Performance Philosophy Problems: How Does Performance Philosophy Collaborate?
The University of the Arts Helsinki will host the Performance Philosophy network’s fifth biennial conference.
The programme is tentative and subject to change.
Wednesday 15 June 2022
10:00-18:00 Registration and the INFO-desk Theatre Academy
18:00-19:00 Opening Ceremony
Place: Tori Stage at the Theatre Academy and Zoom live streaming
Welcome words by Vice Rector Jaana Erkkilä-Hill and Vice Dean Leena Rouhiainen
Opening words by the Conference Chair Esa Kirkkopelto, and the presentation of the Conference Committee
Greetings of the Performance Philosophy Association: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
A word of information, Conference Team
Toast!
Music and fanfares during the Opening Ceremony
Brass Quartet from the Sibelius Academy
French horns: Otto Kenetti, Lauri Purhonen, Venla Ulmala
Trombone: Joni Taskinen
Thursday 16 June 2022
8:30-16:00 Registration and the INFO-desk Theatre Academy
9:30-11:00 Key Group 1
Place: Theatre Hall and Zoom live streaming
Collaboration, conviviality, and care: the problem of including learning-disabled and neurodivergent artists in performance philosophy
Tony McCaffrey & Dave Calvert & Kate Maguire-Rosier & Janet Gibson
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Panels 1-6
Panel 1
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 403 (4th floor)
Moderator Stuart Grant
Documentation as Poetic-Witness
Autumn Ahn (60 min)
El cuento del tabaco/The story of tobacco
Ricardo Sarmiento & Chloe Chotrani (lecture-performance, 30 min)
Panel 2
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 404 (4th floor)
Moderator Karolina Kucia
Powerful bodies: from amerindian to decolonial feminine aesthetics
Monica Toledo Silva (speech and projecting pictures, 30 min)
Notation as the “Culture Technique”
Chieh-ting Hsieh (30 min)
Philosophy Plays
Edward Spence (paper presentation, 30 min)
Panel 3
Place: Studio 2
Moderator Denise Ziegler
Noir/Noise/Haunting/Queer: Risk and Vulnerability in Classical Music Performance Practice
Laura Wahlfors & Heidi Hart (lecture-performance, 45 min)
The Philosomer
Anthony Gritten (paper presentation, 30 min)
Panel 4
Place: Studio 1
Moderator Klaus Maunuksela
The shift from process to product changes in aesthetic appreciation required?
Renate Brauninger (30 min)
Receptivities
Tuomas Laitinen (receptive experiment, 30 min)
Panel 5
Place: Auditorium 1 & outdoors
Moderator Hanna Pajala-Assefa
Performing Philosophy by Listening: An Audio Documentary Encounter
Katarina Blomqvist (paper presentation with audio voices, 30 min)
Responding to the Shadows through Choreographic Writing
Leena Rouhiainen & Kirsi Heimonen (lecture and partly outdoors, 60 min)
Panel 6
Place: classroom 522, A-stairs, 5th floor
Moderator Tuija Kokkonen
Epistemic and ethical implications of performing economies
Georgios Papadopoulos (Lecture Performance/ Video Presentation 45 min)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Key Group 2
Place: Theatre Hall and Zoom live streaming
Speculative Epistemologies. Triangulating zones of entanglement between knowledge, embodied practice and belief
Alice Lagaay & Anke Haarmann & Tom Bieling & Torben Körschkes & Petja Ivanova & Barbro Scholz & Frieder Bohaumilitzky
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Panels 7 – 11
Panel 7
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 403
Moderator Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
If the body does not exist who/what is the performer and how do I develop the avatar of my persona?
