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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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A film series of dialogues with leading thinkers and writers

I'd like to share information about two new films below, in case they are of interest...…

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Added by Adrian Heathfield on January 13, 2014 at 21:17 — No Comments

The Generic Orientation of Non-Standard Aesthetics by F. Laruelle

University of Minnesota, Weisman Art Museum, November 17, 2012



The Generic Orientation of Non-Standard Aesthetics



François Laruelle





The Problem to Be Solved



Aesthetics, in particular since Hegel, has been philosophy’s acknowledged domination of art. Philosophy claims to disengage the sense, the truth and the destination of art—and all of this after the event of art’s supposed death. In a less authoritarian and less legislative mode, philosophy…

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Added by Drew S. Burk on October 21, 2013 at 21:00 — 2 Comments

Labo LAPS (France)

In France, the LAPS - Laboratoire des Arts et Philosophies de la Scène - operates at the crossroads between theory and performance practice.

http://labo-laps.com

Added by Flore Garcin-Marrou on October 21, 2013 at 20:13 — 1 Comment

Diaspora Conversation

Diaspora Conversation

Diaspora Conversation is an on-going dialogue between peoples and societies.

We belief identity and power are directly related to dialogue and recognition. The concept of Diaspora Conversations therefore is knowledge-exchange and to contribute to a broad understanding of the complexity of our time.

The African Diasporas self-perception and understanding of its environment is different from…

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Added by Ebriam Kamara on October 12, 2013 at 8:59 — No Comments

I Seminarium Naukowe z Filozofii Performansu - Zaproszenie

                                                   Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie

I Seminarium Naukowe z Filozofii Performansu                   

                                                                                    kampus przy ul. Wóycickiego 1/3, bud. 23

5 czerwca 2013 - środa – g. 9.00 - sala 214

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        Performuj czyli…

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Added by Andrzej Waleszczyński on May 29, 2013 at 13:38 — 2 Comments

On Collaboration

I recently attended a symposium at Middlesex University, On Collaboration 2. After having attended the first of these symposiums and been interested in the variety of responses to the theme of collaboration and my own interest in it I decided to attended this second instalment. Here I want to discuss my own thoughts on the idea of collaboration and my intention for collaborating. After the symposium, my collaborator and I had a disagreement about the why for our working together; her…

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Added by Chris Green on May 21, 2013 at 0:23 — No Comments

Silence at Staging a New Field conference

Notes on An Invitation to Participate in a Performance of Silence:

This invitation was presented in a leaflet at the beginning of the conference ‘What is Performance Philosophy: Staging a New Field’. A copy was anonymously left on each chair in the lecture theatre.  These are notes made in diary form throughout the conference, followed by reflections on reactions to the invitation. At the end is the extended proposal further contextualising the performance. 

1. Initial attempts…

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Added by Katheryn Owens on April 23, 2013 at 23:09 — 1 Comment

Silence

“On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: ‘Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.’ The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay … The superego…

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Added by Chris Green on April 21, 2013 at 11:42 — No Comments

Performance as Response

I was so happy to get Laura’s email asking for the participants’ feedback mostly because the truth is that I wanted to share my thoughts on others’ thoughts. But why? What is it that makes us wanting, perhaps needing or even feeling obliged to response? Otherness. In a sense, all performance can perhaps be perceived as a response.

What’s love got to do with it? Perhaps that all life performance is generated through acts of love. In practice and literally through making love (much much…

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Added by Stefania Mylona on April 17, 2013 at 17:29 — No Comments

Reflections after Performance Philosophy at Trinity Laban - March 2013

Jonathan Clark kindly invited me to give a talk on PP at Trinity Laban yesterday evening - a really welcome opportunity, for me at least, to think through my sense of where Performance Philosophy is at thus far and where it might go in future. In particular though it was great to meet so many researchers from across the disciplines, though particularly Music and Dance, who are concerned with a lot of the same issues that have been bugging me for years. We talked a lot, for instance, about…

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Added by Laura Cull on March 28, 2013 at 16:14 — 1 Comment

