World premiere of Transfigured Night: a conversation with Alphonso Lingis
- Year
- 2013
Transfigured Night is the record of an exchange between the celebrated American philosopher and anthropologist Alphonso Lingis and the performance theorist Adrian Heathfield, filmed by Hugo Glendinning. The film assembles a rich patchwork of fragments taken from their dialogue over a period of two days at Lingis’ house near Baltimore.
The DVD of Transfigured Night will be released as part of the Crossovers DVD series of artists’ films, documentaries and dialogues developed from Performance Matters projects between 2010 and 2011.
Thursday 13 June, 2013, 6pm – 7.30pm
Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London, E1 7QX
Tickets £8 / £6 concessions (£4 Members).
Part of Crossovers
Screenings, talks and a DVD series of artists’ films, documentaries and dialogues, concluding Performance Matters
Crossovers
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