Abhay Ghiara (lecture-performance, 60 min)
Panel 8
Place: Studio 1
Moderator Esa Kirkkopelto
Perspectivist Performance A Gesture of Backward Gaze
Minerva Juolahti & Fjolla Hoxha & Tea Andreolotti (60 min)
Panel 9
Place: Auditorium
Moderator James McDonald
I Really Don´t Care, Do You? The Philosophical Problems of Producing or Performing Empathy in Contemporary Performance
Tom Drayton & Andrew Corsa & Thalia R. Goldstein & Pavlos Christodoulou (60 min)
Panel 10
Place: Auditorium 2 & outdoors
Moderator Tero Heikkinen
KOSMOSOMSOK – The Universe in Four Acts
Simo Kellokumpu & Tuukka Perhoniemi
in collaboration with Thomas Wesphal and Outi Condit (talk and participatory walk outdoors, 60 min)
Panel 11 CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Moderator Qjong Zhang
The Practice of Inhabitation
Karolina Kucia (workshop, 60 min)
17:00-17:30 Pause
17:30-19:00 Key Group 3
Place: Theatre Hall and Zoom live streaming
Performativity of Death in post-Soviet art
Darja Filippova & Pavel Mitenko & Anastasiia Spirenkova & Antonina Stebur & Vera Zamyslova
Conference dinner 19:00
At Tori / Foyer
Friday 17 June 2022
8:00-18:00 Registration and the INFO desk Theatre Academy
9:30-11:00 Key Group 4
Place: Theatre Hall and Zoom live streaming
The Shuddering Wonder of the Earth, Breathing: Conjuring Cultural Metamorphosis in an Era of Ecological Breakdown
Martin Lee Mueller & Heli Aaltonen & David Abram
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Panels 12-16
Panel 12
Panel 12 a)
Place: Classroom 522
Moderator Kirsi Heimonen
Performing difference in/through dance; meanings, insights, and propositions
Eeva Anttila & Rose Martin & Charlotte Nielsen (45 min)
Panel 12 b) at 12.30-13.00
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 403
Moderator Lauren O`Neal
Dance as Cosmovision
Marcelo Garzo Montalvo (30 min)
Panel 13
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 404
Moderator Hanna Pajala-Assefa
Embodied Partialities: Body in Algorithms Frontal presentation
Ofri Cnaani (30 min)
The Minutes of Hildegard of Bingen Society for Gardening Companions
Sophie Seita & Naomi Woo (30 min)
Being-Without. Gathering in Synchronous Isolation
Bernhardt Siebert & Leon Gabriel & Julia Schade & Joanna Tischkau & Marten Weise & Marcel Zaes Sagesser (panel, 30 min)
Panel 14
Place: Studio 2
Moderator Maiju Loukola
Dialogue, not dialectics – the infinite (but conditioned) set of asymptotical performative solutions to a philosophical problem
Pablo Alvez Artinprocess (60 min)
How to gather and sympoi:ese
Eliane Beaufils (individual talk, 30 min)
Panel 15 CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Moderator Riku Roihankorpi
“This time the end is going to burn up the means” (Artaud to Breton 23.8.1937)
Mischa Twitchin (paper presentation, 30 min)
Panel 16
Place: Studio 1
Moderator James McDonald
The Philosophic Performative: Rethinking Metaphysics through a Palimpsestic Principle
Rico Gutschmidt & Irida Altman (presentation in two voices, 60 min)
By the time you read this it is too late: The problem of the online lecture
Theron Schmidt (lecture-performance, 30 min)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Key Group 5
Place: Theatre Hall and Zoom live streaming
Hacia Helsinki – Helsinki Bound
Claudia Ricca & Dami Bacchiddu & Maria Eugenia Cairo & Camilla Kevorkian & Belen Martinez & Florencia Mazzadi & Guiomar Penafort & Florencia Pumilla & Martina Prystupa
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Panels 17-22
Panel 17
Panel 17 a)
Place: Studio 1
Moderator Tero Heikkinen
The Work of Sharing engaging Artistic Research
Bruce Barton & Annette Arlander & Johanna Housholder & Michelle Man (60 min)
17 b)
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in classroom 403
Moderator Tero Heikkinen
Basic Lesson in Problem-Solving and Orientation in Discourse. Experiences from the “Conversation Garden”
Eva-Maria Gauss (30 min)
Panel 18
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 404
Moderator Maiju Loukola
The concept of declassification as an emancipatory approach for musical performance
Bibiana Bragagnolo (lecture-performance, 30 min)
Poetics of Friction
Nadja Ben Khelifa & Etienne Allaix & Jörg Sternagel (30 min)
Following Non-human Collaboration: naming, producing, tracing
Jan-Tage Kühling & Renata Gaspar (30 min)
Panel 19
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Auditorium 1
Moderator Tuija Kokkonen
Beyond the species´ boundary: performers and activists in action
Laura Budriesi (speech, 30 min)
Problems of grounding ethics: performative rehearsal
Einav Katan-Schmidt & Aili Bresnahan & Ilya Vidrin (panel, 60 min)
Panel 20
Place: Studio 2
Moderator Alice Lagaay
Being ill as a challenge for performance philosophy
Marja-Liisa Honkasalo (30min)
How agency can be studied when doing the art of expressive objects?
