Spring 2023 Events

The Politics of Pleasure: An Artist Talk with Rachel Lark & Rachel Dart

This event featured musical performances by Lark, followed by a discussion between Lark and Dart about the feminist possibilities of staging sexuality and pleasure, using humor as a vehicle for feminist theory, and how of art and live performance plays a role in shifting the sexual culture organized by MA '23, Jessamyn Fitzpatrick.

Trembling Bodies, Buried Beast, and Nomadic Objects: The Performative Life of Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue (Warsaw, Poland 2012- )

Justyna Wierzchowska spoke about the impact of the piece originally conceived as a social experiment by the Polish artist Joanna Rajkowska, this site-specific installation was meant to metaphorically bring the “vanished Jews back into the landscape of contemporary Poland” (Blacker 2014).

PRAXIS 2023

PRAXIS, INC: Innovate, Network, Collaborate is the department's annual community event in which we invite current students, faculty and alumni to come together and share their skills in the field of Performance Studies, engage in important conversations, and stay connected with colleagues and peers.

Surface Relations

Vivian L. Huang (NYU PS PhD Alumna) was joined by three preeminent scholars -- Karen Shimakawa (NYU), David Eng (U of Penn), and Susette Min (UCDavis) -- for an online discussion and celebration of Huang's recently published book Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian Inscrutability.