Fred Dalmasso's Posts - Performance Philosophy2024-03-28T16:16:30ZFred Dalmassohttp://performancephilosophy.ning.com/profile/FredDalmassohttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/986088113?profile=original&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://performancephilosophy.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=0l9lmlyg42ipn&xn_auth=noFor & Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet - Deadline: Friday 15th January 2017tag:performancephilosophy.ning.com,2017-01-06:6528949:BlogPost:414072017-01-06T12:37:15.000ZFred Dalmassohttp://performancephilosophy.ning.com/profile/FredDalmasso
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<p><b>For & Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet <br></br> Invitation to participate in a public symposium</b></p>
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<p><b>Friday May 26, 2017 <br></br> Loughborough University…</b></p>
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<p><b>For & Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet <br> Invitation to participate in a public symposium</b></p>
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<p><b>Friday May 26, 2017 <br> Loughborough University</b></p>
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<p><b>Keynote: Mark McGowan, aka Artist Taxi Driver and</b> <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/chunkymark">Chunkymark</a></b></p>
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<p>We invite you to respond to the idea, concept, format, aesthetic, function, relevance, purpose or history of the political pamphlet. Presentations will take two forms:</p>
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<li>Academic papers (20 mins) – responses to histories of the political pamphlet and its relevance and/or development in art practice</li>
<li>Performative presentations (10 mins) in the form of ‘rants’ or manifestos – you are invited to interpret the format as imaginatively and provocatively as possible.</li>
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<p>Proposals (A4 max) should include an outline of the topic / approach for academic paper or performative presentation together with short bio. <b>Deadline: Friday 15th January 2017</b></p>
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<p> <i>For and Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet</i> is a two-day research and public ‘festival’ event to be held in Loughborough May 2017, responding to research into the political pamphlet and exploring the relevance of the pamphlet for contemporary art practice. The programme will work across two days:</p>
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<li><b>FRIDAY 26<sup>TH</sup> MAY <br> SYMPOSIUM</b> - comprising presentations in response to the call as above</li>
<li><b>SATURDAY 27<sup>TH</sup> MAY <br> PUBLIC EVENTS</b> - held across sites including Charnwood Museum, Loughborough Library and Queens Park, Loughborough, this day-long event will include a range of public activity including live performative elements by artists commissioned by Radar to respond to the themes of the symposium. Contributions will be made by artists Patrick Goddard, Ferenc Gróf, Ciara Phillips and Rory Pilgrim. In the park there will also be a range of interactive stalls encouraging public participation in the making of a new pamphlet as well as exhibitions displaying collections of historical and contemporary pamphlets inside the library and museum. </li>
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<p>Jane Tormey/Gill Whiteley</p>
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<p><a href="mailto:G.Whiteley@lboro.ac.uk">G.Whiteley@lboro.ac.uk</a> / <a href="mailto:jane.tormey@btinternet.com">jane.tormey@btinternet.com</a></p>
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<p><i>Last Train</i> - a thought thriller</p>
<p>a play of voices by Fred Dalmasso & John Schad - based on John Schad’s 2007 book <i>Someone Called Derrida</i></p>
<p><b>HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye 31st May 2016</b></p>
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<p>Someone called Jacques Derrida, the philosopher, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead. A…</p>
<p><i>Last Train</i> - a thought thriller</p>
<p>a play of voices by Fred Dalmasso & John Schad - based on John Schad’s 2007 book <i>Someone Called Derrida</i></p>
<p><b>HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye 31st May 2016</b></p>
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<p>Someone called Jacques Derrida, the philosopher, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead. A mystery, he thought, a mystery that begins in 1968 when Derrida visits Oxford and there he dies, several times. Murder, he thought. So too thought another man, an Oxonian dying of dementia in 1996. And so we investigate, not just the Oxford of the 1960s but the Oxford of the 1930s and an English public school in the middle of the Second World War. In the end, at the end, the question is: can one die of another's death?</p>
<p>‘an incredibly daring exercise in transgression’</p>
<p>‘Finding meaning in the otherwise meaningless is what drives the unfolding mystery. Distinct events and lives – at first seeming coincidences – become inextricably tangled and soon unignorable, like not only being able to see the face of the Man in the Moon but also being able to feel his hands around your throat.’</p>
<p>‘Intensely personal, innovative, and indefatigably intriguing’ (Dan Hall)</p>
<p>‘I felt I was in the presence of something immense’ (Freya Gallagher-Jones)</p>
<p>‘a deeply moving (for being playful, and restrained) search for the truth hidden in the confabulations of a memory that may not be trusted any more, an attempt to communicate with a father with whom direct communication becomes impossible, or subject to doubt’ (Gogue)</p>
<p> About the book:</p>
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<li>‘an extraordinary performance’ (Sir Frank Kermode)</li>
<li>‘caught my imagination straight away’ (Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury)</li>
<li>‘an amazing book… one of the most original on Derrida’ (J. Hillis Miller)</li>
<li>‘a remarkable novel’ (Ian Macmillan, on BBC Radio 3′s ‘The Verb’)</li>
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