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Butting Out
Reading wesistive choreographies through works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Chandralekha.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The Renaissance of Ideology - Political Philosophy in the age of Information and Global Networks
Deals very with the struggle to form new, functioning ideologies for the emerging, digital future. Extract from the book The Global Empire.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The Soul at Work
Key member of the Italian Autonomist movement and a close associate of Félix Guattari argues that the Marxist/Hegelian concept of alienation and the communal bonds arising from the collective experience of the workforce are under erosion in today’s technological society,
‘We keep our biologies intimate’ : Zoedramatics in bio/interspecies performance
Draws on Kira O’Reilly’s on-going bio-art performance experimentations and Matthew Herbert’s experimental music performance One Pig to rethink the theoretical and performative engagement with animals and the vitality of life in its broadest sense.
Mirror/Water: Reflections on Stasis and Liquidity in Performance
MA Performance Thesis, 2016.
Visual Cultures as Seriousness
What is seriousness exactly, and where does it reside? Is it a desirable value in contemporary culture? Or is it bound up with elite class and institutional cultures?
Relational Aesthetics
Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
Awkwardness
Argues that the awkwardness of our age is a key to understanding human experience.
Towards an embodied poetics of failure
Exploration of violence and trauma in needcompany’s Marketplace 76.
Enmeshed bodies, impossible touch: the object-oriented world of Pina Bausch’s Café Müller
The addresses the nonhuman bodies of Café Müller and claim that Bausch’s piece resonates with the work of contemporary philosopher Graham Harman, in that it tries to go beyond human exceptionalism to present a world where all bodies, regardless of their perceived nature, are simultaneously tightly enmeshed together and inaccessible to one another.
Towards a Poiesis of Critical Practice: 1000th LIVE and the politics of appearance
On the process and politics of live critical responses to a live stream of Forced Entertainment’s And on a Thousandth Night.
Creating by Annotating: The director’s notebooks of Jan Fabre and Jan Lauwers
Reversing the common understanding of annotation as a posterior act of adding information to already existing sources, this article argues that annotation also serves as a pre-performance procedure facilitating artistic creation.
