Dear colleagues:
The Judaica project (Ben Spatz, Nazlıhan Eda Erçin, and Agnieszka Mendel) is UK (AHRC) funded, six-month laboratory for new embodied technique at the crossroads of experimental performance, critical identity politics, and ethnomusicological archives. After four months of focused research, we are currently traveling to present our work in three different countries and across several different types of venue. We would love to have you join us at any of the following open events:
LONDON
October 3: Full day event at JW3 Cultural Centre
– with Yvon Bonenfant, Nwando Ebizie, and Shanti Suki Osman
October 4: Research Seminar at RCSSD
NEW YORK CITY
October 10: Panel discussion on artistic research at NYU
– with Ximena Garnica, Andre Lepecki, and Katherine Profeta
October 11-12: Workshop at Cave, home of Leimay, NYC
October 16: Public presentation at the Segal Theatre Center, CUNY
– co-hosted by SITI Company Thought Center, NYC
– and the CUNY Centre for Jewish Studies
PHILADELPHIA
October 18: Institute for Somatics & Social Justice, Philadelphia
– with Nicole Bindler, Fatima Adamu, Dan Blacksberg,
– Lela Aisha Jones, and Ezra Berkley Nepon
– co-hosted by The Big Shebang, FringeArts,
– and Jewish Voice for Peace Philadelphia
MIDDLETOWN, CT
October 19: Full day event at Wesleyan University
BOSTON AREA
October 20: Workshop at Tufts Hillel, Medford
October 21: Public presentation at Studio@550
MORE UK CITIES
October 24: Research seminar at University of Kent
October 26: Full day event at University of Manchester
October 31: Research seminar at University of Leeds
FOR DETAILS ON ALL EVENTS PLEASE VISIT:
In the meantime, or if you cannot make it to any of these events, you are welcome to view the recent Judaica video essays or take your pick of nearly two hundred unedited video selections in the online Songwork Catalogue.
Hope to see you soon!
Dr Ben Spatz
Senior Lecturer | University of Huddersfield
Author | What a Body Can Do (Routledge 2015)
Editor | Journal of Embodied Research | Open Library of Humanities
Convener | Embodied Research Working Group | IFTR
Artistic Director | Urban Research Theater