Program
8.30-9
Registration for COST Members only (main hall)
9-11
WG1 Meeting (r.158)
WG2 Meeting (r.242)
WG3 Meeting (r.200)
WG4 Meeting (r.144: Adam Mickiewicz Room)
11.15-12.15
MC Meeting (r.200)
12.15-13
Lunch (r.104: Kołłątaj Room)
13-15
WG1 Meeting (r.158)
WG2 Meeting (r.242)
WG3 Meeting (r.200)
WG4 Meeting (r.144: Adam Mickiewicz Room)
14.30-15
Registration for participants of the conference (non-COST Members) (main hall)
15.15-15.45
Opening of the conference
Prof. Andrzej Rychard, Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Dr. Iris van der Tuin, Chair of the COST Action IS1307 “New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’”
Dr. Monika Rogowska-Stangret, Chair of the conference (r.200)
16-17.30
Keynote Lecture – prof. Ewa Domańska “Slow Science and Emergent Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences”
Respondent: dr Waltraud Ernst
Chair: Monika Rogowska-Stangret (r.200)
17.45-19.45
Panel 1 New materialist ethnographies (r.158)
Panel 1 Body-environments, environment-bodies (r.242)
Panel 1 Situated Practices / Situated Movements (r.200)
Panel 1 Embodied Pedagogies and Organisational Practices (r.144)
Day 1 - 21. September, 2016
Day 2 - 22. September, 2016
9-10.30
Respondent: dr Nathalie Blanc
Chair: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi (r.200)
11-13
Panel 2 Re: Troubling Earthly Measurements: Sticking with Unfaithful Tools (r.144)
Panel 2 Diffractive readings: feminist epistemologies and philosophy of science I (r.164)
Panel 3 Entangled Bodies/ Embodied Selves (r.200)
Panel 4 Objects/ Close-ups/ Power (r.154)
11-12.30
13-14
Lunch (r.103: Staszica Room)
13-14
WORKSHOP LUNCH: The Process of Imaging/ The Imaging of Processes (r.144)
14.15-15.45
Keynote Lecture – prof. Arun Saldanha “Vulnerable knowing in the Anthropocene: new old materialism”
Respondent: dr Helen Palmer
Chair: Iris van der Tuin (r.200)
16-18
Panel 3 Diffractive readings: feminist epistemologies and philosophy of science II (r.164)
Panel 5 New Materialism Embracing Film Studies (r.200)
Panel 2 The posthuman coming to matter: new materialist ethico-politics (r.154)
16-20
WORKSHOP: Methodologies, Materials, Materialisations, Rebecca Coleman, Tara Page, Helen Palmer (r.242)
18.15–20.15
Panel 4 Close-Reading-Encounters (r.144)
Panel 3 Earthy objects as companions (r.164)
9-10.30
Respondent: prof. Maria Tamboukou
Chair: Bettina Papenburg (r.200)
11-14
11-13
Panel 4 Somatographies of academic labour: re-writing the body and vulnerability (r.164)
Panel 7 Artistic Research/ Material Practices (r.200)
Panel 5 Situating thinking, knowing, and memorizing (r. 242)
Panel 5 New pedagogical practices and educational intra-actions (r.154)
13-14
Lunch (r.103: Staszica Room)
14.15-15.45
Keynote Lecture – prof. Joanna Zylinska “The embodied I/eye: a nonhuman vision from somewhere”
Respondent: dr Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer
Chair: Dorota Golańska (r.200)
16-18
Panel 8 Beyond Fiction: Situated Knowledges in Mixed Genres (r.164)
Panel 6 The Infinite Fold: A Posthuman Practice-Research Hub (r.144)
Panel 8 Ethics-relationality-vulnerability-violence re-configurations (r.154)
16-19
WORKSHOP: Would I draw myself?
Time, Space and Vulnerability in Comics Herstories, Katarzyna Michalczak (r.242)
18.15-18.45
Performance 1
Hester Reeve, The Stoned Tongue (r.144)
Performance 2
Maciej Ożóg, Transient Body / Liminal Space. Interactive Audio-Visual Performance in Hybrid Space
(r.164)
Performance 3
Tero Nauha, A speculation on a body and posture in performance art practice
(r.200)
Performance 4
Confraternity of Neoflagellants: Norman Hogg, Neil Mulholland, Mobilitas Loci (Muller Ltd.)
