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Please join us on Wednesday, March 25 for the culmination of this year's Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series -
we plan to hold an experimental round table & symposium, and we have a great line up & hope you welcome you all
Wednesday May 25th
4 PM - 7:30 PM
Drama Studio, Gaskell Building 048 (or Artaud Digital Studio 101), West London UB8 3PH
Symposium: “Algorithmic culture and participatory art in times of war ”
Bojana Kunst (Ljubljana) "Precarity & Participation"
Soenke Zehle (Saarbruecken) “Gesture Machines”
Olga Danylyuk (Kiev/London) "'The first casualty of war’. Is it possible to recognise who is telling the truth in the contemporary media environment?"
Maria Kastrinou (Brunel Anthropology) “Power, sect and state in Syria“
Teow Hue Yan (Singapore/Slade) “Performing the Smart Nation “
moderated by Johannes Birringer
(with presenters from the annual series joining in the discussion)
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from our program:
Gesture Machines (S. Zehle)
Reflecting on the the contemporary industrialization of gesture, i.e. the structuration and incorporation of human movement into the design and operation of a new generation of cyber-physical systems across places and processes of work, the talk explores these developments in the context of an alternative history of gesture, from the research on "industrial gestures" (Aleksej Gastev) conducted in the wake of the Russian Revolution to the use of gestures as means both of self-organization and collective memory in social movements such as Occupy, Indignados, and Nuits Debout.
‘The first casualty of war’. Is it possible to recognise who is telling the truth in the contemporary media environment? (O. Danylyuk)
Despite the multi-modal media representations of war conflicts we very often find ourselves in the situation of not having a clue of what is actually happening. It might be due to the fact that the age of the war correspondent as hero appears to be over, as suggested by Phillip Knightley (2004). In most cases the first draft of history produced by the immediacy of real-time reporting has to be substantially rewritten in the retrospect to disclose important parts that have been excluded or twisted. In the zones of danger the degree of manipulation and control by government and military is even greater, basically accommodating correspondents as propagandists and myth-makers. When media strategies are successfully employed to normalise the waging of war the remaining scope for political action is rather limited. This continuous normalisation from which we suffer undermines our trust in authority. In order to disrupt this situation Olga Danylyuk referees to the practice of parrhesia as conceptualised by Foucault. In her film essay about the war in Eastern Ukraine she explores her personal relation to truth independent of the absolute values, which are often used to justify violence.
Performing the Smart Nation (Yue Han)
The projected artwork is an interactive installation that will be activated by dance performance. The work seeks to put the two systems/apparatuses of the smart city (algorithmic governance, the grid) and dance (choreography, virtuality, human experience) in conversation, to dream and draw out new possibilities for nation building.
Power, sect and state in Syria (M. Kastrinou)
The Syrian state's rhetoric of Arab nationalism left little room for the official recognition of minority identities in pre-war Syria. Yet in practice, the state continually engaged with the Druze and other minorities to reinforce its legitimacy, often through cultural policy. Uncovering this neglected aspect of pre-war Syrian politics, Kastrinou will read form her just published book on the cultural politics of marriage in Syria, primarily among the Druze, to reveal how practical rituals of marriage inform sectarian and national identity formation
ALL WELCOME Free talk / contact:
Performance Research Seminar Coordinator: [log in to unmask]
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INTERDISCIPLINARY PERFORMANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES 2015-16
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
Dept. of Arts & Humanities
THEME:
Precarity and the Politics of Art: Performative and Critical Empowerment after Democracy
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/ResearchSeminarSeries.html
all seminars are up-streamed to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2ijZ2U-avidCh9OsHJeWDe8t5Ib75rm
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