vaniagala: January 2017

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Beyond Application? Immanent Encounters Between Philosophy and Arts

Beyond Application: Immanent Encounters Between Philosophy & the Arts

Friday 27th January 2017

Hosted by the Centre for Performance Philosophy

University of Surrey, Guildford UK

PROGRAMME

9-9.30am REGISTRATION - IVY FOYER

9.30-11am Opening Remarks and Keynote - PATS Studio Theatre

Opening Remarks: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca (Surrey)

Keynote: Bojana Cvejić (University Singidunum, Belgrade)

Making, Thinking, and Feigning

Q&A

11-11.30am COFFEE – PATS FOYER

11.30-1pm PARALLEL SESSIONS

Panel A – PATS Studio Theatre

• Shantel Ehrenberg (Surrey), Barren Images, Fertile Territory 3 [performance lecture]

• Vicky Hunter (Chichester) Site-dance and New Materialisms: Philosophical enactments and doings [paper]

• Vânia Gala (Kingston), Upside Down: choreography beyond the subject-object divide [performative round-table]

Panel B – Ivy Studio 3

• Edward Thornton (Royal Holloway) Collective Analysis: A new model for the practice of philosophy [paper]

• Kevin Logan (University of the Arts London) Crowdsourcing an Original Contribution to Knowledge, Or: How to Do Things with (Un)Sound Non-Philosophy [performative presentation]

• Julia Moore (Canterbury) – Philosophy in the dark [participatory workshop]

Panel C – Lecture Theatre E (Lecture Theatre block)

• Al Cameron (Kingston) - Terminal Documents: Research and Delirium [paper]

• William Brown (Roehampton) - Guerrilla Filmmaking and the Creation of Non-Cinema [paper]

• Bill Leslie (Kingston) – Because We Have Hands: Art research as a mode of embodied practical philosophy [text and screening]

1-2pm LUNCH - IVY FOYER

2-3.30pm PARALLEL SESSIONS

Panel A – PATS Studio Theatre

• Yaron Shyldkrot (Surrey) - Campfire: a shared experience in the dark [performance]

• Josiah Pearsall (independent researcher) - Object Dance [participatory workshop]

Panel B – Lecture Theatre E

• Richard Ashby (Royal Holloway) ‘Thought you were dead’: Dover Cliff, Death and Ephemeral Life in Blasted and King Lear [paper]

• Clive Cazeaux (Cardiff School of Art & Design) - Art and philosophy: illustration, immanence, implication [paper]

• Simon Jones (Bristol) - MY (OTHER) OTHER COLLABORATOR: Philosophy Alongside Practice as Research in Performance [paper]

Panel C - PATS Studio 1

• Steve Tromans (Surrey) What is the Rhythm of a Musical-Philosophical Thought? [music performance with spoken word]

• Elisabeth Belgrano (independent researcher) Vocally Ornamenting ↔ Per/Forming Content ↔ Practice-Led Vocal Philosophy [performance paper]

• Tero Nauha (Theatre Academy Helsinki) On the fiction of performing alongside the radical immanence [text and performative act]

3.30-4pm AFTERNOON TEA - PATS FOYER

4-5pm Closing roundtable:

The Arts as Philosophy - PATS Studio Theatre

Chair: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca (Surrey)

Contributors:

• John Ó Maoilearca (Kingston)

• Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway)

• Anna Pakes (Roehampton)

With Bojana Cvejić

And closing jazz performance with Steve Tromans and Andrew Bowie.

Free to presenters, Surrey staff, TECHNE studentship-holders and TECHNE associates.

£7 full / £5 conc. for non-TECHNE attendees, to contribute towards costs

Dr. Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca

Reader in Theatre & Performance

Director, Centre for Performance Philosophy

Department of Acting and Performance, GSA

University of Surrey

Guildford, UK

l.cull@surrey.ac.uk

http://www.performancephilosophy.org/

Beyond Application? Immanent Encounters Between Philosophy & the Arts

Beyond Application? Immanent Encounters Between Philosophy & the Arts

Friday 27 January 2017

University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Combining talks, performances & participatory workshops by artists and scholars from across the disciplines, this one day event invites new thinking about the relationship between the arts and philosophy. Researchers from dance, music, sound, film, theatre, philosophy and the visual arts come together to explore the issues with and alternatives to the use of art to illustrate philosophy. With a keynote presentation from influential performance theorist and maker, Bojana Cvejić, and contributions from: Richard Ashby, Elisabeth Belgrano, Andrew Bowie, William Brown, Al Cameron, Clive Caseaux, Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Shantel Ehrenberg, Vânia Gala, Vicky Hunter, Simon Jones, Bill Leslie, Kevin Logan, Julia Moore, Tero Nauha, John Ó Maoilearca, Anna Pakes, Josiah Pearsall, Yaron Shyldkrot, Edward Thornton, and Steve Tromans.

Booking required – all welcome.

Hosted by the Centre for Performance Philosophy at the University of Surrey

With funding from the TECHNE consortium

Fri 27 Jan | 9.30-5pm

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/arts/theatre/beyond-application-immanent-encounters-between-philosophy-and-arts

Vania Gala

Vânia Gala is a choreographer and researcher based in London. She holds a BA in Dance from EDDC (European Dance Development Center, Arnhem) and Master of Arts in Choreography with Distinction (Trinity Laban). She is a PhD candidate at Kingston University and a PASS studentship awardee. Gala’s research, choreographies and "conversational performances" explore the critical potential of opacity and withdrawal in choreography in the present time. Latest performative interventions include the give&take series at Tate Modern and Mesa para Práticas de Cabeça para Baixo ou de Pernas para o Ar at Museum of Modern Art Calouste Gulbenkian (2019). Collaborations as performer have involved Les Ballets C. de La B., Constanza Macras and Sonia Boyce. She has collaborated as a choreographer with visual artists Sonia Boyce, Harold Hoffeh and Griot theatre company.. Commissions include “Cooling Down Signs” a Pan- European commission by Beyond Front@ performed at Dance Week Festival (HR), D.I.D (AT), Front@ Festival (SI), Bakelit (HU). In 2019 she was awarded Best Choreography Award by Theatre Guide Awards (Portugal) for her collaboration with GRIOT. Her choreographic work has been performed in Angola, Portugal, Norway, Germany, Ireland, UK, Russian Federation and Austria. In 2005 she was awarded with “Best Female Performance” at the Dublin Fringe Festival, was part of Aerowaves Festival at the Place, London and of the 1st Triennial of Luanda (Angola). In 2007 she performed at the 1st African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Vânia Gala has supervised MA and MFA dissertations (practice-based, practice-as-research and fully written) and has taught practice released based technique, Composition Modules and Choreography. Prior to Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance she taught undergraduate modules at Northampton and Kingston Universities.