The Department of Performance Studies of Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Performance Studies international is proud to present:
Performance Studies international #13: Happening/Performance/Event
Returning to New York University, where the first PSi conference was held in 1990, PSi #13: Happening/Performance/Event will ask questions of performance studies’ history and futurity. The invocation of the happening gestures to practices that emerged in the 1950’s as a mode of Avant-Garde performance as well as the critical approach developed by Michael Kirby for describing it, which are key terms for Performance Studies. The event has been theorized as an interruption that represents the not-yet-imagined new. This conference will comprise plenary sessions, panels, and presentations, in which contributors will engage the happening and the event and their key relationship to the history of the field. Scholars, artists, activists, and writers will come together to discuss, debate, and perform different incarnations of its history and to consider the horizon of its future. Performances will happen on campus, in the Department of Performance Studies’ Happenings Lounge as well as throughout the city in association with PERFORMA ’07. This will include performances at BAM, the Dance Theater Workshop, and Joe’s Pub. Over 400 participants from a range of countries will be attending this event.
The Conference
November 7th, 2007, 3 pm –6 pm – Registration
Located at Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Room 601
November 7th 2007, 7 pm – 9 pm
Opening Remarks and Reception
November 8th, 2007, 8:30 am – 5 pm – Registration
Located at the Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South
November 9th-10th, 2007, 9:00 am – 5 pm – Registration
Located at the Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South
PSi #13 Schedule:
Please keep in mind that papers should be limited to 15 minutes.
As you begin to prepare for your presentation, please note that all of our spaces are equipped with VHS and DVD Players (Standard American NTSC), and projectors. We will also have conference staff on site to assist with all of your technical needs.
Please send all paper title, name and/or affiliation corrections to Tina Majkowski at trm218@nyu.edu
7 November 2007 (Wednesday)
7:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception, Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
Red Carpet
Performed by Karen Finley and The Ensemble of Performance Studies. The Performance Studies Ensemble is a performance group composed of students in the NYU Performance Studies program who are currently enrolled in a performance composition class with Karen Finley.
Red Carpet with be a live extravaganza pageant of vogueing, posing, costume show offs, performance ball gowns paraded on the Red Carpet featuring performance interpretations of international performance scholars and practitioners
8 November 2007 (Thursday)
9:30 a.m. Opening Session: Comments from Adrian Heathfield, José Munoz, and Dean Mary Schmidt, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, Kimmel Center, 4th Floor
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Panel Sessions I
“Illusion and the Interruption of Identity”
Panelists:
Roy Pérez, Revulsion, Dispossession, and Latinidad: Making Identity after Ana Mendieta and Maria Irene Fornes, New York University;
Justine Shih Pearson, A View From the Bridge: intercultural performance-making, University of Sydney;
Ju Yon Kim, ‘That's not what happened at all’: Cross-Racial Performances in Kimchee and Chitlins and Twilight, Stanford University; D. Ohlandt, The Appearance of Authenticity: Adapted and Artificial Language(s) in Deaf Theatre, Lake Forest College.
Chair: Shane Vogel/Indiana University
Room: Kimmel Center 906
“Towards an Expanded Theory of the Choreographic Event”
Panelists: Victoria Anderson, Paula Caspão, Alice Chauchat, DD Dorvillier, Gurur Ertem, Barbara Formis, André Lepecki, Xavier Le Roy, Julie Perrin, Filiz Sizanli
Chair: Jenn Joy/RISD and Noémie Solomon/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 905
“The Trauma of Everyday Queer ‘Happenings’: Race, Violence, and the Neoliberal City”
Panelists: Jeffrey Q. McCune, Sitting in The Toilet: American Violence, Race, and the Queer Present, University of Maryland;
Frank Leon Roberts, Back to the Future: Notes Toward the Reconfiguration of African American Studies and AIDS Cultural Critique, New York University;
Marlon Bailey, Performance as Intravention: Ballroom Culture, HIV/AIDS, and an Urban Crisis, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Chair: Michael Roberson/Executive Director, People of Color in Crisis (P.O.C.C.)
Room: Kimmel Center 907
“Between acting and not-acting”
Panelists: Mona Bower, Teasing out the real roles, University of California, Berkeley;
Laura Cull, Presence as perpetual variation: Deleuze, Carmelo Bene and the theatre of nonrepresentation,
University of Exeter;
Beth Hoffmann, Orders of representation in British live art, University of California, Berkeley.
Chair: Maaike Bleeker/Utrecht University
Room: Kimmel Center 908
“Questioning the Modern Body: Toward New Understandings of Self, Other, Gender and Ability in Japan and Korea”
Panelists: Ikeuchi Yasuko, ‘Queer’ Performances of Gekidan TAIHEN: Questioning the Body as a Modern Institution, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan;
Mika Kobayashi, Performing Self(ves) in ‘Comical and Cynical’, Curatorial Assistant, International Center of Photography;
Rebecca Jennison, The Poetics/Politics of Performance in Tomiyama Taeko's ‘Kugutsu and Hiruko’: A Wandering Troupe of Puppets, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan.
Chair: Rebecca Jennison/Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
Room: Kimmel Center 909
“Intangible Heritage in Transit: Mediation, Mobility, Modernity”
Panelists: Tomie Hahn, Mediating the Intangible, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;
Michelle Kisliuk, From ‘Intangible’ to Material, University of Virginia;
Deborah Kapchan, Intangible Heritage in Transit: From Marrakech to Paris, New York University.
Chair: Deborah Kapchan, New York University
Discussant: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Performing Documentaries/Memory”
Panelists: Caroline Wake, Witnessing Degree Zero: Performance, Disappearance, and the SIEV X, University of New South Wales, Australia;
Nigel Ward, Breathe later: when happenings happen again, Anglia Ruskin University, UK;
Catalina Cortes Severino, Performative Documentary practices within the politics and ethics of memory in context of violence in the Pacific region of Colombia, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill;
Vida Midgelow, TRACE - playing with/out memory, University of Northampton.
Chair: Edward Blaise Ziter/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 912
“What Goes Around Comes Around: Fluxus’ Orbit through the Present”
Panelists: Hannah Higgins, Fluxus with Tools, UIC College of Architecture and the Arts;
Julia E. Robinson, Linguistic Performatives in the Event of George Brecht: From minimal and conceptual art, to Minimal and Conceptual Art, Princeton University;
Midori Yoshimoto, Fluxus Nexus/Tokyo-New York, New Jersey City University;
With artist Alison Knowles;
Chair: Midori Yoshimoto/New Jersey City University
Room: Department of Performance Studies, Studio, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-3:00 p.m. Panel Sessions II
“Site-Specificity: The Spatial Politics of Interruption”
Panelists: Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin; Bertie Ferdman, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Annette Arlander, Theatre Academy, Finland; Simon Persighetti, Dartington College of Arts & Wrights & Sites UK
Chair: Melanie Kloetzel/Idaho State University
Room: Kimmel Center 905
“Intensities of Appearance—A Roundtable”
Panelists: Alan Read, King’s College, London; Gianna Bouchard, Anglia Ruskin University; Joe Kelleher, Roehampton University; Simon Bayly, Roehampton University; Adrian Kear, Aberystwyth University.
Chair: Janelle Reinelt, University of Warwick
Room: Kimmel Center 906
“Corporeal Dispersions”
Panelists: Diego Rotman and Lea Mauas, Searching for autonomy: between performance art, temporary artistic zones and suicidal attacks, Hebrew University and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem;
Joseph Shahadi, Becoming Cyborg, New York University.
Chair: Erin Mee/Swarthmore
Room: Kimmel Center 907
“Performing the Nation”
Panelists: Anurima Banerji, Classical Indian Dance: The Politics and Performance of Temporality, New York University;
Michelle Liu Carriger, Pointing to the Moon: The Japanese Way of Tea in Contemporary Practice, Brown University;
Ian Watson, The Performance of Power: The Democratic National Convention as Performance Event, Rutgers University.
