Fred Moten’s lecture offers an attempt to investigate what might be called a physical turn away from certain metaphysical assumptions that both undergird and undermine black and queer insurgency. Its movement attempts to join and inhabit what might be called the “crowdedness” of Cecil Taylor’s music in certain moments when unison gives way to dense proximity, and it wants to consider the problematic affinities between the ideas of unity and separability and the ideal of three-dimensionality.
Fred Moten teaches Black Studies, Critical Theory, Performance Studies, and Poetics in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition and the trilogy ‘consent not to be a single being’, among others. With Stefano Harney he wrote The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, A Poetics of the Undercommons and All Incomplete.
The conversation started in this talk will be continued in a workshop with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney – now rescheduled for 2022 – addressing issues from the history of jazz such as the emergence of black experimental music in intersection with issues of freedom theory and queer theory.
This conference is part of the cycle Expanded Practices All Over, a space of collective thought curated by Paula Caspão around the uses and stakes of the expression ‘expanded practices’, in partnership with TBA theatre.
Peripatetic scientific committee: Paula Caspão, Valentina Desideri
The conference will take place on the 7th of July, 2021, at 6pm.
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