Events – Performance Philosophy

TTT2027 Vienna: Call for Papers, Artist Talks and Artwork Presentations

Nov 03, 2026

The 7th Interdisciplinary Conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT2027 Vienna) will take place from 14 to 17 September 2027 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte), Austria. First held in 2016 at Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, TTT facilitates critical dialogue across art, science, technology, and society, bringing together artists, researchers, scholars, curators, and interdisciplinary practitioners. Taking the placenta as both a biological reference and a conceptual framework for relationality, temporality, and interdependence, TTT2027 Vienna invites critical perspectives on care, artistic autonomy, and transformation. The conference welcomes interdisciplinary and practice-based artistic research, alongside theoretical…

PHILOSOPHY ON STAGE #6: Notebook of the Heart (Vienna, 9–12 April 2026)

Mar 02, 2026

At the intersection of performance, philosophy, and artistic research, PHILOSOPHY ON STAGE #6: Notebook of the Heart invites audiences into an open research laboratory at brut wien nordwest (Vienna). Across four days, the festival brings philosophical inquiry into performative practice through lecture performances, installations, workshops, readings, and participatory formats—exploring “philosophies of the heart” as embodied, relational, and cross-cultural modes of thinking. The event is a public project output of the FWF-PEEK project PHILOSOPHY IN THE ARTS : ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY – Cross-Cultural Research on the Significance of the Heart in Artistic Research (AR) and Performance Philosophy (PP) (Grant-DOI: 10.55776/AR822). Schedule:…

Performance Praxises in the Staging of “Asylum”: Onward to Tarqīb Tamāshā

Feb 17, 2026

A group of "rejected actors" after performing "Rasik Sampādak" have been again rejected by the spectators. Their series of unsuccessful performances make them determined to showcase their best, as they cannot let go of their acting even in a space such as an asylum. Being "rejected" becomes their element of encounter with their human condition, as their reality makes them susceptible to extreme vulnerability. These actors have nothing to lose but the burden of their rejection. To overcome their own "rejection", they have chosen to express the nature of their dream characters—Dracula, Gollum, Annabelle, Kamakshi, Mahisasur Mardini and Jeera Bai.…

Mattering Spiritualities: Performative Experimentations For A Radical Imagining Of The World Becoming

May 07, 2025

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…

Jazz-Philosophy Evening at Keele University

Nov 07, 2024

Continuum of Selves, the World’s Only Jazz-Philosophy Fusion band, plays the music of Thelonious Monk Jazz-Philosophy Concert Tuesday 03 December | 07:30pm Keele Chapel Continuum of Selves is: Ray Butcher – trumpet James Tartaglia – philosophy and saxophone Fino Lopes – double bass Lee Allatson – drums Free to attend, but please register: https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/events/2024/december/jazzphilosophyevent/continuumofselvestheworldsonlyjazz-philosophyfusionbandplaysthemusicoftheloniousmonk.php

Research Festival and Exhibition. “Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation”

Jul 15, 2024

Several schools and museums in Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne, Aarau, and Bern are staging a research festival with performances, workshops, and presentations. This will be an extraordinary event. If you follow performance or have an interest in artistic research, you will want to know about this. For more information, use this link: https://performanceconservationmaterialityknowledge.com/events/research-festival-and-exhibition-conserving-performance-performing-conservation-september-14-29-2024/ Highly recommended! Ken Friedman

National Acting Workshop: Stage & Camera (Hybrid); Centre for Theatre & Film, University of Allahabad, India.

Sep 25, 2023

To act or to perform has been a human activity par excellence since millennia. In every civilization known to human kind, rituals, performances, drama, theatre and digital media have made us grow more humane. In continuation of our humane activity that simultaneously speaks to the heart and mind; breath and reflexes; energies and expressions – this acting workshop will engage movements, methods and application, which will weave an eclectic module around – speech/diction, aesthetics, tactile performance, scene work, taking light and close shot.

Workshop on Embodied Cognition and Dance (October 20-22nd)

Aug 05, 2023

Dates: October 20-22, 2023 With the advent of the 4E cognition research paradigm, cognitive science has seen a renewed interest in dance. However, much of the new cognitive science on dance does not interact with dance studies, the philosophy of dance, or aesthetics. This interdisciplinary conference brings together cognitive science, philosophy of dance, dance studies, and aesthetics to break down methodological boundaries and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration. The conference series supports diverse scholars speaking from multiple disciplines and includes traditional academic talks, movement workshops, and performances. This year we will explore "Spatial Dynamics, Aesthetics, and Learning in Dance." We invite researchers…

VerDragt Euch!/Drag Yourselves Out!

Jul 08, 2023

The next event takes place on the 13.07.23. 18:30 It’s „Drag Yourselves Out! Vol.3 From Story Hours to Solidarity“ Where? Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, NIG, 3. Stock, HS 3D Or online via stream @ https://verdragt.wordpress.com/ There You also can find more derailed informations and the invitation under https://verdragt.wordpress.com/the-events/ Best wishes, NARZSISSY/Paul*A

Save the date! Helsinki 2021: June 9-12

May 14, 2020

SAVE THE DATE! Performance Philosophy Problems: How Does Performance Philosophy Collaborate? Helsinki, June 9-12, 2021 The 5th biennial international conference on performance philosophy is hosted by the University of the Arts Helsinki and it is arranged in collaboration with the Performance Philosophy Network. Please read the Vision Statement. Our times have generated problems, the scope, depth, complexity and ubiquity of which are surpassing traditional procedures for solving them. As the problems we face change in nature so too must our ways of dealing with them. Global problems require new modes of collaboration, transversal combinations and inclusiveness, enabling all kinds of agents from different…