Performance Philosophy

Browse our new website!

May 10, 2020

We are immensely excited to launch our new Performance Philosophy Website, which brings together all the PP activity. Have a browse and re-activate your account if you are an existing member! Or, if you are new to PP, then join us by signing up. We welcome feedback on the new website and suggestions on what else you might require to stay active within your Working Groups.

“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

Aproximaciones teóricas a la danza

Dec 06, 2019

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337647302_Aproximaciones_teoricas_a_la_danza

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…

The School of Making Thinking’s Summer 2018 Residency Programs

Jan 09, 2018

Hi everyone! I help run an amazing interdisciplinary artist/thinker residency program called The School of Making Thinking based out of the U.S. and I wanted to share our summer programs and encourage Performance Philosophy ppl to apply (as I think many will find them quite interested :- ) see below! best, Aaron ~ The School of Making Thinking hosts Summer Intensives for qualified artists and thinkers to work alongside each other for one to three week sessions. We continually experiment with structure, approaches to programming, and alternative pedagogies. Our residents have included sound and performance artists, poets, philosophers, sculptors, painters,…

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…