Unsettling Approaches to Performance Studes
The Unsettling Approaches to Performance Studies (Reading Group) was torn out of concerns about departmental courses in relation to racialized modes of knowledge production, the study group centralizes critical race approaches to Performance Studies. Some topics include Afro-Pessimism, Black Optimism / Operations, Critical Whiteness Studies, Critical Indigeneity, Queer of Color Critique, Women of Color Feminism, Dance Studies, Post-Colonial Caribbean and / or Post-Colonial Black Atlantic, and Queer and Crip Studies.
2015/2016 PRESENTERS
Unsettling Resources
Practice is a site where inquiry and technique, ontics and epistemics, experimentation and formalization, and creativity and repetition converge. This invites the critical cultivation of skills that can disturb, stir up, and set into motion the sedimented relations that make up what and how we know and do. How might practices be unsettled? What makes a practice unsettling?
Some topics include Afro-Pessimism, Black Optimism / Operations, Critical Whiteness Studies, Critical Indigeneity, Queer of Color Critique, Women of Color Feminism, Dance Studies, Post-Colonial Caribbean and / or Post-Colonial Black Atlantic, and Queer and Crip Studies.
Past Syllabi
Below you will find resources, including readings and audio recordings from visiting artists. Feel free to use these resources in your artistic, pedagogical, and intellectual practices!