Syngram - for an ethics of technique

This paper will focus on the body and its relation to subjectivity and practices, taking on Foucault's and Deleuze's philosophies, and through the presentation this newly created concept, the syngram, one that…

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Added by Fernando Machado Silva on March 22, 2013 at 0:42 — No Comments

Preview benefit for "Theorems, Proofs, Rebuttals, and Propositions: A Conference of Theoretical Theater"

Dear friends, 

As some of you know, I have been working with Esther Neff on an independent conference to gather people from various disciplines to theorize together prompted by --and through-- specific acts of performance. "Theorems, Proofs, Rebuttals, and Propositions: A Conference of Theoretical Theater" will happen in September 2013, in New York. (For more info: …

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Added by Yelena Gluzman on March 5, 2013 at 22:19 — No Comments

The limits of 'field thinking'

I have had the pleasure to spend much of the last couple of weeks reading through the great quality and quantity of proposals that we received for the Performance Philosophy conference in April. (NB. Decisions will be out by Jan 15th once the organizing committee have had a chance to meet and confer).



What was fantastic and thought-provoking was the number of papers that really dealt with the questions of the CFP head on - particularly perhaps the question of what the future of this… Continue

Added by Laura Cull on January 3, 2013 at 10:47 — 1 Comment

Old news

Hello. I have recently returned to, spruced up and tagged my blog "Unattended Articles". Have a sift. There's a post here that perhaps serves as an introduction - Reality: A User's Guide. Thanks. http://slepkane.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/reality-users-guide.html

Added by Simon Kane on November 19, 2012 at 11:04 — No Comments

New Philosophy Journal

A new journal hass been founded: Sublin/mes. philosophieren von unten. a queer reviewed journal. The first issue will be published soon.

http://sublinesblog.wordpress.com/

A liquid Manifesto

What is philosophizing from below and why do we affirm it unconditionally?

Philosophizing from below is affective, bodily, precarious, rhizomatic,…

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Added by Esther Hutfless on November 16, 2012 at 9:37 — No Comments

Barthes and Performance

' To stay still and to step aside, both pertain in the end to a method of performance, to play. So it is not surprising that on the impossible horizon of the anarchy of language, at that point where language tries to escape the power inherent in it, to escape its own servility, one finds something that relates to theatre. To indicate the impossible limit of language I have cited two authors : Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Both of them write , nevertheless. But what was at sake for both of…

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Added by Patrick ffrench on October 17, 2012 at 20:33 — No Comments

Caroline Bergvall event in Cambridge

To mark Caroline Bergvall's arrival as the incoming Judith E Wilson visiting fellow, there will be a special poetry event in the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.



Monday 15th October, 8 pm.



Caroline Bergvall and Lisa Robertson will present and read from their work.



All welcome.



Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP



Caroline Bergvall is a poet of…

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Added by Drew Milne on October 12, 2012 at 12:00 — No Comments

The Worth of Words

Gay McAuley's talk at the TFTS Department in Aberystwyth yesterday made me wonder about the worth of words.

She spoke of a 'wave of official apologies' that were happening across the globe and - if I remember correctly - that she deemed 'necessary'. Perhaps my issue is as much with the politics of such a gesture - the official apology - as with the word 'necessary'. Necessity indicates need, at least to me, especially since it stems from Latin, 'indispensable'. Is there a need for an…

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Added by Lara Kipp on October 11, 2012 at 21:00 — No Comments

Pavis, Performance Analysis and Perception

Upon reading Pavis' 'Analyzing Performance' (p. 24: "theater lovers capable of feeling and understanding the sensations and movements of their own bodies, [...] the bodies of performers [...] as an auto-bio-graphy in its true sense..."; italics not mine) I wonder: How do we get there? Is practice (i.e. constant exposure to various forms of performance) enough? Do you need to train yourself to "perceiv[e] 'thought-in-action'"? It cannot depend upon the often referred to suspension of…

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Added by Lara Kipp on October 3, 2012 at 15:30 — No Comments

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