Professor Lepecki to Give Talk at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris

Professor André Lepecki will be giving a talk entitled "Performing in Surveilled Totality" at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris on Monday, January 20th.

What happens within advanced neoliberal kinetics, what moves otherwise in the cracks and fissures of the current corporate & state policing and surveillance of whatever moves?

While black, brown, indigenous, gender nonconformed, and other minoritarian bodies are slaughtered away from the scene of proper circulatory subjecthood even in so called “open” and “democratic” societies, recent pieces in dance and performance art keep finding ways to move away the surveilled totality – creating place, destroying time, affirming life regardless, in spite, despite the toxic ambient.

Professor Lepecki will discuss a few of these artists and some of their works, their anti-logic of movement, their anti-logic of time, and their combative and yet joyful aesthetics that finds, in the adversity of circumstances, choreopolitical force for the ongoing struggle.