AJASO collective (Toulouse Le Mirail University) : « Àjáso. A philoperformance ». Under the aegis of the philosophy research laboratory at the University of Toulouse 2, an informal group of lecturers, researchers and international PhD students from the Erasmus Mundus Europhilosophy program … Lire la suite
“Top Girls celebrating the Bottomed Out Phallus: a Dialogue between Judith Butler and Jacques Lacan on Caryl Churchill’s Play” In keeping with the project of the “Theatre, Performance, Philosophy” conference, this paper proposes to revive a conversation between the French psychoanalyst … Lire la suite
Workshop: The Chelsea Manning Project From the Dreyfus Affair to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, many of the most important ideological and political debates of the past 150 years played out in public trials and hearings. Courtrooms became a heavily contested … Lire la suite
“Performance, Dada and Gaga, in the Posthuman World” Are we human or are we dancers? “Human” Brandon Flowers, The Killers In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam charges us to start a revolution, create … Lire la suite
The coming singularity of posthumanism Posthumanist theorists since the late eighties have tried to redefine man in this late capitalist age of proliferation of technological tools, objects and networks. Their work could be seen as a response to the calls … Lire la suite
“The Broken ‘Devil’ of Comox Street: Daniel MacIvor, Tennessee Williams and Canadian Biodrama” Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor’s play His Greatness (2007) dramatizes the apocryphal stories ofTennessee Williams’s brief stint in Vancouver as a Writer-in-Residence at the University of British Columbia … Lire la suite
Aux marges de la performativité : allers-retours entre la philosophie anglo-américaine et la philosophie française. Aujourd’hui, les Performing arts se nourrissent doublement de la philosophie anglo-américaine et de la philosophie française afin de questionner ses possibilités expressives et le concept même … Lire la suite
L’idée de « liminalité » dans la dramaturgie et la performance. Il s’agit de montrer que la dramaturgie et la performance sont des pratiques de l’émancipation qui ne font pas l’économie d’une référence et d’une réflexion identitaire, d’un sujet porteur de processus … Lire la suite
Philosophy Through Performance: the example of Bad.co Through an interdisciplinary approach, Philosophy Through Performance: the example of Bad.co will attempt to open theoretical discourse about teaching philosophy through performance within the example of a collaborative performance collective from Zagreb (Croatia), named BADco. … Lire la suite
Before your very eyes et Rhythm Conference feat. Inner Splits : réflexions performatives de l’identité performative. Nous aimerions nous concentrer sur deux exemples de performances qui illustrent les réflexions de Judith Butler sur l’identité performative, et qui les dépassent peut-être également. … Lire la suite
L’autre scène performative. Psychanalyse et gender studies : quitter la scène oedipienne s’en rejoindre la société du spectacle et inventer de nouveaux maniements du transfert. Depuis la publication des travaux de Judith Butler et des théories queer en général, les questions … Lire la suite
Participatory Dutch Theatre as Philosophical Practice This paper aims at understanding participatory theatre as a philosophical practice through categorizing the aesthetic act of the performance as both an intellectual practice and an event of everyday life. In this process, the … Lire la suite
“The Contemporary Quarrel Between Performance and Literature: Reflections on the Development of Performance Philosophy” On casual reflection, the Performance Philosophy movement might be considered significant if for no other reason than it seems to announce the suturing of the rupture … Lire la suite
Théâtralité du pragmatisme : la persona chez Gertrude Stein et George Herbert Mead La rencontre entre philosophie et théâtre dans la pensée étatsunienne contemporaine met en scène les deux figures cardinales que sont Gertrude Stein et George Herbert Mead. L’écriture dramatique … Lire la suite
Laura Cull will be the respondent to Martin Puchner’s plenary lecture on June 26 at 11am. / Laura Cull sera discutante de la conférence plénière de Martin Puchner le jeudi 26 juin à 11h. Laura Cull is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies and Director of … Lire la suite
