PSi Digest 35 (August 2008)
CONTENTS
PSi and PSi #14
1. From the President
2. From the Secretary: Nominations for a Graduate Students Committee Chair
3. From PSi #14
4. Performance and Philosophy Working Group
5. How does Performance Studies international think? Roundtable and online discussion
1. From the President
Last post before Copenhagen, venue for other great meetings (think Bohr and
Heisenberg in 1941).
Many of you are probably already travelling like me so I will be brief. A reminder to please register, if you haven’t already, to save time when you arrive.
Everything is in place for an inspiring conference so let me wish you good luck with the final edits of your papers and safe travel. I look forward to meeting with you in just a few weeks.
Ed
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2. From the Secretary
Performance Studies international Seeks Nominations for a Graduate Students Committee Chair
PSi is the main professional association in the interdisciplinary field of Performance Studies, founded in 1997 in order to promote communication and research exchange between scholars and practitioners working on and through performance. We have staged numerous international conference and festival gatherings over the last ten years that have moved between the discourse and practice of performance. Events have been held across the U.S.A. and the U.K., in Germany, New Zealand and Singapore.
As we approach our fourteenth conference at Copenhagen University, it is possible to reflect on the past decade and more of achievement that has made PSi a unique crucible of ideas and exchange, firmly committed to open international dialogue with a substantial and increasingly diverse membership. In part it is the work of past Presidents, Officers and Board Members that has ensured the organization’s continuity and growth. Performance Studies has now evolved into a unique field of intellectual endeavor bringing together the processes producing art and those of theoretical analysis to reveal how theories arising out of performance can be used to interpret most kinds of social behavior. More details about PSi can be found at <www.psi-web.org>
The PSi Board is looking for a new Executive Officer and Board Member to complement its existing team of academics, artists and curators who oversee the organization and administration of PSi.
Nominations are sought for the role of Graduate Students Committee Chair. The Chair is a Board Member of PSi and facilitates graduate student participation in the organization by convening discussion among graduate students and representing their interests in conference planning and on the board.
More specifically, the Graduate Students committee aims to:
• Promote graduate student membership in the organization;
• Foster greater involvement for graduate students through conference
activities and leadership opportunities in PSi;
• Provide a forum to address needs specific to graduate students both
at and outside of annual conferences.
The Graduate Students committee chair will:
• Make an active contribution to the running of the PSi Board by participating in online discussions, special initiatives, Board voting procedures and related business.
• Promote PSi amongst peers and institutions.
• Attend all of the annual PSi conferences for the duration of their tenure (2-4 years), including a Board Meeting in the two days preceding each conference.
• Host a meeting of the Graduate Student committee at the annual conference;
• At this meeting, suggest programs to foster greater involvement of graduate students in PSi;
• Coordinate the implementation of such programs
• Provide an opportunity for graduate student members to voice specific needs;
• Facilitate feedback mechanisms for members and respond to concerns;
• Advocate on behalf of the graduate student membership of PSi and report on programs and concerns to the board;
• Seek new members from the international field of graduate students.
The deadline for nominations is Monday 4th August 2008. Nominations should be sent to Paul Rae, Secretary of PSi (ellrpa@nus.edu.sg). Nominees should provide a CV and a one-page statement of intent, outlining their interests and thoughts on the proposed role.
PSi Officer positions and Board Membership will be agreed, according to the bylaws of PSi, by majority vote of existing Board members. Candidates will be notified of the result of these deliberations by Monday 11 August 2008.
If at all possible, the successful candidate should attend the PSi Board meeting on 19-20 August. However, since they will not officially take up the position until the end of the PSi#14 conference, this is not absolutely necessary.
Paul Rae
Secretary, PSi
ellrpa@nus.edu.sg
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3. From PSi #14 in Copenhagen
News from the Interregnum conference organisers, August 2008
Now there are only a few weeks left before Interregnum: In Between States, PSi # 14 will open in Copenhagen. The organising team is busy with the final details and we look forward to greeting you all at the University of Copenhagen, Amager Campus.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE AUGUST 15, 2008
Please be sure to register for the conference on-line before August 15 at www.interregnum.dk. You can pay for you registration either on-line, or by bank transfer or check. It is NOT possible to pay at the conference site, neither cash nor credit card.
Please visit our website for practical information of how to get there, including maps and route descriptions, www.interregnum.dk
We also feature updated versions of the entire programme, including the many performances and events. Read the latest issue of our newsletter on the website. Note also a number of related events that take place in the city of Copenhagen, arranged specifically in connection with the Interregnum. At the end of this message, there is a list of invited performances and events at the conference as well as performance and events at other venues related to the Interregnum conference.
