SPRING MEETING 2012, 2 - 11 April
Submitted by jan ritsema on Thu, 2012-01-26 21:59
This years Spring Meeting offers an even more intensive program with opportunities to both relax and chill, find new job opportunities, bring in some serious knowledge both physical, practical and slightly more cerebral and theoretical. Next to that Marcus Doverud and Christian Töpfner will be responsible for the cooking which as we all know is open to participation in different ways.
As usually Spring Meeting does not offer a curriculum or fixed anything but each and everybody is welcome to engage in classes, tutorials, meetings, discussions, parties, art making, showing work, testing out, thinking through, everything is open from yoga class at dawn to late night cinema, or midnight walks in the forrest. There is enough space and nature is brilliant.
PAF also offers its fresh and well filled library to each and everybody. Reading group why not...
The meeting will also offer it's recurring series of seminars. From 2 - 10 April there will be three seminars of each three days and five hours per day. Open for anybody. This year the seminar is organized in collaboration with MA CuP, dept. for applied theatre studies at Univ. of Giessen, Univ. for Dance Stockholm and will offer three remarkable speakers, that will engage in the thin line between expression and structure, form and the politics, performance and the social. So far we have only one guest ready to announce but follow the development here.
The three sessions:
2 - 4 April - TBA
4 - 5 April - Reza Negarestani, Kuala Lumpur author of Cyclonopedia (via Skype).
5 - 7 April - Randy Martin, NYU/Tisch, chair Art and Public Policy.
8 - 10 April - Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths, Senior Lecturer Centre for Cultural Studies, author of Abstract Sex.
Book now cuz it's gonna be full house.
Biographies
Randy Martin is professor of art and public policy and director of the graduate program in arts politics. He is the author of Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self; Socialist Ensembles:Theater and State in Cuba and Nicaragua; Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics; On Your Marx: Relinking Socialism and the Left; Financialization of Daily Life; and Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management. He has edited collections on U.S. Communism, sport and academic labor and, most recently, Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts (with Mary Schmidt Campbell) and The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries, and the Dance Canon (with Claudia Gitelman).
Dr. Martin holds degrees in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the City University of New York. He has studied, taught, and performed in dance, theater, and clowning in the United States and abroad. Previously, he served as professor and chair of social science at Pratt Institute, associate dean of faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, and as an editor of the journal Social Text.
Reza Negarestani is an Iranian artist, writer and philosopher who has pioneered the genre of ‘theory-fiction’ with his expansive Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials. He has written widely online and in print on contemporary theory, philosophy, and politics, notably in journals like Collapse and CTheory. He is currently working on two books, Beyond the Wall of the State (co-authored with Manabrata Guha) and The Mortiloquist.
Luciana Parisi’s research looks at the asymmetric relationship between science and philosophy, aesthetics and culture, technology and politics to investigate potential conditions for ontological and epistemological change. Her work on cybernetics and information theories, evolutionary theories, genetic coding and viral transmission has informed her analysis of culture and politics, the critique of capitalism, power and control. During the late 90s she worked with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick and has since been writing with Steve Goodman (aka kode 9). In 2004, she published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum Press), where she departed from the critical impasse between notions of the body, sexuality, gender on the one hand, and studies of science and technologies on the other. Her work engaged with ontological and epistemological transformations entangled to the technocapitalist development of biotechnologies, which un-intentionally re-articulated models of evolutions, questioning dominant conceptions of sex, femininity and desire. Since the publication of Abstract Sex, she has also written on the bionic transformation of the perceptive sensorium triggered by new media, on the advancement of new techno-ecologies of control, and on the nanoengineering of matter. She has published articles about the relation between cybernetic machines, memory and perception in the context of a non-phenomenological critique of computational media and in relation to emerging strategies of branding and marketing. Her interest in interactive media has also led her research to engage more closely with computation, cognition, and algorithmic aesthetics. She is currently writing on architectural modeling and completing a monograph: Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and the Control of Space (MIT Press, forthcoming).
