About this Event
Choreomania Residency: Lecture by Kélina Gotman
10 places available to members of the public
Join us at DOOR OPEN SPACE where scholar Kélina Gotman will deliver an intimate lecture Order and Disorder: Between Tenderness and Rage
This talk will not posit that ‘order’ is one, ‘disorder’ the other; that tenderness and rage should be at opposite ends of some spectrum; that to be disorderly is good, say, in some contexts; that there should be any ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in any of this. But it will posit ways of thinking about how order and disorder come to be construed according to certain – corporeal and intellectual, emotional and spiritual – forms, ways of forming lives; ways of forming what can or cannot count properly as a ‘life’. And in so doing, the talk will think a little bit about what Michel Foucault terms the ‘aesthetics of existence’, a way of shaping spiritual, political being so as constantly to be engaged in searching, self-care, understanding, also quiet. In dance, in crowds, in public, at home, this can mean many things: it can mean tearing down a wall one has erected within oneself, and finding the splayed parts after, and picking these up, and finding one was always whole; it means also saying, again, no; or again, saying, tenderly, yes; the manner of the saying, the retreat that has allowed for this fullness that enables the gesture and speech, these are what constitute such aesthetics and politics, and these are intimate choreographies also. These are manners of making world, forming life, politically, which is to say, with Godard, in a manner that attends to its manner: a form that queries, that unravels, that builds, that chances upon, also, untold form. In writing, like in making things with shape through hands and movement, presence, and presence to self, fuel the quiet after the rage. And fuel, too, another order of rage or resistance, steeped in the unfathomable depths of self-silence.
Kélina Gotman is Professor of Performance and the Humanities at King’s College London. She is author among others of Choreomania: Dance and Disorder (Oxford University Press), as well as Essays on Theare and Change: Towards a Poetics Of (Routledge) and, forthcoming, a title on truth, governmentality, and writing life. She is also the co-editor with Tony Fisher of Foucault’s Theatres (Manchester University Press) and with Avishek Ganguly of Performance and Translation in a Global Age (Cambridge University Press). She is Editor of the 4-volume Theories of Performance: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury), and translator among others of Félix Guattari’s notes to Deleuze in The Anti-Oedipus Papers (Semiotext(e)/MIT Press) and Marie Ndiaye’s play, The Snakes (Cue Press). She collaborates widely in theatre, performance, dance and other fields, dialoguing regularly with curators, artists, and others across the areas of medicine and health, dance and performance; and writes widely beyond the aforementioned books on questions of institutions and disciplines, language and discourse, movement and health. She is further drafting a new monograph on work and work life, productivism, performativity and fatigue, which thinks closely about early twentieth-century health and remedial practices choreographically. She trained professionally and semi-professionally in dance, and brings this constitutional restlessness, this desire to move, to all the writing and teaching work that she does. Current partnerships include the Russell Maliphant Dance Company, the Wellcome Trust, and the Moving Bodies Lab. She has also served as guest or visiting professor in Frankfurt, Toulouse, Chicago, and elsewhere, to think about methods in the arts and philosophy; and speaks internationally across festival, arts, and other academic settings.
This event is part of a public programme of DOOR Foundation's Choremania Residency 2024.
For more information on the residency, please visit: www.dooresidency.com/choreomania
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
DOOR OPEN SPACE, 31 Tt. Vasumweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
EUR 0.00
