What Bodies Can Do: Art and The Social Practice of Resistance

What Bodies Can Do: Art and The Social Practice of Resistance This project engages people in a timely debate about the political, social, and cultural potentials arising from the embodied performativity of art

Premised on the conviction that participatory art is fundamentally what Judith Butler calls “embodied forms of action and mobility marked by dependency and resistance,” this group will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and artists to create, perform, and ultimately engage in a timely debate about the political, social, and cultural potentials arising from the embodied performativity of art.

02/20/2019

Art, Performance, Theater, Dance, Body, Situation, and Activism -
04/25/2018

Art, Performance, Theater, Dance, Body, Situation, and Activism -

André Lepecki is Professor and Chair at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He is editor of several anthologies on dance and performance theory including Of the Presence of the Body (2004), Dance (2012), and Points of Convergence: alternative views on performance (...

Art, Performance, Theater, Dance, Body, and Situation -
04/17/2018

Art, Performance, Theater, Dance, Body, and Situation -

André Lepecki is Professor and Chair at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He is editor of several anthologies on dance and performance theory including Of the Presence of the Body (2004), Dance (2012), and Points of Convergence: alternative views on performance (...

Just send these to the printer! Stay tuned for the officially opening of the major exhibit..🙂
03/27/2018

Just send these to the printer! Stay tuned for the officially opening of the major exhibit..🙂

"Urban Counternarratives of Bodies in Space, lecture by Monica Amor -
03/14/2018

"Urban Counternarratives of Bodies in Space, lecture by Monica Amor -

Dr. Monica Amor writes and lectures regularly on postwar and contemporary art with special attention to interdisciplinary practices and the dynamics of global modernity. Her work has been published in Art Bulletin, Art Margins, Artforum, Art Journal, Art Nexus, Grey Room, October, Poliester, Third T...

BIG NEWS!Ótimo Dance and Omulu Capoeira Madison will be joining us this Thursday for the performance at the Chazen. Each...
03/12/2018

BIG NEWS!

Ótimo Dance and Omulu Capoeira Madison will be joining us this Thursday for the performance at the Chazen. Each will be giving demos in traditional Afro-Brazilian martial arts and dances style. We are beyond grateful to be performing alongside them...this is going to be quite the show!

Creativity was in the air and kids were creating some amazing parangoles at the Chazen yesterday. @ Chazen M...
03/11/2018

Creativity was in the air and kids were creating some amazing parangoles at the Chazen yesterday. @ Chazen Museum of Art

What Bodies Can Do: Art & the Social Practice of Resistance -
03/06/2018

What Bodies Can Do: Art & the Social Practice of Resistance -

Visual Cultures CollectiveProfessor of Critical Studies in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State UniversityThe workshop allows UW-Madison students to create their own parangolés from materials of their choosing, some of which will be supplied. After the workshop a public performance will be held ...

proof color can exist even on the dreariest of midwestern winter days. Many thanks to Jim Escalante for the shots.Visual...
02/18/2018

proof color can exist even on the dreariest of midwestern winter days.

Many thanks to Jim Escalante for the shots.

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