Can one listen so intently that one hears not only through one’s ears but one’s whole body? Or inversely, can one’s ears through performative synecdoche become one’s body, thereby making listening not merely aural but an embodied experience? “Bodies All Ears” will try to respond to the above questions by opening up a discourse on […]
Kraj is slang for the neighbourhood; it means an area. Written down, it also means the end. The neighbourhood is inhabited by people who are your friends, people who are total strangers and people you will never meet. It is dynamic inter- generational, inter-social, inter-aesthetic place where it is common for a neighbour to ring […]
The Performance and Pedagogy Working Group is relating embodied knowing, institutional being, and imaginative doing, as and through pedagogy and performance. We assume that performing/performance engenders specific ways of knowing. At the same time, organizations/institutions, including their architectural, textual and digital platforms are formal and informal rule systems that codify forms of being. Therefore, we […]
This panel will focus on forms and applications of state power in three different geographies, Hong Kong, Philippines and Turkey, as well as practices of public dissent. From containment measures applied by the law-making agents during COVID-19 in Hong Kong, to a Christian Church in the Philippines which opened its doors to over 700 Lumad […]
This presentation draws on the visual performance work unHOWsed - in which eight older ex-homeless women share their experiences of homelessness - and the Melbourne seaside suburb, St Kilda, famous for its homelessness. I live in St Kilda. The work premiered in Theatre Works in St Kilda. In this presentation I interweave the performance work […]
