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For all events, the Department of Performance Studies acknowledges the Canarsie tribe of the Lenape People in whose traditional territory we are gathering.
For all events, the Department of Performance Studies acknowledges the Canarsie tribe of the Lenape People in whose traditional territory we are gathering.
Darwinian biology is often held up as a heteronormative framework. Natural law theologians who are pro-Darwin see it as a way to glorify straightness, cisness, and heteropatriarchal norms. But a closer examination of Darwinian thought–both within Darwin’s research and subsequent developments in evolutionary theory–shows that Darwin can be coupled with contemporary queer and trans* theory. Darwin is a passionate partisan of difference, becoming, vital materiality, and the diversity of desire.
a forum with Nuar Alsadir, Pablo Assumpção B Costa, Eleonora Fabião, Carla Freccero, Elaine Freedgood, Katie Gentile, Francisco Gonzalez, Ann Pellegrini, Donovan Schaefer, Julietta Singh, Nathan Snaza, & Michelle Stephens
“Recording Angels” is an interdisciplinary conversation about the ethics and challenges of working with trauma and representing trauma for broader audiences. Bringing together academic, therapeutic, and journalistic perspectives, this panel conversation will probe difficult questions about testimony, authority, victimhood, complicity, and vulnerability in the contemporary media landscape. What authorizes, credentializes, or otherwise justifies telling the story of another individual’s suffering? Who can speak for whom – particularly across categories of gender, race, and nationality? What responsibilities, risks, and rewards come with such work?
To continue the spirit of PRAXIS, The Salon Series is a Spring workshop series for students to lead interactive seminars within the Performance Studies community.
This symposium convenes faculty from Performance Studies, Art, and Museum Studies, along with artists and professional curators, to discuss the practical and theoretical problems of curating performance. Given the widening place of performance in art institutions, this symposium seeks to articulate pedagogical approaches to this work.
The Department of Performance Studies would like to welcome you to a lecture by José Quiroga. This event is the second annual José Esteban Muñoz Memorial Lecture.
We invite you to attend the second iteration of our student-run Salon Series featuring Performance Studies scholars! To continue the spirit of PRAXIS, the Salon Series gives students the opportunity to lead interactive workshops or present their scholarly research in the spirit of a skill-share.This week's Salon Series features Avon Bashida (MA '17), Troizel Carr (MA '17), Joanna Evans (MA '17), and Kristen Holfeuer (MA '17).
Come join the Spring undergraduate Performance Composition seminar for an evening of solo and ensemble performances that experiment with the voice as a malleable and polymorphous material. For their final performance, students will be working with texts by Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, Adriana Cavarero, Mladen Dolar, Fred Moten, José Esteban Muñoz, and Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Following their performance at NYU Skirball on Friday, September 15, AUNTS organizers Laurie Berg, Liliana Dirks-Goodman, Ali Rosa-Salas, and Ash R.T. Yergens will join the Department of Performance Studies for a post-post-show conversation with Lucy Sexton.
A DISCUSSION & CELEBRATION OF THE NEW BOOK BY MALIK GAINES, WITH PANELISTS RICARDO MONTEZ, FRED MOTEN, & ALEXANDRA VASQUEZ, WITH A RESPONSE BY MALIK GAINES
a panel and conversation with Cassils, Titus Kaphar, Chase Strangio, Joel Sanders, and Jack Halberstam
Following Mette Ingvartsen's "7 Pleasures" at NYU Skirball, we invite you to join the Department of Performance Studies for a post-show conversation with André Lepecki.
Artistic research — the idea that artistic and embodied practices not only draw upon but also generate knowledge — is increasingly common globally, but remains marginal in the United States. What is at stake in the claim that artistic and embodied practice can be research? What possibilities might be opened by such a claim and what legitimate resistances exist? This panel of scholar-practitioners and artist-researchers will discuss the relationships between practice and research in their own work, how they navigate diverse epistemologies across academic and artistic institutions, and what possible futures they envision.
A lecture by E. Patrick Johnson
We invite students, faculty, staff, and prospective students to join the Department of Performance Studies for our annual Day of Community event! Begin the day with yoga at the Department of Cinema Studies. Then, come pamper and beautify yourself at our volunteer-run Beauty Salon and Photo Booth. After getting your beauty on, join us for a screening of Glenn Holsten's "Hollywood Beauty Salon," followed by a brief decompression and informal discussion.
At this special event, admissions representatives from multiple NYU graduate schools, centers, and institutes are on hand to talk with you about their programs and their application processes. Additionally, representatives from NYU's Office of Financial Aid and other NYU offices relevant to graduate students are available to answer questions about broader resources available at NYU.
This talk is based on the book project Intimate Relations, where Amelia Jones traces the interrelated histories of the terms “queer” and “performative” since 1950 in anglophone discourse. This genealogy suggests that the terms have deeply informed not only our thinking about queer, about performance and the performative, and about queer performance, but as well our understanding of how art works and comes to have cultural value (or not) over the past 70 years.
Open Arts in cooperation with Performance Studies and the Initiative for Creative Research will be welcoming 2017 Artist in Residence Jill Sigman back to Tisch for a book signing in celebration of her new book TEN HUTS.
a lecture by Jacolby Satterwhite
Novelist George Dawes Green, founder of the popular storytelling organization The Moth and presents an interactive storytelling event on the art of the raconteur.
Join Karen Finley and Adrienne Truscott for a conversation on performance, politics, feminism, comedy, rape culture, and "#metoo" -- in anticipation of "Asking For It" at NYU Skirball.