Sumários
Comrade, Ally, Friend Seeking figures and group technologies in belonging collectively
10 Maio 2024, 09:30 • José Maria
In situations where performance work intersects with a strong urge to orient oneself politically in the public sphere, and communities arise and divide up around diverse social and political concerns, artists in Europe (also elsewhere) are pressed to ask how they politically belong with others in crisis. Who is your friend or comrade, for whom are you an ally or mediator? Or as the queer theorist Lauren Berlant asks in their posthumous book On the Inconvenience of Other People: “With whom can you imagine sharing the world’s sidewalk?” Various terms for the political relations of belonging are on offer, circulating between cultural critics, social activists, cultural workers and artists on the scene: allyship, political solidarity, comradely love, intercession (mediation), or simply friendship, to name but a few. In this partial and incomplete outline, we will attempt to distinguish the lineage and the current usage of several such notions drawing on recent texts in cultural theory, as well as in informal discourses. This cannot be more than a partial and incomplete outline, whose main ambition is to register the current temperature of struggles, alliances and conflicts in the words that separate or federate subjects of art and cultural politics in Europe.
Comrade, Ally, Friend Seeking figures and group technologies in belonging collectively
9 Maio 2024, 09:30 • José Maria
In situations where performance work intersects with a strong urge to orient oneself politically in the public sphere, and communities arise and divide up around diverse social and political concerns, artists in Europe (also elsewhere) are pressed to ask how they politically belong with others in crisis. Who is your friend or comrade, for whom are you an ally or mediator? Or as the queer theorist Lauren Berlant asks in their posthumous book On the Inconvenience of Other People: “With whom can you imagine sharing the world’s sidewalk?” Various terms for the political relations of belonging are on offer, circulating between cultural critics, social activists, cultural workers and artists on the scene: allyship, political solidarity, comradely love, intercession (mediation), or simply friendship, to name but a few. In this partial and incomplete outline, we will attempt to distinguish the lineage and the current usage of several such notions drawing on recent texts in cultural theory, as well as in informal discourses. This cannot be more than a partial and incomplete outline, whose main ambition is to register the current temperature of struggles, alliances and conflicts in the words that separate or federate subjects of art and cultural politics in Europe.
Comrade, Ally, Friend Seeking figures and group technologies in belonging collectively
8 Maio 2024, 09:30 • José Maria
In situations where performance work intersects with a strong urge to orient oneself politically in the public sphere, and communities arise and divide up around diverse social and political concerns, artists in Europe (also elsewhere) are pressed to ask how they politically belong with others in crisis. Who is your friend or comrade, for whom are you an ally or mediator? Or as the queer theorist Lauren Berlant asks in their posthumous book On the Inconvenience of Other People: “With whom can you imagine sharing the world’s sidewalk?” Various terms for the political relations of belonging are on offer, circulating between cultural critics, social activists, cultural workers and artists on the scene: allyship, political solidarity, comradely love, intercession (mediation), or simply friendship, to name but a few. In this partial and incomplete outline, we will attempt to distinguish the lineage and the current usage of several such notions drawing on recent texts in cultural theory, as well as in informal discourses. This cannot be more than a partial and incomplete outline, whose main ambition is to register the current temperature of struggles, alliances and conflicts in the words that separate or federate subjects of art and cultural politics in Europe.
Theater of Transindividuation Solidarities: artistic, social, political
7 Maio 2024, 09:30 • José Maria
Lumbung documenta fifteen curatorial process. “About the lumbung processes and how the guest becomes the host”, 2022, manuscript Cvejić, Bojana (2023). “Solidarity as a Common Notion: The transindividual we of social movements in Southern Europe since 2011” Performance Research 27/5, 16-25.
Social Dramaturgy as a Method
6 Maio 2024, 09:30 • José Maria
In the first session, we will lay out social dramaturgy as method as I practice it in the research developed with Ana Vujanović (Public Sphere by Performance, 2012, Toward a Transindividual Self, 2023) and further in my own research on social choreography (on dance and war, the dialectics of social order and social disorder).