Mimesis Restored: Can Performance Studies Offer a New Epistemological Perspective for the Humanities? Interactions among the arts are dramatically increasing today, challenging academic views which formerly strictly separated one realm from the other. Beyond the idea of the work of … Lire la suite
Du devenir performatif des écritures émergentes : l’exemple de Nous les vagues (2011) de Mariette Navarro À partir de l’étude de différentes productions de Nous les vagues (2011) de Mariette Navarro, il s’agira de s’interroger dans cette communication sur le devenir … Lire la suite
Performative Lecture: Praxis, Praxis! Exhibiting live and experimental performance presents several challenges interesting to both philosophers and practitioners. Outlining those challenges from the practitioners’ viewpoint, namely that of organizers and curators from Dimanche Rouge, Praxis, Praxis! advocates for a close dialog … Lire la suite
Philosophy and Aesthetics in Nigerian Drama: the Hagherian Experience Dramatists the world over have at different times attempted to seek deeper understanding of their respective societies using dramatic techniques that are unique to them as individuals with varying ideologies. In … Lire la suite
Nicolas Doutey est modérateur de l’atelier pratique du samedi 28 juin, de 9h15 à 10h45 avec Michael Groneberg, Aline Wiame et Fabrizio Terranova. Nicolas Doutey, normalien agrégé, docteur en littérature française. Il est l’auteur d’une thèse sur l’idée beckettienne de … Lire la suite
Mediatized Senses: Phenomenologies of the Post-Human Performer French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work and ideas define phenomenology, the perhaps most useful branch of philosophy in analyzing contemporary performances that are marked by their use of digital media and electronic technologies — … Lire la suite
La skênê de la traduction : performativité d’un chantier littéraire Si traduire relève de l’une des plus anciennes pratiques humaines, il est légitime de s’interroger aujourd’hui sur ce geste, à l’aune des mass media, favorisant la circulation de certaines écritures théâtrales … Lire la suite
“The Cube Project: Research in Object-Oriented Performance” The Cube Project uses performance to study the interaction of human beings and information through the language of philosophy. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, Bruno Latour, N. Katherine Hayles, Judith Butler, Graham … Lire la suite
The Discourse on Theatre – Plato, Foucault and a Critical History of the Stage In The Drama of Ideas, Martin Puchner makes the case for re-evaluating the role that Plato plays in the formation of the modern European stage, proclaiming: … Lire la suite
Performance in Postmodern Culture, Milwaukee, 1977 : un colloque aux échos très contemporains. Le colloque américain de Milwaukee Performance in Postmodern Culture (1977, organisé par Michel Benamou) constitue un moment décisif dans la construction de la notion contemporaine de performance (entendue … Lire la suite
“Kx4l3ndj34r Katastronauci: How to Do Things with Worlds” Kx4l3ndj34r Katastronauci: How to Do Things with Worlds approaches the 1986 Challenger disaster through a specific constellation of historical, fictional, and philosophical materials in order to reflect on contemporary creativity and world- building across the … Lire la suite
From Exodus to Creativity: The Performative War Machines of Alterglobalization Movements Through the first cycle of global resistance movement, the alterglobalization movement (1994-2003), a hot pot of social experimentation took shape. During this long decade, new forms of struggle and … Lire la suite
Comment Avital Ronell performe-t-elle la pensée ? Il s’agit, à partir des ouvrages traduits en français d’Avital Ronell, de mesurer à quel point la pensée philosophique gagne à être dramatisée, incarnée, parlée et de proposer une définition de la philo-performance, … Lire la suite
Penser le « théâtre dématérialisé » de Tim Crouch et Andy Smith comme une philosophie de l’esprit dans An Oak Tree (2005) et Commonwealth (2012). Notre communication se penche sur l’une des voix distinctives du théâtre britannique ultra-contemporain, l’auteur et performeur Tim Crouch, … Lire la suite
« The performative turn » à l’épreuve du théâtre français actuel. Si les ouvrages d’Erika Fischer-Lichte n’ont pas encore été traduit en français, ils l’ont été en anglais car considérés par Marvin Carlson comme « a continental perspective » nourrie des avancées … Lire la suite
