Black Preformance: Violence
03 - 05 October
3, 4 and 5th October
2.30PM to 5.30PM
Upon prior registration with biography (max 150 words) and motivation paragraph (max 250 words) until September 15th: bilheteira@teatrodobairroalto.pt
Maximum capacity 20 participants
Rehearsal Room
Length 3h por sessão
Organized by Paula Caspão – Ciclo Expanded Practices All Over, Centro de Estudos de Teatro da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
CET is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the context of the projects I.P. (UIDB/00279/2020 e UIDP/00279/2020)
Comité Científico Peripatético: Paula Caspão, Valentina Desideri
The seminarBlack Preformance: Violence begins with a reading of Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon and Emmanuel Levinas on violence – a matter left unfinished in The Universal Machine (2018). Their work will be seen against the backdrop of work by Allen Feldman, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Hortense Spillers, with a lens provided by Walter Benjamin’s Zur Kritik der Gewalt, and a selection of its vast criticism, framed by W. E. B. Du Bois’ works that anticipate, accompany, and follow Benjamin’s text. Fred Moten teaches Black Studies, Critical Theory, Performance Studies, and Poetics in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature at the New York University. This seminar is part of the cycle Expanded Practices All Over, curated by Paula Caspão.