On the 10th of May the book launch of the edited publication Mattering Spiritualities: Performative Experimentations For A Radical Imagining Of The World Becoming will take place online at 8.00 pm BST.
The event is free but to attend please register via the Eventbrite link below. we will send the zoom link close to the date.
Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-mattering-spiritualities-tickets-1336404043469
Table of contents can be found here:
https://www.routledge.com/Mattering-Spiritualities-Performative-Experiments-for-a-Radical-Imagining-of-the-World-Becoming/Battista-Mason/p/book/9781032566375
List of contributors: Kit Danowski – Saga Brink – Philip Kwame Boafo – [M] Dudeck – Marlon Jimenez Oviedo – Lance Gharavi – David Mason – Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano and Mark D. Price – Annalaura Alifuoco – Laura Burns – Silvia Battista.
Mattering Spiritualities edited by Silvia Battista and David Mason brings together an array of international scholars and practitioners to explore spirituality in embodiment through the lens of performance, performative writing, and performance studies. The book concerns spirituality and takes the body as the site of whatever it is we call spirituality. The methodological assumption is that the opposition of body and spirit is a false binary that calls for re-examination and revision. It stems from the argument that people can deliberately shift their boundaries of perception and knowing through practice, technologies and performative techniques that can alter the way in which they perceive the ecologies in which they are embedded. This approach understands that careful attention to which bodies are performing in any given scenario is crucial, as is a sensitivity to the ramifications of any body’s race, gender, class, and biological ability. Performance can therefore be regarded as anything through which individuals and collectives experiment with bodies as technologies. Each chapter engages with such experiments to explore how bodies experience and relate to other bodies, human and other-than-human, but also how, by mobilizing bodies and changing relationships between them, practitioners can transform people, spaces and places, objects, ecologies large and small, and shift the borders-of-the-known. Such experiments can also reveal intersectional dynamics within given social, political, and biological borders offering new perspectives and angles of analysis.
This online gathering will offer the opportunity to hear editors and contributors talking about their work in relation to the questions that this publication raises for our troubled times.