What-There-Is: Theater as Method, Theory as Theater Even as performativity is invoked to counter impasses in philosophy, queer studies, science and technology studies, history, and literary theory, theorists are quick to differentiate between processual performativity and representationalist theater. As Shannon … Lire la suite
Mapping Interiors in Theatre and Philosophy In my book The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater (published by Stanford University Press in 2013), I demonstrate how theatre history helps us to understand Descartes’s doctrine of mind-body union … Lire la suite
« Performer l’Anti-Narcisse. Rikbaktsá Descartes ou l’Indien habillé en sénateur d’Empire ». Je poserai la question de l’apport de la performance à la philosophie, de ce que la performance fait à la philosophie à partir d’un autre déplacement : celui que suggère le … Lire la suite
Ek-static historical experience: performance, antiquity, artefactuality In 1765, the young Johann Gottfried Herder stood before a feast of St. John near Riga, contemplating what he described as “living remains” of “ancient savage songs, of rhythmic movement and dance still present … Lire la suite
“From Burden to Blaine: The Way of Endurance as Performance Philosophy” In the 1970s, Chris Burden shocked the American public with performance art that caused radical discomfort in his audience, showcasing his endurance of hardship as a form of artistic … Lire la suite
From the Theatrical to the Performative in Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy Between 1936-42, in the wake of his frustration with the failure of Being and Time to escape the language and thinking of metaphysics, Martin Heidegger embarked on a series … Lire la suite
Les Maîtres de la Caverne encouragent et soutiennent les étudiant-e-s et collègues à l’Université de Lausanne qui désirent mettre leurs réflexions en œuvre. Quelques exemples de ces productions peuvent être présentés afin d’illustrer la présentation. L’approche de la Caverne, affilée à la … Lire la suite
Présidente de séance. Evelyne Grossman est professeur à l’Université Paris Diderot et ancienne présidente du Collège international de philosophie. Spécialiste de théorie littéraire, elle inscrit ses recherches au croisement de la littérature, de la philosophie et de la psychanalyse. Editrice chez … Lire la suite
Rethinking Aesthetic Value and Judgment: Dramaturgy and the Ethics of Care Why do performances matter as works of art? How do we find one-off encounters with live art meaningful in and beyond the present moment of the aesthetic event? For … Lire la suite
Anarchistory of Performance, a heresy in action There are performances that have no fixed abode in the Arts. Invisible to the norm, unnamed, they dwell a nomadic and unsettled condition, disappearing as surplus holes of the situation. Through a subtractive … Lire la suite
Ce que le tournant pragmatique fait à nos façons de penser le théâtre en France Il s’agira de mettre en perspective le pragmatisme américain (Dewey/Shusterman d’un côté, la pragmatique linguistique de l’autre), le pragmatisme français (Boltanski, Thévenot) et les scènes … Lire la suite
Philosophies of Spectatorship after 1945 If there is a divide between philosophical approaches to theater in Anglo-American and continental thought, how does this divide mark contrasting theories of spectatorship? So large a question might organize a history of philosophical thinking … Lire la suite
Who Are the Puppeteers? The Current Philosophical Conflict Over Plato’s Work in Stage Since Greek Antiquity, the encounter between philosophy and theatre has been marked by disagreement. In such contentious space another term emerges: politics. In this paper I will … Lire la suite
Performance et défaut de présence : le théâtre de la mise à l’épreuve Les propositions de la philosophie américaine contemporaine invitent à repenser la performance théâtrale, à se ressaisir de la question de la présence scénique, un des fondements de ce que … Lire la suite
Charlotte Hess est danseuse de tango argentin, performeuse et chercheuse indépendante. Elle a travaillé pendant dix ans dans la compagnie Argentina et assure aujourd’hui la direction artistique et pédagogique de l’association Mordida de tango. Elle a suivi une double formation … Lire la suite
‘HEGEL SAYS’: ventriloquising the word (of) ‘HIM’ with Anne Carson’s Antigonick. Anne Carson’s recent ‘translation’ of Sophokles Ancient tragedy – enigmatically retitled Antigonick (Carson 2012) – can be read as a contemporary feminist coup de théâtre, and constitutes an important case study in the emergent field of Performance Philosophy. Here, the … Lire la suite
