WiSe 22/23: Performance and Agency in Decoloniality - Queering, Enchantment, Border Thinking, Archives
Ong Keng Sen
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Decoloniality or decolonialism is a school of thought used principally by a Latin American (a Global South) movement which focuses on untangling the production of knowledge from a primarily Eurocentric episteme. It critiques the perceived universality and superiority of Global North knowledges and cultures. This seminar designed for dance studies masters will concentrate on performance as agency, through strategies of queering, enchantment, border thinking, and archives. It focuses on the practice of creating unhappy archives, its intersection with the act of queering, and at the same time builds up the discourse around performance, agency, and decoloniality.
Participants will focus on overcoming the present (a term from Max Czollek “Gegenwartsbewältigung”) in dance and performance, with its intersectional contestations surrounding race, migration, class, sexuality, and gender.
The course will comprise of close readings and the actual practice of constructing unhappy archives. Final presentation will include the unpacking and sharing of each individual unhappy archive with the public, its conception, its embodiment, and its potentiality in worlds-creating.
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Wed, 2022-10-19 14:00 - 18:00