Symposium: Is there a “new” American avant-garde?

Can the current political and social turbulences in the American and global level transform the very notion of the avant-garde? Can cyborg theatre re-imagine onstage bodies but also radically reconstruct personal and collective narratives? How experimental choreographic practices overcome gender binaries and challenge disciplinary and institutional frames while exploring new modes of communication and perception? Which are the structural similarities between Performance Art and Celebrity Culture?
Leading American scholars will investigate contemporary experimental artistic practices in the USA questioning their impact on history, identity and the everyday life.

Program

“The Invisible Vanguard: Reflections on Political Movements and Contemporary Avant-Garde Formations”
James Harding, Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park & research fellow at the Freie Universität, Berlin
“From the Wooster Group to Richard Maxwell”
David Savran, Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre at The Graduate Center City University of New York
“Intermedial Contexts in 'New' American Performance”
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Head of Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Roehampton, London
“Choreographic Collisions: Gender, Performance and the Institution”
Miriam Felton-Dansky, Assistant professor of theatre and performance at Bard College & Theater critic for the Village Voice
“The Fame: Performance Art and Celebrity Culture”
Philip Auslander, Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

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Credits

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James Harding, Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park & research fellow at the Freie Universität, Berlin
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David Savran, Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre at The Graduate Center City University of New York
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Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Head of Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Roehampton, London Intermedial
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Miriam Felton-Dansky, Assistant professor of theatre and performance at Bard College & Theater critic for the Village Voice Choreographic
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Philip Auslander, Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Curated and Μoderated by
Katia Arfara