“’Gender Discombobulation’: Articulating the Phobia in Homophobia” On January 11th 2014, Rory O’Neill aka Panti Bliss (Ireland’s premier drag queen) appeared on The Saturday Night Show, a talk show for the national broadcaster RTE, where he identified opinion columnists and … Lire la suite
“Boring Myself to Death”: The thanatotic theater of Hedda Gabler In No Future, Lee Edelman has theorized queerness through the figure of the “sinthomosexual,” one who rejects the imperatives of sexual and societal reproduction and openly wields the negativity of … Lire la suite
Unaccomodated Kings on Stage: Cavell and the Curse of Theatricality In an effort to approach the larger question of the importance of theater to the philosophical thought of Stanley Cavell – and especially to his interests in moral perfectionism, modernism, … Lire la suite
Giving birth to ‘a third world as work in common and space-time to be shared’. The importance of Irigaray and Butler to staging Kane’s Cleansed (1998). The paper draws on dramaturgical enquiry into Sarah Kane’s 1998 play Cleansed, carried out … Lire la suite
Exploring Identity and Difference in Edward Bond’s Tune. Theatre in Education Company Big Brum regularly wrestle in rehearsal with complex interactions between coded and uncoded states in the plays that Bond writes for them. In Tune (2011) Robert, angered by his mother’s … Lire la suite
Metamimesis as co-knowing and co-making Metamimesis refers to the ancient category of mimesis (Halliwell), modified to account for the modern tendencies stemming from Romanticism (Pirholt). The inherent criteria of metamimesis were determined by A. Elias, who analyzed the British literary … Lire la suite
THE SCENE OF PERFORMANCE? A Lecture-Workshop by Esa Kirkkopelto, University of the Arts Helsinki This lecture workshop studies what a ‘performative element’ is like and how each one of us can become such an element. The event consists of three … Lire la suite
On Repetition and Theatricality: A Dialogue with Samuel Weber’s Thought (Through Kierkegaard, Freud, Lacan and Deleuze) Through Kierkegaard’s concept of Gjentagelse, I will delineate the concept of productive repetition and show its fundamental connection to theatricality. I will do this … Lire la suite
“Moving Ethically and Performing Positive Affirmation” In this paper, I argue that performance is ethical multiplicity—ethical because performance is articulable and multiplicity because it is always becomings as and alongside affect. Performance is then responsibility without identity and through affirmation. … Lire la suite
Ludic and absurd theatre as political strategy in context of performative theory In my presentation, I wish to discuss Judith Butler’s book Giving an Account of Oneself in relation to the specific features of Central European avant-garde theater (Václav Havel, … Lire la suite
Alice Lagaay will be the respondent to Avital Ronell’s plenary lecture on June 28 at 2pm. / Alice Lagaay sera discutante de la conférence plénière d’Avital Ronell le samedi 28 juin de 14h à 14h45. Alice Lagaay grew up in … Lire la suite
Performance, représentation et paradigme théâtral dans la sociologie goffmanienne. De la métaphore dramaturgique au concept sociologique, ou : ce que la métaphore théâtrale permet de penser en sociologie The presentation of self in everyday life (1956/1959) développait ce que Manning a … Lire la suite
Playing with the King’s Two Bodies: Schmitt, Kantorowicz, and the Role of Theatricality In the past few decades, Anglo-American academic discourse has often pitted theatricality and performativity (and theatre against performance), with the former usually designating artificiality, make-believe, and duplicity, … Lire la suite
Camille Louis est dramaturge, doctorante et enseignante en Philosophie à l’Université Paris 8 (titre de sa thèse : « La recomposition du Politique dans la décomposition des politiques », sous la direction de Bertrand Ogilvie). Ses recherches s’inscrivent dans le mouvement des … Lire la suite
Performative Disciplinarity in Alternate Reality From Foucault to McKenzie and Beyond For Foucault, discipline was a subtle form of power that coerced the body in order to control its movements, attitudes and moods. A disciplined body was thus a body … Lire la suite
Lussac, Olivier (Université de Lorraine) et Barbéris, Isabelle (Université Paris-Diderot) : L’idée de « liminalité » dans la dramaturgie et la performance. Cf. Barbéris, Isabelle.