Riku Laakkonen (workshop, 30 min)
Floating Bodies, Performing Signifiers
Esa Kirkkopelto (lecture demonstration, 30 min)
Panel 21
Place: Room 523 (5th floor)
Moderator Karolina Kucia
Friends of a friend
Maarit Rankanen & Katariina Numminen (lecture demonstration, 60 min)
Present Absent Reconsidered
Zohar Frank (paper presentation, 30 min)
Panel 22
Place: Room 522 (5th floor)
Moderator Riku Roihankorpi
Navigating post-truth´s groundless contestation: learning from community theatre
Catherine Koekoek & Liselot van de Geer & Jasmina Ibrahimovic (performance, lecture-performance, 30 min)
Haunted Earth, Haunting Questions
Maya Tångeberg-Grischin & Anna Thüring (interview and showing pictures, 30 min)
Saturday 18 June 2022
10:00-14:30 Registration and the INFO desk Theatre Academy
10:30-12:00 The Future of Performance Philosophy 1: Problems. A Discussion Workshop
Place: Theatre Hall at the Theatre Academy and Zoom Livestreaming
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Key Group 6
Place: Theatre Hall at the Theatre Academy and Zoom Livestreaming
Unnamed Autofictions: Dissonant Co-labouring
Nik Wakefield, Daniela Perazzo and Diana Damian
14:45-16:30 The Future of Performance Philosophy 2: concluding discussions.
Place: Theatre Hall at the Theatre Academy and Zoom Livestreaming
The Future of Performance Philosophy 2: Collaboration. The discussion continues and the concluding remarks.
The programme is tentative and subject to change.
Wednesday 15 June 2022
10:00-18:00 Registration and the INFO-desk Theatre Academy
18:00-19:00 Opening Ceremony
Place: Tori Stage at the Theatre Academy and Zoom live streaming
Welcome words by Vice Rector Jaana Erkkilä-Hill and Vice Dean Leena Rouhiainen
Opening words by the Conference Chair Esa Kirkkopelto, and the presentation of the Conference Committee
Greetings of the Performance Philosophy Association: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
A word of information, Conference Team
Toast!
Music and fanfares during the Opening Ceremony
Brass Quartet from the Sibelius Academy
French horns: Otto Kenetti, Lauri Purhonen, Venla Ulmala
Trombone: Joni Taskinen
Thursday 16 June 2022
8:30-16:00 Registration and the INFO-desk Theatre Academy
9:30-11:00 Key Group 1
Place: Theatre Hall and Zoom live streaming
Collaboration, conviviality, and care: the problem of including learning-disabled and neurodivergent artists in performance philosophy
Tony McCaffrey & Dave Calvert & Kate Maguire-Rosier & Janet Gibson
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Panels 1-6
Panel 1
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 403 (4th floor)
Moderator Stuart Grant
Documentation as Poetic-Witness
Autumn Ahn (60 min)
El cuento del tabaco/The story of tobacco
Ricardo Sarmiento & Chloe Chotrani (lecture-performance, 30 min)
Panel 2
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 404 (4th floor)
Moderator Karolina Kucia
Powerful bodies: from amerindian to decolonial feminine aesthetics
Monica Toledo Silva (speech and projecting pictures, 30 min)
Notation as the “Culture Technique”
Chieh-ting Hsieh (30 min)
Philosophy Plays
Edward Spence (paper presentation, 30 min)
Panel 3
Place: Studio 2
Moderator Denise Ziegler
Noir/Noise/Haunting/Queer: Risk and Vulnerability in Classical Music Performance Practice
Laura Wahlfors & Heidi Hart (lecture-performance, 45 min)
The Philosomer
Anthony Gritten (paper presentation, 30 min)
Panel 4
Place: Studio 1
Moderator Klaus Maunuksela
The shift from process to product changes in aesthetic appreciation required?
