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The conference schedule is wayyyy too long to post here. For the complete program visit the following link: NYU. Below is a very, very small and select "sampling" of some of the panels going on each day.


Thursday

9:30 a.m.

Opening Session:
Adrian Heathfield, President, Performance Studies International
José Esteban Munoz, Chair, Department of Performance Studies
Mary Schmidt Campbell, Dean, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, Kimmel Center, 4th Floor

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
“The Trauma of Everyday Queer ‘Happenings’: Race, Violence, and the Neoliberal City”
Panelists: Jeffrey Q. McCune, Sitting in The Toilet: American Violence, Race, and the Queer Present, University of Maryland
Frank Leon Roberts, Back to the Future: Toward the Reconfiguration of African American Studies and AIDS Cultural Critique, New York University
Marlon Bailey, Performance as Intravention: Ballroom Culture, HIV/AIDS, and an Urban Crisis, Indiana University, Bloomington
Chair: Michael Roberson/Executive Director, People of Color in Crisis (P.O.C.C.)
Room: Kimmel Center 907

3:15-4:45 p.m. Panel Sessions III
“The Status of the ‘Event’”—A Roundtable Discussion with Richard Schechner, New York University; Karen Shimakawa, New York University; Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University; Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University; Leo Spitzer, Columbia University.
Chair: Diana Taylor/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 905

FRIDAY:

1:30-3:00 p.m.
“Race and Nation as Event”
Panelists: Shane Vogel, Irrealizing the Queer Harlem Renaissance, Indiana University;
Joshua Chambers-Letson, Structure, Sign, and The America Play, New York University;
Hypatia Vourlomis, Nation, Language, Event: Indonesian Communicability, New York University.
Chair: HarveyYoung/Northwestern
Room: Kimmel Center 910

3:15-4:45 p.m.
"Queerly Serious”
Panelists: Gavin Butt, Just a Camp Laugh? David Hoyle's 'Magazine’, Goldsmiths, University of London;
Jon Cairns, Ost Property: A Hairdresser's Tale, Byam Shaw School of Art;
Jennifer Doyle, Hell is Other People': Ron Athey's 'Incorruptible Flesh’, University of California, Riverside;
Lynne Fanthome, An Infantile Task for Queer Infans: Ethical way or Fantasy of Infancy?, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Chair: Gavin Butt/Goldsmiths, University of London
Room: Kimmel Center 905


Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant, Cast No Shadow
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY

SATURDAY:

“Dialogue between Amelia Jones and Carolee Schneemann on ‘The Live Art Event in History’”
Panelists: Amelia Jones, University of Manchester, UK; Carolee Schneemann.
Chair: Amelia Jones/University of Manchester, UK
Room: Kimmel Center 908

9:00-10:30 a.m.
“Race and the Paraliterary Performance”
Panelists: André Carrington, Josh Brandon's Blues: Race, Gender, and the Writer in 1950s (Science Fiction) Fandom, Skidmore College;
Uri McMillan, Chattel Performance: Ellen Craft’s Performance of Liberation, Yale University.

“’What’s Happening, Now?’: Spinning Off Suburbia in Music and Performance—A Roundtable”
Panelists: Christine Balance, University of California, Riverside; Karen Tongson, University of Southern California; Alexandra Vazquez, Yale University.
Chair: Christine Balance/University of California, Riverside
Room: Kimmel Center 912

“Queer Futurity”
Panelists: Shannon Jackson, Queer Welfare, University of California, Berkeley;
José Munoz (New York University) & Judith Halberstam (USC): A Manifesto for Queer (Anti) Anti Utopia
Chair: Lisa Duggan/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 905

SUNDAY:
10:00-11:30 a.m.
“Forever Contemporary”
Led by World Performance Project at Yale (WPP), this panel will consider
Yvonne Rainer’s RoS Indexical, a re-vision of Stravinsky’s Rite of
Spring premiering in the concurrent PERFORMA Biennial, as a point of
departure to discuss performance events that revisit and revise history
to construct the new.

