Sandra Noeth/Lina Majdalanie/Steven Cohen/James Martel
(Berlin/Lille/San Francisco)
In Conversation #4: The Integrity of Dead and Unburied Bodies
auf deiner Couch
Discussion
- 26.05.2020, 18 Uhr (MEZ)im Youtube-Livestream
The fourth encounter in the series of conversations develops from three artworks: the performance “Put your heart under your feet…and walk!” by Steven Cohen; the lecture performance “Appendice” by Lina Majdalanie and James Martel’s book “Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead.” Embodying rites of passage and performatively rewriting legal and community contracts, it addresses the agency and integrity of bodies in transition between the living and the dead.
Sprache: English
Live stream via youtube
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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
Lina Majdalanie
Lina Majdalanie was born in Beirut (Lebanon) and works as an actor as well as a director and writer. She has devised numerous productions including ‘Biokhraphia’ (2002), ‘Photoromance’ (2009), ‘33 rpm and a few seconds’ (2012), ‘A Drop of Sweat’ (2015), ‘Appendice’ (2016), ‘Do I Know you?’ (2017), ‘Borborygmus’ (2019) and ‘Last but not Last’ (2020). She has also taught at the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva, DasArts in Amsterdam, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and Bard College, Berlin. In her work Majdalanie investigates forms of political language in and age of globalisation and digital technology. She regularly curates programmes for a range of institutions such as ‘Motion-Less’ (Tanzquartier Wien, 2009), ‘Beyond Beirut’ (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm 2016) and ‘Relatively Universal’ (HAU, 2017).
Biography
Steven Cohen
Steven Cohen was born Johannesburg, South Africa, and lives in Lille, France. He is a visual and performance artist, staging interventions in the public realm and in gallery/theatre spaces. He has performed extensively on the festival circuit, at such prestigious venues and events as the Festival d’Automne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival; Montpellier Danse; Festival d’Avignon; Bavarian State Opera; Oktoberdans, Bergen, Norway; and Canadian Stage, Toronto. Cohen participated in the 11th Havana Biennale (2012) and the first Aichi Triennale in Japan (2010). Recent group exhibitions include “IncarNations: African Art as Philosophy”, BOZAR Centre for Arts (2019); “Lignes de vies – une exposition de légendes”, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (2019).
Biography
James Martel
James Martel teaches political theory in the department of political science at San Francisco State University. He is the author, most recently, of “Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead” (Amherst College Press, 2018) and “The Misinterpellated Subject” (Duke University Press, 2017). He has a new book coming out next year entitled “Anarchist Prophets: Disappointing Vision and the Power of Collective Sight” (Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2022).