3rd April, at Marvila Library
Práticas de Atenção em Processos de Criação na Cena Expandida
Cassiano Sydow Quilici, Professor of theatre and performance, UNICAMP Arts Institute, Campinas State Univ., São Paulo presented “attention practices in creative processes on the expanded stage” as devices for interrupting and transforming perceptive and existential habits, opening up space for the emergence of differently configured creative processes. There followed a discussion of the micro-political dimensions of such exercises.
Suspensão e Equilíbrio. Rituais de Performatividade na História do Baloiço
Javier Moscoso, History and the Philosophy of Science Professor, at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid.
This lecture [“Suspension and balance. Performativity rituals in the history of the swing”] explored the use of the swing and dance throughout history. From Greek antiquity to pre-imperial China and on to the contemporary world, swinging has been a remarkable way of subverting the social and natural order. Javier Moscoso addressed the correlation between oscillation, suspension and sex as part of a performative theory of emotions. Despite being considered child’s play today, the origins and uses of the swing have deeper roots.
4th April, at The Water Museum
Pausa e(m) Ebulição: a Reativação das Flutuações de Fluxo em Processos Somático-Performativos
In this talk [“Pause and/in boiling: the reactivation of flow fluctuations in somatic-performative processes”], performer and Full Professor at the Theatre School of the Bahia Federal University, Salvador, Ciane Fernandes, presented processes, procedures and the creation of meaning based on Authentic Movement, together with movement analysis systems from Rudolf Laban, in particular the Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis and the Kestenberg Movement Profile. Choreographic creation processes based on principles such as reactivating flows and rhythms, rather than fragments and montages, emphasize internal coherence and transform post-traumatic freezing into a pulsating scene, connecting realization and analysis, art and life.
Entangled Scenarios: Immaterial Bodies, Affect and Performance*
Lisa Blackman, Professor of Body Studies, Media and Cultural Theory, at Goldsmiths – London Univ. *Lecture given in English without translation.
Lisa Blackman discussed the distinction between “empowerment” and “disempowerment”, central to Lauren Berlant’s work, to think about public feelings and affections, from notions of flow used by positive psychology, often linked to personal development and empowerment, to creativity and positive affections. She then contrasted this emphasis on positivity with the concept of disempowerment as a strategy to reconfigure these notions. Her lecture focused on the archive of experiences that are considered strange, disconcerting or unusual and that, in different ways, represent boundaries and limits between the self and the other, the interior and the exterior, the material and the immaterial, the public and the private, the human and the technological.
5th April at Teatro D. Maria II
O Jogo da Glória – Flow Public Feelings, Citizenship and Europe
With: Anabela Rodrigues (coordinator of Grupo de Teatro do Oprimido), Daniel Tércio (professor of criticism and dance), Raquel Freire (filmmaker), Rui Pina Coelho (professor and playwright), Rui Tavares (historian/candidate for the European Parliament for LIVRE).
O Jogo da Glória [The Glory Game] – Flow is a debating device, with the aim of quickly coming up with new questions about public feelings and how flow, determined by cultural and political forces, shapes and conditions our contact with the world. What is our position in this flow? How to identify the cultural construction of fear and anger in social conflicts? How to overcome shame as a historical legacy? How to act in situations of gender inequality? How to recognize the hidden intentions in a sea of affect? The set of questions players will have to answer after each roll of the dice will be developed throughout the matches and will include audience participation (present and online).
The Jogo da Glória – Flow KIT (board, rules and questions) was available for free download at www.performativa.pt
Entry was free upon registration
At: fluxosentimentospublicos@gmail.com
