Performance Philosophy

Playing with Virtual Realities – Performances and Symposium

Nov 18, 2017

PREMIERE Playing with Virtual Realities 25. bis 28.01.2018 A research project of the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt-University of Berlin DANCE PERFORMANCE at DOCK 11 http://www.dock11-berlin.de/images/PlayingVR-32_130.jpg" alt="Playing with Virtual Realities" class="CToWUd a6T" tabindex="0" /> Playing with Virtual Realities Dates: Symposium: 25.01.2018, 13:00-20:45 Performances: 26., 27. and 28. January 2018, at 19.00 Symposium: Free Entrance. Limited places. For registration please write: [email protected] Performances: Tickets: 8.- Euro Reservations: [email protected], 030-35120312 DOCK11, Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin What moves you? How does playfulness affect knowing? How do you use the virtual space in everyday life? Is there a virtual space, which is not technological? What do techniques of the body…

2nd International Symposium Performance Philosophy School of Athens at EMST (SEPT 2017)

Nov 17, 2017

2nd International Symposium Performance Philosophy School of Athens at EMST (23-24 SEPT 2017): https://www.facebook.com/events/116175955738142/

looking or people/events/conferences etc

Nov 11, 2017

I am working on my Phd Thesis and looking for people that works with concepts of post humanism, post anthropocene & social sculpture, I am from Buenos Aires, based in Miami Beach, doing my phD in Plymouth University, UK...not sure if I should start a new group...any suggestions?

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…

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…

Dance movement therapy contextualised within a Shambhala Buddhist Vision of Enlightened Society.

Sep 23, 2017

Context : This essay was written during my visiting scholarship to Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado U.S.A, August - December 2016. Naropa is a Buddhist inspired University founded in 1974 by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Naropa combines a Tibetan Science of Mind with a third level western education. I had the opportunity to audit classes in; Dance Movement Therapy, Ikebana traditional Japanese Flower Arranging, Mudra Space Awareness Ensemble Actor Training and Shambhala Meditation Practicum: An Introduction To Meditation Practice and Dharma Reading . Please note, I am not a dance movement therapist and therefor the ideas discussed in this essay are from…

International University “Global Theatre Experience” The Ostrenko Brothers and Embodied Statues of the Psyche

Sep 15, 2017

ArtUniverse is an international arts agency created in 2006 in Great Britain with the mission; ‘ To develop transnational cultural collaboration and exchange between arts and culture workers, to strengthen international cultural links through artistic expression and to assist artists in the development of projects of a high professional level and significant artistic and sociocultural value’ (http://www.artuniverse.org/home, accessed; 09/092017) ufffc ufffcIn order to facilitate and realise it’s vision, Arts Universe are spearheading, IUGTE - the International University “Global Theatre Experience”. IUGTE was founded in 2000 with the purpose of exploring the bridge between world theatre traditions and contemporary performance. I…

2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on “Aesthetics of Performative Environments: Immersivity, Agency, Avatar” – University of Milan

Sep 10, 2017

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan offers a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on “Aesthetics of Performative Environments: Immersivity, Agency, Avatar” The Fellow will carry out the activities at the Department of Philosophy of the Università degli Studi di Milano under the supervision of Andrea Pinotti and Chiara Cappelletto. Description of the research project: Immersive environments impact on artistic practices, professional applications, and everyday life. They convey a sense of embodiment, presence, and augmented existence. Interactivity via avatars opens up new affordances and agencies: novel forms of subjectivity are performed by theatrical and fictional experiences. Drawing on image-theory, theatre and…

MA Performance

Aug 03, 2017

Dear all Liverpool Hope University is now accepting applications for its new postgraduate programme in performance. I would appreciate if you could pass this information to any graduates who might be interested. This MA programme offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on contemporary performance practice and research. It is primarily addressed to practitioners, curators and researches interested in performance as an expanded field of cultural and critical activity bringing together the arts with post-human, technology and ritual studies. More information can be found online http://www.hope.ac.uk/postgraduate/postgraduatecourses/performancema/ For further information, feel free to email Dr Annalaura Alifuoco at [email protected] or Dr Silvia…

OPEN CALL: Symposium Performance Philosophy School of Athens II

Jul 20, 2017

Athens, 23-24 September 2017 Performance Philosophy School of Athens II, is a two-day symposium, organised by Stefania Mylona and Stella Dimitrakopoulou, in association with the Performance Philosophy network. This year will focus on Performance Dance, performances of all kinds that stand in-between dance and performance art or more broadly the visual arts world. The symposium invites workshops, performances and papers that examine the relationship between dance movement, visual art and philosophy. Some of the questions to be addressed are the following: • In what ways do dance movement and the visual arts intertwine? • How do dance images make us think?…