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Performance Research Seminar Series 2016 -
Dept. of Arts and Humanities - Brunel University London ;
Precarity & the Politics of Art: Performative and Critical Empowerment after
Democracy
Wednesday 23 November 2016, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Drama Studio, Gaskell Bldg // Brunel University London, Cleveland Rd. UB8 3PH
featuring:
Henry Daniel (Simon Fraser University, Canada): “Contemporary Nomads”
'Contemporary Nomads' identifies two main axes of current migratory movements;
one that runs in an East/West direction between Europe, the Far East, and the
Americas, and another that runs in a North/South direction connecting Canada
and the USA to Mexico and Central and South America. "Contemporary Nomads' is a
new initiative that responds to the current and unprecedented migratory
movement of large groups of people world-wide. It claims that although we are
all well aware of the current refugee crisis that’s been posing enormous
problems for countries all across Europe, we seem to have lost track of the
fact that this is part of a much larger phenomenon that has been playing itself
out through years of colonization, de-colonization and re-colonization. Dr
Daniel seeks to investigate these large-scale movements of bodies across
international spaces as a kind chaotic transnational choreography, one that
speaks to the deep fragmentation which exists between communities within as
well as outside national borders, between nationalized and personalized bodies,
and between social and political institutions and the ordinary people they were
meant to serve.
Henry Daniel is Professor of Dance and Performance Studies, scholar, performer,
choreographer, and Artistic Director of Full Performing Bodies. His research
concentrates on strengthening notions of Practice-as-Research (PaR),
Arts-based-Research, and Research/Creation in Canada. He leads a group of
artists and scholars who help define new parameters for excellence in these
areas. He has a professional background in dance, theatre, and new media with a
career that started in his native Trinidad & Tobago and continued in the USA,
Germany, the UK, and Canada. He is currently IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting
Professor, University of Bristol.
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Research Seminar Theme: Precarity and the Politics of Art: Performative and
Critical Empowerment after Democracy
This Research Seminar Series aims to probe troubling interpretations of the
increasing impact of unrestrained capitalism in the Western hemisphere and its
impact on all social-economic, cultural, creative, and educational sectors in
the developed world. How sustainable is democracy in the face of political
unrest caused by precarity, migration, refugees and the resulting labour and
welfare issues?
Performance Research Seminar Coordinator: Johannes Birringer
Contact: +44 (0)1895 267 343
All Research Seminars are co-produced with dance-tech live TV and streamed
online as well as archived.: DAPLab.TV: http://dance-tech.tv/videos/daplabtv/
Check our whole series at:
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/ResearchSeminarSeries.html
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