Sandra Noeth/Banu Bargu/Gurur Ertem
(Berlin/Santa Cruz/Istanbul)
In Conversation #3: Vulnerability
Discussion
- 19.05.2020, 6 p.m.via Youtube live stream
Vulnerability is a topic that engages both the sociologist and performance theorist Gurur Ertem and the political scientist Banu Bargu. As part of the series ‘Unversehrtheit: Conversations on the Integrities of the Body’, they talk with Sandra Noeth about self-chosen or imposed performances of intactness and woundedness in the context of current political protests and violent acts of self-harm directed against one’s own body. Between biopolitics and radical self-empowerment, the question remains how art and science can contribute to understanding this increasingly ambivalent experience of the body’s integrity.
Language: English
Live stream via youtube
All videos of the series are available here till June 28th.
Cast & Credits
Live Streaming: jascha bernhard, sriram srivigneswaramoorthy, nyx.news
„Unversehrtheit: Conversations on the Integrities of the Body” ist ein Projekt von Künstlerhaus Mousonturm mit Sandra Noeth im Rahmen von „Corponomy – Politiken des Körpers in Tanz, Performance und Gesellschaft“, gefördert durch die Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, und im Rahmen von „DTM – Digitaler Mousonturm“, gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen des Bündnisses internationaler Produktionshäuser, unterstützt durch das Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin.
Biography
Sandra Noeth
Sandra Noeth, professor at HZT – Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin, has been active internationally as a curator and dramaturge, specializing in ethical and political perspectives toward body-practice and theory. Noeth acted as the Head of Dramaturgy and Research at Tanzquartier Wien (2009–2014). Recent publications include “Resilient Bodies, Residual Effects: Artistic Articulations of Borders and Collectivity from Lebanon and Palestine” (2019, transcript) and “Bodies of Evidence: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Movement” (2018, with G. Ertem, Passagen). As an educator, she was a Senior Lecturer at SKH-Stockholm University of the Arts (2012-2020) and a Resident Professor at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2015-16). See https://www.udk-berlin.de/personen/detailansicht/person/show/sandra-noeth/
Biography
Banu Bargu
Banu Bargu is associate professor of History of Consciousness and Political Theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of “Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons” (Columbia UP, 2014), which received the First Book Prize given by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. Bargu is also the editor of “Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence, and Resistance” (Edinburgh UP, 2019), co-editor of a special issue of the journal “Rethinking Marxism on Louis Althusser” (2019), and co-editor of “Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique” (Palgrave, 2017). She has been named a fellow of both the American Council of Learned Societies and the Institute for Advanced Study for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Biography
Gurur Ertem
Dr. Gurur Ertem is a sociologist, dancer, and dance/performance studies scholar. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from The New School for Social Research (New York) with the thesis “EUropean Dance: The Emergence and Transformation of a Contemporary Dance Art World (1989-2013).” She has been immersed in the contemporary dance culture for two decades as a dancer, dramaturge, scholar, educator, and curator. Ertem curated the iDANS Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance (Istanbul 2006-2014) and edited several books on dance such as “Dance on Time” (2010), “Solo? In Contemporary Dance” (2008), and “Yirminci Yüzyılda Dans Sanatı” (2007). At present, she researches and writes on politics of/with the body and the affective and aesthetic enunciations of the “political” with a focus on recent social movements and corporeal resistance. Her recent publications include “Bodies of Evidence: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Movement” (co-edited with Sandra Noeth, Passagen, 2018), “Gezi Uprising: Performative Democracy and Politics of the Body in an Extended Space of Appearance” (in “Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity”; Routledge, 2018). Ertem’s trans-disciplinary work combines the arts, social, and political theory. She is the recipient of the Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for her project “The Exilic Condition and the Arts,” hosted by Freie Universität (Berlin, 2020-2021).