PERFORMANCY FORUM

03/28 @3dwardsharp @sylvain.souklaye @noah_thingdeleuze hold+process the social gathering as per some form PERFORMANCY FORUM is a relational think-tank for performance. Next session: May 2 💚

From within this untenable present thick with ongoing trauma we gesture towards a future gathering. Call for proposals with framing text, proposal form, PACBI statement, access info, in @panoplylab bio. Contact @thefenserf with questions CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: June 1, 2024 Conference: October 24-25, 2024 in person at the CUNY Graduate Center “AS PER SOME FORM: TO CONFER” A CONFERENCE A conference is already a dramaturgical staging of discursive space, through which specific individuals and groups convene to compare+contrast senses of reality, analyze phenomena, and debate courses of action. This conference experimentally tests, critiques, and proposes ways of conferring, understanding the conference itself as a performance, a social intervention, and as a self-reflexive interrogation of its own dramaturgical structures. Around which principles shall we orient our forms of discourse? With whom shall we confer, and why? Dealing with issues of (mis)communication, institutional and disciplinary discourse ethics, epistemic trust, epistemicide, praxis, and solidarity, this conference stages sites and scenarios for and as the verb, to confer. /forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPcd10ZnkEwI5LQyCOa2q3E_2EJeFgwvMgg3TAB2ehojqBqw/viewform

As part of PPSAGA* working group, please join gathering SUNDAY FEB 18, 4pm and welcome Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [ aka crazinisT artisT @crazinist_artist ] who will give a presentation!!! MASKS REQUIRED. DM here or @thefenserf or @performancyforum for address (Land Back Hub) or for Zoom Link ⚒️❤️🌱⚒️❤️🌱⚒️ ❤️🌱 #transsolidarity #queerpower #blackpower #openborders #epistemicjustice #culturalexchange #performanceart Born 1981 in Ho, Ghana, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [ aka crazinisT artisT] is a trans woman with the pronoun sHit if not She. Va-Bene currently lives in Kumasi, Ghana but works internationally as a multidisciplinary “artivist”, curator, philanthropist and a mentor across several countries. She is the founder and artistic director of crazinisT artisT studiO (TTO), Our Railway Cinema Gallery (ORCG) and perfocraZe International Artists Residency (pIAR) which aimed at radicalising the arts and promoting exchange between international and local artists, activists, researchers, curators, and critical thinkers. As a performer and installation artist, crazinisT investigates gender stereotypes, prejudices, queerness, identity politics and conflicts, sexual stigma and their consequences for marginalised groups or individuals. With rituals and a gender-fluid persona, She employs her own body as a thought-provoking tool in performances, photography, video, and installations, ‘life-and-live-art’ confronting issues such as disenfranchisement, injustice, violence, objectification, internalised oppression, anti blackness, systemic indoctrination and many more. *Prefigurative and Performance Strategies Against Global Apartheid (PPSAGA)

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Please join us Monday, October 16 at 6pm at the Segal Center theatre @thegraduatecenter for a panel of performances by @arantxaaraujo @zavozavito @bylitaldotan @ayana.m.evans @hectorcanonge organized by @thefenserf Free and open to the public as part of @preludeny . The building and space are accessible to those using wheelchairs or mobility aids. CC is available over the Livestream @howlround . Please wear a mask. Text in images: Overlapping inquiries frame this "panel" of performances. Performance artists take responsibility for some elements within a time-space. To extremely varying extents, performance artists take responsibility for the experiences of those persons present, for their own social roles, and their own actions. For which elements of performance are you responsible? In what ways, and for what and whom, do you take responsibility? Performance artists often respond to histories, contexts, and events. However, "forms of response" are multiplicit. A performance might comment on, protest, or "bring to attention" to specific injustices and paradigms. A performance may prefigure, model, or propose a more habitable future. A performance may process grief or ritually practice solidarity. Performance artists may operate as representatives of a political position or people. How, or in what form, do your performances respond? Performance artists and cultural organizers are simultaneously seen as both dangerous political agitators and as "lesser" activists. What abilities to respond, or abilities to take care and effect change (response-abilities) do artists and performances have? This type of question is asked over, and over, and over again, itself a kind of response within praxis: how are particular actions responsible, ethical, effective, or operative? #performanceartnyc

