http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1SQVFbtW_jM#!

Dear All, I am not able to attend the Lecture Performance class today, and in fact also next week as I am travelling for work as well as escaping this weather. So, have fun and greetings to all and thanks for initiating this very interesting class.

P.S. In case my group (number 4) needs to mention the Lecture Performance I described during our conversation last week, I spoke about Zoe Laughlin from the Institute of Making who presented the "Performativity of Matter" during the Performance Platform festival at Sophiensaele two weeks ago (as well as the ICA, Tate Modern and other places before that...not at the Science Musuem, Caleb, I am afraid :-)

http://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/

http://www.asifitwerereal.org/zoe/extra/when.htm

hi all - apologies for the last-minute notes.

group 1 (alicia, lauren, melamie, sidsel) :

the discussion surrounding our question, "can performance lecture create affective spaces and invite the audience to embody the theory?", and our example performance lecture by cally spooner (UK) resulted in more questions than answers, without a clear logical answer or result, prompting instead an enacting of corradi fiumara's idea about listening bucking with logocentrism.

the reading chosen from corradi fiumara's text spoke of "speaking at length about something does not offer the slightest guarantee that thereby understanding is advanced" and of a "sham clarity - the unintelligibility of the trivial" which, at first glance, happened to coalesce with the description of the performance lecture:

Hi everyone,

Last week group #2 didn’t have a person Z (the scribe) either, so I’ve just written here what we each brought to our conversation and a short reflection on it afterwards. Please add to it!

See you all tomorrow,

Alex

Person W (asks a question):

If lecturing is always, already performance, what does that say about performance? Is performance generous in nature because it does not demand an answer?

Person X (chooses a lecture performance):
Jerome Bel Veronique Doisneau (2004)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIuWY5PInFs

Person Y (chooses a passage from Fiumara’s text):

‘On the ‘Primacy’ of Posing Questions’ pp. 33 – 34

Thoughts:

for all of you who came last week but also for those who missed the first meeting, here is a link to download the pdf with alex's introduction on the class:
http://www.mediafire.com/?26mp18bd6j9mxmv

this wednesday, july 18, we read and discuss the chapter "dialogical aesthetics" of grant kester's book "conversation pieces".
http://aaaaarg.org/text/37079/dialogical-aesthetics 

looking forward
fiona

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Wanted to share a lecture by Ricardo Dominguez that I mentioned in our group (#4 i think?). It isn't so glamorous as it is just in a classroom, but is still awesome and worth a look (starts at 4:30): http://youtu.be/FA_SkUvn6Go?t=4m30s

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hello everybody,

below some notes of group #3 - since we were missing person Z (who writes notes) they are sort of rudimentary. please everyone else from group #3 feel free to add stuff!

also of course everybody from the other groups (1-4).

looking very much forward to the next meeting to discuss grant kester's "dialogical aesthetic".

best
fiona 

week 1 - group #3

person W (asks a question):
how does the listening of the audience affect the lecture performance, the performer and the audience?

person X (chooses a lecture performance):
melanie gilligan, tate modern 2011
during her performance gilligan is doing things you should not do infront of an audience: painful listening
dan graham, performer/audience/mirror 1975
http://www.vdb.org/node/2788 

hi everybody,

the lecture performance class is starting tomorrow! 

the readings for the week 1 are:

Patricia Milder, Teaching as Art: The Contemporary Lecture-Performance, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art Jan 2011, Vol. 33, No. 1 (PAJ 97): 13–27.
http://www.mediafire.com/?9ynm80aujezcbdw 
Gemma Corradi Fiumara, “A Philosophy of Listening within a Tradition of Questioning.” In The Other Side of Language: A Philosophy of Listening, 28-51. London:” Routledge, 1990.
http://www.mediafire.com/?mtzmz409n5exa1o

looking forward
fiona