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
Screenings, talks and a DVD series of artists’ films, documentaries and dialogues, concluding Performance Matters
Read moreCrossovers DVDs
Six DVDs of artists’ films, documentaries and dialogues created through Performance Matters
Read moreMel Brimfield’s This is Performance Art: Parts One and Two at Camden Arts centre, 22 January 2014
Double-bill screening of Mel Brimfield’s ‘This is Performance Art’
Read moreThis Is Not a Dream ‘live’ screening
A path across four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism
Read moreAlso
Floating Cinema – A Smaller Sound, A Bigger Crowd
A film and performance by Ian Giles telling the story of The Docklands Bell
Read moreScottee 10: I Made It
LADA is collaborating with Scottee in 2018 to mark his ten years of survival as an artist
Read morePerformance Matters
A three-year research project bringing together artists and academics to investigate ideas of cultural value.
Read moreSPILL Symposium
A two day gathering of influential international artists, producers and commentators.
Read moreReading Performance Art From Then Till Now
A debate as part of Whitechapel Gallery’s A Short History of Performance season.
Read moreSamra Mayanja – Artist in Residence
In March 2025 we welcomed Samra Mayanja, Claudia Palazzo and Symoné as Artists in Residence.
Read morePERFORMANSSI 2011, Turku, Finland
The Agency curates An Audience With…for European Capital of Culture.
Read more