From the U.S. With Love Format: Multimedia, multi-sensory, site-specific, participatory performance Length: Durational throughout the conference, culminating in a final live 60-minute participatory performance In this site-specific, multi-sensory, participatory performance From the U.S. With Love we will create a space for meditation … Lire la suite
La pensée de Jacques Derrida dans le questionnement théorique anglo-américain sur le théâtre et la performance. Le poststructuralisme a fortement transformé la manière de penser le théâtre et stimulé le développement des recherches sur la performance. Si l’on observe attentivement … Lire la suite
“Anglo-American thought’s domination in the new media plays. Analysis of the Skype Duet, Harket [Protocolo] and 9 días de Guerra en Facebook.” In this paper the main argument spins around the Anglo-American thought’s predominance in the scenic projects that use … Lire la suite
Mayer, Ralo (Austria), Frackowiak, Bartek (Poland), McKenzie, Jon (USA): “Kx4l3ndj34r Katastronauci: How to Do Things with Worlds” https://tpp2014.com/en-us/workshops/
How are we supposed to respond?: the presence of performers perceived to have intellectual disabilities interrogating ethics and spectatorship in contemporary performance At the beginning of Jerome Bel’s Disabled Theatre Julia Hausermann from Theater Hora comes to the microphone gives … Lire la suite
Theatre theory and the new textualities of criticism This paper will look at three recent theoretical texts, Howard Barker’s Death, the One and the Art of Theatre, Daniel Mesguich’s L’éternel éphémère and Alain Badiou’s Rhapsody for the Theatre. It will … Lire la suite
… with Mayer, Ralo (Austria), Frackowiak, Bartek (Poland): “Kx4l3ndj34r Katastronauci: How to Do Things with Worlds” https://tpp2014.com/en-us/workshops/
Performing Dispossession: Samuel Beckett’s Theatre The intersections between Samuel Beckett’s work and philosophy are well documented: both his own reading in philosophy as a young man, and the contemporary philosophers (such as Derrida, Cixous, Badiou and Deleuze) who ‘think through’ … Lire la suite
Centered in a Void: Marina Abramovic’s The Artist Is Present Seemingly simple in its conception, Marina Abramović’s 2010 performance piece The Artist Is Present confronts one with radical uncertainty in deciding how to interpret a piece that ostensibly refuses to … Lire la suite
Aristotle’s Philosophical Reframing of Greek Tragedy: A New Interpretation of an Old Misunderstanding Aristotle’s philosophical reframing of Greek tragedy has dominated Western literary and theatrical theory for centuries. Brecht and, more recently, postdramatic theatre, have defined themselves in part by … Lire la suite
Wittgenstein and performance theory It is amazing how Wittgenstein ideas (especially the ones in his last books) have not known more theoretical developments (at least as vast as Deleuzian theories) in the domain of the performing arts. We propose to … Lire la suite
Rythme et présence dans un espace théâtral numérique La présente communication se veut le pendant théorique d’un travail artistique en cours à l’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, où nous développons une pièce de théâtre faisant usage, certes, d’acteurs physiques, … Lire la suite
Performance, Participation, Collaboration: Reenactments and changes in regulative ideas. In this presentation, I discuss my post-doctoral work on Allan Kaprow’s retrospective Art as Life (2006-2008; Munich, Eindhoven, Bern, and Los Angeles), showing changes between historic performances since the 1960s and … Lire la suite
Slain by the theatre: philosophical encounters with metatheatrical corpses “Theatre, Performance, Philosophy” – the list that forms the title of this conference suggests an equilibrium between the three concepts that is far from stable. In fact, to think these three … Lire la suite
John Mullarkey will be the respondent to Catherine Malabou’s plenary lecture on June 27 at 11am. / John Mullarkey sera discutant de la conférence plénière de Catherine Malabou le vendredi 27 juin à 11h. John Mullarkey is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Kingston University, … Lire la suite
Toward an Aesthetic Discursive Approach To Ethical Matters Could we move from a theoretical examination of the aesthetic to an ethical approach to the problems of the world? In her perceptive book, Precarious Life (2004), Butler has examined the interplay … Lire la suite
Staging the Archival Baroque: Ben Rubin and Elevator Repair Service Bridge Philosophy and Performance I propose a paper that reflects on theories of the subject in relation to recent philosophical emphases on the baroque and the archive – the subject … Lire la suite