Chair: Randy Martin/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 908
“Request – Riposte: Site Specificity and Site Discursivity”
Panelists: Charles Campbell, Gülgün Kayim, Sean Kelley-Pegg (all Skewed Visions Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Directors).
Chair: Branislav Jakovljevic/Stanford University
Room: Kimmel Center 909
"Bodies in Sound, Bodies in Motion: Technology and the Event" –Roundtable Discussion
Panelists: Jim Brashear, “Sounds Like You're Licking Your Armpit: Bodies, ‘Multimedia,’ and Raul,” New York University;
Katie Brewer Ball, "’That Membrane is Exactly What We've Been Looking For’: Jillian Peña's Dance Videos,” New York University;
Jillian Peña, Goldsmiths College; Raul Vincent Enriquez, Artist.
Chair: Barbara Browning/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 910
3:15-4:45 p.m. Panel Sessions III
"Site Specific Dramaturgies"
Panelists: Marc Etlin, Un-Intentional Community and the Dramaturgy of Conscience, New York University;
Jo Novelli, When Drifts Happen: Co-Laboring with Francis Alys, New York University;
Daniel Sack, 'A WIND BLOWS OVER THE VOID AND CALLS IT TO LIFE': Spectacular Potentiality in Live Performance, Stanford University;
Kjell Yngve Petersen, Performance composition in Telematic Environments, Brunel University.
Chair: Laurie Beth Clark/University of Wisconsin
Room: Kimmel Center 906
“The Status of the ‘Event’”—A Roundtable Discussion with Richard Schechner, New York University; Karen Shimakawa, New York University; Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University; Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University; Leo Spitzer, Columbia University.
Chair: Diana Taylor/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 905
“Performing the Reparative”
Panelists: Sujay Pandit, The Terrible Stories: Narration, Nation and (non)Inclusion in the South African TRC Amnesty Hearings, New York University;
Robert Diaz, Repairing the body, Repairing a community: Dissent in the Specter of AIDS, CUNY;
Letia Rose Frandina, From Ideograph to Reparation: Periperformatives of Commemoration, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Chair: Heather Lukes/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 907
“About Iraq: Performance as Politics, Politics as Performance”
Panelists: Magda Romanska, Trauma, Testimony and Documentary Performance in Heather Raffo's ‘Nine Parts of Desire’, Emerson College;
John Bell, Internet Spectacle and Post-9/11 Performance, MIT and University of Connecticut;
Emily Colborn-Roxworthy, Barbed Wire and Mesh Cages: Upstaging U.S. Containment Spectacles in ‘Station J’ and ‘Guantánamo’, University of California, San Diego;
Margot Weiss, Performing Interrogation/Interrogating Spectacle: Abu Ghraib and Consensual BDSM, Duke University.
Chair: Magda Romanska/Emerson College
Room: Kimmel Center 908
“The ‘New’ and New Media”
Panelists: Timo Heinonen; Being, Event and New Technologies, Theatre Academy of Finland, Helsinki;
Britta Timm Knudsen and Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Performance of utopia in media-events, University of Aarhus, Denmark;
Eser Selen, Re/booting Binaries: What is Old in the New Media?, New York University.
Chair: Jenn Joy/RISD
Room: Kimmel Center 909
“New Objectifications of the Body”
Panelists: Ivy I-chu Chang, Corporealizing Puppets and Virtualizing Human Bodies: Cos-play and Dissemination of Video Puppet Stars in Taiwan, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan;
Emma Cocker, Desiring to be led astray, Nottingham Trent University, UK;
Christopher Stahl, Turning Tricks: Magic, Mimesis, and Non-Matrixed Performance, New York University.
Chair: Gavin Butt/Goldsmith
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Growing old, Affect, Movements and non-dividability of an event”
Panelists: Ronja Verkasalo, Becoming human - Etudes on Developmental Movement, Helsinki, Finland;
Inka Välipakka Juslin, Angelwindow, University of Tampere, Finland and New York University.
Chair: Inka Välipakka Juslin /University of Tampere
Room: Kimmel Center 912
5:00-6:30 p.m. Panel Session IV
“Robots Go Postal, New Happenings”
Panelists: Mitchell Polin, Postal Performance: Antonin Artaud and the Mail Order Happening, Trinity College;
Nancy Reilly-McVittie, Robots and Regular Joes on Kirby’s Continuum: A Remediation of Acting/Not Acting, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England;
Serap Erincin, The Audience Matters: The Wooster Group's Performativity and Reperformability on Display, New York University;
Sara Raza, Foot Traffic, Tate Modern, London
Chair: Hannah Higgins/UIC
Room: Department of Performance Studies, Studio, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“Rethinking the Avant-Garde”
Panelists:
Jessica Chalmers, The '80S: Toward a Generational Interpretation of Avant-Garde History, University of Notre Dame;
Deborah Cohen, What is the Tibetan Avant-Garde?, University of California, Los Angeles;
Audrone Zukauskaite, Performance Art and the Invention of the Real, Culture, Philosophy and Arts Research Institute, Lithuania;
Sarah Austin, Performance/Disruption and the Happening: FrenchMottershead's microperformance strategy, Urbis—Manchester, UK.
Chair: Carol Martin, New York University
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 612, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
"Creating Interdisciplinary/Digital Media Performance-kong"
Panelists: Barbara Parisi, Long Island University; Pamela Sneed, Ninotchka Bennahum.
Chair: Barbara Parisi/Long Island University
Room: Kimmel Center, Solarium
"Museums Now"
Panelists: Chariklia Marini, Dirt, Noise and Disorder in the Museum, Queen Mary University of London, UK;
Joel Chalfen, What's happening at the museum now?, University of Manchester, UK;
Lucian Gomoll, Approaching the Vistorly Museum, University of California, Santa Cruz;
Jovana Stokic, Performing Life, New York University.
Chair: Jennifer Doyle/University of California, Riverside
Room: Kimmel Center, 901
“Self and Cyberspace”
Panelists: T.L. Cowan, ‘Broadcast Yourself™’: Voyeurism, Spectacle, and the Performance Archives of YouTube and MySpace, University of Alberta;
Gary Maciag, (Self-) Assembly Required: Performing and Constructing the Self in Online Environments, Independent Scholar;
E.J. Westlake, Friend me if you Facebook: Generation Y and Performative Surveillance, University of Michigan.
Chair: Chris McGahan/New York University
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 613, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“Museums Now”
Panelists: Chariklia Marini, Dirt, Noise and Disorder in the Museum, Queen Mary University of London, UK;
Joel Chalfen, What’s happening at the museum now?, University of Manchester, UK;
Lucian Gomoll, Approaching the Vistorly Museum, University of California, Santa Cruz;
Jovana Stokic, Performing Life, New York University.
Chair: Jennifer Doyle/University of California, Riverside
Room: TBA
“Creating Interdisciplinary/Digital Media Performance-kong”
Panelists: Barbara Parisi, Long Island University; Pamela Sneed, Ninotchka Bennahum.
Chair: Barbara Parisi/Long Island University
Room: TBA
“Beyond Liminality”
Panelists: Angela Bartram, Working With the Mouth: Art, abjection, and working on thresholds, University of Lincoln, UK;
James Frieze, Brand Blueprints and the Fetishization of Information: Performance, Document, Commodity, Liverpool John Moores University, UK;
Harvey Young, The Souvenir is the Performance, Northwestern University.
