Workshop B: Konstantina Georgelou and Jasna Žmak
Performing Lectures
Performance lectures, notably present in late 20th and early 21st century in visual and performing arts, introduce an artistic genre that experiments with processes of producing and suspending language, thinking and performance. Through this intersection, on the one hand artistic protocols and audience’s expectations are challenged and on the other hand, our understanding of how knowledge and information are produced and disseminated is unsettled. In relationship to dance, M. Bleeker characteristically writes “lecture performances emerge as a genre that gives expression to an understanding of dance as a form of knowledge production. Knowledge not (or not only) about dance, but also dance as a specific form of knowledge that raises questions about the nature of knowledge and about practices of doing research”. (2012) In this sense, performance lectures additionally enable reflective and embodied knowledge to be explored and shared through poetics.
In this workshop we will look into constitutive aspects of ‘lectures’ in terms of performance. Experimentation with language and talking and attention to how thinking moves will be fostered. During the 4 days we will read texts, watch and critically discuss examples of performance lectures and engage in exercises in which artists are invited to work with diverse protocols of lectures, as ways to reflect upon but also to probe and expand their artistic practices. Against general expectations that consider (performance) lectures to be created and delivered by one person/signature/entity, the idea of self-authorship will be explored and challenged from within its poetic, performative and compositional protocols.
By: Konstantina Georgelou and Jasna Žmak
In this workshop we will look into constitutive aspects of ‘lectures’ in terms of performance. Experimentation with language and talking and attention to how thinking moves will be fostered. During the 4 days we will read texts, watch and critically discuss examples of performance lectures and engage in exercises in which artists are invited to work with diverse protocols of lectures, as ways to reflect upon but also to probe and expand their artistic practices. Against general expectations that consider (performance) lectures to be created and delivered by one person/signature/entity, the idea of self-authorship will be explored and challenged from within its poetic, performative and compositional protocols.
By: Konstantina Georgelou and Jasna Žmak