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Performing Viral Pandemics?

Started by aha. Last reply by aha May 11, 2020. 2 Replies

Hi.Hopefully all is well!The shorty is a suggestion to start an online conversation group to elaborate questions from theCovid-19 oriented period and Performance Philosophy?eg. Intra-Active Virome?…Continue

We all have the same dream?

Started by Egemen Kalyon Apr 2, 2020. 0 Replies

Hello, "We all have the same dream" is my project that aims to create an archive from the dreams of our era and reinterpret Jung's "collective unconscious" concepts with performance and performing…Continue

Circus and Its Others 2020, UC Davis CFP

Started by Ante Ursic Mar 15, 2020. 0 Replies

Circus and its Others 2020November 12-15University of California, DavisRevised Proposal Deadline: April 15, 2020Launched in 2014, the Circus and its Others research project explores the ways in which…Continue

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"Further Evidence on the Meaning of Musical Performance" Working Paper

Posted by Phillip Cartwright on January 15, 2020 at 21:28 0 Comments

Karolina Nevoina and I are pleased to announce availability of our working paper, "Further Evidence on the Meaning of Musical Performance". Special thanks to Professor Aaron Williamon and the Royal College of Music, Centre for Performance Science.…

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Division of Labor - Denis Beaubois

Posted by Gabrielle Senza on February 23, 2018 at 0:36 0 Comments

I just came across Denis Beaubois, an Australian multidisciplinary artist whose work, Currency - Division of Labor might be of interest to researchers here.

It is a series of video/performance works that use the division of labor model in capitalism as a structural tool for performance.

From his website:

The Division of labour work explores…

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58(+1) Indices on the body at Helicotrema – Recorded audio festival 2014

Helicotrema – Recorded audio festival 2014

Milan

c/o CAREOF DOCVA VIAFARINI

The following audio works have been selected among the 150…

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Added by AMAE/DEPINTO on September 5, 2014 at 14:08 — No Comments

Support our Threatened Colleagues in São Paulo

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 IN SUPPORT OF THE PERSECUTED TEACHERS BY PUC-SP

The Provost’s Office of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo opened an investigatory procedure against professors Peter Pál Pelbart, Yolanda Glória Gamboa Muñoz and Jonnefer Barbosa, under the allegation of having invited, envisaged, supported and advertised the…

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Added by Adrian Heathfield on August 11, 2014 at 14:09 — No Comments

The philosopher’s voice: Index n.7

What do you know about the soul?

Index number 7 is now on Soundcloud!

https://soundcloud.com/58_plus1_indicesonthebody/jean-luc-nancy-recording-index-7

Share your thoughts with us. Leave a comment along the tracks and be part of the project!…

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Added by AMAE/DEPINTO on August 7, 2014 at 15:44 — No Comments

58 (+1) indices on the body. AMAE and Pier Giorgio De Pinto in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy.

The project 58 (+1) indices on the body is a collaboration between the artistic collective AMAE and the artist Pier Giorgio De Pinto with the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.

The topics come from the treaty 58 indices sur le corps (Editor’s note “58 indices on the body”), written in 2006 by Jean Luc Nancy and related to his…

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Added by AMAE/DEPINTO on August 2, 2014 at 15:01 — No Comments

This Body is in Danger! Shift-shaping CorpoRealities in Contemporary Performing Arts

Call for proposals (book):



This Body is in Danger!



Shift-shaping CorpoRealities in Contemporary Performing Arts



Editors: Aneta Stojnić, Christel Stalpaert and Marina Gržinić



http://www.theaterwetenschappen.ugent.be/bodydanger



Book theme:



Changing corporealities in the light of:



1. Necropolitics - from Foucault through Agamben to Mbembe



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Added by Aneta Stojnic on July 12, 2014 at 17:03 — No Comments

NEW BOOK SERIES FROM EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy

Editor, Kevin Curran (University of North Texas)

“Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy” takes seriously the speculative and world-making properties of Shakespeare’s art. Maintaining a broad view of “philosophy” that accommodates foundational questions of metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics, the series also expands our understanding of philosophy to include the unique kinds of theoretical work…

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Added by Kevin Curran on June 7, 2014 at 19:34 — No Comments

Phantasm of the Scene. From Deleuze's Logic of the Sense to the Work of the Actor (paper presented at "What is Performance Philosophy. Staging a new field")

Before I begin I must address an apology to you all. Perhaps you all have already lived this particular situation: you have pages and pages regarding your investigation, they seem to have a logic within them, how concepts play with others or are connected to others, but when faced with a strict economy of time and you need only to address one…

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Added by Fernando Machado Silva on June 6, 2014 at 23:07 — No Comments

Meeting philosopher performers at Berlin

Hello everyone,

while i'm waiting for my PhD defense, I decided to move to Berlin (11th of June) and start a new life. This to say, to all our Berliner friends, I would like to meet them, discuss some ideas with them, and even help with their work and research if they would be interested. I'm trying to develop further the problem questioned on my PhD for a post-doc fellowship, but for most important is to be close to people working on performance philosophy. So, please get in touch…

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Added by Fernando Machado Silva on June 6, 2014 at 22:56 — 2 Comments

Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human

My book Posthuman Life: philosophy at the edge of the human will be published by Routledge in September 2014.

