Performance Philosophy

Performance: 10th Annual International Conference of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa

May 04, 2023

The 10th Annual International Conference of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa is pleased to invite submissions for its upcoming event on the theme of performance, to be held from 17-19 of November 2023 at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference aims to explore the role of performance in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts, and to examine its relevance in contemporary thought. Performance can be viewed in various ways, including in terms of the distinction, common to French authors in the 1960s, between the enunciated statement and the act of enunciation or speech act. This concept is…

Call for Participants: Part- and Fully-Funded Places at “LA SELVA”: INTERNATIONAL ECOLOGICAL ARTS & ECO-SOMATIC RESIDENCY (ROME)

Apr 28, 2023

The Call for "La Selva": International Ecological Arts and Eco-Somatic Residency is open ! This will happen outside Rome between 5-8 October on the coastal area of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in a space between the city, the forest and the delta of the river Tiber. "La Selva" is coordinated by Thomas Kampe and Raffaele Rufo with Intercultural Roots 'Human-Nature Connect' and local partner organizations. We are inviting artists, dancers, theatre- and performance-practitioners, somatic educators, curators, pedagogues and scholars with an interest in embodied, experimental and critical approaches to environmental and archaeological conservation and arts practices. All info on the web…

CFP: Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Performance

Apr 25, 2023

Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Performance Schizoanalytic Applications Series, Bloomsbury Press. Since the publication of Deleuze and Performance (2009), Deleuze’s philosophy has inspired a number of vital interventions in the fields of performance and theatre studies. Deleuze’s thought has also played an important role in the emergence of Performance Philosophy and continues to energise theory and practice across a range of disciplinary and vocational boundaries. However, relatively little research has taken an explicitly schizoanalytic approach to performance. While many of the key conceptual tools of schizoanalysis recur across the literature (the assemblage; the BwO; the abstract machine etc.), the question…

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DATE: TaPRA Theatre, Performance and Philosophy CfP – Catastrophe and Reinvention

Apr 13, 2023

Dear P&P Network, The new deadline to submit an abstract for the hybrid (online and in person) TaPRA 2023 conference is Monday 17 April 2023 at 11.59pm UK time. Here is a reminder of the CfP for the Theatre, Performance and Philosophy Working Group: Catastrophe and Reinvention Location: The University of Leeds, 30 August – 1 September The TaPRA working group in Theatre, Performance and Philosophy invites proposals for presentations for the annual conference at the University of Leeds. Any researcher, at any stage of their career, who engages with theatre, performance and philosophy is welcome to propose their work…

TaPRA Theatre, Performance and Philosophy CfP – Catastrophe and Reinvention

Mar 29, 2023

Dear Performance Philosophy community, Please find below the CfP for the Theatre, Performance and Philosophy Working Group at TaPRA 2023. Catastrophe and Reinvention Deadline for abstracts: Tuesday 11 April 2023 Location: The University of Leeds, 30 August – 1 September The TaPRA working group in Theatre, Performance and Philosophy invites proposals for presentations for the annual conference at the University of Leeds. Any researcher, at any stage of their career, who engages with theatre, performance and philosophy is welcome to propose their work to the group. The working group extends a warm invitation to researchers who have not joined before…

International Interdisciplinary Online Conference Between Contiguity and Community 24-26 May 2023

Nov 25, 2022

The international conference Contagion: Between Contiguity and Community - Call for Papers. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis, with its obsession with protective gloves and face masks, has put into stark relief that contagion – as Sria Chatterjee has recently argued – shares etymology with contact and is all about touch (Latin: con: together; tangere: to touch). Both about literal touching and about sharing air which penetrates our respiratory tract. The ability or inability to touch and be touched at the time of the pandemic (un)marks the boundaries between human and nonhuman bodies, transforming relations between them. “The distribution of the sensible”…

Call for the Performance, Religion, and Spirituality Working Group – IFTR Conference 2023

Nov 25, 2022

Call for the Performance, Religion, and Spirituality Working Group - IFTR Conference 2023 - Accra, Ghana IFTR’s Performance, Religion, and Spirituality Working Group notes that the broad theme for IFTR’s 2023 conference is myths and myth-making. We think that examinations of performance and religion might be especially important to this conference theme. We are interested, particularly, in work and play that understand myth not as fundamentally fictitious, but as part of reality, and perhaps even constitutive of reality. The analysis of the relation between myths and perception is indeed fundamental to understanding how stories shape and channel realities. For example,…

PhD Scholarships – Decolonisation at Liverpool Hope University

Nov 15, 2022

DECOLONISATION AND HOPE: The Politics and Aesthetics of Black and Global Majority in Liverpool’s Art and Culture *Project Overview* The School of Creative and Performing Arts at Liverpool Hope University wishes to launch a research project to investigate the cultural transformation of Liverpool at the intersection of race, class, gender, and enduring transnational realities with a focus somewhere within the last 150 years. The overarching aim is to consider how the creative and performing arts reflect on the ongoing and contested legacies of colonialisms, canons and/or the legitimacies of knowledge. How can they help acknowledge the transnational connections that have…

New performance and philosophy podcast: The Refrain – Getting in Sync With the World

Aug 24, 2022

Fight With a Stick Performance, a company that has been focused on live performance for years, and is concerned with our interconnectedness with the other-than-human, has ventured into the podcast creation. The main source material for the first episode is Eduardo Kohn's book, "How Forests Think: Towards an Anthropology Beyond the Human," and also features the thinking of Jane Bennett in her book, "Vibrant Matter," the work of forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, and others. The title of the podcast series is taken from Chapter 11 of Deleuze and Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus." That chapter is the focus of the upcoming…

Call for Papers: The Visibility and Invisibility of Violence

Jun 30, 2022

"View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture" invites to submit abstracts to the issue devoted to the problem of visibility and invisibility of violence. Images showing the violence of war, both still and moving, have become part of the collective experience of everyday life in recent months. Photographs of war crimes and films presenting catastrophic destruction have simply become a part of our social media feed. Although different forms of violence (war, terrorism, closed borders, sexual, racial, and class violence) seem over-represented in the field of visibility, the conditions of their functioning in culture are still equally defined by invisibility.…