Many members of PERFORMANCY FORUM community will be gathering, sharing, performing, discussing etc as part of this "sort of symposium" this weekend on the problematica of "knowledge," come through! PWYC between $1 and $100, come and go across the 4 days. Link in bio to schedule and artists! Organization by @phdtheatregradcentercuny dramaturgical ensemble: @thefenserf msscholarlady @kaplow21 @pawiles3 #StephenCedars

***LINK IN BIO*** OPEN CALL: The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds Calling all artists, educators, performance makers across disciplines, scholar/artists, academics, and those working with complex thought, beliefs, ideas, and concepts, social forms, play(s), and anyone interested in being a part of a hybrid performance work/conference DEADLINE: June 20, 2022, notification by JULY 1. FOR: August 11, 12, 13, 14, 2022 at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, NY SEEKING: Papers, performances, processes, workshop forms, participatory actions (etc) will be dramaturgically organized across the weekend into a hybrid conference/production open to the public. "The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds" is organized/devised by a dramaturgical ensemble of current PhD students in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. This project is exploring ways of performing, thinking, gathering, questioning, learning, and sharing. It approaches these ways as "epistemology." What do we think we know? How do we "know"? What is "knowledge"? Some of the reasons that groups of human beings have "epistemic frameworks," or shared ways of knowing, is that these help us communicate, orient our actions around values and ethics, and make decisions in groups of different sizes. However, many institutional structures for authorizing “true” knowledge involve colonial/white supremacist/patriarchal/ecocidal hegemonies and oppressive paradigms that value some ways of knowing and devalue others. Many believe that there are no “true” or “right” forms or modes of knowing, that knowledge is culturally relative and always interdependent with ideologies and desires. On the other hand, this can come to mean that any beliefs can be justified and transformed into “knowledge,” even those that motivate and reproduce violence. This project situates performances that test, model, propose, critique, investigate, explore, prefigure, dismantle, and design (and many /any other verbs) ways of (un)knowing, especially in terms of epistemic justice, or the ethics of knowing.

Link in bio for TODAY @performistanbul #PraxisPathways @panoplylab 1pm-3pm EST come and go anytime, four rooms of PERFORMANCY FORUM collaborative and synchronous experimentation in preparation for new realities 🤞⚒️🍵💖

Community book project launch partaay!! Open to public, no rsvp needed, link will be on website (link in bio) day-of 📖🍲📖 @panoplylab @the_operating_system @liminallab @thefenserf @tsedaye @elizabethalamb @ayana.m.evans 🔥🔥🔥

Don't miss @iv__castellanos + #AmandaHunt tomorrow (Saturday) at 7pm EST! Free public zoom link on (click thru link in bio) @panoplylab @the_operating_system @liminallab

SATURDAY, September 19, 7pm EST/6pm CST, join @iv__castellanos and #AmandaHunt for video performance!! (link to public zoom access in bio) 🔨🔨🔨"We work towards a cellular incantation, one that strives for change within the body on a molecular level. We work towards the viewer downloading information through different or other senses, to translate the unnameable from our bodies to theirs and back again. We propose viewing as an act of reciprocity collectively pursued." @panoplylab @liminallab @the_operating_system

Repost: tonight's guest curator and one of the performers @polinariabova_ : Find out why I’ve been obsessed w this song from The L Word Season 3 soundtrack tonight 8 pm EST at @performancyforum : Corpus Coliseum hosted by @panoplylab @liminallab @the_operating_system , guest curated by me w performances by @rakimalhotra @jelliebeers , #JazzCoker and myself! Zoom meeting ID: 857 6636 3177 or go to performancyforum.net for link