Superflu[id]ity: a curated event, June 8, 10:00-11:30, 6A
Design is too often considered superfluous to performances – aesthetic, technological and everyday – and yet, as a sensorially orchestrated phenomena, such invention can make discursively manifest the varying excesses of our time.  As cups’ excess runneth over, the superfluous-as-design performs its superfluidity; overflowing the edges and slipping between the cracks to expose fissures and faults as possibilities; forcing open new spaces.  In greeting this abundance with high-water boots, we asked how conditions of super-flui(di)ty in the social, political, environmental and/or other realms permeate our theorizing and practicing of performance design.
A dozen responses to the performance+design working group’s call were selected, and these designers, theorists, pedagogues and provocateurs will share manifestos + manifestations of their research and projects in the curated Superflui(di)ty session the first day of the PSI#23 conference in Hamburg.
Convened by Beth Weinstein and Dorita Hannah, presenters include Stephen Bain, Hadi Damien, Jasper Delbecke, Vanessa Gerotto and Laure Krayenbuhl, Shauna Janssen and Jo Paterson Kinniburgh, Gabriele Kuzabviciute and Bianca Manuel, Merav Perez, and Connie Svabo, Anja Malou Strandvad and Anja Mølle Lindelof. We will also show submissions by Mark Harvey, Ana Martinez, Jon McKenzie, and Xristina Penna.
These provocations will form the basis of a moderated dialogue regarding the future of design practices in performance, and will be followed, in the afternoon by an open, working group meeting (see below), to which all are welcome.
We invite all interested in the intersection of performance + design to attend the curated Superflui(di)ty session and participate in the open performance+design working group meeting in which we will discuss future projects, alliances and events.
 
 
Performance+Design Working Group meeting: June 8, 14:15-15:15 in 6A
All interested in the intersection of Performance+Design as it relates to the creative arts and beyond are warmly invited to a meeting where future projects, alliances and events will be discussed and workshopped in order to further define and expand this working group. Convened by Dorita Hannah and Beth Weinstein.