Following an introduction and welcome by the lead organiser, Dr
Daniela Perazzo Domm (Kingston University London), the day will unfold
through these main events:
- A keynote by Dr Sumi Madhok (LSE) on “rethinking agency”
- A workshop led by Dr Claudia Kappenberg (University of Brighton)
This workshop draws on the Bataillean concepts of uselessness,
excess and non-productive expenditure, as well as on Catherine Clement’s
contemporary re/imagining of these ideas through her concept of Syncope, her
science of pauses and philosophy of rapture. Borrowing from familiar figures
such as the court jester, the joker, the trickster, the angel, the mute
and the foreigner, the workshop will explore how
uselessness, traditionally associated with failure and waste, might be reclaimed
as that which renders us more human.
- A roundtable discussion on agency and engaged research bringing together Performing Arts and Humanities academics from Kingston University London and University of Surrey:
Dr Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca (performance philosophy,
Surrey)
Dr Antonio Cerella (political theory, Kingston)
Prof Tina Chanter (philosophy and gender theory, Kingston)
Dr Helen Palmer (English and creative writing, Kingston)
- A workshop led Dr Beatrice Jarvis (Kingston University London) and Dr Bob Jarvis (University of Sussex)
This workshop explores the role of the artist as cultural
producer. Envisioning performance as a site of possibility, a re-reading of
spatial reality, it reflects upon methodologies for socially engaged and participatory
practice (including choreography, urban
geography, performance ethnography) and on their potential to
articulate social response. Through practical exercises, it explores the process of participation
and the relationship between performance and civic agency.
For further information, please contact the organiser: D.Perazzodomm@kingston.ac.uk
Location
Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road campus
Room: JG1007 (first floor of John Galsworthy building through Main
Building: please ask at main reception for directions)
Event schedule
10.15-10.40: welcome and introduction by Daniela Perazzo Domm
10.40-11.40: keynote by Sumi Madhok on “rethinking agency”
11.45-12.45: workshop led by Claudia Kappenberg
12.45-13.45: lunch
13.45-15.15: roundtable discussion: Laura Cull, Antonio Cerella,
Tina Chanter, Helen Palmer
15.15-15.30 break
15.30-16.30: workshop led by Beatrice Jarvis and Bob Jarvis
16.30-17.00: questions,
closing remarks and networking
Contributors’ biographies
Dr Antonio Cerella is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and International
Studies at Kingston University London. His research lies at the crossroads
of international political theory, continental philosophy and political
theology. He is the co-editor of The Sacred and the Political (Bloomsbury,
2016) and Heidegger & the Global Age (Rowman &
Littlefield International, 2017). His new book, Genealogies of
Political Modernity, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2019.
Prof Tina Chanter is Professor of Philosophy and Gender at Kingston
University, London. She is author of six monographs, editor of several
collections, and has published many essays. Her interests include gender
theory, and the relationship between politics and art.
Dr Beatrice Jarvis isLecturer in Dance at Kingston University London. She is
a creative facilitator, choreographer, and researcher. As a dance artist, she
works in Bucharest, Romania, Berlin, Germany and Northern Ireland to generate
large-scale and site-specific choreographic works that explore the social
potential of embodied movement practices. Her socio-choreographic research has
been profiled within Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, dOCUMENTA (13), The National
School of Art Bucharest, Galway Dance Festival, Goldsmiths CUCR Tate, and the
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting.
Dr Bob Jarvis is a town planner with extensive experience in urban
design teaching and research. From 1987 to 2015 he taught urban design at
London South Bank University. He worked at Milton Keynes Development
Corporation and undertook a two-year research project on the environmental
aspects of Tyne and Wear County Council’s structure plan. His research and
writing has focused on town planning as an art and urban design as
choreography. He is currently pursuing a second PhD at Sussex University.
Dr Claudia Kappenberg is Principal Lecturer in the School of Media of the
University of Brighton. Her research focuses on moving image, live and
interdisciplinary performance practices and screendance, as well as the
historical and theoretical narratives which underpin these practices. Her work
is framed by a wider interest in questions of representation, feminist
discussions and contemporary debates on neoliberalist politics and their impact
on the artist and artistic production. She is founding editor of The
International Journal of Screendance, as well as peer-reviewer for academic
journals and research councils.
Dr Sumi Madhok is Associate Professor of Transnational Gender Studies,
London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Rethinking
Agency: Developmentalism, Gender and Rights (2013); the co-editor
of Gender, Agency and Coercion (2013) and of the Sage
Handbook of Feminist Theory (2014). Dr Madhok is an interdisciplinary
scholar and her teaching and scholarship lie at the intersection of
feminist political theory and philosophy, coloniality and
postcoloniality, transnational activism and social movements,
rights/human rights, citizenship, developmentalism and ethnography.
Dr Helen Palmer is Senior Lecturer in
English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University
London, working at the intersections of philosophy, speculative writing
and critical theory. Her research interests include the avant-garde,
queer performance, critical theory, gender, the body, synaesthesia,
intersectional feminism, utopias/dystopias, afrofuturism and new
materialism. She is the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for
Nonsense (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Queer Defamiliarisation and
New Materialism: Writing Feminist Matter(s), (Edinburgh University
Press, forthcoming 2018).
Organisers’ biographies
Dr Daniela Perazzo Domm is Senior Lecturer in Dance at Kingston University London.
Her research interrogates the intersections of the aesthetic and the political
in contemporary choreography. She writes on the po(i)etic, critical and ethical
potentialities of experimental and collaborative dance practices. Her
publications include articles in Performance Philosophy, Choreographic
Practices,Contemporary Theatre Review and Dance
Research Journal (forthcoming). Her first monograph, Jonathan
Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance, will be published by Palgrave in 2019. She
is co-convenor of the Theatre, Performance and Philosophy working group of the
Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA).
Dr Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca is Reader in Theatre and Performance at
the University of Surrey, where she directs the Centre for Performance
Philosophy. She is core convener and founder of the Performance Philosophy
network, joint editor of the Performance Philosophy book series with Palgrave
Macmillan and joint editor of the Performance Philosophy journal launched in
2015. She is author of Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of
Performance (2012); editor of Deleuze and Performance (2009)
and co-editor of Encounters in Performance Philosophy (2014)
with Alice Lagaay and Manifesto Now! Instructions for Performance,
Philosophy, Politics (2013) with Will Daddario.