Renate Brauninger (30 min)
Receptivities
Tuomas Laitinen (receptive experiment, 30 min)
Panel 5
Place: Auditorium 1 & outdoors
Moderator Hanna Pajala-Assefa
Performing Philosophy by Listening: An Audio Documentary Encounter
Katarina Blomqvist (paper presentation with audio voices, 30 min)
Responding to the Shadows through Choreographic Writing
Leena Rouhiainen & Kirsi Heimonen (lecture and partly outdoors, 60 min)
Panel 6
Place: classroom 522, A-stairs, 5th floor
Moderator Tuija Kokkonen
Epistemic and ethical implications of performing economies
Georgios Papadopoulos (Lecture Performance/ Video Presentation 45 min)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Key Group 2
Place: Theatre Hall and Zoom live streaming
Speculative Epistemologies. Triangulating zones of entanglement between knowledge, embodied practice and belief
Alice Lagaay & Anke Haarmann & Tom Bieling & Torben Körschkes & Petja Ivanova & Barbro Scholz & Frieder Bohaumilitzky
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Panels 7 – 11
Panel 7
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 403
Moderator Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
If the body does not exist who/what is the performer and how do I develop the avatar of my persona?
Abhay Ghiara (lecture-performance, 60 min)
Panel 8
Place: Studio 1
Moderator Esa Kirkkopelto
Perspectivist Performance A Gesture of Backward Gaze
Minerva Juolahti & Fjolla Hoxha & Tea Andreolotti (60 min)
Panel 9
Place: Auditorium
Moderator James McDonald
I Really Don´t Care, Do You? The Philosophical Problems of Producing or Performing Empathy in Contemporary Performance
Tom Drayton & Andrew Corsa & Thalia R. Goldstein & Pavlos Christodoulou (60 min)
Panel 10
Place: Auditorium 2 & outdoors
Moderator Tero Heikkinen
KOSMOSOMSOK – The Universe in Four Acts
Simo Kellokumpu & Tuukka Perhoniemi
in collaboration with Thomas Wesphal and Outi Condit (talk and participatory walk outdoors, 60 min)
Panel 11 CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Moderator Qjong Zhang
The Practice of Inhabitation
Karolina Kucia (workshop, 60 min)
17:00-17:30 Pause
17:30-19:00 Key Group 3
Place: Theatre Hall and Zoom live streaming
Performativity of Death in post-Soviet art
Darja Filippova & Pavel Mitenko & Anastasiia Spirenkova & Antonina Stebur & Vera Zamyslova
Conference dinner 19:00
At Tori / Foyer
Friday 17 June 2022
8:00-18:00 Registration and the INFO desk Theatre Academy
9:30-11:00 Key Group 4
Place: Theatre Hall and Zoom live streaming
The Shuddering Wonder of the Earth, Breathing: Conjuring Cultural Metamorphosis in an Era of Ecological Breakdown
Martin Lee Mueller & Heli Aaltonen & David Abram
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Panels 12-16
Panel 12
Panel 12 a)
Place: Classroom 522
Moderator Kirsi Heimonen
Performing difference in/through dance; meanings, insights, and propositions
Eeva Anttila & Rose Martin & Charlotte Nielsen (45 min)
Panel 12 b) at 12.30-13.00
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 403
Moderator Lauren O`Neal
Dance as Cosmovision
Marcelo Garzo Montalvo (30 min)
Panel 13
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 404
Moderator Hanna Pajala-Assefa
Embodied Partialities: Body in Algorithms Frontal presentation
Ofri Cnaani (30 min)
The Minutes of Hildegard of Bingen Society for Gardening Companions
Sophie Seita & Naomi Woo (30 min)
Being-Without. Gathering in Synchronous Isolation
Bernhardt Siebert & Leon Gabriel & Julia Schade & Joanna Tischkau & Marten Weise & Marcel Zaes Sagesser (panel, 30 min)
Panel 14
Place: Studio 2
Moderator Maiju Loukola
Dialogue, not dialectics – the infinite (but conditioned) set of asymptotical performative solutions to a philosophical problem
Pablo Alvez Artinprocess (60 min)
