Fall Quarter
Performance Studies Graduate Student Conference: “In Bodies We Trust: Performance, Affect, and Political Economy”
October 11-13, 2013
Alvina Krause Studio, Peggy Dow Auditorium, Harris Hall
What is the relationship between affect and political economies? What role might performance play in negotiating conditions of bodies, affects, political economies, and spaces? In Bodies We Trust: Performance, Affect, & Political Economy—the 2013 Department of Performance Studies Graduate Student Conference—invites graduate students, artists, and activists to generate new understandings among affect, political economy, and performance.
‘Affect’ and ‘political economy’ have each become integral in elucidating performance. Affect—embodied feelings that circulate—has been used to make sense of minoritarian feelings of otherness such as José Esteban Muñoz’s ‘feeling brown’ or Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s ‘queer performativity,’ and embodied responses to postmodern capitalism such as Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt’s ‘affective labor.’ Political economy—the influence of “political … and economic systems” on “institutions, culture, and human behavior”*—animates how performance operates in frameworks of policy, economies, and political institutions. We invite papers and performances that illuminate, complicate, and challenge relationships across embodied feelings, political and economic systems, and performance.
Each panel and each performance will be paired with a Northwestern University or Chicago-area faculty member who will act as a discussant. Confirmed faculty discussants include Joshua Chambers-Letson, Nick Davis, Tracy Davis, Hannah Feldman, Marcela Fuentes, Barnor Hesse, Richard Iton, Chloe Johnston, D. Soyini Madison, Susan Manning, Kaley Mason, Coya Paz, Janice Radway, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, C. Riley Snorton, Elizabeth Son, and Harvey Young. The three-day conference also includes a keynote address by Judith Hamera, a collaborative plenary with Northwestern and Chicago-area faculty, movement workshops, and catered receptions to build community with attendees across disciplines and artistic interests.
Professional Development Workshop: Fellowships and Grants
Wednesday, October 16, Noon
Alvina Krause Studio
Theatre in the Dark
Friday, October 18th, 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 19th, 1 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Alvina Krause Studio
Theater in the Dark is an intimate experience harkening back to the old radio dramas of the early 20th century. Using Ernest Hemmingway's hair-rasing story The Short Happy Life of Francis Maycomber, the show will rely upon the audience to conjure up the visuals of the play guided by four voice actors while immersed in the utter dark. Directed by Ben Kemper and Andre Squerra. Free admission.
Fiber of Time
Friday, November 22nd, 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 23rd, 1 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Alvina Krause Studio
Using classical and contemporary theories of memory as inspiration, Fiber of Time enacts and critiques these theories while exploring the potentially analogous relationship between memory and fiber. Performers use expressive movement and collaboratively composed text to investigate the intersections of personal memory, cultural memory, and the human body. Directed by Jade Huell. Free admission.
Winter Quarter
Professional Development Workshop: Mock Interviews
Friday, January 17th, 3-6 p.m.
Alvina Krause Studio
Adventures of a Depressed Beer Cart Girl
Friday, January 31st, 8 p.m.
Saturday, February 1st, 1 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Alvina Krause Studio
Created and directed by Laurel Zoff Pelton. Free admission.
Essentially Yours: Uncanny Approximations to Vocalizing Sound
Friday, February 21st, 8 p.m.
Saturday, February 22nd, 1 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Alvina Krause Studio
Created and performed by Elias Krell. Free admission.
Queer Nightlife Symposium
Thursday, March 6th
Location TBA
Glee and Other Works by Alan Shefsky
Friday, March 7th, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 8th, 1 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Alvina Krause Studio
Directed by Kantara Souffrant. Free admission.
Performance Studies MA Recitals
March 14th, 7 p.m.
Wallis Theatre, Theatre and Interpretation Center
Performances by Benton (Arif) Smith and Misty De Berry (PhD recital)
Spring Quarter
Professional Development Workshop: Article Publication
Wednesday, April 16th, Noon
Alvina Krause Studio
Teenagers from Mars
Friday, April 25th, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 26th, 1 p.m. & 8 p.m.
Alvina Krause Studio
Teenagers from Mars is a punk rock coming of age story for anyone who ever felt like they didn't belong in high school. Directed by Layne Drinkwater. Free admission.
Dwight Conquergood Symposium
Friday, May 16th & Saturday, May 17th
Alvina Krause Studio and Peggy Dow Auditorium
Performance Studies PhD Recitals
Friday, June 6th & Saturday, June 7th, 7 p.m.
Wallis Theatre, Theatre and Interpretation Center
Performances by Eddie Gamboa, Jonathan Magat, Shoniqua Roach, and Ashlie Sandoval. Free admission.
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