TO PAPER PRESENTERS:
We ask of all presenters that you stick to the time frame that you have been given. Most panels are 2 hours, some are 90 minutes, and in general all speakers have maximum 20 minutes for their paper (unless otherwise agreed within your panel). The moderators present will make sure the time is kept in order to allow for discussions after the papers.
Equipment: in all lecture rooms there are projectors and VGA cords to connect computers to the projector. All lecture rooms also have video- and DVD players, and these can play most systems.
We ask presenters to bring their own labtop (-or share one among members of a panel). If you are a mac user, remember your adaptor for VGA cord. Please remember to bring a European adaptor for your cables. The Danish cables supply 230 Volt, 50 Hz, and use European two-pin plugs.
VISIT hyPERFORM:
hyPerform.dk featuring Cont3xt.net
Curating Net Curating
July 15 – August 15, 2008
Curator Annette Finnsdottir/Netfilmmakers
July 15 hyPerform.dk launched the exhibition Curating Net Curating curated by Annette Finnsdottir/Netfilmmakers presenting the media collective Cont3xt.net.
The curator of internet art is working in and within the same medium as the artist and she filters, circulates and creates context.
Cont3xt.net is a Vienna-based media collective who has created an alternative exhibitionspace for collaborative, transparent curating and cooperation based upon linking and tagging.
Curating Net Curating is curated by Annette Finnsdottir from Netfilmmakers. Netfilmmakers is an non-commercial netgallery providing exhibitonspace and commissioning netfilm, netvideoart and netart.
hyPerform.dk is an online Internet gallery associated the Performance Studies international conference PSi # 14 INTERREGNUM: In Between States to take place at University of Copenhagen in August 2008. Visit hyPerform at the conference website www.interregnum.dk
On behalf of the conference organising team
Gunhild Borggreen
INVITED PERFORMANCES AND RELATED EVENTS at INTERREGNUM:
SIGNA: THE 11TH KNIFE
Non-stop performance installation by the internationally acclaimed performance duo SIGNA (Signa Sørensen and Arthur Köstler) at the conference site. The central point of fiction is ‘The Game’, a complex ritual construction, which has also been part of earlier projects by SIGNA. The performance is based on improvisations around themes and constellations generated by 5 spinning wheels. This harsh satirical work deals with power structures, rituals and archetypical representations in pop-culture. This performance installation will be open 24 hours from Wednesday August 20 afternoon until Saturday August 23, midnight. Conference participants can visit the site anytime and be part of an ongoing performance.
Artist Talk with Signa Sørensen Sunday August 24, 9:00-11:00. Room 22.0.11
CLAUS BECK-NIELSEN MEMORIAL CONCERT
Claus Beck-Nielsen Memorial was founded to play and record songs left by the late Claus Beck-Nielsen, the author, playwright, performer, musician and human being who was declared dead in 2001. The concert will take place after the Dinner Party Thursday August 21, at 22:00. Room 21.0.54
PIONEER PANELS
The Pioneer Panels Program presents five talks with seminal artists and curators from the early Danish scene of Performance Art, Experimental Theatre, Body Art, Actions, Happenings and Events. The Pioneers are: Kirsten Dehlholm, Kirsten Justesen, Trevor Davies, Bjørn Nørgaard, and Eric Andersen. Four talks take place at the conference site, one at Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center.
Bus Tour to Roskilde: POETRY – MUSIC – SCORE
The bus trip to Roskilde includes a cross-aesthetic panel on the performative turn in Danish and Swedish art from the 1960s as well as a special tour of the international exhibition Fluxus Scores and Instructions. The Transformative Years at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde showing works from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Detroit. The bus will leave the conference site on Friday August 22, 14:00. A limited number of free tickest are available at the Intersection desk.
AIRPLAY: IN BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY – A SPACE ODYSSEY WITH CONCERT PERFORMANCE
A Balkan inspired band is suddenly there and starts accompanying the live transmission of a spaceship launching. It’s like a transgression between disciplines and fascinations – appearing in front of your very eyes and ears.
Cooperation between AirPlay Street Gallery, ”Band name” and Miss Kato Productions.
