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University of Minnesota, Weisman Art Museum, November 17, 2012The Generic Orientation of Non-Standard AestheticsFrançois Laruelle The Problem to Be SolvedAesthetics, in particular since Hegel, has been philosophy’s acknowledged domination of art. Philosophy claims to disengage the sense, the truth and the destination of art—and all of this after the event of art’s supposed death. In a less authoritarian and less legislative mode, philosophy describes the figures of art, its epochs, it styles, and the system of its forms in accordance with art’s own norms. Art, for its part, resists this enterprise and rebels.I propose another solution which, without abandoning aesthetics,…

In France, the LAPS - Laboratoire des Arts et Philosophies de la Scène - operates at the crossroads between theory and performance practice. http://labo-laps.com

Diaspora Conversation Diaspora Conversation is an on-going dialogue between peoples and societies. We belief identity and power are directly related to dialogue and recognition. The concept of Diaspora Conversations therefore is knowledge-exchange and to contribute to a broad understanding of the complexity of our time. The African Diasporas self-perception and understanding of its environment is different from the picture painted and highlighted by the traditional media over the past fifty years. The African diaspora is not a minority group because the decisive factor of its members’ citizenship is their country of origin not where they are resident. Conversation between peoples,…

                                                   Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie I Seminarium Naukowe z Filozofii Performansu                                                                                                        kampus przy ul. Wóycickiego 1/3, bud. 23 5 czerwca 2013 - środa – g. 9.00…

I recently attended a symposium at Middlesex University, On Collaboration 2. After having attended the first of these symposiums and been interested in the variety of responses to the theme of collaboration and my own interest in it I decided to attended this second instalment. Here I want to discuss my own thoughts on the idea of collaboration and my intention for collaborating. After the symposium, my collaborator and I had a disagreement about the why for our working together; her thoughts on this may be found here: http://katherynowens.com/2013/05/19/thoughts-on-collaboration/ Firstly, I would argue that there is no such thing as…

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Notes on An Invitation to Participate in a Performance of Silence: This invitation was presented in a leaflet at the beginning of the conference ‘What is Performance Philosophy: Staging a New Field’. A copy was anonymously left on each chair in the lecture theatre.  These are notes made in diary form throughout the conference, followed by reflections on reactions to the invitation. At the end is the extended proposal further contextualising the performance.  1. Initial attempts to be silent – distracted by things crossing my mind that I try not to express. (Such physical discomfort of sitting in lecture theatre).…

“On the information sheet in a New York hotel, I recently read: ‘Dear guest! To guarantee that you will fully enjoy your stay with us, this hotel is totally smoke-free. For any infringement of this regulation, you will be charged $200.’ The beauty of this formulation, taken literally, is that you are to be punished for refusing to fully enjoy your stay … The superego imperative to enjoy thus functions as the reversal of Kant’s “Du kannst, denn du sollst” (You can, because you must!); it relies on a “You must, because you can!” That is to say, the superego aspect of…

I was so happy to get Laura’s email asking for the participants’ feedback mostly because the truth is that I wanted to share my thoughts on others’ thoughts. But why? What is it that makes us wanting, perhaps needing or even feeling obliged to response? Otherness. In a sense, all performance can perhaps be perceived as a response. What’s love got to do with it? Perhaps that all life performance is generated through acts of love. In practice and literally through making love (much much fewer times rape). Philosophy and performance as a-contextual in the sense that they respond to…

Jonathan Clark kindly invited me to give a talk on PP at Trinity Laban yesterday evening - a really welcome opportunity, for me at least, to think through my sense of where Performance Philosophy is at thus far and where it might go in future. In particular though it was great to meet so many researchers from across the disciplines, though particularly Music and Dance, who are concerned with a lot of the same issues that have been bugging me for years. We talked a lot, for instance, about some of the remaining issues around PaR - the continuing resistance…