Performance Philosophy Reading Group

Performance Philosophy Reading Group CPR — Center for Performance Research This monthly reading group series, in conjunction with the international research network, Performance Philosophy (PP), will […]

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Performance Philosophy Reading Group
CPR — Center for Performance Research

This monthly reading group series, in conjunction with the international research network, Performance Philosophy (PP), will be co-hosted by select CPR Artists-In-Residence. We will read exhilarating and thought-provoking texts from PP’s publications as a springboard into generative discussion and thought-experimentation. In this series of reading groups, we will engage with texts in whatever way seems most productive.

Performance Philosophy (PP) is a relatively new field of exploration that seeks to rethink what precisely thinking is. To do this, the members of PP draw from methodologies in philosophy, performance studies, theatre studies, dance, music, the visual arts, practice-as-research, and other cognate disciplines to play around with, deconstruct, and rearrange the centuries-old hierarchy of academic thought.

All are welcome! Free admission.

Performance Philosophy Reading Group, co-hosted by Antonio Ramos, 2017 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation AiR

Performance Philosophy Reading Group, co-hosted by Antonio Ramos, 2017 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation AiR

 

Upcoming Reading Groups:
Wednesday June 26, 2019 | 6:30pm co-hosted by Katie Workum
Wednesday July 24, 2019 | 6:30pm
Wednesday August 21, 2019 | 6:30pm
Wednesday September 25, 2019 | 6:30pm

Learn more about Performance Philosophy. 

Performance Philosophy Reading Group February 2019. Photo by Asya Gorovits


Past Meetings and Readings:

Wednesday May 29, 2019 | 6:30pm
Reading: Annette Arlander (2019). ‘Resting with Pines in Nida: Attempts at Performing with Plants‘ Performance Philosophy Vol 4. (2) 452-475
Wednesday April 24, 2019 | 6:30pm
Reading: Keti Chukhrov (2019). Repetition as the Performative Syndrome of Dying‘ Performance Philosophy Vol 4. (2) 236-1631
Wednesday March 20, 2019 | 6:30pm
Reading: Christel Stalpaert and Sophie Doutreligne (2019). ‘Performing With the Masquerade: Towards a Corporeal Reconstitution of Sophie Taeuber’s Dada Performances.‘ Performance Philosophy Vol. 4 (2): 528-545.
Wednesday February 20, 2019 | 6:30pm
Reading: Erin Brannigan (2019). ‘Talking Back: What Dance might make of Badiou’s Philosophical Project‘ Performance Philosophy Vol. 4 (2): 354-373.
Wednesday January 23, 2019| 6:30pm
Reading: Hannah Lemmin (2018). ‘Krisis as the Scene of Non-Decisional Judgement: A Performance Fiction for the Generic Human.‘ Performance Philosophy Vol. 4 (1) 66-85.
Wednesday November 28, 2018 | 6:30pm
Co-hosted by 2018 CPR Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence Alexis Zaccarello
Reading: Jeanne Tiehen (2018). ‘Climate Change and the Inescapable Present.’ Performance Philosophy Vol. 4 (1) 123-138.
Wednesday October 17, 2018 | 6:30pm
Co-hosted by 2018 CPR Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence Katie Workum
Reading: Petrovi? -Lotina, Goran (2017). ‘The Political Dimension of Dance: Mouffe’s Theory of Agonism and Choreography’, Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy, Eds. Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki (Palgrave Macmillan: London), pp. 251-272. For access to the reading, please email Charlotte Farrell: charlotte@cprnyc.org.
Wednesday September 26, 2018 | 6:30pm
Co-hosted by 2018 CPR Technical Resident Parijat Desai
Reading: Daniela Perazzo Domm (2018). ‘Crisis and the Emotional Body: Towards (Another) Freedom’, Performance Philosophy, Vol. 4.1, 188-205.
Monday August 20, 2018 | 6:30pm
Co-hosted by 2018 CPR Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence Sidra Bell
Reading: Cull, Laura (2012). ‘Immanent Imitations, Animal Affects: From Hijikata Tatsumi to Marcus Coates’ Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke and New York), pp. 105-144.
Monday July 23, 2018 | 6:30pm
Co-hosted by 2017 CPR Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence Antonio Ramos
Reading: Blades, Hetty (2016). ‘Work(s) and (Non)Production in Contemporary Movement Practices’, Performance Philosophy Journal,Vol 2.1, pp. 35-54.
Free access to article here.
Monday June 18, 2018 | 6:30pm
Co-hosted by CPR Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence Abigail Levine
Reading: Breemen, Alice (2017). ‘Performance Philosophy: audience participation and responsibility,’ Performance Philosophy. (Vol. 2, No. 2) pp 299-309. Email charlotte@cprnyc.org for free access to reading.
Monday May 21, 2018 | 6:30pm
Co-hosted by CPR Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence Kyle Marshall
Reading: Mullis, Eric (2016). ‘Dance, Philosophy, and Somaesthetics‘, Performance Philosophy. (Vol. 2, No. 1.) pp. 60-71. Free access to article here.

Monday April 16, 2018 | 7:30pm
Co-hosted by 2017 Technical Residency Artist-in-Residence Tatyana Tenenbaum
Reading: Cull, Laura (2014). ‘Performance Philosophy: Staging a New Field’, Encounters in Performance Philosophy Eds. Laura Cull and Alice Lagaay, Palgrave Macmillan: New York & London, pp. 15-38

Lagaay, Alice and Alice Koubova (2014). ‘Performing the Impossible in Philosophy’, Encounters in Performance Philosophy,  Eds. Laura Cull and Alice Lagaay, Palgrave Macmillan: New York & London, pp. 39-62.

Friday March 30, 2018| 6:30pm
Reading: Cvejic, Bojana. “From Odd Encounters to a Prospective Confluence: Dance-Philosophy.” Performance Philosophy Journal, Vol 1 (2015): 7-23.
Free access to article here.