Theatre, Performance and Philosophy
VENUE: Oculus, 0.01
Working Group Session 1
Wednesday, 27th August, 13.00-15.00
Digital Technologies and Performance Interfaces
Julie Rose Bower Sounds that pull you closer: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) as digital comfort, sonorous immersion and forced intimacy.
Kim Pearce & John Chan Queer devised theatre making about East Asian politics, presented in the UK scene and the digitally-integrated methods used to address social fractures.
Zjana Muraro Hacking fluidly.
Working Group Session 2
Thursday, 28th August, 09.00-10.30
Performance as Political Resistance
Nesreen Hussein & Ruba Totah Border Crossing as Embodied Methodology.
Alisha Ibkar Shaheen Bagh and its Care-Focused Aesthetic Politics.
Katerina Paramana Crossing the Borders of Art and Politics, Turning Desires and Ideas into Actions.
Working Group Session 3
Thursday, 28th August, 15.30-17.00
Historical Memory and Cultural Reclamation
Theo Panagopoulos Participatory Performance as Re-Orientation to the Colonial Archival Film Gaze of 1930s Palestine.
Lorna French Celebrating the Past in the Present: The importance of Black theatre archives in understanding contemporary British theatre.
Grzegorz Ziółkowski Solidarity-in-action: Chilean protest performance of funa beyond borders.
Working Group Session 4
Friday, 29th August, 13.00-15.00
Reimagining Performance Ecologies and Thresholds
Denise Ackerl & Donatella Barbieri -Contemporary and historical deployments of Animal Drag: Reciprocity in motion, nonhuman and material agencies.
Natalie Katsou Borders and AI – seeking artificial asylum.