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.