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“Transmission in metaphors” – Gido Broers
In their lecture performance, Jon McKenzie and Aneta Stonjic introduced thought-action figures to explain how our thinking and acting are structured in certain figures. The form in which the idea of thought-action figures was presented – a lecture performance – was also an attempt to explore new ways of transferring knowledge, that differ from the…
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On the Performance Lecture “Thought-Action Figures” – Tamalone van den Eijnden
“It matters what thoughts think thoughts. It matters what knowledges know knowledges. It matters what relations relate relations. It matters what worlds world worlds. It matters what stories tell stories.”[1] On May 23, 2018 Jon McKenzie and Aneta Stojnic gave a performance lecture on “Thought-Action Figures” as part of the TiM lecture series. It was…
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Conference Photos
*The photos: courtesy of Anna van Kooij and Irene Alcubilla Troughton
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“Yet, another lecture?”- Alexandra Kinevskaya
On the 23d of May 2018, we were invited to the “lecture-performance” by Jon McKenzie and Aneta Stojnic with a peculiar title “Thought-Action Figures”. Prior to lecture, we received preparatory material that consisted of a comic with the same name and some of the philosophical thoughts/quotes from the event. In the beginning of the performance,…
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“The Paradoxes of Post-Conceptual Thinking” – Irene Alcubilla Troughton
In our last session of Transmission in Motion Seminar, we had the chance to assist a performance-lecture given by John McKenzie and Aneta Stojnic based on what was called “thought-action figures”. This proposition (in lack of a better term) was introduced in an attempt to search for a post-conceptual, post-ideational knowledge that could break down…
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“Performance Lecture: Thought-Action Figures” – Jon McKenzie & Aneta Stojnic
This lecture performance focuses on performance, technology, and post-ideational thought, the reinscription of ideas with a broader spacetime suggested by Artaud, Derrida, Haraway, Lehmann, and others. What figures guide our thoughts and actions? What role might post-dramatic, post-conceptual personae and machinic genres play in rethinking the past, negotiating the present, and enacting the future? How…
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“Datafying Sweet Secrets” (TiM Public Launch) – Tamalone van den Eijnden
In her talk on the occasion of the celebration of the launch of Transmission in Motion, Norah Zuniga Shaw advocated for an “ethics of care,” not only in the face of the ubiquity of technology but also in view of the intimacy with it. Until now, when I was thinking about intimate and affective relationships with…
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“Transfer of corporeal knowledge ” – Gido Broers
Last week I visited a rehearsal of the performance of WIEK, which was originally created by Boukje Schweigman in 2009. In this performance, three performers move in interaction with a moving object which has the shape of three wings of a mill (see the picture above). This performance will be performed again next month, with…
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“Concepts in the Making” – Elissavet Kardami
Maaike Bleeker’s lecture offered an expanded understanding of the notion of literacy which approaches corporeality as a source of knowledge. What I particularly enjoyed from the lecture was that, instead of presenting the results of her research, she guided us through the process of shaping the concept of corporeal literacy. Her lecture exemplified how the…
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“Do we dance with technology?” – Irene Alcubilla Troughton
New lines of scholarship focused on perception in the last years have become preoccupied not only with the influence of the body in this act but also in its essential position for understanding how perception in itself is constituted. Among those, Alva Noe stands as a prominent thinker. In his renown book Action in Perception…
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