The Performance Lecture Project
The Performance Lecture Project
In 2012 Serial Space will present a rolling series of Performance Lectures on a wide range of topics from capitalism and the ghosts of cinema to giant earthworms, facebook robots and the Garden of Eden.
Lectures will occur at various times throughout the year, starting in March with Nick Key’s lecture Becoming otherwise occupied on the 31st March in Martin Place, followed by Soda Jerk’s The Carousel on 13th May at Serial Space.
Then, come August, Charlotte Farrell will facilitate a performance lecture in conversation with Montreal-based academics and artists Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Bianca Scliar Mancini, Toni Pape and Leslie Plumb.Sensual Mo(ve)ments and the More-Than Human is a dinner party-meets-sewing circle-meets-radically empirical event. Common conceptual ground is not assumed of the participants beforehand. In creating a generative space of conviviality, it considers what a lecture can become when thought of collaboratively, and when there aren’t strict preconditions for its composition.
And more to be announced…
A brief note on the Performance Lecture Project:
A lecture can be either a long educational talk to a class, or a serious speech, especially one given as a scalding reprimand. Put the two definitions together and you get a long educational talk that is performed like a scalding reprimand. Oftentimes a lecture’s topic is incredibly interesting but the presentation incredibly dry or alienating. Or vice versa, a charismatic speaker speaks for hours about nothing much in particular. This performance lecture series will explore the relationship between the form and content of a lecture, its performance or mode of presentation and how the performer(s) assume authority and what an audience or class will take away from the lecture. Curated by Jennifer Hamilton for Serial Space, email jennifer@serialspace.org for more information.
Come along. You might learn something.
PICTURE: ‘Heinrich’ by Max Braun, This photo was taken on February 24, 2006 in Metternich, Rhineland-Palatinate, DE, using a FinePix S304. From http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxbraun/104431360/
In 2012 Serial Space will present a rolling series of Performance Lectures on a wide range of topics from capitalism and the ghosts of cinema to giant earthworms, facebook robots and the Garden of Eden.
Lectures will occur at various times throughout the year, starting in March with Nick Key’s lecture Becoming otherwise occupied on the 31st March in Martin Place, followed by Soda Jerk’s The Carousel on 13th May at Serial Space.
Then, come August, Charlotte Farrell will facilitate a performance lecture in conversation with Montreal-based academics and artists Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Bianca Scliar Mancini, Toni Pape and Leslie Plumb.Sensual Mo(ve)ments and the More-Than Human is a dinner party-meets-sewing circle-meets-radically empirical event. Common conceptual ground is not assumed of the participants beforehand. In creating a generative space of conviviality, it considers what a lecture can become when thought of collaboratively, and when there aren’t strict preconditions for its composition.
And more to be announced…
A brief note on the Performance Lecture Project:
A lecture can be either a long educational talk to a class, or a serious speech, especially one given as a scalding reprimand. Put the two definitions together and you get a long educational talk that is performed like a scalding reprimand. Oftentimes a lecture’s topic is incredibly interesting but the presentation incredibly dry or alienating. Or vice versa, a charismatic speaker speaks for hours about nothing much in particular. This performance lecture series will explore the relationship between the form and content of a lecture, its performance or mode of presentation and how the performer(s) assume authority and what an audience or class will take away from the lecture. Curated by Jennifer Hamilton for Serial Space, email jennifer@serialspace.org for more information.
Come along. You might learn something.
PICTURE: ‘Heinrich’ by Max Braun, This photo was taken on February 24, 2006 in Metternich, Rhineland-Palatinate, DE, using a FinePix S304. From http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxbraun/104431360/