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Bodies and Performance

Fleshy futurities: Embodied yearning, resistance and grief 

VENUE: Faculty of Arts Building (FAB), 2.43

Working Group Session 1

Wednesday, 27th August, 13.00-15.00

Queer non-/utopian futurities

Chair: Alissa Clarke

Marcus Bell ROTTING. faggot/ry | choreography | TOM (2023) .

Emma Welton Glitch-Synching Beyond: Dragging Documentation in Wet Mess' Testo.

Joe Parslow Wallowing, Hope and Resistance: Petty Methodologies and the Politics of Hope Without Utopia .

Phoebe Patey-Ferguson The Shrinking of Fleshy Fat Futures: Ozempic and Annihilation.


Working Group Session 2

Thursday, 28th August, 09.00-10.30

Haunted futurities

Chair: Roberta Mock

Mary Steadman Embodying the Eerie: Performing Beyond the Known.

Nina Marie Kunzendorf Medea and Female Sexuality: The Erotic as Revenge in Julia Bardsley’s Medea DARK|ROOM.


Working Group Session 3

Thursday, 28th August, 15.30-17.00

Futurities of desire

Chair: Emma Welton

Jodie Hawkes and Pete Phillips Growing Old With You (Again): An ecological duet with the Manhope Peninsula.

Shuangting Chen The Vanishing Female Body on the Chinese Stage from Spectacle to Strategic Invisibility.

Anno Bolender Unfolding Agency - On Rebuilding Resilience through the Body.


Working Group Session 4

Friday, 29th August, 13.00-15.00

Online panel: Virtual and sensorial futurities

Chair: Thea Stanton

Petra Kuppers “Planting Disabled Futures:” Virtual Reality, Joy, and Solarpunk Soil Sensoria.

Shireen Talhouni Jawaherxx0: The savage body in performance as resistance within colonial systems of governance.

Mahsa Sheydani Shahrzād’s Daughters: The Performativity of Female Bodily Resistance as a Rupture in the Everyday.

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