Time: August 22, evening, place: to be discovered
AIRPLAY: IN BETWEEN YOU AND ART – VIDEO ART IN PUBLIC REALM
AirPlay Street Gallery and Illumenarts present two poetic Danish video artists: Lotte Tauber Lassen and Nina Maria Kleivan on projection spaces in the most visited media building DR - Danish Broadcasting Corporation. The newly build DR BYEN contains large projection spaces, that can be seen from the outside and by all the people walking through the central media station every day.
Time: August 21 – 23, place: DR Byen, Emil Holms Kanal 20
Wooloo Productions: NEW LIFE MOVEMENT
Wooloo Productions will officially establish New Life Movement as a religious community at PSi 2008. This will initiate a long legal process culminating when official status is granted to the Movement. This is foreseen to happen in the year 2012 corresponding with the celebration of documenta 13 in Kassel - one of the most worshipped events of the art world belief system.
Søren Dahlgaard: DOUGH PORTRAITS
Danish visual artist Søren Dahlgaard invites conference participants to sit for a Dough Portrait, and be part of an on-going photographic project of identity, social aspects and collaboration. Earlier works from the project are displayed in the lobby of building 22, and new works will appear on the conference website after the event.
Saturday August 23 from 10:30-14:00, room 22.0.47
Kyungwoo Chun: BURDEN OR SUPPORT
Internationally acclaimed photographer and performance artist Kyungwoo Chun will present his body of works in Artist Talk, and invite audiences to participate in his performance event Burden or Support, in which brief relationships are established among strangers for a short moment.
Performance for 10-20 participants at a time.
Artist talk and performance, Saturday, August 23, 11.00-12.30. Room 27.0.49
Stuart Lynch: LYNCH CONCERT
Lynch Concert is a succession of solos for the voice and the body. It features the performances, ‘Teaching Butoh to the Japanese’, ‘Krishna’ and ‘The Last Goodbye’. The work has been performed in Europe and Scandinavia to great critical acclaim.
Saturday, August 23, 19.00-20.00. Room 21.0.54
Stuart Lynch: A READING FROM THE ARTAUD ENGINE
An extract from Stuart Lynch’s play ‘The Artaud Engine’ will take the form of a reading. It will be a scene from the play that addresses similar issues as presented within the Interregnum conference. The reading will be made by Charlotte Munck and Lars Bom. The reading will be approximately 12 minutes long.
Part of panel on Artaud, Friday, August 22, 11.00-12.30. Room 22.0.47
Yoshiko Shimada: workshop on BONES IN TANSU – FAMILY SECRETS
Internationally acclaimed visual artist Yoshiko Shimada will present her art project ‘Bones in Tansu – family secrets’, which is an on-going work about giving voice and visualisation to anonymous witnesses or victims of abuse of power within families and societies. The workshop aims to make the participants feel the pain of others transcending national, cultural and geographical borderlines, and then tries to make the personal pain into public pain through art and other means.
Thursday August 21, 13:00-15:00 (or longer). Room 27.0.60
CONFERENCE RELATED PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS AT OTHER VENUES:
Warehouse9: BODY IMAGES – GENDER REALITIES 2008
BODY IMAGES – GENDER REALITIES is a performance festival with a nuanced reflection on queer lifestyle, gender and identity. It approaches the theme from different angles and is investigating the boundary between genders, body, subject and object and how these different positions challenge our consensus of ONE shared reality. The performance festival presents works by transgender artist Mandy Romero (UK), physical performer Marek-Berlin (D) and a live art musical by Femme Façade (F/UK) featering live music by Sebastian Lee Philipp (D).
Venue:
Warehouse9.dk, Staldgade 23, Bygning 66, Halmtorvet 13 D, 1711 Copenhagen V
Entrance opposite Øksnehallen, The Brown Meatpacking District
S-Train: København H (Copenhagen Central Station)
Opening hour Friday, August 22 – Sunday, August 24 16:00 – 20:00
Opening reception Thursday, August 21 19:00 – 24:00
Closing reception Sunday, August 23 19:00 – 23:00
Read more for detailed performance programme and ticket reservation: http://warehouse9.dk/
CampX: CAMP 22:30
Camp 22.30 is a Performance Club, a mixture of nightclub, cabaret, live art, slam poetry, concert, installation and much, much more. A place where performance artists of all kinds can show artistic experiments in front of live audience. All this while the bar is open, the DJ is playing and afterwards you can go dancing…
From Australia: NONDOG by Adam Broinowski
From New Zealand: WRAP ME UP, MAKE ME HAPPY by Mark Harvey
From Denmark/Iceland: CREATURE by Kristján Ingimarsson
Venure: Camp X Rialto, Smallegade 2, 2000 Frederiksberg
Friday, August 22, 22:300 (10:30 p.m.)
