The Centre for Performance and Creative Exchange, University of Roehampton presents:

'Rethinking Economies' - An evening of talks and performance works:



'Slaves and other interruptions' Nicolas Ridout (Queen Mary, University of London)

'On an Economy of Powerlessness as Resistance' Eve Katsouraki (University of East London)

'Work, Bitch!' Sophie Nield (Royal Holloway, University of London)

'Custodians' Tim Jeeves (Lancaster University)



Organised by Gigi Argyropoulou and Katerina Paramana



'Rethinking Economies' is an invitation to rethink economy and 'economia' (deriving from the Greek οικονομία = οίκος (house) + νόμος (law/rules): the rules by which a household is managed;) in relation to neoliberal and institutional economies and systems of interaction, organisation and exchange.



Presenters:



Nicholas Ridout teaches in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Stage Fright, Animals and Other Theatrical Problems (CUP: 2006), and co-editor, with Joe Kelleher, of Contemporary Theatres in Europe (Routledge: 2006). He is the co-author, with Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci, Chiara Guidi and Joe Kelleher of The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Routledge: 2007) and the author of Passionate Amateurs:Theatre, Communism and Love, which will be published this month by University of Michigan Press.



Eve Katsouraki is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of East London. She is the co-convenor of TaPRA Theatre, Performance & Philosophy, and a core convenor of Performance Philosophy research association. Her research combines performance theory with philosophical enquiry. She has published various chapters and articles on modernist theatre and performance in relation to aesthetic theory, political philosophy and cultural theory. She is currently writing a monograph on aesthetics and politics of early modernist theatre and recently co-edited a journal edition on ‘Bodies of Failure’ for Somatechnics Journal (Edinburgh University Press, May 2013). She is also currently working on a book project on Failure, Representation and Negative Theatre (2013), and a co-edited collection of essays on Theatre, Agonism and Radical Democracy (2014).



Sophie Nield teaches theatre and film at Royal Holloway, University of London. She writes on questions of space, theatricality and representation in political life and the law, and on wider issues of political subjectivity, historiography and performance. She currently holds a 2013-14 Humanities and Arts Research Centre Fellowship at Royal Holloway focusing on activism, law and the public sphere.



Tim Jeeves is an artist and performance maker whose work, whilst profoundly aware of the social and philosophical context in which it is made, is often playful and accessible in form. In 2007, he co-founded the Grunts for the Arts collective which, over a period of 5 years, produced a number of events - including a series of 'Artists' Sports Days' - that drew attention to arts funding cuts in the national and UK press. As a solo artist, his work has explored issues around finance, disability, and documentation of live performance, and has been presented both around the UK and internationally. Since 2010, he has concentrated on producing work in his adopted city of Liverpool. Most recently, he worked with the Unity Theatre and the learning disability company RAWD to produce 'How to Fall in Love...', a promenade performance in which the audience members were sent on a performative 'date' on the streets of the city, whilst he has been producing the annual Giving in to Gift festival with support from the Arts Council and the Bluecoat since 2011. He is in his third year of a PhD at Lancaster University.



Friday, 25 October 2013, 5 pm

University of Roehampton, Jubilee Building, Studio 5

Free event.

To book go to https://rethinkingeconomies.eventbrite.co.uk/



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