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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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EXHIBITION OF THE EXHIBITION / PERFORMING THE INSTALLATION

EXHIBITION OF THE EXHIBITION / PERFORMING THE INSTALLATION

Remarks on the exhibition Se rappeler qu'une oeuvre...

Online article at: 

https://ensa-limoges.academia.edu/AllenAlainViguier/Papers

Added by Allen Alain Viguier on August 5, 2015 at 16:56 — No Comments

Ron Athey In Conversation with Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage)

Ron Athey. Incorruptible Flesh. Glasgow, 2006. Photo by Manuel Vason.

This recent conversation I have had with Ron Athey, one of the most outstanding ground-breaking performance artists of our times, has been made exclusively for LADA (Live Art…

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Added by Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage) on July 31, 2015 at 20:00 — No Comments

TWO BODIES IN SPACE | Durational Performance: The Quest of Authenticity in the VestAndPage Experience.

  VestAndPage. La Promenade du Sceptique. Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, 2011. Photo by Andrea Morucchio.

To the kind attention of anyone interested in the subjects of: durational performance, endurance, risk-taking, emotional intelligence and performing philosophy.

"Andrea…

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Added by Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage) on July 31, 2015 at 18:00 — No Comments

State of Encounter

Cuando nadie pregunta qué es Estado de Encuentro lo que viene a mí es una decepción en lo que hacemos. Pero eso respondería el por qué mas no el qué.

Encontrar algo/alguien/alguno que satisfaga lo qué somos se vuelve más complicado en lo que hacemos.

Analizar etimológicamente Estado de Encuentro respondería a la parte racional y no…

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Added by Chris Frias on July 20, 2015 at 15:49 — No Comments

Impossible Theatres

The Impossible Theatres project intends to gather together a range of opinions on how best to contextualize, theorize and ultimately construct contemporary performance spaces. Below is an opening statement intended to initiate this process and we invite you to respond to it. Responses can be in the form of an open forum for comments, and a private channel for longer and more considered responses. The intention is to collate responses and to invite respondents to a working group meeting…

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Added by Hannah Lammin on April 15, 2015 at 11:00 — No Comments

ORNAMENTING (force) an ECOLOGY of TRUST (form): Exploring Force and Form through Performance /Performativity

23 April, 2015, 

Pǝ'fɔ:m(ǝ)ns PERFORMANCE/PERFORMATIVITY CROSS FACULTY GROUP

Faculty of Fine, Applied And Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg

 "Let them burn down the library in Alexandria. There are powers above and beyond papyri. We may be temporarily deprived of the ability to…

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Added by Elisabeth Belgrano on April 12, 2015 at 22:24 — No Comments

63 variations on the body — Open call for Composers

AMAE/DE PINTO 58 (+1) INDICES ON THE BODY

63 variations on the body — Open call for Composers

deadline September 30th, 2015

After the launch of the project on Soundcloud, featuring Jean-Luc Nancy’s recorded voice reading his treaty 58 Indices on the body, it is now time to turn the text into music. For this…

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Added by AMAE/DEPINTO on March 31, 2015 at 12:32 — No Comments

Kontrapunkt # 4 - Dance and Art at the Tel Aviv Museum

Hi all,

please let me know if you're around. would love to see you there.



info:

www.tamuseum.org.il/en/event-item/35123

this is how it looked like last time:

www.vimeo.com/116194250

The series Kontrapunkt brings together dance and visual art in…

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Added by Lior Avizoor on January 22, 2015 at 20:46 — No Comments

History, Memory, Performance

History, Memory, Performance

Edited by David DeanYana MeerzonKathryn Prince

Palgrave, 2014

History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays…

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Added by Yana meerzon on January 17, 2015 at 20:53 — No Comments

MA Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy & MFA Directing for the Theatre, University of Ottawa

Master of Arts in Theatre (MA) (Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy)…
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Added by Yana meerzon on January 17, 2015 at 20:45 — No Comments

Article on Time-specificity of Performance

In Choreographic Practices, about the works of the three Janez Janšas, Every House Has a Door, Tehching Hsieh and the philosophy of Henri Bergson.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/chor.5.2.183_1

Added by Nik Wakefield on January 2, 2015 at 16:33 — No Comments

Crisis, Critique, and the Possibilities of the Political

EIRINI AVRAMOPOULOU interviews Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou apropos the

publication of their book

Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2013)

Introduction to the Interview

By intertwining significant philosophical questions on subjectivity, precarity, biopolitics and performativity with contemporary dilemmas on acts of dissidence, collective protests, activism…

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Added by Anna Street on October 15, 2014 at 21:03 — No Comments

Reading Butler: speculations on the limitations of Brecht

Reading Butler: speculations on the limitations of Brecht

 

The focus of this article is on integrating the contributions made by Butler’s work to an understanding and expansion of performance and, in particular, what is called the Brechtian method. The following was written between 2008 and 2010 as part of my first thesis and rather than develop a purely theoretical formulation of any…

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Added by Jena A Zelezny on October 14, 2014 at 9:19 — No Comments

Call for Articles on Adorno

Call for Articles: The European Legacy’s Special Issue on the Legacy of Adorno’s Criticism in Aesthetics and Performance  

 

Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth-century, Theodor Adorno’s work ranges from cultural criticism, Marxism, and aesthetic theory to philosophy and sociology.  A trained musician, his work demonstrates an unusual balance between theory and praxis, a combination that distinguishes him from many other critical…

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Added by Karoline Gritzner on October 8, 2014 at 15:33 — No Comments

Kkkaaa

An homage to the dialect of the place I grew up in. Glottals like hawking up phlegm or a kick in the balls,…

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Added by robin bale on October 7, 2014 at 18:12 — No Comments

SPHINX SONG


Myself and the Bike Cemetery Big Band in 2014

Added by robin bale on October 7, 2014 at 17:56 — No Comments

Judith Butler: performativity and dramaturgy

Judith Butler: performativity and dramaturgy

Dr Jena A Zelezny (2010)

 

Judith Butler’s work is widely known and sometimes only known, for the theory outlined in ‘Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory’ (Theatre Journal 1988), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), and Bodies…

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Added by Jena A Zelezny on October 6, 2014 at 10:44 — 3 Comments

At the borders of the Known: the Uncanny

Hi all,

I've just posted a new event- please check it out.

dance performance, exhibition and a lecture at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, October 25th.

let me know if you can make it...

Added by Lior Avizoor on October 4, 2014 at 16:50 — No Comments

The Theatre and Focusing a double Process

I was born and raised in Germany where I studied music and dramatic arts. I worked for many years as a theatre director in Germany, but in 1994 I followed an inner impulse and moved to Athens, Greece. I now work in Greece as a theatre director and acting teacher at several drama schools.

I have always considered Greece the birthplace of western theatre, and Athens seemed like the right place to research the universal theatrical language and perhaps to discover the secrets behind the…

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Added by Michael Seibel on September 26, 2014 at 17:00 — No Comments

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