Fall 2017 Events
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AUNTS: A Post-Post Show Conversation with Lucy Sexton
“When you set out to make something new it’s because you don’t like the old thing. And when you do the new thing long enough… you end up becoming the old thing.” (AUNTS) Following their performance at NYU Skirball on Friday, September 15, AUNTS organizers Laurie Berg, Liliana Dirks-Goodman, Ali Rosa-Salas, and Ash R.T. Yergens will join the Department of Performance Studies for a post-post-show conversation.
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BLACK PERFORMANCE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE LEFT: A HISTORY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
A discussion & celebration of the new book by Malik Gaines, with panelists Ricardo Montez, Fred Moten, & Alexandra Vazquez, with a response by Malik Gaines
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PISSED: A Panel and Conversation
Announcing PISSED, a panel and conversation about art, architecture and legal action as tactics for promoting inclusivity. Held in conjunction with Cassils solo show, Monumental, at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, the presenters use their varying skill sets and imaginations to address noncompliant bodies and tactics for resistance.
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METTE INGVARTSEN: POST-SHOW CONVERSATION
Following Mette Ingvartsen's 7 Pleasures at NYU Skirball, we invite you to join the Department of Performance Studies for a post-show conversation with André Lepecki and Eugenia Kisin (Gallatin).
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THE BODY AND THE BOOK: ARTISTIC RESEARCH IN TODAY'S ACADEMY
Artistic research — the idea that artistic and embodied practices not only draw upon but also generate knowledge — is increasingly common globally, but remains marginal in the United States. What is at stake in the claim that artistic and embodied practice can be research? What possibilities might be opened by such a claim and what legitimate resistances exist? This panel of scholar-practitioners and artist-researchers will discuss the relationships between practice and research in their own work, how they navigate diverse epistemologies across academic and artistic institutions, and what possible futures they envision.
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Intimate Relations: A Genealogy of Queer / Performativity
This talk is based on the book project Intimate Relations, where Amelia Jones traces the interrelated histories of the terms “queer” and “performative” since 1950 in anglophone discourse. This genealogy suggests that the terms have deeply informed not only our thinking about queer, about performance and the performative, and about queer performance, but as well our understanding of how art works and comes to have cultural value (or not) over the past 70 years.
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Jill Sigman "Ten Huts" Book Launch and Signing
Open Arts in cooperation with Performance Studies and the Initiative for Creative Research will be welcoming 2017 Artist in Residence Jill Sigman back to Tisch for a book signing in celebration of her new book TEN HUTS.
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Art of the Raconteur
Novelist George Dawes Green, founder of the popular storytelling organization The Moth and presents an interactive storytelling event on the art of the raconteur.
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"Not Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Seething Rage": A Conversation on Politics, Feminism, and Comedy with Adrienne Truscott and Karen Finley
Join Karen Finley and Adrienne Truscott for a conversation on performance, politics, feminism, comedy, rape culture, and "#metoo" -- in anticipation of "Asking For It" at NYU Skirball.
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death drives in the city: theatrocracy and memory in austerity times
A Lecture by Nadia Seremetakis
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