How to gather and sympoi:ese
Eliane Beaufils (individual talk, 30 min)
Panel 15 CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Moderator Riku Roihankorpi
“This time the end is going to burn up the means” (Artaud to Breton 23.8.1937)
Mischa Twitchin (paper presentation, 30 min)
Panel 16
Place: Studio 1
Moderator James McDonald
The Philosophic Performative: Rethinking Metaphysics through a Palimpsestic Principle
Rico Gutschmidt & Irida Altman (presentation in two voices, 60 min)
By the time you read this it is too late: The problem of the online lecture
Theron Schmidt (lecture-performance, 30 min)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Key Group 5
Place: Theatre Hall and Zoom live streaming
Hacia Helsinki – Helsinki Bound
Claudia Ricca & Dami Bacchiddu & Maria Eugenia Cairo & Camilla Kevorkian & Belen Martinez & Florencia Mazzadi & Guiomar Penafort & Florencia Pumilla & Martina Prystupa
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Panels 17-22
Panel 17
Panel 17 a)
Place: Studio 1
Moderator Tero Heikkinen
The Work of Sharing engaging Artistic Research
Bruce Barton & Annette Arlander & Johanna Housholder & Michelle Man (60 min)
17 b)
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in classroom 403
Moderator Tero Heikkinen
Basic Lesson in Problem-Solving and Orientation in Discourse. Experiences from the “Conversation Garden”
Eva-Maria Gauss (30 min)
Panel 18
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Classroom 404
Moderator Maiju Loukola
The concept of declassification as an emancipatory approach for musical performance
Bibiana Bragagnolo (lecture-performance, 30 min)
Poetics of Friction
Nadja Ben Khelifa & Etienne Allaix & Jörg Sternagel (30 min)
Following Non-human Collaboration: naming, producing, tracing
Jan-Tage Kühling & Renata Gaspar (30 min)
Panel 19
Place: Online in Zoom, also viewable in Auditorium 1
Moderator Tuija Kokkonen
Beyond the species´ boundary: performers and activists in action
Laura Budriesi (speech, 30 min)
Problems of grounding ethics: performative rehearsal
Einav Katan-Schmidt & Aili Bresnahan & Ilya Vidrin (panel, 60 min)
Panel 20
Place: Studio 2
Moderator Alice Lagaay
Being ill as a challenge for performance philosophy
Marja-Liisa Honkasalo (30min)
How agency can be studied when doing the art of expressive objects?
Riku Laakkonen (workshop, 30 min)
Floating Bodies, Performing Signifiers
Esa Kirkkopelto (lecture demonstration, 30 min)
Panel 21
Place: Room 523 (5th floor)
Moderator Karolina Kucia
Friends of a friend
Maarit Rankanen & Katariina Numminen (lecture demonstration, 60 min)
Present Absent Reconsidered
Zohar Frank (paper presentation, 30 min)
Panel 22
Place: Room 522 (5th floor)
Moderator Riku Roihankorpi
Navigating post-truth´s groundless contestation: learning from community theatre
Catherine Koekoek & Liselot van de Geer & Jasmina Ibrahimovic (performance, lecture-performance, 30 min)
Haunted Earth, Haunting Questions
Maya Tångeberg-Grischin & Anna Thüring (interview and showing pictures, 30 min)
Saturday 18 June 2022
10:00-14:30 Registration and the INFO desk Theatre Academy
10:30-12:00 The Future of Performance Philosophy 1: Problems. A Discussion Workshop
Place: Theatre Hall at the Theatre Academy and Zoom Livestreaming
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Key Group 6
Place: Theatre Hall at the Theatre Academy and Zoom Livestreaming
Unnamed Autofictions: Dissonant Co-labouring
Nik Wakefield, Daniela Perazzo and Diana Damian
14:45-16:30 The Future of Performance Philosophy 2: concluding discussions.
Place: Theatre Hall at the Theatre Academy and Zoom Livestreaming
The Future of Performance Philosophy 2: Collaboration. The discussion continues and the concluding remarks.