Åpen forelesning: “Performative Turns in Socially-Engaged Art”
fredag 15. april 2011 kl. 10:15 på Arkitektur og -designhøgskolen i Oslo
Velkommen til forelesning med professor Shannon Jackson (University of California, Berkeley):
“Performative Turns in Socially-Engaged Art”
Fredag 15. april, kl. 10.15-12.00, i Store auditorium, Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo (AHO), Maridalsveien 39. Kart.
Arrangør: Forskningsprosjektet YOUrban: Social Media and Performativity in Urban Environments
About the lecture: Contemporary art is coming off the walls and pedestals of the museum, creating embodied, time-based and group experiences. Contemporary theatre is venturing off the proscenium stage, creating installations and site-specific experiences for receivers. How are visual art forms and performing art forms redefining each other? Why does a “social turn” in art often coincide with interdisciplinary experiment? Considering a variety of case studies and using the lens of performativity, Shannon Jackson explores the social turn in contemporary art.
Shannon Jackson is Chancellor’s Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where she is also the Director of the Arts Research Center. Her research focuses on the relation between performance and social reform (eg. Lines of Activity, 2000), between performance and allied disciplines (Professing Performance, 2004), and between performance and visual art forms (Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics, 2011). She is currently completing a new book on the intermedia theatre company, The Builders Association with M.I.T. Press. Jackson has received prizes and grants from the American Studies Association, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the National Communication Association, the LEF Foundation, the Walter and Elise Haas Foundation, the Creative Work Fund, the San Francisco Foundation, and was recently an Erasmus Mundus fellow in Le Spectacle Vivant.