Chair: Christine Balance/ University of California, Riverside
Room: 907
9 November 2007 (Friday)
9:00-10:30 a.m. Panel Sessions V
“Race, Sex and TV”
Panelists: Steve Wilmer, Postdramatic Therapy? Schlingensief's Please Love Austria, Trinity College, Dublin;
Julia Steinmetz, Feminist Trespass: The Transfeminist Aesthetics of Pilot TV, New York University;
Chris McGahan, ‘Not in Neverland Here’: The ‘Racial Bullying’ Episode on Celebrity Big Brother UK and Contemporary British Cultural Politics, Yeshiva University.
Chair: Phillip Auslander/Georgia Tech
Room: Kimmel Center 906
“The Performance of Travel”
Panelists: Paige McGinley, Wandering Stages: Four Saints in Three Acts' Expatriate Travels, Princeton University;
Jarrod Beck, Performative Installation in the American West;
Richard Smolinski, Creative Experiences and Transformative Events: The C.A.M.P.E.R. Project, University Of Calgary;
Susan C. Haedicke, When a Time-Traveling Elephant and a Giant Little Girl Visited London: The Political Context of Royal de Luxe's The Sultan's Elephant, University of Warwick, UK.
Chair: Edward Blaise Ziter/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 908
"Interrupted: Fluid Habitus & Differentiated Hybridity in Transnational ‘Experiments’"
Panelists: Peter Eckersall, Avant Garde Habitus and Hybridities: Japan vs Australia, University of Melbourne, Australia;
Haiping Yan, Tropes of ‘Home’: Global Shanghai and New Asia in Performance, UCLA;
Katherine Mezur, Wrong page/ Inside Out: Reckless Dis-Orientations, University of Washington, Seattle;
Meiling Cheng, Behaving Performance/ Enacting Xingwei: Transmuted Live Art in China, University of Southern California;
Carol Martin, Takeshi Kawamura's Komachi, New York University.
Chair: Katherine Mezur/University of Washington, Seattle
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Global Feminist Performance”
Panelists: Jale Karabekir, Transformative and/or Performative?: Women’s practices of theatre of the oppressed in Turkey, Artistic Director;
Jeanne Vaccaro, Taking Place: Architecting a Feminist Collaboration, New York University;
Anna Fisher, What It Feels Like For A Girl/Feminist: Feminist Failure and Girlish Performativity in the Art of Elke Krystufek and Chris Kraus, Brown University;
Carol Marie Webster, Transgressive Communion: African Women Presence in Liturgy of the Eucharist, Philip Sherlock Center for the Creative Arts.
Chair: Deborah Kapchan/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 912
“The Avant Garde in Indian Theatre”
Panelists: Erin Mee, Enacting an Alternative Modernity: Kavalam Narayana Panikkar Redirects Indian Theatre, Swarthmore College;
Nandi Bhatia, University of Western Ontario;
Shayoni Mitra, Maya Rao: The Art of Activism in the Indian Avant-Garde, New York University;
Sudipto Chatterjee, Alienating Brecht: Calcutta's Group Theatre and Bertolt Brecht, University of California, Berkeley and Loughborough University, UK.
Chair: Richard Schechner/New York University
Room: Department of Performance Studies, Studio, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“(Re)staging Authenticity”
Panelists: Andrew Quick, The White Ghost of History, Lancaster University;
Geraldine Harris, Quarantine and Company Fierce’s Susan and Darren: A Manchester Tale’, Lancaster University; Karl Lavery, Death in The City, Lancaster University.
Chair: Carl Lavery/Lancaster University
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 612, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“Figuring Futurity in Contemporary Art and Performance”
Panelists: Jen Harvie, Post-apocalyptic Picnic: Eliasson’s ‘Weather Project’ in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, Queen Mary, University of London;
Dominic Johnson, Writing in the Cut: Performance, Futurity and the Unproductive Subject, Queen Mary, University of London;
Nicholas Ridout, It Makes Me Feel Really Bad, Queen Mary, University of London.
Chair: LoisWeaver (as Tammy Why Not)/Queen Mary, University of London
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 613, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Plenary Session : Making History... Developing New Works
Judson Memorial Church, Meeting Room
Chair: RoseLee Goldberg
Featuring Isaac Julien, Yvonne Rainer and Laurie Simmons.
12:30 p.m. Lunch
12:30-1:30 p.m. TDR Reception
Join TDR Editor Richard Schechner, Associate Editor Mariellen Sandford, and Critical Acts Editor T. Nikki Cesare for lunchtime nosh and jaw to discuss how TDR’s illustrative work in performance studies over the past half century can move into the next.
Taking on issues of import that grace recent pages in TDR, we invite dialogue about deimperializing scholarship, opening up new avenues of academic—and nonacademic—discourse, globalizing TDR within a globalized world, plus TDR’s role in the lives of emerging academics through its Student Essay Contest. And yes, lunch
is on us!
Location: Department of Performance Studies, Studio, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
1:30-3:00 p.m. Panel Sessions VI
Re-doing “18 Happenings in 6 Parts"
Panelists: Shawn Greenlee, Brown University; André Lepecki, New York University; Noémie Solomon, New York University; Stephanie Rosenthal, Haus der Kunst, Munich.
Chair: Judith Rodenbeck/Sarah Lawrence College
Room: Department of Performance Studies, Studio, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“Performances of Pleasure”
Panelists: Bruce Barton, ‘IntiMedia’: An Interaction on Intimacy in Intermedia, University of Toronto;
Albert Sergio Laguna, Enjoying Cuba in Exile: The Psychic Work of Cuban Choteo, New York University;
Jaclyn Pryor, Love, Labor, and the Proliferation of Small Worlds: Getting Pink in Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin;
Rachel Carrico, Post-Humanist Politics, and Avant-garde Performance: Lone Twin's Uncontrollable Bodies, New York University.
Chair: Ricardo Montez/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 906
"Processing Event: Stretching Interruption's Limits Through Ethnographies of Art, Dance, and Theater—A Roundtable Discussion"
Panelists: Catherine Ming T'ien Duffly, University of California, Berkeley;
Morgan Pecelli, Columbia University; Ariel Osterweis Scott, University of California, Berkeley.
Chair: Brandi Wilkins Catanese/University of California, Berkeley
Room: Kimmel Center 907
“Interconnecting Dispersed Events, Emotions and Activism”
Panelists: Peta Tait, Emotional Display and Political Disruption, La Trobe University; Meredith Rogers, Parallel Play/ Ordinary Walking /Ordinary Talking /Everyday Surveillance and the Remote Audience, La Trobe University; Maria Brigida de Miranda, ‘Making a spectacle of herself’: the body in performance of Efigênia Rolim, Queen of Paper, University of Santa Catarina.
Chair: Peta Tait/La Trobe University
Room: Kimmel Center 908
“Pain, Poetics and Performance”
Panelists: Jim Ferris, The Thing We Don't Talk About: Pain, Pleasure, Poetry, Performance, University of Wisconsin;
Irene Loughlin: Pain, Performance, Poetics and Disability, University of Toronto.
Chair: Irene Loughlin, University of Toronto
Room: Kimmel Center 909
“Race and Nation as Event”
Panelists: Shane Vogel, Irrealizing the Queer Harlem Renaissance, Indiana University;
Joshua Chambers-Letson, Structure, Sign, and The America Play, New York University;
Hypatia Vourloumis, Nation, Language, Event: Indonesian Communicability, New York University.
Chair: HarveyYoung/Northwestern
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Animal Acts” – panel 1: “Animal Events and Eventualities”
Panelists: Erika Rundle, Theatricality, Evolution, and the Primate Actor, Mt. Holyoke College;
Kristin Dombek, In the Beginning: Evangelical Animals and the Making of Creation, Princeton University;
Michael Peterson, The Nature of Las Vegas, University of Wisconsin.
