CFP: Ecologies of Embodiment (JER 5.2 2022)

CFP: Ecologies of Embodiment (JER 5.2 2022)

Oct 25, 2021
For the forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Embodied Research on "Ecologies of Embodiment” we invite contributions that explore how the experience of embodiment is embedded within the larger body of the earth. We call for works that weave threads between somatic, audiovisual and textual ways of knowing. We are curious about proposals that document and articulate the shifts of perception unfolding when we relinquish control and attune our human senses to the sentient presence of plants and the many other nonhuman living systems. Contributors are encouraged to engage the inquiry as a process of co-composing with the more-than-human and to…
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Heidegger and Origin of the Work of Art

Heidegger and Origin of the Work of Art

Jul 02, 2021
‘Dust Jacket for an Exhibition Postponed’ A virtual, public event on Wednesday 7 July, 10.30am-12.30pm The event will include a presentation and discussion of the collaborative process undertaken by a small group of international artists and philosophers, interested in the work of Martin Heidegger, over the last few years. The explorative project has taken place in collaboration with each other, Heidegger’s Origin of the Work of Art essay and the Flat Time House gallery in London. This event is an interim presentation of their thinking as part of the process of creating an exhibition due to open at the Flat…
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TaPRA Theatre, Performance and Philosophy CfP (deadline: 9 April)

Mar 28, 2021
TaPRA conference: 6-10 September 2021 online & co-hosted by Liverpool Hope University Theatre, Performance and Philosophy CfP: “Unknowing: Modes of Performance” Deadline for abstract submission: Friday 9 April 2021 At this year’s TaPRA conference we will come together to think about theatre and performance as modes of “unknowing”. We wish to explore the modalities through which practices of (re)presentation might encourage philosophical, affective and creative questions that support a rethinking of • systems of knowledge • individuality and subjectivity • understandings of agency and mastery • patterns of relationality • notions of politics and ethics These practices all might work…
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Derrida | Benjamin – Two Plays for the Stage

Derrida | Benjamin – Two Plays for the Stage

Feb 08, 2021
New publication: Derrida| Benjamin - Two Plays for the Stage by John Schad and Fred Dalmasso (the first-ever stage plays about Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin) Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And, in the last fifteen years, there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality. To date, though, there has not been a published stage play about either Derrida or Benjamin. Cue Derrida| Benjamin, a volume that brings together two tragi-comic plays which mirror each other in a host of ways – above all, in the…
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CFP: Illuminated Video Articles, Journal of Embodied Research

Sep 04, 2020
JOURNAL OF EMBODIED RESEARCH jer.openlibhums.org CFP for JER 4.2 (2021): SPECIAL ISSUE OF “ILLUMINATED” VIDEO ARTICLES For those of us who are in social isolation but otherwise well, this may be a time to undertake further work with our existing video archives. We may not be able to generate new moments together, but we can certainly look back at the video we have created and further unfold its meanings. With this in mind, JER proposes a special issue on “illuminated video.” Submissions to this special issue should follow three parameters: 1) Begin with a piece of uncut video lasting no…
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“Further Evidence on the Meaning of Musical Performance” Working Paper

Jan 15, 2020
Karolina Nevoina and I are pleased to announce availability of our working paper, "Further Evidence on the Meaning of Musical Performance". Special thanks to Professor Aaron Williamon and the Royal College of Music, Centre for Performance Science. https://www.academia.edu/41642364/Working_Paper_Further_Evidence_on_the_Meaning_of_Musical_Performance_Cartwright_Nevoina_15012020
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Division of Labor – Denis Beaubois

Feb 23, 2018
I just came across Denis Beaubois, an Australian multidisciplinary artist whose work, Currency - Division of Labor might be of interest to researchers here. It is a series of video/performance works that use the division of labor model in capitalism as a structural tool for performance. From his website: The Division of labour work explores the idea of fulfilling a role through circumstance. In this case it is the role of the unsuspecting (non theatrical) performer driven by economic necessity. It raises the question that authenticity in performance cannot be achieved through a body that is aware of its role…
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Aesthetics of Contemplation: Poetry Leaves

Oct 03, 2017
He met her in the foyer of a theatre, novel in her hand, clip board in his hand, Market research on the tip of his tongue, He says ‘ Are you here to watch Within Rooms’ She says ‘No’ He says ‘Susan Songtang?’ ‘Yes but it’s not philosophy’ says she ‘It might be philosophical’ says he ‘Yes but it’s not Foucault’ says she ‘Ah, Pul - Michel - Foucault, french philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist and literary critic’ He didn’t really say that He said ‘Ah, Foucault, the bald dude’ She said ‘Yes the blond dude’ He made her…
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Playing with Virtual Realities – Introduction

Sep 25, 2017
  The project Playing with Virtual Realities takes place in the research group gamelab.berlin, at the Excellence Cluster an Interdisciplinary Laboratory, Humboldt University of Berlin. The project explores how VR-technology and the embodied practices of gaming and dancing enact and design imagination and perceptual experience. The project is a collaboration of gaming, dancing, VR design, philosophy of technology, embodied philosophies of perception, and performance philosophy. Playing with Virtual Realities questions and experiments the embodied practices of dancing and gaming. We inquire how physical techniques and technology of the game provoke and solve challenges for perception. We aim to reflect the intersection of technology…
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