Envisioning Future Premodern Materialisms (r.154)
19-20
Closing Roundtable
Chair: prof. Felicity Colman, dr. Iris van der Tuin (r.200)
Day 3 - 23. September, 2016
STREAM 3
New Materialisms Embracing the Creative Arts
Panel 1
Situated Practices / Situated Movements
Chair: Bettina Papenburg
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Victoria Hunter
Body, Bricks, Slate and Lime: Site-Dance and the Performance of (Un) Situated Knowledge
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Stanimir Panayotov
Against Disembodiment: Laruelle and Haraway
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Oren Lieberman
Diffracting performative sites through Haraway’s situatedness and Latour’s matters of concern
Panel 2
Situated Knowledges/ Aesthetics/ Precarity
Chair: Dorota Golańska
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Jessica Foley
Echo & Narcissus: re-conceptualising situated knowledges between art and engineering research
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Synne Tollerud Bull & Dragan Miletic
Processing Aerial Volumes: From Land Art to Earth Listening in the Age of the Anthropocene
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Natasha S. Mauthner
New materialist method/ologies for the social sciences
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Peta Hinton & Xin Liu
Situated Abandonment: The Paradoxical and Murderous Desire of Vulnerability
Panel 3
Entangled Bodies/ Embodied Selves
Chair: Agnieszka Kotwasińska
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Tereza Stockelova
Shared vulnerability: Bodily attachments in alternative medicine
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Lieke Hettinga
Vulnerable Aesthetics: Queering the Onto-epistemologies of Peripheral Embodiment
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Zuzana Štefková
On the Perishable: Maternal Art between Life and Death
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Taru Leppänen
Always More than Two: Entanglements between fetus and mother in childbirth singing
Panel 4
Objects/ Close-ups/ Power
Chair: Dorota Golańska
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Alex Pearl
Breakdown(s)
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Magdalena Hoły-Łuczaj
Vulnerability and Moral Patiency of Artifacts
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Ingrid Hoelzl
Posthuman vision
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Vappu Jalonen
This Is For You, This Is Not For You
Panel 5
New Materialism Embracing Film Studies
Chair: Felicity Colman
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Nathalie Blanc
What matters: art, form and environment
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Agnieszka Kotwasińska
Negotiating/Negating/Embracing: Vulnerability in Horror Film Studies
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Nevena Daković
Charting the New Materialism in Film Studies
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Meredith Birrell
Disorientation and Mutation: A Critical Posthumanist Reading of Hydra Decapita and The Radiant by The Otolith Group
Panel 6
Politics & Connectivities
Chair: Karin Murris
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Elisa Fiore
The Urban Sensorium as a Sensuous Archive: Gentrification, Multiculture and the Sedimented Historialities of Colonialism and Capitalism in Rome’s „Banglatown”
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Basia Nikiforova
European Borders as “Diffraction Pattern”
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Žilvinė Gaižutytė Filipavičienė
Embodied Memory of Historical Traumas: Practices and Deformations of Human Body
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Dieuwke Boersma (KOKO Lunar)
Mad for (a) Reason
Panel 7
Artistic Research/ Material Practices
Chair: Agnieszka Kotwasińska
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Rebecca Coleman
Methods and Materials for Engaging Futures: Collaging Girls’ Presents and Futures
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Alan Boardman
Matter Theory Fiction: A DeLandian Approach to Art Practice
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Ljiljana Rogač Mijatović
Envisioning Futures of Knowledge that Matters in the Study of Cultural Sustainability
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Juliet MacDonald
Situating the maze in an art practice
Panel 8
Beyond Fiction: Situated Knowledges in Mixed Genres
Chair: Anna Kurowicka
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Małgorzata Sugiera
Between Archive and Whodunit
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Mateusz Chaberski
Between Art and Lab
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Mateusz Borowski
Between Science and Fiction
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Dagmar Lorenz-Meyer, Natálie Drtinová, Jana Gabrielová, Lenka Weinbergerová
Facing infrastructure: snapshot photography as an apparatus of bodily production
STREAM 2
New Materialism and Natural and Human Sciences
Panel 1
Body-environments, environment-bodies
Chair: Pam Alldred
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Emma Garnett
Visualising ‘health’ through the modification of environment-body relations in scientific practice
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Fay Dennis
Habitual bodies: the injecting body-environment
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Nick J Fox, Pam Alldred
Situating sexualisation
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Sari Irni
Situating Medical Knowledges of Risk: A Trans/Feminist Assessment of Hormone Treatments
Panel 2
Diffractive readings: feminist epistemologies and philosophy of science I
Chair: Maria del Mar Alonso
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Marianna Szczygielska
Aporias of the Animal Turn and the Politics of Academic Hoaxers, Killjoys, and Watchdogs