Chair: Una Chaudhuri/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 912
“It happened….didn't it”
Panelists: Shannon Jackson, University of California, Berkeley;
Robert Ayers, A funny thing happened on the way to the theater ..., Senior Editor/ARTINFO.com/New York correspondent/Total Theatre Magazine;
Anna Furse, What remains? Some reflections on mortality, ephemera and the irresistible power of the durable, Goldsmiths, University of London;
Mary Oliver, Lies! Lies! It's all Lies I tell you, University of Salford.
Chair: Mary Oliver/University of Salford
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 612, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Site-Specific Performance Working Group
“A Series Of Stumbles & Interruptions”
As a practical investigation of some of the issues raised by the conference roundtable on "Site-Specificity: The Spatial Politics of Interruption", Simon Persighetti of Wrights & Sites (UK) will convene a short walk based upon some of the principals of Mis-Guidance that propose walking as a means of being able to make place step-by-step and moment-to- moment. HYPERLINK "http://www.mis-guide.com" www.mis-guide.com.
Chair: Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin
Room: Kimmel Center 905
3:15-4:45 p.m. Panel Session VII
“The Workcenter After Grotowski”
Panelists: Richard Schechner, New York University; Antonio Attisani, University of Torino, Italy; Kris Salata, Stanford.
Chair: Lisa Wolford Wylam/York University, Canada
Room: Kimmel Center 907
“Bodily Transgressions”
Panelists: Christian DuComb, Body Worlds 2 and the Politics of Fetal Display, Brown University;
Arden Elizabeth Thomas, Performing Toxic Bodies: Rachel Rosenthal’s Ecologies of Performance, Stanford University;
Rebekah Delaney, The body as Illusion, New York University;
Dominika Bennacer, Bodies that trespass, New York University.
Chair: Ann Pelligrini/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 908
“The ‘event’ of autobiography”
Panelists: Lenora Champagne, Kyle DeCamp, Jill Dolan, Leslie Hill, Adrian Howells, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Jeff McMahon, Helen Paris, Mathew Sandoval, Peggy Shaw, Alina Troyano (Carmelita Tropicana), Denise Uyehara Alexia Vernon, Lois Weaver.
Chairs: Lenora Champagne, Purchase College/SUNY and Dee Heddon, University of Glasgow;
Room: Kimmel Center 909
“Performing the Interruption”
Panelists: Randy Martin, Art Attacks, New York University;
Shane Boyle, Border Practices: Performance, Activism, and (mis)Representation in Ciudad Juarez, University of California, Berkeley;
Ming-yan Lai, Performing the sexy queen of maids: Indonesian domestic workers’ theatrical interruption at the World Trade Organization ministerial, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Chair: Julia Steinmetz/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Animal Acts” – panel 2: “Animal Acts, Political Action, and Daily Activity”
Panelists: Michelle Lindenblatt, The Promise of Eco-Terrorism, New York University;
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, A Proliferation of Pigs: Intersections in Art, Waste, and Bodies, Roehampton University, London;
Meiling Cheng, Down and Under, Up and Over: Animalworks by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, USC.
Chair: Michelle Lindenblatt/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 912
“Rethinking Happenings”
Panelists: Silvija Jestrovic, Exilic Happenings: Alien Staff, Flâneur, and Other Objects, Warwick University, UK;
Wendy Clupper, Burning Man as a Modern Day Happening, University of Maryland at College Park;
Joy Crosby, Diderot and the Remains of Performance: Imagining a Theatre between Ritual and Happening, University of California, Berkeley;
Johannes Lothar Schröder, How happenings came to me & I came to Happenings. (Happenings are no Reenactments.), free lance researcher, author and artist.
Chair: Rachel Bowditch/ASU
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 612, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“Queerly Serious”
Panelists: Gavin Butt, Just a Camp Laugh? David Hoyle's 'Magazine’, Goldsmiths, University of London;
Jon Cairns, Ost Property: A Hairdresser's Tale, Byam Shaw School of Art;
Jennifer Doyle, Hell is Other People': Ron Athey's 'Incorruptible Flesh’, University of California, Riverside;
Lynne Fanthome, An Infantile Task for Queer Infans: Ethical way or Fantasy of Infancy?, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Chair: Gavin Butt/Goldsmiths, University of London
Room: Kimmel Center 905
Beth Kurkjian, "Sylvie or Marie" a dance theater showing inspired by text by Ben Greenman.
The showing will start at 4:00pm and run for appoximately 15 minutes.
Location: Happenings Lounge, Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
5:00-6:30 p.m. Panel Session VIII
Women and Performance Reception
Join the Editorial Collective of Women and Performance: a journal of
feminist theory for a presentation about the journal's history,
forthcoming issues, editorial vision, and submission guidelines.
There will be plenty of time to ask questions and get involved!
Refreshments will be served.
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“The Futurity of the Artist-Scholar in Performance Studies”
Panelists: Elizabeth Whitney, Performance and/as Scholarship: Legitimacy in the Academy, Emerson College;
John Bell, Crossing the Artist/Scholar Divide: Recent Experiences on Stage and in the Classroom, Emerson College;
David P. Terry, Embodying the scholar-artist hyphen: On the limits and possibilities of the scientist is to lab as performance scholar is to theatre analogy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Jenny Romaine, It is Glamorous to Use Your Brain, or, Throwing Art at High Stakes Testing, Concordia University;
Mark Sussman, Performance as Research: Great Small Works at the Topological Media Lab, Concordia University.
Chair: Elizabeth Whitney/Emerson College
Room: Kimmel Center 906
Music as Performance Working Group
Chair: Phillip Auslander/Georgia Tech
Room: Kimmel Center 908
“Thinking Inside the Box”
Panelists: Amanda Krugliak, Melanie Manos, Sarah Buckius, Karen Hoenke (all University of Michigan).
Chair: Holly Hughes/University of Michigan
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 612, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“Infidelity, Art and Philosophy”
Panelists: Oliver Feltham, Self-reflexivity in the Event: from Alain Badiou to Dan Graham, American University of Paris;
Barbara Formis, Dismantling theatricality, aesthetics of bare life: from Giorgio Agamben to Anna Halprin, Sorbonne University and International College of Philosophy;
Elie During, Performing Events, Making Time: From Gilles Deleuze to Dan Graham, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts (Lyon).
Chair: Barbara Formis/Sorbonne University and International College of Philosophy
Room: Kimmel Center 912
“Radical Dreams and Simulacra: The Happening and Social Movement Performance”
Panelists: Stephen Duncombe, Imagine an Ethical Spectacle, New York University;
L.M. Bogad, Radical Simlacrum, Regulation by Prank: The “Oil Enforcement Agency” Raids the Los Angeles Auto Show, University of Calfornia at Davis;
Benjamin Shepard, The Case of the Bike Lane Liberation Clowns: Ludic Diversion or Tactical Innovation?, City Tech/ City University of New York.
Chair: L.M. Bogad/University of Calfornia, Davis
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 613, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“QUT Creative Industries Faculty, “Marcuse/Utopia Future/Past”
Zane Trow, Queensland University of Technology
Location: Happenings Lounge, Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
7:30 p.m.
PERFORMA 07
Jerome Bel, Pichet Klunchun and myself
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street
New York, NY
PERFORMA 07
Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant, Cast No Shadow
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY
10 November 2007 (Saturday)
9:00-10:30 a.m. Panel Sessions IX
Emotion Laboratory: Affect/Transmission/Rapture
Panelists: Dr. Evelyn Dörr, The Discovery of Voice, Berlin; Ursula
Neuerburg-Denzer, The Performer's Emotional Body, Concordia
University, Montreal; Nandini Sikand, Examining Intention: The Use of
Rasa in Odissi Dance, Graduate Center, CUNY
Chair: Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer/Concordia University
Room: Kimmel Center 804
“New Work in Performance Studies”
Sponsored by the Emerging Scholars Committee
Panelists: M.G. Renu Cappelli, The Kings and I, University of California, Berkeley;
Jisha Menon, Calling Local/Talking Global: The Cosmopolotics of the Call Centre Industry, University of British Columbia;
Tony Perucci, Theatres of Rupture: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Presence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Shannon Steen, ReOrienting Califorrnia, ReOrienting Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley;
Patricia Ybarra, Latina/o Travelogues, Brown University;
Harvey Young, Beyond Liveness: The Souvenir is the Performance, Northwestern University
Co-Discussant: David Roman, University of Southern California.
