Title: Inscribing Movement: articulating strategies for live writing processes 4. Nik Wakefield Title: Bergsonian Memory and Duration in Performance and Documentation Workshop IVY Dance Studio Volunteer assistant: Melina Scialom Andrew Armitage Ethnographic Verse as Performative Storytelling: The Poetry of Working Lives 1-2 Lunch [finger buffet] on Lower Concourse 2-3.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS no. 2 Panel 1. Griffiths Lecture Theatre Chair: Dan Watt Volunteer assistant: Jenny Mahon Theatre & Political Economy 1. Tony Fisher Title: Towards a Critique of the ‘Political Economy’ of the Theatre – the Society of the Spectacle in Rousseau’s Letter to D’Alembert 2. Eve Katsouraki Value Ratios of Cruelty; Animal, Economy and Performance 3. Louise Owen Panel 2. Lecture Theatre E Matt Wagner Volunteer assistant: Melina Scialom Matter, Body, Motion: A Phenomenology of the Shakespearean Stage 1. Matt Wagner Title: Wheresoever the Body Is 2. Anne Sophie Haahr Refskou Title: The Winter’s Tale: Textual Gesture and the Actor’s Body 3. tbc 3. Lecture Theatre B Chair: Tomas McAuley Volunteer assistant: Laura Robinson Questioning ‘authenticity’ in music performance 1. Morton T. Wan Title: Glenn Gould: Performance as Poststructuralist Discourse 2. Joke Kremer Romp On the role of the body in performing (authentically) and experiencing (authentic) mediatized performance
Laura Robinson Title: Before Culture and Aesthetics. Ethical and Performative Imperatives 3. Barbara Gronau Title: Performing Abstention 2. Lecture Theatre E Laura Cull Volunteer assistant: Daniel Koczy Dramatizing Deleuze and Guattari 1. Blaise Verrier The Traitor: On Sartre and Deleuze 2. Iain MacKenzie The art of sustainable resistance: Or, why Johnny may have been right after all Panel 3. Lecture Theatre B Chair: Dan Watt Volunteer assistant: Melina Scialom Eva Aymami Reñe (Re)Thinking the body 1. Martin Leach Title: Attention! … There is No ‘Body’: Performance and the Quickening of Being 2. Hilan Bensusan Title: Heterochrony and the body of an urge: A study on the tectonics of the event Panel 4. Lecture Theatre F Chair: Will Daddario Volunteer assistant: Natasha Warmer Adorno and Theatre 1. Anja Nowak Title: Adorno and Theatre – An Inventory 2. Marcus THE INTERDEPENDENCY OF PERFORMANCE & PHILOSOPHY. Reflections on the Relationship of Art, Philosophy and Truth in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory 3. Ioana Jucan Title: Concretely General: Performance Philosophy in the Times of the Neoliberal Panel 5. Lecture Theatre L Chair: Eve Katsouraki Volunteer assistant: Dasha Kostkina Shakespeare 1. Philip Watkinson Henri Lefebvre and Performance Analysis: A Approach to Ian Rickson’s Hamlet 2. Erik Schmidt Title: False Gaze: Othello and the problem of ironic deception 3. Mike Pringle Title: Iago’s Illusions: Guerrilla Theater in Othello Workshop Marjorie Gracieuse, Andrea Puerta, Margarita Zafrilla, and Natalie Heller
4. Marcos Steuernagel Deleuze and the performing body in Brazilian contemporary theater and dance. Panel 3. Lecture Theatre L Chair: Volunteer assistant: Melina Scialom From Practitioner Knowledge to Tacit knowledge 1. Rachel Cockburn Title: The biopolitical problem of institutional critique. 2. Lauren Redhead Title: What can practitioner-led performance philosophy contribute to epistemology, or, what do performers know and how do they know it? 3. Hester Title: Double Agent 4. Iwo Zmyślony Title: Why words hurt? Tacit knowledge, verbal overshadowing and musealisation of performance Panel 4. Lecture Theatre F Chair: Tomas McAuley Volunteer assistant: Jason Cooper Music and Philosophy 1. tbc 2. tbc 3. Alessandro Giovannucci Title: Non-performative music genres: a paradoxical way to enhance Performance Philosophy in music? 4. Huw Hallam Panel 5. Lecture Theatre B Chair: Volunteer assistant: Eva Aymami Reñe Performing the Self, Producing Subjectivity 1. Shela Sheikh Title: That simplest of performances, an “I am” 2. Matthew Cawson Title: Philosophy and the Mask 3. Aaron Ellis Title: Toward a Political and Self-Critical Philosophy of Performance
Workshop IVY Studio Volunteer assistant: Niki Taylor Mary Ann Hushlak A Particular Form of Reading and A Particular Approach to Reading The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 11-11.15 Coffee on Lower Concourse 11.15-1.15 PARALLEL SESSIONS no. 5 Panel 1. Lecture Theatre F Volunteer assistant: Jenny Mahon Theatres of Mind: Performance Philosophy in [Mental] Health 1. Evi Stamatiou Title: Physical Theatre and Madness; Foucault’s Madness and Civilization, Peter Brook’s The Man Who and the myth of Persephone 2. Shaun May Title: Performance Philosophy and Folk Psychological Narratives 3. Martin O’Brien Living in Chronic Time: Chronic Illness, Phenomenology and Endurance Art 4. Kélina Gotman Title: Epidemics and Collectivity: Another History of Plague Panel 2. Griffiths Lecture Theatre Chair: Alex Mangold Volunteer assistant: Eva Aymami Reñe Zizek and performance 1. Broderick Chow Title: ‘Je suis Marxiste (tendance Groucho)’: how to do things with jokes 2. Melissa Blanco Borelli Title: ‘Sublime Objects: The Hollywood Dance Film’ 3. M. Boenisch Title: Who’s watching? Me!: Theatrality, the Žižekian Subject and Spectatorship 4. Graham Wolfe Theatre and the Enjoyment of Philosophy: Žižek with Caryl Churchill 3. Lecture Theatre E Philosophy’s Acts 1. Rainer Totzke
Volunteer assistant: Robinson 2. Aharon Amir Cross questioning unknowns with knowing nots 3. Theron Schmidt Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved Workshop IVY Dance Studio Volunteer assistant: Melina Scialom Karen Da Silva “Being” with Character through choreographic approaches. 1.15-2.15 [finger buffet] on Lower Concourse 2.15 -3 3rd plenary: Andrew Bowie Griffiths Lecture Theatre “The Philosophy of Performance and the Performance of Philosophy” 3-3.15 Respondent: McAuley 3.15-3.45 Q&A 3.45-4 Afternoon Tea on Concourse 4-5.30 Plenary with all keynotes Griffiths Lecture Theatre With responses from Freddie Will Daddario, Alice Lagaay and Efrosini Protopapa END OF CONFERENCE What is Performance Philosophy? Schedule with Abstracts Thursday 11th April 8.30-9 Registration and morning coffee on Lower Concourse 9-9.15 Opening Remarks