… with Lowe, Daniel (British Library, London): Mimesis, Collaborative Encounter and the Ethnographic Sensibility: scenes from an impure discipline. Caroline (anthropologist / Eddie) and Daniel (historian / Princess) present continuities between performance and performativity and the process-practice of plasticity as … Lire la suite
“Karl Marx Staging ‘English’” In 1862 Karl Marx published in a Viennese newspaper a short article called « English » (the title was left in English in the original) that, among many things, discussed Shakespeare, the nature of individuality, the English painter … Lire la suite
The Art of Interview: Toward a Queer Performance of Philosophy « Everyone should partner up with the questioning other whose smile one cannot entirely decipher. » — Avital Ronell In « What is a Dispositif? » Gilles Deleuze makes an important, yet little discussed, … Lire la suite
Le théâtre contemporain est-il cynique ou éthique ? Toute forme d’art ou d’activité humaine est sous-tendue par une philosophie, même si elle n’est pas explicite. Le théâtre contemporain britannique s’est longtemps inspiré d’une idéologie politique, dont le substrat philosophique était la … Lire la suite
Marielle Pélisséro sera la modératrice de l’atelier pratique du Laboratoire du geste. Marielle Pélisséro est doctorante en Arts du spectacle à l’Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre. Sous la direction de Christian Biet, elle prépare depuis 2010 une thèse consacrée à l’émergence et … Lire la suite
“Flirting with Nash: Performing Capital and the Politics of Forgetting in Techno-economic Games” A key insight into the late Marxism of Adorno is Jameson’s insistence on the relevance of viewing capitalism through play among systems. The capitalist machine, however, is … Lire la suite
… avec Jacinto, Gilles (Doctorant en études théâtrales, Université de Toulouse II) : Jeune scène queer : performance, théâtralité, politique. En nous appuyant sur un corpus d’œuvres scéniques de créateurs de moins de trente ans, issus en grande partie du théâtre … Lire la suite
Re-Routing the Global Litany of Bodily Goodness: The Good Body, or Eve Ensler’s Last Supper? The increasing mediatisation of global consumerism and power inequities has ushered us into the post-panoptical world of power that “has ransacked all of the strategies … Lire la suite
Épreuves esthétiques du théâtre. Sur les pas de Richard Shusterman Dans Façons de lire, manières d’être [1], Marielle Macé envisage l’expérience de la lecture comme une manière pour le lecteur de donner un style à son existence. Selon elle, « [l]a lecture … Lire la suite
Singularity, Theatricality, Iterability (On Samuel Weber) This paper will address the thinking of Samuel Weber – most obviously in his book Theatricality as Medium, but also in more recent work – in order to open up some questions around the … Lire la suite
Freddie Rokem is the Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor for 19th and 20th Century Art at Tel Aviv University where he teaches in the Department of Theatre. Among his many publications are Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre (2010, co-edited with Jeanette Malkin); Strindberg’s … Lire la suite
“To Act, To Do, and To Perform”: Cavell, Derrida, and the Performance of Performativity in Hamlet. Stanley Cavell and Jacques Derrida both came to Hamlet comparatively late in their careers, and in both cases, their writings on Hamlet are somewhat … Lire la suite
Performing violence in Sarah Kane’s Blasted (1995) and Polly Stenham’s The Face (2007)—on the precarity of sociality This paper aims at exploring the issues of representing and performing violence in two contemporary British plays in the light of Judith Butler’s … Lire la suite
Biological Plasticity and Performative Possibility Recent developments in neuroscience carry revolutionary implications for our understanding of subjectivity, confirming and nuancing postmodern theories of being as a continuous process of becoming, the self as always-already in flux. In Plasticity at the … Lire la suite
Schicharin, Luc (doctorant, ATER, 2L2S ERASE, Université de Lorraine) : À la recherche d’une performativité transgenre : de Judith Butler à Lazlo Pearlman. Judith Butler réfléchit la notion de « genre » à partir des concepts linguistico-théâtraux de « performance … Lire la suite
… with Loo, Stephen : The Grasshopper Cabaret: Performing philosophy at the limits of the human What might it be perform philosophy at the limits of the human? One site of this performance is where human and insect worlds meet. At … Lire la suite
Being Aside: Performative Discomfort My project considers the productivity of discomfort — both performances that discomfort, and performances of discomfort — and the affective impact of proximity . I am interested in how performances of nearness (especially to “difference”) can … Lire la suite
