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Hey all! Room Dances Festival got a new website. the festival starts this week. come join us! www.roomdancesfestival.com

The School of Making Thinking is delighted to announce the pre-launch of Quiddle.Quiddle is an interdisciplinary and multi-media journal that aims to enliven and expand our experience of the traditional academic platform. We maintain a strong commitment to inquiry while welcoming creative methods which elude the structures of the standard scholarly journal. Serving as a site for both critique and innovation, Quiddle affirms the transformative potential of putting on a silly hat while sitting with a serious thought.In the spirit of the silly-serious, we invite you to submit to our Quiddle Pre-Issue: “Syllabus, Impossible.” Syllabus, ImpossibleThe humble syllabus is a hybrid creature of unacknowledged creative potential.At once a pedagogical…

We now welcome submissions for the upcoming conference:     DELEUZE + ART: MULTIPLICITIES |THRESHOLDS |POTENTIALITIES   8 – 10 April 2016, Trinity College Dublin, Eire   Conference co-hosted by School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin and Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute   Conference venue: Trinity Long Room Hub   Conference organisers: Radek Przedpełski, Prof. Stephen Elliot Wilmer   Conference website: deleuzeart.wordpress.com     Drawing on Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze elaborates the notion of qualitative multiplicity escaping the dialectical opposition of the one and the many.  As Deleuze points out in Bergsonism,…

63 variations on the body. Open call for Composers. 2nd edition.   AMAE/DE PINTO 58 (+1) INDICES ON THE BODY PROJECT. 63 variations on the body — Open call for Composers. 2nd edition. Deadline October 31st, 2016 After the launch of the project on Soundcloud, featuring Jean-Luc Nancy’s recorded voice reading his treaty 58 Indices on the body, it was time to turn the text into music. For that reason, and in anticipation of the making of a documentary about the whole project, we opened a first call for composers to create a background track for each index/statement – written and…

Just published! RESISTING BIOPOLITICS: PHILOSOPHICAL, POLITICAL, AND PERFORMATIVE STRATEGIES (Routledge, 2015). The volume includes articles by Giorgio Agamben, Rosi Braidotti, Eugene Thacker, Saskia Sassen and others. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Resisting-Biopolitics-Philosophical-Performative-Contemporary/dp/1138789488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444276577&sr=8-1&keywords=resisting+biopolitics

This text was read at TaPRA Worcester on 9/9/15. It is rough but it would be great to hear what colleagues think. Bergson and Performance by Nik Wakefield   Waiting with others. Standing in a line outside in the cold. Maybe it is snowing. All making the act of registration. To place the name on the list. One is defying an offer of exemption. The offer could be a sympathetic response to his achievements. He refuses the offer and renounces all previous honours given by the government. After seventeen years spent in bed because of arthritis he finds himself in…

58 (+1) INDICES ON THE BODYIndex 42: the phases of the pomegranateLive Stream performances by AMAE and Pier Giorgio De Pinto.Tuesday the 15th of September 2015 from 8.00 p.m. London time.Please follow the two Live Stream performances here:AMAE​http://www.amae-art.com/live-channel.htmlDe Pintohttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/pgdepinto#‎thephasesofthepomegranate‬ ‪#‎58indices‬ ‪#‎63variations‬ ‪#‎amaeart‬ ‪#‎philosophy‬ ‪#‎jeanlucnancy‬ ‪#‎performanceart‬ ‪#‎PierGiorgioDePinto‬ ‪#‎philosopher‬

EXHIBITION OF THE EXHIBITION / PERFORMING THE INSTALLATION Remarks on the exhibition Se rappeler qu'une oeuvre... Online article at:  https://ensa-limoges.academia.edu/AllenAlainViguier/Papers

Ron Athey. Incorruptible Flesh. Glasgow, 2006. Photo by Manuel Vason. This recent conversation I have had with Ron Athey, one of the most outstanding ground-breaking performance artists of our times, has been made exclusively for LADA (Live Art Development Agency, UK) on early 2015. The agency, on behalf of its director Lois Keidan, is pleased to make it available for Performance Philosophy members and readers. The dialogue includes a discussion around the issues and concerns of contemporary Performance Art as well as an in-depth focus on the work of Ron Athey, past and present. With additional notes by Lisa Newman. The conversation is…

  VestAndPage. La Promenade du Sceptique. Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, 2011. Photo by Andrea Morucchio. To the kind attention of anyone interested in the subjects of: durational performance, endurance, risk-taking, emotional intelligence and performing philosophy. "Andrea Pagnes, from the performance art duo VestAndPage, presents a reflective piece that will become essential reading for anyone interested in durational and related performance practice. The particular focus on research concentrates the importance of the insights in this piece. Pagnes demonstrates the use of performance as a form of personal expression that leads to a greater capacity for sensitive interpretation and understanding." —Ross…