Co-Discussant: Jill Dolan, University of Texas
Chair: Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego
Room: Kimmel Center 906
“Dialogue between Amelia Jones and Carolee Schneemann on ‘The Live Art Event in History’”
Panelists: Amelia Jones, University of Manchester, UK; Carolee Schneemann.
Chair: Amelia Jones/University of Manchester, UK
Room: Kimmel Center 908
“The Space Performance”
Panelists: Roger Pippin, A Performer’s Guide to Changing the Shape of Space with Swarm Intelligence, University of South Florida;
Nicolas Whybrow, Art City Performance, University of Warwick, UK;
Charlott Hennessy, Space, place and visions of peace in Sri Lanka, University of Manchester, UK;
Sara Jansen, Discontinuous Movements: Actions, events and the (beginnings of) dance in Postwar Japan, New York University.
Chair: Mark Sussman/Concordia
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 612, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“Disruptions”
Panelists: Alex Pittman, How Do You Make a Political Science?, New York University;
F. Lane Harwell, Chor(g)eographies: San Francisco Ballet and a ‘Riot’ in a Theater in Paris, July 7, 2005, University of California, Berkeley;
Ray Langenbach, Plato's Pit: Lu Xun's Rendition , Finnish Academy of Fine Arts;
Ruth Holdsworth, The Tyranny of the New, University of Bristol, UK.
Chair: Katie Brewer Ball/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 909
“Performing Utopia”
Panelists: Michal Kobialka, Of Happenings/Events and Futurity: Political Theatre/Performance in the post-2001 Environment, University of Minnesota;
Sara Jane Bailes, Not-Yet-Imagined: On Elevator Repair Service and Forced Entertainment, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK;
Marin Blazevic, The end(s) of performance – the last night of Goat Island, Zagreb University, Croatia;
Sarah Kozinn, The Biology of Utopia, New York University.
Chair: Joshua Chambers Letson/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Truth, the Real and the Event”
Panelists: Steve Luber, The Invisible Event: Mediation and Performance, Graduate Center, City University of New York;
Joshua Abrams; The twenty-first century and the Event of the Real, Roehampton University, UK;
Marcela Fuentes, Event-Politics: An Exploration of 'Gesture' in Online/Offline Artivism, New York University;
Matthew Causey, Event, Truth and the Void, Trinity College, Dublin.
Chair: Adrian Kear, Aberystwyth University
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 613, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“Race and the Paraliterary Performance”
Panelists: André Carrington, Josh Brandon's Blues: Race, Gender, and the Writer in 1950s (Science Fiction) Fandom, Skidmore College;
Uri McMillan, Chattel Performance: Ellen Craft’s Performance of Liberation, Yale University.
Chair: Tavia Nyong’o/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 912
“In proximity to the event: performance documentation and politics—a conversational performance between Sharon Hayes and Janet Kaplan”
Panelists: Janet Kaplan, Moore College of Art and Design;
Sharon Hayes, Vermont College & Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science.
Room: Department of Performance Studies, Studio, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
11:00 a.m.
Keynote: Fred Moten, Chromatic Saturation
Introduced by Jill Lane, New York University
Location: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th St., Theater 200
12:30 p.m. Lunch
12:30-1:30 Committee Meetings
Graduate Students Committee Meeting
Facilitated by Monica Stufft & Lara Shalson
The graduate students subcommittee seeks to foster the active participation of graduate students in all aspects of PSi and to create a forum for dialogue around the specific needs of graduate students in the field of performance studies. We aim to address issues facing PS graduate students such as the challenges of interdisciplinary scholarship, professionalization, and going on the job market. Please join us for our annual meeting and find out how you can get more involved.
Room: Kimmel Center 908
Independent Scholars Committee Meeting
Facilitated by Cobina Gillitt
In general Independent scholars face particular dilemmas in relation to conference participation and support structures, dialogue and information access in their chosen fields. This committee meeting is the place and space to consider how PSi can help to engage and support the many independent scholars in its ambit.
Room: Kimmel Center 907
Emerging Scholars Committee Meeting
Facilitated by Patrick Anderson
The Emerging Scholar committee is designed to foster support for and collaboration among junior faculty (recent PhDs and MFAs) and young artists who are just beginning to develop their professional work. In addition to planning for future conferences, we will also use this time to brainstorm other possibilities for networking and collaboration, as well as to discuss issues of particular relevance to scholars and artists at the beginning of their careers. Anyone who falls into the above categories is welcome to attend.
Room: Kimmel Center 905
Conference Committee Meeting
Facilitated by Adrian Heathfield
Join Adrian Heathfield, Ed Scheer and organizers of future
PSi conferences for an informal feedback session, discussion on
conference structures and to hear about plans for coming events.
Room: Kimmel Center 906
Artists' Committee
Facilitated by Lois Weaver
The primary focus of this committee is to encourage and improve artist participation in PSi. At this meeting, we will explore ways to increase our numbers, make more noise, occupy more space and maintain the confidence and endurance to stick it out. We will discuss ways to make the organization more accessible to artists in terms of cost, language, platforms for participation in programming and representation in the business of the organization or any other ideas for involving real live performance artists in the conversations around performance studies.
Room: Kimmel Center 909
International Committee Meeting
Facilitated by Peter Eckersall
The international committee aims to: promote the diversity of cultural,
national and ethnic membership of Psi; foster a wider participation of
members from diverse cultures and backgrounds in conferences; foster
links in teaching, artistic exchange and scholarly research between
established PS communities and emerging groups; recognises that
performance studies as a discipline has a strong focus on western forms of
cultural production and aims to promote the wider internationalisation of
Performance Studies and a wider critical engagement with its key
practices; is a forum for the membership of PSi to report to the
organization on international matters.
Room: Kimmel Center 910
1:30-3:00 p.m. Panel Sessions X
Ruptures of the 'Real'
Panelists: Dorita Hannah, Spatial Violence: Performing Against Architecture, Massey University;
Sharon Mazer, Acting Back, University of Canterbury;
Peter Falkenberg, Nothing Ever Happens Here, University of Canterbury.
Chair: Jessica Chalmers/University of Notre Dame
Room: Kimmel Center, 804
“Eventus Interruptus”
Panelists:
Katie Gough, Girls Interrupted: Gendered Spectres, Atlantic Drag , University of Glasgow;
P.A. Skantze, 24/7: Interrupted by Surprise, Roehampton University;
Rebecca Schneider, Play it Again, Photographer, Brown University.
Chair: P.A. Skantze/Roehampton University
Room: Kimmel Center 906
“Future Time”
Panelists: Rune Gade, Events for future audiences: elements of past and future in the live installations of Santiago Sierra, University of Copenhagen;
Judit Vidiella Pagès, Past, present and future tenses: thinking performance through [verbal] actions, CECACE, Parque Científico de la Universidad de Barcelona;
Minty Donald, Glimmers in Limbo: site-responsive intervention as a strategy for shaping conceptions of the built environment, The Glasgow School of Art, UK;
Virginie Magnat, Nostalgia for the New: Performance as the Always-Already-Yet-to-Come, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Chair: Jose Munoz/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 907
“Technology, Visuality, Performance”
Panelists: Sita Popat and Scott Palmer, Projecting Performance: Embodied Technologies for Operator and Performer, University of Leeds, UK;
W. B. Worthen, Performative Information, University of Michigan; Marvin Carlson, The Return of the Matrix:
David Levins’s Bauerntheater Project, Graduate Center, City University of New York;
Branislava Kuburovic, Performing Immediacy, Roehampton University.