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Aleksandra Derra
Scientific Knowledge, Responsibility and Philosophical Hunger. New Feminist Materialism in the Context of Science and Technology Studies
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Martina Erlemann
The controversy on nanomaterials – a re-unfolding of situated knowledges
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Nevena Ivanova
Intra-Species Molecular Vulnerability Reveals Micro-Scale Ontological Indeterminacy
Panel 3
Diffractive readings: feminist epistemologies and philosophy of science II
Chair: Stanimir Panayotov
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Ágnes Kovács
Social ideologies in thermodynamic theory: Philosophies of matter, space, and time
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Ana Mouraz
Scientific objects are changing due to hybrid ways of defining and producing them
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Waltraud Ernst
Re-positionings: New materialist cooperations
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Jelena Djuric
Knowledge and Power: Empowering by Consciousness
Panels
STREAM 1
Genealogies of New Materialisms
Panel 1
New materialist ethnographies
Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova
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Caer Smyth
Encountering New Forms of Knowledge: Describing the Strategies and Methods of New Materialist Ethnography
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Dorota Hall
The academic knowledge production through an engaged ethnographic research: reflections on fieldwork among LGBT Christians in Poland
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Shanee Barraclough
Mapping material-discursive ‘researcher-data-research’ entanglements with spoken word poems: reconfiguring the possibilities for researcher and counsellor-in-training bodies-in-the-making
Panel 2
Re: Troubling Earthly Measurements: Sticking with Unfaithful Tools
Chair: Nico Carpentier
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Wiktoria Furrer
Micropractice. Re-counting the Rice
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Rumen Rachev
The Question Concerning Haraway’s Trouble: Re-Earthling of the Earth
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Sam Skinner
The Curious and Inescapable Observatory
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Felicity Colman
“Privileging the hues of red, green, and ultraviolet”: Haraway’s Creative Code
Panel 3
Towards bodily-situated knowledges. Materiality and metaphor in cartography, mathematics and poetry
Chair: Julia Fiedorczuk/ Grzegorz Czemiel
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Vera Bühlmann
Sisyphus. His Prismatic Communication and his Dealings With What Is Puzzling
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Julia Fiedorczuk
Introduction
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Grzegorz Czemiel
Map-making as material world-building. Towards an ecological understanding of cartography in Speculative Realism
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Maciej Rosiński
Two approaches towards the body in mathematics
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Joanna Mąkowska
“Begin, we said, with the material, with matter.” New materialist encounters with the “second-wave” women’s poetry
Panel 4
Close-Reading-Encounters
Chair: Malou Juelskjær
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Iris van der Tuin
Canonization is Measurement? Reading Meeting the Universe Halfway through the Humanities
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Sionainn Byrnes
Embodied Eccentricity and Matters of Resistance: Magic(al) Realism as a Mode of Reading
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Petra Bakos
The situated knowledges of Anzaldúa’s borderlands
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Katarzyna Szopa
Narrating Feminist Theories: Reading (with) Luce Irigaray
Panel 5
Situating thinking, knowing, and memorizing
Chair: Iris van der Tuin
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Tara Page
The poetic and poietic of situated knowledges
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Marja Vehviläinen
Knowing naturecultures: gender, class, generations
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Maria Tamboukou
Situated Memories: neo-materialist insights in the gendered memory of work
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Nico Carpentier
Participatory theory and the discursive-material knot
STREAM 4
New Materialism, Politics, and Organizational Experiments
Panel 1
Embodied pedagogies and organisational practices
Chair: Beatriz Revelles Benavente
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Whitney Stark
Quantum Bodies, Material Organizing: How to Use New Materialisms to Support and Transform Organizing Practices
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Karin Murris
#Rhodes Must Fall: A Posthumanist Orientation to Decolonising Higher Education Institutions
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Tamara Shefer
Embodied pedagogies in teaching and learning in higher education
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Lindsay Grace Weber
The Reassembling of Things: Labor, Financialization, & the Reproduction of Feminist Materialisms
Panel 2
The posthuman coming to matter: new materialist ethico-politics
Chair: Beatriz Revelles Benavente
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Kathrin Thiele
“But who, we?” – Continuations on the Post/human Conundrum
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Brigitte Bargetz and Sandrine Sanos
"The Quantum is Queer”: Diffraction, Materialism and (Feminist) Critique
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Callum McGregor and Jeremy Knox
New materialism and social justice: a space for productive entanglement, or a political cul-de-sac?