… avec TALBOT Armelle (Université Paris-Diderot, France) Scènes du deuil : le théâtre entre la vie et la mort Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc est Maître de Conférences en philosophie contemporaine à l’Université Toulouse 2-Le Mirail. Son travail porte sur la philosophie française … Lire la suite
The Invisible Stage Hand, or the Drama of Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher has recently defined capitalist realism as “a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a … Lire la suite
New York with an Accent or Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Writing/Performing the Immigrant Experience) Award-winning playwright Saviana Stanescu, author of the acclaimed plays « Aliens With Extraordinary Skills » (produced off-Broadway at Women’s Project, New York; in regional US theatres; in Mexico … Lire la suite
Setting the Stage for Post-human Performer This paper responds to the political and ethical focus of the conference addressed through the question of digital identities and analysis of changes that digital technologies brought in contemporary understanding of the body. Referring … Lire la suite
Armelle Talbot est Maître de conférences en Arts du spectacle à l’Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 et membre de l’EA 4410 CERILAC (Centre d’Étude et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de l’UFR LAC – Lettres, Arts et Cinéma – de l’Université Paris 7). … Lire la suite
… ave Wiame, Aline (Post-doc, Penn State University) : Narration spéculative et worlding : expérimentation, forces propositionnelles et performance avec Donna Haraway. Développée par Fabrizio Terranova dans le cadre d’un master éponyme à l’Ecole de Recherche graphique de Bruxelles, la narration spéculative … Lire la suite
The Performance of an Economic Crisis: Economy Theatricalized, the Cases of Tomas Sedlacek and ‘De Warme Winkel’ In his best-selling book Economics of Good and Evil, Tomas Sedlacek tries to read economic theory as a cultural phenomenon and as an … Lire la suite
Houseless in Paradise: Performing Social Change within and outside of Theatre Judith Butler’s Excitable Speech accounts for the power of authority in performance while imagining an agency emanating from the margins, the locus of a theatre for social change. In … Lire la suite
Radical Democracy, Activism and the Specter of Theater, or, A Theatrical Haunting of Judith Butler Judith Butler’s early work often performs a philosophical reflection on the nature of theatricality and the language of activism. These ruminations on mimeticism, repetition and … Lire la suite
Occupy Wall Street : performance ou mot d’ordre ? Tout événement peut servir de scène de performance aux metteurs en scène et aux philosophes : la guerre du Golf selon CNN, les mémoriaux de la Shoah, la Plaza de Mayo , … Lire la suite
(Un)Timely: Thoughts on Death and War The uses of electricity in the porous relation between therapy and torture have been widely documented, a relation in which the mind (as, indeed, memory) is treated as a muscle. In this context, resistance … Lire la suite
Vandenbussche-Cont, Marie (Doctorante, Université Paris 3) : Pensée et praxis de l’« avec » dans le théâtre performatif de Nature Theater of Oklahoma : l’exemple de No Dice. No Dice est un spectacle créé en 2007 par la compagnie new-yorkaise, Nature Theater of … Lire la suite
“Persona Non Grata: Playing the Parasite in Inhospitable Times” In this talk, I’ll advance parasitism as a 21st-century performance paradigm. From representations of “resource-draining” housewives and “welfare queens” (les assistés) to the language of “illegal aliens” (immigrés clandestins), I’ll argue … Lire la suite
… avec Terranova, Fabrizio (cinéaste, Bruxelles): Narration spéculative et worlding : expérimentation, forces propositionnelles et performance avec Donna Haraway. Aline Wiame est diplômée en philosophie et en arts du spectacle vivant, et Docteur en Philosophie de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles (thèse « La défiguration … Lire la suite
‘Appropriation, equality, performativity: Jacques Rancière, Judith Butler and political disruption’ This paper seeks to explore the intersections between the work of Judith Butler and Jacques Rancière. Both writers acknowledge the political power of disruption that performance can cause but at … Lire la suite
Le théâtre et la danse américaines face au sida : l’étrange fantôme de Foucault. Comment le sida a obligé, notamment dans les années 1990, à reconfigurer de fond en comble les pensées minoritaires en danse et en philosophie ? La … Lire la suite
La scène originaire du rapport entre philosophie, théâtre et performance. La généalogie du rapport entre philosophie et théâtre peut être tracée en remontant aux premières formulations antiques de l’idée de philosophie, soit que l’amant de la sagesse se fût saisi … Lire la suite