"We imagine posthumans as humans made superhumanly intelligent or resilient by future advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science. Many argue that these enhanced people might live better lives; others fear that tinkering with our nature will undermine…

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Added by David Roden on May 28, 2014 at 12:01 — No Comments

Whither Political Theatre? Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe

Call for Papers

Whither political theatre?

Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe

Faculty of English, Cambridge, and St John’s College, Cambridge

19-20 September 2014

This conference is concerned with the state and direction of contemporary political…

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Added by Eva Urban on May 28, 2014 at 12:00 — No Comments

CFP - Beirut: Bodies in public

Call for Papers and Interventions

Beirut: Bodies in Public

 

Beirut: Bodies in Public is a three-day workshop inviting artists and researchers to think through the interdisciplinary concerns surrounding performance in public space in Beirut.

 

Workshop Dates: 9th –11th October 2014

Deadline for responses: 13th June 2014

 

Location: American University…

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Added by Ella Parry-Davies on May 28, 2014 at 10:07 — No Comments

New: FWF PEEK Research Project: Artist Philosophers. Philosophy AS Arts-Based Research

Abstract English

Artist-Philosophers. Philosophy as Arts-Based Research

From the very beginning of European philosophy in ancient Greece the relation between philosophy and arts has been highly problematic. On the one hand we find “artist-philosophers” like Plato or Nietzsche, whose philosophical investigations used artistic practices to demonstrate their thoughts; on the other hand philosophy has been extremly hostile to such…

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Added by Arno Böhler on May 26, 2014 at 9:55 — No Comments

Announcement: New Publication: Wissen wir, was ein Körper vermag (ed. by Arno Böhler, Krassimira Kruschkova, Susanne Valerie) Trancript 2014

Arno Böhler/Krassimira Kruschkova/Susanne Valerie (Eds.): Wissen wir, was ein Körper vermag? Rhizomatische Körper in Religion, Kunst, Philosophie.

Transcript Verlag: Bielefeld 2014, 258 Seiten, kart., ISBN 978-3-8376-2687-2



Die Frage »Wissen wir, was ein Körper vermag?« ist für Spinozas Ethik zentral, weil sie die leibliche Fundierung geistiger…

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Added by Arno Böhler on May 26, 2014 at 9:39 — No Comments

Book Announcement for Maxine Sheets-Johnstone: Putting Movement into your Life: a beyond fitness primer

Renowned dance and Husserlian phenomenologist Maxine Sheets-Johnstone has just published a book on everyday movement.

Book can be pre-purchased at Amazon for RRP 12.95 USD



Putting Movement into Your Life: A Beyond Fitness Primer is both

playful and serious, bridging both popular and scholarly texts. It is engagingly written with two Ponderabilia inserts per chapter that offer slow food for thought on a diversity of topics related to the

immediate topic in the text.…

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Added by Jodie McNeilly on May 21, 2014 at 12:10 — No Comments

Animal Encounters: Performance, Animality & Posthumanism, SATURDAY 31 MAY

For details on the programme for Animal Encounters: Performance, Animality & Posthumanism organised by TaPRA Theatre Performance & Philosophy Group in co-operation with Roehampton University and the University of East London (Centre of Performing Arts Development), see:

Animal%20Encounters%20-%20Programme.docx

Added by Eve Katsouraki on May 1, 2014 at 11:11 — No Comments

Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics

In memory of Selma Jeanne Cohen, the American Society for Aesthetics established a $1000 biennial prize in dance aesthetics, dance theory, or the history of dance. Begun in 2008, the next prize will be for a critical article or book of distinction published in English in the biennium from July 2012 to June 2014.
The prize winner will be selected by a committee of three members appointed by the President of the ASA and will be notified by September 2014.The award will be…
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Added by James Hamilton on March 14, 2014 at 17:03 — No Comments

Four scores for a Performance Philosophy conference

Produced in response to Performance Philosophy: The Young, an international postgraduate conference at the university of Groningen 7-8 February 2014.

Added by Hamish MacPherson on March 9, 2014 at 14:00 — No Comments

Performance Philosophy School of Athens

 

Performance Philosophy School of Athens, a two-day symposium of lectures, workshops and performances organized by Stefania Mylona in collaboration with Michael Klien to be held 10.00-21.00 Saturday 15th and 11.00-19.30 Sunday 16th March 2014 at Ε.Δ.Ω. in Keramikos and in association with Performance Philosophy invites artists and scholars interested in the relationships of performance and philosophy to participate. Entrance is free so there…

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Added by Stefania Mylona on March 7, 2014 at 11:54 — No Comments

Latour's Investigation into Modes of Existence and Performance Philosophy

Dear all,

As a collaborator of Bruno Latour’s AIME team and as a member of the PP network, I have posted a contribution about performance philosophy (http://www.modesofexistence.org/inquiry/?lang=en#a=CONTRIB&c[leading]=COM&c[slave]=VOC&i[id]=#cont-11608&i[column]=COM&s=0) on the website of « An Inquiry into…

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Added by Aline Wiame on February 20, 2014 at 18:27 — No Comments

The 2014 Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University

The Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our fourth annual summer session, to be held June 2 - 13, 2014. The School offers faculty and advanced graduate students the opportunity to learn from leading scholars in theater and performance research in an intensive two-week summer program.

The topic for the 2014 session will be "Locations of…

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Added by Rebecca Kastleman on February 17, 2014 at 5:49 — No Comments

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