PRAXIS, INC: 2025
PRAXIS, INC: Innovate, Network, Collaborate is the department's annual community event in which we invite current students, faculty and alumni to come together and share their skills in the field of Performance Studies, engage in important conversations, and stay connected with colleagues and peers.
Praxis includes a wide range of programming like visual artwork, practicum workshops, discussion panels and informational sessions. Some programs which students and alums have led in the past include: self scripted choreography, a film installation inspired by amusement parks, and a talk on publishing without an agent.
THIS YEAR'S PROGRAM WILL INCLUDE SESSIONS BY:
Michaela Buccola, M.A. '13
Nour El Helou, M.A. '23 & Bobuq Sayed
Ian Gray, M.A. Candidate
S. Hahn & Sara Lopez, M.A. Candidates
Raven Malouf-Renning, M.A. Candidate
Jesús Quintero, M.A. Candidate
Yesenia Rojas, M.A. Candidate & Kai Sundermann, M.A. '23
troizel xx, M.A. '17, Ph.D. ‘23 & Rosed Serrano
INSTALLATION BY:
Ahmad Almahdi, M.A. Candidate
KEYNOTE:
"Things that must be done: artistic experimentation and political imagination" by Eleonora Fabião (M.A. '01, Ph.D. '06)
The purpose of this encounter is to dialogue. To start the conversation, I will share recent actions that have been performed with many collaborators. Artistic actions that take circumstances as raw material and seek to articulate social, aesthetic, spiritual, ecological, and political dimensions in an inseparable way. This sharing will be intertwined with notes on topics such as: programs to deprogram, counter-colonial political imagination and poetical experimentation, production of strangeness, reflections on gorgeousness and vitality, and on magic and technique. Some guiding questions are: what do we consider necessary to add to our planet today? What actions, images, sensibilities? What relational modes? What forces and affects do we want to proliferate with our artistic practices, and which ones do we want to block? What art do we want to create? And what worlds do we want to create with our art?
Eleonora Fabião is a performance artist and theorist. She has been performing, participating in exhibitions, lecturing, teaching, and publishing internationally. Her performances have been enacted in several contexts – dance and theater festivals, biennials, exhibitions, sociocultural projects – and, mainly, in the streets. Things That Must Be Done (Performa Biennial, New York 2015) is the title of a work and, also, a way of referring to her artistic practice. Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and CNPq Researcher. She holds an MA in Social History of Culture (PUC-Rio), an MA and PhD in Performance Studies (New York University), and is Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Gothenburg.
