Documentation

“Analysing Silliness” – Thorn Austin
What do you think of when I mention a frog? A slimy green creature? A silly-looking jumping creature? A cute little dude on a leaf? Unless frogs are particularly scary to you, the idea of someone in an inflatable frog costume would probably be a mood-lifting sight, a welcome bit of silliness added to your…
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[TiM Recap] “Frogs and Clowns: An Object Orientation of Protest Today” — Anneke Jansen (SPOT Groningen) and Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University)
by Ani Encheva “The multiple dimensions that make up objects also make up ourselves, as well as our categories. Telling the stories of an object therefore begins unpacking our own clichés, our certainties, our affects.” – Joseph Dumit (2014, 349) In encountering the inflatable frogs and clowning artefacts that populate contemporary protest, we are invited…
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Recommended event “Affective Cartographies: Sensing and Mapping Climate Emotions”
On November 25th, Dr. Tamara Borovica (RMIT University) will lead the workshop “Affective Cartographies: Sensing and Mapping Climate Emotions”, hosted by the Futures + Literacies + Methods Lab. Dr. Tamara Borovica has designed Affective Cartographies as a practice-led workshop that explores how we can think, feel, and know through the body. Using body mapping as…
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Read more“From as If to What If: Simulation and Speculation in Contemporary Dramaturgy” – Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink (Utrecht University) and Sigrid Merx (Utrecht University)
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Read more“Humor and Truth-telling” – Dick Zijp (Utrecht University)
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Read moreTitle to be announced – Lars Ebert (Culture Action Europe)
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Read moreOn Institutionalizing Differently – Anne Breure (Artistic Director Theater Utrecht) in dialogue with Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink (Utrecht University) and Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University)
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“Theater, Moon Studies, and Interplanetary Entanglements” – Vivian Appler, Felipe Cervera, Marjolijn van Heemstra, Xiao-Shan Yap, and Maaike Bleeker
This session of the TiM seminar brings together four scholars and one artist/writer for a collaborative exploration of performance-oriented research into the histories and futures of Lunar exploration and exploitation. Informed by diverse backgrounds and practices, we have, each in our own way, developed research that engages with the entanglements of earthly and outer
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“Frogs and Clowns: An Object Orientation of Protest Today” — Anneke Jansen (Theatre Programming, SPOT Groningen) and Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University)
‘Object Orientation’ is an integrative method that uses objects to bring together perspectives. After all, objects are indifferent to the ways in which perspectives have been institutionalized. They have come into being through dynamic combinations or intersections of perspectives, and they compel us to combine or interweave perspectives when we engage with them. The method…
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