[spectre] Hallucinatory Theatres :: 12-14th May :: Goldsmiths, London

[Ryan]

Hallucinatory Theatres
Goldsmiths Art Research Symposium
12 – 14 May, 2014

Free and welcome to all.

The next symposium for Goldsmiths Art Research will address questions and
discourses relative to hallucination, illusion and their theatrical
embodiments, in sites of art production and otherwise.

This will be an opportunity to discuss the critical urgency of detangling
the stigmatic tropes of hallucination / illusion, and qualifying their
heterotopic, extra-aesthetic possibilities. As neurological research
continues to inform the speculative hyperbole of accelerated technology
and capitalism, assessing what defensive tactics exist against these
affective mechanizations is crucial. The employment of the theatrical in
this examination serves to both deflate the 'reality' status of
hallucinatory or narrativised control mechanisms (pathology, retail
entrancement, 'soft' torture, etc), as well as to invoke the revolutionary
tool-box of theatre itself in discussing alternative positions.

How might the fluid hyper-subjective characteristics of hallucination ooze
into binding co-ordinations of the social? What role do embodiments of
trance and ecstasy have to play within the aims of emancipatory projects?
Further to this, how might empirical models of supra-sensorial states
inform transformative tactics, counter to those implemented by
(para)military, retail and entertainment agencies?

Relevant to these and other questions, presentations, screenings and
performances will consider various cultures and practices sympathetic to
hallucination and other idiosyncratic states of perception, including
ceremonial magic, psychedelic culture, liminal performance and discourses
exploring synaesthesia and extra-sensory perception.

Schedule:

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DAY 1 Studio 5, Barriedale Building B

10.30 am Introduction - Joey Ryken

11.00 - 12.00 Mark Harris on Walter Benjamin and psychedelic
consciousness

12.00 - 13.00 David Luke – Fragments of an anarchist psychology

13.00 - 14.00 Break

14.00 - 15.00 Daria Martin screening Sensorium Tests (2012), and
discussing synaesthesia and establishing empathy with the arts.

15.00– 15.45 Andrea Phillips on Stengers and Federici; capitalism,
feminism and witchcraft.

15.45 - 16.30 Sharlene Khan on the masquerade of blackface in
contemporary South African visual arts.

16.30 – 17.30 John Cussans on Black Power and Voodoo Politics.

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DAY 2 Studio 5, Barriedale Building B

10.30 - 11.00 am Introduction

11.00 - 12.00 pm Bonnie Camplin on meta-theatrical art practice

12.00 - 13.00 pm Achim Lengerer - Layout for Hallucinatory Theatres
Symposium (Working Title)

13.00 - 14.00 pm Break

14.00 - 14.30 pm Francisco Sousa Lobo on representing hallucination
in graphic novels

14.30 - 15.00 pm Vanessa Desclaux (TBC)

15.00 - 16.00 pm Joey Ryken on hallucination as a tactical mode of
knowledge production
+ Demonstration: Hallucinatron 5000

16.00 - 17.00 pm Ryan Jordan on shaman-wood and performing
audio-visual catharsis

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DAY 3 At Parasol Unit
11.00 - 12.30 Shezad Dawood speaks about his exhibition Towards the
Possible Film, at Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Rd N1 7RW


14.00 - 16.00 Screening TBC 		 	   		  
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