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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. 

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