Chair: Chris McGahan/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 908
Performance in Historical Paradigms Working Group – panel 1: “History and Ideological Tactics: Grouphood”
Panelists: Kim Marra, Thoroughbred Performance: The Emergence of a Human and Equine Ideal in New York City, 1865-1930, University of Iowa;
Daniel O’Quinn, Racial Difference and Repetition: Molineaux, Cribb and the Violence of the Fancy, University of Guelph;
Linda Ben Zvi, Lecture as Performance: the Dehistoricization Techniques of Tobaron Waxman, Tel Aviv University;
Ioana Szeman, The Role of Performance for Roma Self-Definition Today, Roehampton University, London.
Convenor: Tracy C. Davis/Northwestern University
Room: Kimmel Center 909
“Gestures of Mediation”
Panelists: Melissa Geppert, Genealogy and Gesture in Christine Borland’s ‘Endless Walk’, University of Minnesota;
Frazer Ward, New Media Public Sphere and Experience, Smith College; Jane Blocker, On Repetition, University of Minnesota.
Chair: Jane Blocker/University of Minnesota
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Virtuality and Embodiment”
Sue Broadhurst, Digital Practices: An Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic approach to Virtuality and Embodiment, Brunel University;
Steve Dixon, Telematic Theatrics: When Virtual Bodies Span Continents, Brunel University;
Stelarc, Cross-disciplinary Arts and Science: Art, Performance and Virtuality, Brunel University.
Chair: Sue Broadhurst /Brunel University
Room: Kimmel Center 905
“The Leaking and Ruptured Body”
Panelists: Julie Devaney, My Leaky Performances – Teaching medical professionals about autoimmunity, York University;
Leonore Easton, Inside Something Is Happening: the body as an event producer, Queen Mary University of London, UK;
Christine Stoddard, Ruptured Flesh, Gaps in Time: Pain, Anxiety and the Body, University of Manchester, UK;
Fintan Walsh, Queer Performance and the Non-Event: an Irish Example, Trinity College, Dublin.
Chair: Sara Jane Bailes, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 612, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“’What’s Happening, Now?’: Spinning Off Suburbia in Music and Performance—A Roundtable”
Panelists: Christine Balance, University of California, Riverside; Karen Tongson, University of Southern California; Alexandra Vazquez, Yale University.
Chair: Christine Balance/University of California, Riverside
Room: Kimmel Center 912
“Flux-Solo”
Larry Miller
Location: Happenings Lounge, Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
3:15-4:45 p.m. Panel Sessions XI
"New Performing Strategies in the Search for Identities—Panel 1"
Panelists: Kin-Yan Szeto, "Pining…in Peach Blossom Land" in Performance: A Transnational Perspective, Appalachian State University;
Chun Yen Wang, Mimicry Body, Fluctuating Taiwanese: "Ophelia" in Western Modernity and Chineseness, UCLA.
Hsiao-mei Hsieh, Staging the Regional/ National: Taiwanese Opera Performances in Beijing, Northwestern University;
Chair: Kin-Yan Szeto/Appalachian State University
Room: Kimmel Center, 804
“New Techniques of Acting and the Everyday”
Panelists: Lada Cale Feldman, The (Re)Invention of Acting, Zagreb University, Croatia;
Sreekala Sivasankaran, Inside and Outside of the Actor, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi;
Elin Diamond, Allan Kaprow and the Genealogy of Everyday Life, Rutgers University.
Chair: Karen Finley/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 906
“Rethinking Strategies of Spectatorship”
Panelists: Glenn D’Cruz, 'Cum Together': Spectatorship and La Fura Baus' XXX, Deakin University, Australia;
Rachel Bowditch, Pedagogies of Practice: A Post-modern Approach to the Transmission of Performance Knowledge, Arizona State University;
Carrie Stern, What to Do With the Audience: New models of performance, Kenneth Prestininzi, SALVAGE PERFORMANCE – a performance strategy for playwrights, Brown University.
Chair: Sandra Ruiz/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 907
“Queer Futurity”
Panelists: Shannon Jackson, Queer Welfare, University of California, Berkeley;
José Munoz (New York University) & Judith Halberstam (USC): A Manifesto for Queer (Anti) Anti Utopia
Chair: Lisa Duggan/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 905
Performance in Historical Paradigms Working Group – Panel 2: “History and Ideological Tactics: Eventhood”
Panelists: Heather Davis, Square Dancing in the Deckhouse: Staging White Masculinity Aboard the Era and the Neptune, 1903-1904, University of Guelph;
Heidi Holder, Historical Breaks: Recent Innovations in Environmental Theater, Central Michigan University;
Tracy C. Davis, War Museums, Northwestern University;
Michael McKinnie and Ruth Fletcher, Law, Theatre, and the Public Sphere, Queen Mary, University of London and Keele University.
Convenor: Tracy C. Davis/Northwestern University
Room: Kimmel Center 908
“Sonic Performances”
Panelists: Jason Stanyek (New York University) & Benjamin Piekut (Columbia University): Sounding the Intermundane: Posthumous Duets and the Performance of Co-Presence in Popular Music, New York University;
T. Nikki Cesare, Representation, Repetition and Reperformance: A Temporal Stutter in Performance Art Discourse, New York University;
Gascia Ouzounian, Conceptual Sound Forms: The Event, Action Music, and Performance-Sculpture, 1958-1980, University of California, San Diego.
Deborah Kapchan/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 909
“Public Traumas, Private Performances and the Everyday Event”
Panelists: Ann Pellegrini, Giving Death Its Due: Freud at Aulis, New York University;
Yoshiko Fukushima, Hirata Oriza’s ri-a-ri-zu-mu – Japan’s Everyday Revisited, University of Oklahoma;
June Yap, A portrait everyday, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore.
Chair: Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Memorial Performances”
Panelists: Brigitte Sion, Affective Memory, Effective Tourism: Experiencing Berlin’s ‘Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe’, New York University;
Kristina Hagström, Memorial Performance: site, event, embodiment, Stockholm University;
Anikó Szucs, A Funeral For the Living: Péter Halász' Open-Casket Memorial at the Art Hall of Budapest, New York University.
Chair: Diana Taylor/New York University
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 612, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“Theory Happens”
Panelists: Henry Bial, Theory Happens, University of Kansas;
Phillip Auslander, The Gollum Problem: New Issues in Performance and Intellectual Property, Georgia Tech;
Maaike Bleeker, Who’s Afraid of Representation?, Utrecht University.
Chair: Oliver Feltham/American University Paris
Room: Kimmel Center 912
"M. Butterfly (after Shigeko Kubota)”*
David Khang, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design
Location: Happenings Lounge, Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
*This performance is generously funded by Franklin Furnace Archive, through the 2006-2007 Franklin Furnace Award for Performance Art
5:00-6:30 p.m. Panel Session XI
“Fashion”
Panelists: Heather Warren Crow, Design in the Age of AIDS, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee;
Rhonda Garelick, Antigone in Vogue: Fashion’s Incursion into Modernist Performance, Connecticut College.
Chair: Jeanne Vaccaro/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 906
Performance in Historical Paradigms Working Group – Panel 3: “Round Table”
Panelists: Kim Marra, University of Iowa; Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph; Linda Ben Zvi, Tel Aviv University;
Ioana Szeman, Roehampton University, London; Heather Davis, University of Guelph; Heidi Holder, Central Michigan University; Tracy C. Davis, Northwestern University; Michael McKinnie, Queen Mary, University of London.
