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> On 10 May 2023, at 09:13, Eirini Kartsaki <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear Colleagues
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> You are warmly invited to Weirdness Salon, a day of discussions about weirdo-families and weirdo-belonging.
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> Here is the eventbrite link to book your tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/weirdness-salon-tickets-632066336427
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> Weirdness Salon
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> 3rd of June 12.30 - 6pm
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> East15 Acting School, Corbett Theatre, Loughton Campus
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> Welcome to the Weirdness Salon. In this weirdo-solidarity everyone is welcome, everyone can be part of this weirdo-family, experience our weirdo-hospitality and indulge in this weirdo-belonging.
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> Join us to discuss weirdness as refuge, weirdness as solidarity, weirdness as a form of life that does away with fixed categories. Weird politics moves beyond the confinements of the norm and favours solidarity with the alien and the foreign, the unfamiliar and the absurd. Weirdness activates a utopian political imagination of what lies beyond the ordinary. It offers the space to synthesise new solidarities and make kin with other weirdos. Weird politics acts as solvent to normativity, antidote to dominant categories.
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> Keynote: Professor Dimitris Papanikolaou on Contagious Weirdness, University of Oxford
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> Adam Alston (Goldsmiths, University of London) in conversation with Julia Bardsley
> Phoebe Patey-Ferguson (Rose Bruford College) in conversation with Tammy Reynolds aka Midgitte Bardot
> Eirini Kartsaki (East15 Acting School, University of Essex) in conversation with Malik Nashad Sharpe aka Marikiscrycrycry
> Tara Fatehi in conversation with Hamja Ahsan (Shy Radicals) and Greg Wohead
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> Hosted by Eirini Kartsaki
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> ‘At the four corners of the world’, Paul Preciado writes, ‘it is possible to sense not only the exhaustion of the traditional forms of politics, but also the emergence of hundreds of thousands of practices of social, sexual, gender, political and artistic experimentation’ (2020, p. 49). The weird positions itself as a project that makes possible a site of openness and unfixity; a placeholder for articulating what does not quite fit into the categories we have access to. It points towards what is spilling out of these categories or cannot be pinned down. The spillage, or disarticulation, starts to formulate a different territory, space or fascination with and of the weird.
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> The term ‘weird’ has been extensively used to describe science fiction both in literature and film. The term has recently resurfaced to describe the films of Greek filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster) and Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg, Chevalier), amongst others. Terms that are currently in use include ‘weird fiction’, ‘weird realism’, or ‘the new weird’. Mark Fisher, in The Weird and the Eerie, writes about the weird as ‘a particular kind of perturbation’, something that exceeds what we already know, or we are able to represent (Fisher 2017, 15). The weird is a fascination with a thing that overwhelms and cannot be contained, ‘that which does not belong’, a thing that causes a rupture into the familiar (Fisher 2017, 10). The weird, as conceptualised by this event is a space of critical potential for reading and making theatre and performance as well as a critical trope for articulating what lies beyond normative understandings of sexuality, identity, desire.
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