Technique and Identity: in Apprenticeship to Black Studies
The UC Davis Graduate Group in Performance Studies presents “Technique and Identity: In Apprenticeship to Black Studies,” a two-part engagement with Ben Spatz, reader in drama, theatre, and performance at the University of Huddersfield (UK). The sessions are scheduled for Nov. 10 and 17 8-9:30 a.m. Both events are virtual.
For Nov. 10 Professor Lynette Hunter is interlocutor, and on Nov. 17 Professor Joe Dumit is interlocutor.
Ben Spatz, a nonbinary researcher and theorist of embodied practice, is the author of What a Body Can Do (Routledge 2015), Blue Sky Body (Routledge 2020), and Making a Laboratory (Punctum 2020). Spatz is founding editor of the videographic Journal of Embodied Researcher and a leader in the development of audiovisual embodied research methods. Their work has been presented at more than 30 institutions in 16 countries. For more about Spatz visit Urban Research Theater.