Convenor: Tracy C. Davis/Northwestern University
Room: Kimmel Center 905
“Performing Sound”
Panelists: Gelsey Bell, The Soundtrack or Original Cast Album: New Approaches to the Event of Musical Theater, New York University;
Zach Moldof, The Performance of Listening, New York University;
Eirini Kartsaki, There are so many things to say at one time and this is one of them, Queen Mary University.
Chair: Jason Stanyek/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 907
“Counter Culture”
Panelists: Maryrose Casey, Creative Dissent Versus Creative Conservatism: Patterns of Containing Creative Dissent, Monash University, Australia;
Malik Gaines, Staging the Post-Left: Fassbinder’s Anti-Theater and the End of the 60s, University of California, Los Angeles.
Chair: Brigitte Sion/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 908
“Performing Blackness”
Panelists: Bob Vorlicky, Embodying Dead Black Men's Bodies, New York University;
M.G. Renu Cappelli, Manufacturing Political Desires, University of California, Berkeley; Kimberleigh Jordan, Dancing in the Spirit, New York University.
Chair: Frank Leon Roberts/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 909
“Temporalities of the Intercultural”
Panelists: Shih-hang Chou, A Spectacle of Grotesque Carnival: The Trilogy in Tien-chang Wu’s Works, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan;
Nick Kaye, Time and Presence: Nam June Paik, Gary Hill, Tony Oursler, University of Exeter, UK;
Musetta Durkee, Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square": Subjecthood, Agency, and the Body, New York University;
Paul Rae, Teaching What You Don't Know: Intercultural Pedagogies in Performance, National University of Singapore.
Chair: Karen Simakawa/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Restless Whispers: Futurity in Native American Performance”
Panelists: T. Chris Aplin, One of These Things is Not Like the Others: Southwest Ceremonial, Music, and Cosmopolitanism in the Southern Plains, UCLA;
Lara Evans, Artifact Piece Lives On... Erica Lord 'after' James Luna, Evergreen State College;
Tina Majkowski, Drumming Utopias: Polyrhythms and Phonic Materialities, New York University.
Chair: Tavia Nyong’o/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 912
“Military Performance”
Panelists: Raffaele Furno, Knowing the present, envisioning the future: YaBasta in action, Northwestern Universtity;
Kevin Brown, Military Presence: Performance in the Iraqi "Theatre" of Operations , University of Colorado at Boulder;
Linda White Chastain, The Military’s Performance of National Identity at Arlington National Cemetery, University of Georgia.
Chair: Diego Benagas/New York University
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 612, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“In So Many Words”
Tim Etchells and Adrian Heathfield, Roehampton University
Location: Happenings Lounge, Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
7:30 p.m.
PERFORMA 07
Jerome Bel, Pichet Klunchun and myself
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street
New York, NY
PERFORMA 07
Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant, Cast No Shadow
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY
11:30 p.m.
Wow and Now: A Celebration of Feminist and Queer Performance
Hosted by Nao Bustamante and Karen Finley
Featuring Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, Carmelita Tropicana, Holly Hughes, Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Kalup Linzy and more.
Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St.
New York, NY
11 November 2007 (Sunday)
10:00-11:30 a.m.
“Forever Contemporary”
Led by World Performance Project at Yale (WPP), this panel will consider
Yvonne Rainer’s RoS Indexical, a re-vision of Stravinsky’s Rite of
Spring premiering in the concurrent PERFORMA Biennial, as a point of
departure to discuss performance events that revisit and revise history
to construct the new.
Panelists:
Emily Coates, Yale University
Joseph Roach, Yale University
Yvonne Rainer, UC Irvine
Room: Kimmel Center 905
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Annual General Meeting of Performance Studies international
Join members of the Performance Studies international board in an open
meeting to discuss the future of the organisation, feedback on our
activities and welcome a new President of PSi.
Room: Kimmel Center 905
12:30-1:30 Lunch
Performance and Pedagogy Working Group
What company might a committee dedicated to performance and pedagogy
keep? Where would we sit? And who would we learn from? Who would we teach?
How would we learn? The call to pedagogy is almost as strong in PSi as any
other demand for intervention, for response, for play, for interaction.This committee
will think about how disciplines can blur, expand or become infused with performance
theory and practice. It will consider the passing on of knowledge in theatres and universities
as public, performative and transformational. It will think also of pedagogy as eminently practical
and a daily rehearsal of a radical politics. At this meeting we will plan how to do some
research into these pedagogical questions of performance in the next decade.
Chair: Rachel Fensham/ University of Surrey
Room: Kimmel Center 909
1:30-3:00 p.m. Panel Sessions XII
"New Performing Strategies in the Search for Identities—Panel 2"
Cherie Chi-tse Wang, Experience Technology as Apolitical Statement ---"Zodiac" as the Third Generation Little Theatre in Taiwan, University of Warwick, U.K.;
Chia-Yi Seetoo, Eastern" "Deceleration": Legend Lin Dance Theatre at the Movimentos Dance Festival, University of California, Berkeley.
Craig Quintero, Taiwan Grotowski: Theory in Action, Shih Chien University;
Chair: Kin-Yan Szeto/Appalachian State University
Room: Tisch School of the Arts, Dean's Conference Room, 721 Broadway, 12th Floor
“The Event of the Image”
Panelists: Ian Wiblin, The Event of Photography: reflections on photography as performance, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK;
Freddie Rokem, The Future of Images/Images of the Future, Tel Aviv University, Israel;
Camilla Jalving, Never Say Never Again: On re-enactment as artistic strategy within contemporary visual art, University of Copenhagen.
Chair: Nicholas Mirzoeff/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 906
“Interactivity, Movement and Spatiality”
Panelists: Luis C Sotelo, Performative and Interactive Map-making, University of Northampton, UK;
Jennifer Johung, Coming Home: New Proposals for Event-Based Dwelling, University of California, Berkeley;
Khalid Amine; Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, Morocco;
Lindsay Brandon Hunter, Virtual space, theatrical space: video games and the postdramatic performer, New York University
Chair: Danielle Goldman/NSU
Room: Kimmel Center 907
“Lived and Live Experiments”
Panelists: Laura Harris, "(as flight plan (loosely)": The Block Experiments of Hélio Oiticica, New York University;
Jason Zuzga, Live Radio Broadcast as Poetic Medium: Francis Ponge’s “Le Savon”, University of Pennsylvania;
Ricardo Montez, Keeping Up with the Jonseses, New York University.
Chair: Jose Munoz/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 909
“Rethinking the Erotic”
Panelists: Jennifer Tyburczy, Perverting the Everyday or How My Spatula Brought Sexy Back, Northwestern University;
Monica Stufft, Dressing Room Dramas: The Everyday Life of Chorus Girls, University of California, Berkeley;
Lynn Sally, ‘It is the Ugly that is so Beautiful’: Performing the Monster/Beauty Continuum in Neo-Burlesque, Metropolitan College of New York;
Elizabeth Nelson, My body, the (theoretical) grenade: Post-modern burlesque,kinesthetic excess, and subversive body performance, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Chair: Bob Vorlicky/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Discipline and Perform”
Panelists: Jon McKenzie, The Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;
Tim Raphael, Doing Time Without Numbers: The Politics and Performance of Immigrant Detention, Rutgers University;
Patrick Anderson, Guantanamo Bay, State Sovereignty, and the Morbidity of Resistance, University of California, San Diego.
Chair: Rebecca Schneider/Brown University
Room: Kimmel Center 912
“Democratising Technology (DemTech) – an interdisciplinary project using performance to extend access to designing”
Panelists: Ann Light, Pat Healey, Gini Simpson.
