Description
This double issue of Performance Research is the result of a two-year collaboration with the International Research Center ‘Interweaving Performance Cultures’ at the Freie Universität, Berlin. The Center was founded in 2008 with the aim of opening up a completely new field of research: processes of interweaving performance cultures. For ten years, scholars from around the world were invited to be Fellows, conducting their own research in relation to the Center’s theme. While the word ‘interweaving’ points to a variety of practices – activities of merging heterogeneous materials, encounters between living beings and objects, processes of interaction and negotiation and the fraught undertaking of engaging with one other, entailing the risk of resistance – it also points to togetherness, tension, retreat and potential transformation.
Since its concluding conference in July 2018, the Center has focused on producing a multi-volume series of scholarly publications on specific aspects of the interweaving of performance cultures. However, from the inception of the project, artists were also invited to take up residency at the Center, to give guest presentations, to explore radical reinterpretations of interweaving and to pursue their artistic practice within the theme. This issue will weave and curate material from many of these visiting artists, exploring different formats for the presentation of their practice – interviews, conversations, manifestos, photo-essays, artist-pages and texts.
Editorial
Stefan Donath, Richard Gough, Christel Weiler
Read the editorial and abstracts for free here.
“I want to blur that sense of identity and I wanted to do that with the museum”
Nikhil Chopra
Canvases and Frames
Nikhil Chopra, Richard Gough
Braiding with Time
Anuradha Kapur, Richard Gough
It’s All One Family
Niky Wolcz, Christel Weiler
Sitting With My Legs Crossed – Unfolding
Rosanna Raymond
If the Shoe Fits … Wear It!
Catherine Diamond, Teresa Barja
Extravagantly Enigmatic
Ong Keng Sen
Creating Nothing
Ong Keng Sen
Kattaikkūttu’s Performance Spaces
Hanne M. de Bruin, Sue Rees
Advaita Vedanta and Qi Gong
Johanna Devi
Difficult Dialogue Between Artists and Academics/Scholars
Danny Yung, Richard Gough
Touch Me, If You Want
Janez Janša
You Never Knocked On My Door or Okay, Bigmouth, Join In
Tamer Yigit, Christel Weiler
Live Transference on Stage as the Creation of a New Type of Performer
Monika Gintersdorfer
(In)Tending to Provoke
Kaite O’Reilly, Christel Weiler
A Moment When All Concepts Get Lost
Ismael Ivo, Christel Weiler, Stefan Donath
What is Vodun?
Koffi Kôkô
Towards Anamnestic Art
Jarosław Fret
Allowing the Sacred to Appear
Magdalena Mądra
New Every Day
Aram Kerovpyan, Virginia Kerovpyan
Guts ’n’ Brains
Susan Leigh Foster
You Don’t Do Those Things Alone
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Interweaving Performance Cultures
Rabih Mroué, Richard Gough
Singing the Future Now
David Moss
Dance as a Gift
Nanako Nakajima, Gabriele Brandstetter
A Hongkonger in Bangalore
Kimho Ip
In Praise of Bastards
Michael Roes
Catastrophe/Catharsis of Creative Process and Unknown Journey
Yuko Kaseki
Distant Interweaving, Close Knots
Evelyn Schuler Zea
Intercultural Listening
Peter Lichtenfels, Kevin O’Connor, Regina Gutiérrez
Interweaving as a living theatre practice
Femi Osofisan, Biodun Jeyfo, Christel Weiler, Stefan Donath, Stefan Donath
‘This book is the very first opportunity for Chinese directors to collectively raise their voice’
Tian Mansha, Herbert Fritsch, Stefan Christ, Torsten Jost, Torsten Jost, Christel Weiler
‘Persian Hippolyte’
Proshot Kalami
Performing Change
Nora Amin
I Had Fun Fearing Cockroaches
Lina Majdalanie
Internal Life
Paul Carter
The Forme of Cury
Richard Gough
Festivilization of Cultures [review]
Azadeh Sharifi
White Shadows on Contemporary African Performance [review]
Rainy Demerson
