities in some direct way’ (D’Andrea and Gosling 2005, 154). Through a descriptive analysis of the two case studies I will show how my own research activity informs the teaching and learning on the BA Performing Arts (Film, TV and Stage) programme at Bucks New University