Read more about Camp X AND Camp 22:30 at http://www.campx.dk/
LiminalDK: MASTERCOPY
Participants of the Interregnum seminar are invited to the open dress rehearsal of the new piece MASTERCOPY devised by Erik Pold. MASTERCOPY investigates what happens when you start copying on all levels of a theatre performance. 3 performers: Daniel Norback, Merete Byrial and Jeremy Wade, explore different ways of copying, re-enacting, sampling and re-staging.
The idea is to avoid originality and authenticity: everything has been done or said before.
It is a mixed media-performance, and the use of video, live electronic sound and music is a vital part of the performance.
Venue: PLEX theatre, Kronprinsensgade 7, Copenhagen
Saturday, August 23 at 20:00. Free entrance
IF I CAN’T DANCE…
If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution is a rolling curatorial platform for performance related practice in contemporary visual art. This platform was founded in 2005 by Frederique Bergholtz and Annie Fletcher and has since developed two editions.
The kick off of the upcoming third edition will take place in Copenhagen, with a Prologue in Overgaden arts centre, a public panel at Interregnum and a performance in Karriere bar.
Lecture on If I Can’t Dance…, conference site room 22.0.47, Friday, August 22, 16.30-18.30
Prologue, at Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art, Overgaden Neden Vandet 17, 1414 Copenhagen, Saturday, August 23, 12:00-20:00. Entrance is free
Performance at Karriere bar, Flaesketorvet 57-67, 1711 Copenhagen V. Saturday August 23, 22:00
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde: FLUXUS SCORES AND INSTRUCTIONS
The Museum of Contemporary Art, ”Word, Image, Sound” was established in 1991 and is testing ground for installation art, sound art, video art, performance, film, net art, documentation and literary fusions between sound- and visual art. The exhibition Fluxus Scores and Instructions. The Transformative Years. “Make a salad.” Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Detroit. The exhibition looks at the armature of the movement to think about the function of scores and brings viewers close to the actual scores, to read and interpret them for themselves. The museum and the exhibition can be seen as a part of the bus tour Friday, August 22, departing from Njalsgade, northern end of building 22 at 14.00. Limited number of tickets available for free at the Intersection desk.
Read more at http://www.mfsk.dk/index.php?spr=uk
Other announcements for the PSi Conference
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4. Performance and Philosophy Working Group
The first meeting of the PSi Performance and Philosophy working group will be held on: Saturday 23rd August, 12.30-2pm
during the forthcoming PSi conference in Copenhagen. All interested delegates are warmly invited to attend. Sandwiches will be provided, so do come and have lunch and join in the discussion about the future of this group. For more information on the group's interests and proposed activity, please see: http://www.psi-web.org/texts/wg_pp.html. And to become a member, please contact Laura Cull, at: lkc202@ex.ac.uk
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5. How does Performance Studies international think?
Is there a coherent institutional agency in PSi’s performance and its bureaucratic routinisations? Has the time come for PSi to model its own performance?
In 1986 Mary Douglas reflected on the question of ‘how institutions think’ in a book by that name. She argued that institutions archive public memory, create and maintain classifications, and determine the parameters of their respective cognitive and social epistemes. Performance Studies also leads to how individual performances are institutionally contextualised, and how institutions performatively constitute agency within their parameters.
This roundtable is an opportunity to consider ‘How PSi thinks’, and to engage in a discussion of the past and future of PSi as structure, organisation and performance.
Each year PSi parasites, or instantiates itself as a conference space or a ‘compound’ where an imagined community of 'citizens' manifest annually within the compound with little regard for its geographical and social siting. The politics of developmentalism and globalization are at stake in the formation and the annual meetings of PSi (which still maintains the small ‘i’ 14 years after its inauguration in New York), but remain largely unaddressed.
This session will present an opportunity to think critically about PSi as organisational structure, as system of agreement, and as performance. The session will not have papers per se. Those interested are invited to join an on-line wiki dialogue at <http://www1.atwiki.com/psi14thinks>. The on-line dialogue and other live dialogues will then lead to a series of provocations to be posed and addressed during the session. To facilitate your contributions, you can sign into the on-line discussion with
User Name: psi14thinks Password:cogito.
Ray Langenbach
raylangenbach@mac.com
Mobile (Malaysia) +6012-391-6909
Mobile (Finland):+358-4-49326178
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