technē Conflux: Art, Performance & Political Imagination
11th Oct 2019 10:00am-7:30pm
This workshop is offered as a technē Conflux, an extended training, development, exhibition or performance programme which aims to enhance research or intellectual skills, or facilitate the sharing of expertise amongst doctoral students in the arts and humanities.
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How can practices of art and performance conjure, nourish and foster political imagination? This question seems especially urgent today, in the face of a series of important challenges on both a macropolitical and micropolitical level, which necessarily affect the subjectivity of any producer of knowledge and art, as well as the subjectivity that is produced by work that reverberates through the world. The study day will investigate this question, exploring approaches, methodologies of research and critical thinking which in different ways figure artistic practice as a technique to conjure political imagination. Throughout the day, we will examine the idea of ‘political imagination’ as a capacity to prefigure another world from within the complexities of the present, as well as to engage history outside of a progressive notion of time, in order to reactivate different forms of historical potential and political action.
Art, Performance & Political Imagination is the third in a series of six intensive study days over two years, hosted by the University of Roehampton. The days are designed for creative arts and critical theory candidates at doctoral level, and are open to technē researchers and associates at all technē partnership institutions and other interested PhD researchers within those institutions.
Each intensive day combines seminars, workshops and talks and hosts an international guest theorist or artist. Each day is organised around key concepts in interdisciplinary thought that impact upon the study of art and performance: materiality, the sonorous, political imagination, free assocation, mobility and temporality.