Chair: Lois Weaver/Queen Mary University of London
Room: Kimmel Center 905
“Law and Performance”
Panelists: Daniel Dinero, The Jury Trial As Everyday Event: William Terry, Eleven Strangers, and Me, New York University;
Julie Stone Peters, The Legal Event as Happening, Columbia University;
Graham White, The Indeterminate Event; Narrating the Evidence of the Incident at The Hague War Crimes Tribunal, Roehampton University, UK;
Tony Perucci, Guilty as Sin: The Trial of Reverend Billy and the Exorcism of the Sacred Cash Register, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Chair: Karen Shimakawa/New York University
Room: Department of Performance Studies, 612, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
“About to Dance”
Pia Lindy
Location: Happenings Lounge, Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
3:00-4:30 p.m. Panel Sessions XIII
“The Event of Movement: Walking and the Open”
Panelists: Adrian Heathfield, Walking Out of Life, Roehampton University;
Carol Becker, Walking, Standing, Sitting Like A Duck: Three Instances of Invasive, Reparative Behavior, School of the Art Institute of Chicago;
Andre Lepecki, Paper, movement, and the virtual event, New York University.
Chair: Shannon Jackson/UC Berkeley
Room: Kimmel Center 905
"Love and Liberation"
Panelists: Lara Shalson, Enduring Love, University of California, Berkeley;
Lydia Brawner, The Liberatory Body of Linda Montano, New York University;
Deb Levine, Happened(ings): Julie Tolentino's Embodied Archive, New York University;
Beth Kurknian, A NEST between Two Trees: Artistic Reflections on Space, Creative Process, and Memory, New York University
Chair: Karen Finley/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 906
“The Biennial Event”
Panelists: Melissa WS Wong, Questioning "Belief": The negotiation of national narrative(s) at the Singapore Biennale 2006, The Graduate Center, City University of New York;
Edward Scheer, Mike Parr and Durational performance in Australia, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;
Lissette Olivares, Performing Visibility in the International Art Scene: The Role of Inscription in Performance Events, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Chair: Brigette Sion/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 907
“Performing the State”
Panelists: Chandra Morrison, Performing Protest and Social Action in Rural Northeast Brazil, University of Cambridge, UK;
Nina Billone, Living Cages: Prison and the Performance of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.
Chair: Alexandra Vazquez/Yale University
Room: Kimmel Center 909
“Theaters of Modernity”
Panelists: Evan Darwin Winet, From synchronic modernity to diachronic liminality in Indonesian theater, Institut Kesenian Jakarta Arts Institute;
Kermit Dunkelberg, Spontaneity and Discipline: Happenings versus Jerzy Grotowski's Paratheatre, New York University; Peter van der Meijden, A-dynamic, modern, boring – Wim T. Schippers and the event, University of Copenhagen.
Chair: Branislav Jakovljevic/Stanford University
Room: Kimmel Center 910
“Disorientalism: An Archaeology of the Mistaken Present”
Katherine Behar & Marianne Kim, Arizona State University
Location: Happenings Lounge, Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
5:00-6:00
Closing Session with a special performance/appearance by Karen Finley and The Ensemble of Performance Studies
Location: Happenings Lounge, Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
PERFORMA Packet Performance Times
November 9th:
7:30pm - 11 pm
Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant at BAM
or Jerome Bel at Dance Theater Workshop
November 10th
7:30pm - 11 pm:
Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant at BAM
or Jerome Bel at Dance Theater Workshop
11 pm – 1 am
Wow and Now: A Celebration of Feminist and Queer Performance
Joe’s Pub
Buy tickets online through Theater Mania.
November 11th
Afternoon and Evening
18 Happenings in 6 Parts
More information and tickets
Participating writers, artists and activists will include,
but are not limited to:
| Fred Moten Jerome Bel Isaac Julien RoseLee Goldberg Laurie Simmons Christian Marclay Diana Taylor Sadiya Hartman Hannah Higgins Karen Finley Midori Yoshimoto Carol Becker Laurie Beth Clark Karen Tongson Alan Read Rebecca Schneider Branislav Jakovljevic Hanifah Walidah Richard Schechner Jen Harvie Marianne Hirsch Gavin Butt Jennifer Doyle Karen Shimakawa |
Philip Auslander André Lepecki Sudipto Chatterjee Lois Weaver Geraldine Harris Peta Tait Meiling Cheng Shannon Jackson Judith Halberstam Freddie Rokem José Esteban Muñoz Nao Bustamante Peggy Shaw Una Chaudhuri Miguel Fernandez Joe Kelleher Deborah Kapchan Xavier Le Roy Oliver Feltham David Román Jill Dolan Tim Etchells Amelia Jones Ann Pellegrini |
Carolee Schneemann Michal Kobialka, Adrian Kear Tavia Nyong’o Marvin Carlson W.B. Worthen Judith Rodenbeck Sue Broadhurst Steve Dixon Dynasty Handbag Holly Hughes Andrew Quick Kalup Linzy Elin Diamond Ed Scheer My Barbarian Tracy Davis Nicholas Ridout Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Joseph Roach Yvonne Rainer Jon McKenzie Adrian Heathfield Jane Blocker Emily Coates |
Wow and Now: A Celebration of Queer and Feminist Performance
We are excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for the Wow and Now Cabaret at Joe’s Pub of the Joseph Pap Public Theater, Saturday November 10th, 11:30 pm.
Hosted by Nao Bustamante and Karen Finley, the Wow and Now Cabaret will feature many of the most important queer and feminist performance artists of our time. Held at Joe’s Pub of the world famous Public Theater, this cabaret will include performances by Carmelita Tropicana, Ela Troyano, Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, Holly Hughes, My Barbarian, Kalup Linzy, and Dynasty Handbag.
For Tickets, please visit: http://web.joespub.com/caltool/index.cfm?fuseaction=detail&performanceID=3510
Or call: 212-967-7551
Joe’s Pub is located within the Joseph Pap Public Theater in Greenwich Village, blocks away from NYU.
Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette Street, NY, NY, 10003.
PERFORMA ’07
The conference will be staged in the middle of New York City’s PERFORMA Biennial. PERFORMA is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world. The organization is directed by Performance historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg. PSi #13 will occur in collaboration with PERFORMA, sitting inside its schedule and aside numerous PERFORMA events across the city of New York.
In association with PERFORMA 07, PSi #13 is pleased to announce the PERFORMA 07/PSi #13 Packet. This exciting package will be available to conference registrants and will include tickets to three performances (Jerome Bel at the Dance Theater Workshop, Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant at the BAM Harvey Theater, and the reconstruction of Allan Kaprow’s classic “18 Happenings in 6 Parts”). It will also include a catalogue of the first PERFORMA Biennial (PERFORMA: NEW VISUAL ART PERFORMANCE) and passes to PERFORMA Hot Spots throughout the city.
On Friday, November 9th at 11 am, Goldberg will hold a plenary session with artists Isaac Julien, Christian Marclay, and Laurie Simmons titled Making History… Developing New Works.
The Wow and Now Cabaret: A Celebration of Queer and Feminist Performance
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Joe’s Pub, The Joseph Pap Public Theater
Hosted by Nao Bustamante and Karen Finley, the Wow to Now Cabaret will feature many of the most important queer and feminist performance artists of our time. Held at Joe’s Pub of the world famous Public Theater, this cabaret will include performances by Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana, Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, My Barbarian, Kalup Linzy, and Dynasty Handbag.
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Over four hundred participants are anticipated for this international conference with many more coming to performances, workshops, cabarets, and discussions that will occur over the five days. Register to reserve your place now. Here, you will also be able to purchase a Performa Pack.
http://www.psi-web.org/psi13/conferenceregistration.html
The conference committee at NYU is working hard to confirm the detailed schedule of this large event. If you are a speaker, participating artist or audience member and you are waiting for the detailed schedule of sessions please be patient for a little while longer. Work on this is continuing as we speak and the details will be made available shortly.