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Maria Del Mar Alonso-Almeida
Exploring New Materialism Politics and Economics Materialization
Panel 3
Earthy objects as companions
Chair: Olga Cielemęcka
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Łucja Sonia Milch
Reclaiming Eve’s Power. Towards Materialistic Mysticism
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Fiona MacDonald
Feral Practice: from a wood to a world
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Mirko Nikolić
For a Posthuman Politics of Location
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Juhana Venäläinen
“Where the Internet lives” – Performing the material spaces of “immaterial” production
Panel 4
Somatographies of academic labour: re-writing the body and vulnerability
Chair: Olga Cielemęcka
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Malou Juelskjær & Monika Rogowska-Stangret
Becoming through speeds and slows – investigating living through temporal ontologies of the university
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Aislinn O’Donnell
Situated Thinking: Philosophy as Experimentation
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Sheena Culley
Comfort, Bodies and Immune Systems: Emancipation and Vulnerability
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Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir
Feeling vulnerable in the job interview
Panel 5
New pedagogical practices and educational intra-actions
Chair: Dorota Hall
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Pirjo Elovaara and Peter Giger
Temporary Islands and Liminal Spaces
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Virpi Timonen
Educational leadership becoming in the research process
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Vivienne Bozalek and Michalinos Zembylas
Diffractive Pedagogies in South African Higher Education: Pedagogical Encounters and the Production of New Collectivities
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Veronica Mitchell
A precarious diffractive entanglement of students' reflective commentaries in Obstetrics
Panel 6
The Infinite Fold: A Posthuman Practice-Research Hub
Chair: Helena Hunter
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Alice Colquhoun, Arendse Krabbe, Helena Hunter, Justyna Stępień, K.G. Guttman, Mara Johanna Koelmel, Margarida Mendes, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Milos Trakilovic, Mirko Nikolić
The Infinite Fold: A Posthuman Practice-Research Hub
Panel 7
Feminist new materialism ‘in the presence of others:’ Slow politics, intensities, and withness of time
Chair: Brigitte Bargetz
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Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman
Rocks: Archives of feeling and queer political imaginaries
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Maggie MacLure
Seeing slowly: ‘disconcertion’ as event and ethics in qualitative research
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Zofia Zaliwska
Becoming companion species: Re-membering a living history
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Elizabeth de Freitas (PRESENTING AUTHOR), Anna Palmer, Nina Arwidson
Mobility, Directionality and Threshold: The water-children of Stockholm
Panel 8
Ethics-relationality-vulnerability-violence re-configurations
Chair: Waltraud Ernst
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Karolina Kucia
On Selfhood – and resistance to self-formation as a minor strategy of inhabiting body
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Magdalena Górska
Corpo-Affective Politics of Vulnerability
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Marzena Adamiak
(Re)configuring violence. Karen Barad's metaphysics of entanglement and the issue of exclusion
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Annette Arlander
Performing (with) Lichen as Situated Practice
THE PERFORMANCE SLOT
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Hester Reeve
The Stoned Tongue
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Maciej Ożóg
Transient Body / Liminal Space. Interactive Audio-Visual Performance in Hybrid Space
-
Tero Nauha
A speculation on a body and posture in performance art practice
-
Confraternity of Neoflagellants: Norman Hogg, Neil Mulholland
Mobilitas Loci (Muller Ltd.): Envisionig Future Premodern Materialisms
WORKSHOPS
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Working Group 4. Chairs: Olga Cielemęcka, Whitney Stark
Reconfiguring Publishing: Help Us Imagine a Collective Writing, Reviewing, and Publishing Practice for an Academic Journal
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Katve-Kaisa Kontturi, Kim Donaldson
Feminist colour-in: Co-creating a vibrating archive
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Rebecca Coleman, Tara Page, Helen Palmer
Methodologies, Materials, Materialisations
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Sigrid Schmitz, Bettina Papenburg, Liv Hausken
The Process of Imaging/ The Imaging of Processes
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Katarzyna Michalczak
Would I draw myself? Time, Space, and Vulnerability in Comics Herstories