Panelists:
Emily Coates, Yale University
Joseph Roach, Yale University
Yvonne Rainer, UC Irvine
Room: Kimmel Center 905

1:30-3:00 p.m. Panel Sessions XII
“The Event of the Image”
Panelists: Ian Wiblin, The Event of Photography: reflections on photography as performance, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK;
Freddie Rokem, The Future of Images/Images of the Future, Tel Aviv University, Israel;
Camilla Jalving, Never Say Never Again: On re-enactment as artistic strategy within contemporary visual art, University of Copenhagen.
Chair: Nicholas Mirzoeff/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 906


“Lived and Live Experiments”
Panelists: Laura Harris, "(as flight plan (loosely)": The Block Experiments of Hélio Oiticica, New York University;
Jason Zuzga, Live Radio Broadcast as Poetic Medium: Francis Ponge’s “Le Savon”, University of Pennsylvania;
Ricardo Montez, Keeping Up with the Jonseses, New York University.
Chair: Jose Munoz/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 909

“Rethinking the Erotic”
Panelists: Jennifer Tyburczy, Perverting the Everyday or How My Spatula Brought Sexy Back, Northwestern University;
Monica Stufft, Dressing Room Dramas: The Everyday Life of Chorus Girls, University of California, Berkeley;
Lynn Sally, ‘It is the Ugly that is so Beautiful’: Performing the Monster/Beauty Continuum in Neo-Burlesque, Metropolitan College of New York;
Elizabeth Nelson, My body, the (theoretical) grenade: Post-modern burlesque,kinesthetic excess, and subversive body performance, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Chair: Bob Vorlicky/New York University
Room: Kimmel Center 910

“Discipline and Perform”
Panelists: Jon McKenzie, The Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee;
Tim Raphael, Doing Time Without Numbers: The Politics and Performance of Immigrant Detention, Rutgers University;
Patrick Anderson, Guantanamo Bay, State Sovereignty, and the Morbidity of Resistance, University of California, San Diego.
Chair: Rebecca Schneider/Brown University
Room: Kimmel Center 912



PERFORMA Packet Performance Times:

November 9th:
7:30pm - 11 pm
Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant at BAM
or Jerome Bel at Dance Theater Workshop

November 10th
7:30pm - 11 pm:
Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant at BAM
or Jerome Bel at Dance Theater Workshop

11 pm – 1 am
Wow and Now: A Celebration of Feminist and Queer Performance
Joe’s Pub
Buy tickets online through Theater Mania.

November 11th
Afternoon and Evening
18 Happenings in 6 Parts
Precise time and Location TBA

Participating writers, artists and activists will include,
but are not limited to:

Fred Moten Jerome Bel Isaac Julien RoseLee Goldberg Laurie Simmons Christian Marclay Diana Taylor Sadiya Hartman Hannah Higgins Karen Finley Midori Yoshimoto Carol Becker Laurie Beth Clark Karen Tongson Alan Read Rebecca Schneider Branislav Jakovljevic Hanifah Walidah Richard Schechner Jen Harvie Marianne Hirsch Gavin Butt Jennifer Doyle Karen Shimakawa

Philip Auslander André Lepecki Sudipto Chatterjee Lois Weaver Geraldine Harris Peta Tait Meiling Cheng Shannon Jackson Judith Halberstam Freddie Rokem José Esteban Muñoz Nao Bustamante Peggy Shaw Una Chaudhuri Miguel Fernandez Joe Kelleher Deborah Kapchan Xavier Le Roy Oliver Feltham David Román Jill Dolan Tim Etchells Amelia Jones Ann Pellegrini

Carolee Schneemann Michal Kobialka, Adrian Kear Tavia Nyong’o Marvin Carlson W.B. Worthen Judith Rodenbeck Sue Broadhurst Steve Dixon Dynasty Handbag Holly Hughes Andrew Quick Kalup Linzy Elin Diamond Ed Scheer My Barbarian Tracy Davis Nicholas Ridout Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Joseph Roach Yvonne Rainer Jon McKenzie Adrian Heathfield Jane Blocker Emily Coates

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