Fall 2019 Events
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Shake That Thing: Early Modern Liner Notes and The Dark Lady of the Sonic
A conversation with P.A. Skantze and Fred Moten about Skantze's new book.
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Matthew Fink Poetry Reading
Matthew Fink will read from his poetry, including his newly published book afterKleist (Selva Oscura Press, 2018)
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Non-Consensual Collaboration: A Roundtable with Jennifer Doyle and Aliza Shvarts
How do we make art, and sense, out of the often-uninvited things that happen to us? Choices in conditions not of our choosing? Please join us for a reading of Jennifer Doyle's "Letting Go," an account of the experience of being a stalking and harassment victim; a screening of Aliza Shvarts’ film Nonconsensual Collaborations, which documents performances with artists who did not agree to their participation; and a moderated discussion with Barbara Browning in which we explore different tactics for truth-telling and truth-shifting, as well as how narrative strategies can enact a reparative process.
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Why We Left: Israeli Identity Outside of Zion(ism)
A conversation about identity with Yarden Stern, Tali Keren, ita Segev, Shirly Bahar.
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WORLDMAKING: RACE, PERFORMANCE, AND THE WORK OF CREATIVITY - A BOOK TALK BY DORINNE KONDO
A Book Talk by Dorinne Kondo to discuss her new work.
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Day of Community Luncheon
The Departments of Art & Public Policy and Performance Studies will bring together their students, staff, and faculty for a community luncheon on October 18. Join us for a neighborly BBQ style lunch and connect with peers in another department!
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THE TASK OF THE CHOTEADORA: A CONVERSATION WITH JACQUELINE LOSS
Join us for the celebratory launch of Jacqueline Loss’s original translation of Jorge Mañach’s essay “Inquiry into Choteo.”
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OCEANIC UNKNOWING: DARKENING AND DIRTYING ARTISTIC RESEARCH IN AOTEAROA NZ
This talk discusses the work of artist-researchers such as Tru Paraha and Cat Ruka who draw on transcultural poetics, performance writing, and post-human attention that is moved by the vitality of dirt, matter and black-out states.
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RICANNESS: ENDURING TIME IN ANTICOLONIAL PERFORMANCE BOOK PRESENTATION AND TALK WITH PROFESSOR SANDRA RUIZ
In this reading, Ruiz challenges the colonization of time and our normative assumptions of negation, incompletion, exhaustion, endurance, and violence, alongside moments of pleasure, desire, and redemption. A theorization of Ricanness, as the author expresses, supplies a relational way to imagine, dream, and construct alternate forms of existence under colonialism, across bodies of water and beyond the annexation of land.
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