{"id":5407,"date":"2018-03-26T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T08:03:21","slug":"hypatia-vourloumis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/hypatia-vourloumis\/","title":{"rendered":"“Performancescapes: Fugitive Athens and the Arts of the Possible”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Research Proposal<\/span>Conference<\/span>Research Results<\/span>Short Bio<\/span>Publications<\/span><\/div>
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Summary of the Research Proposal<\/h4>\n

My research proposal \u2018Performanscapes: Fugitive Athens and the Arts of the Possible\u2019 analyzes the emergence, prevalence and proliferation of experimental performance practices during the last few years in Athens, Greece. There has been an undeniably phenomenal rise in the diversity of performance appearing from within and against the backdrop of an ongoing economic and social crisis whether in dance, experimental theatre, queer poetry readings, migrant contact improvisation groups, amongst many others, occupying both public and private spheres. These performative mobilizations, emerging from a country not usually understood as an important site for avant-garde artistic production, act as counterpoints to the larger social movements of the last few years. My research proposal focuses on these critical performance practices as they gesture from within spaces, including but not limited to, the streets, apartments, the occupation of Empros theatre in 2011 as well as the recent artistic occupation of the Green Park caf\u00e9 in the Pedion tou Areos park. My research project argues that these manifestations can be understood as forms of \u2018performancescapes.\u2019 By way of this neologism I want to point to several things at the same time. First the creation and imagining of other times and landscapes produced through collectively run spaces, efforts and performances as well as the ways in which processes and experiences of precarity necessarily unleash new bodily positions, relationalities, languages, sounds, gestures and postures. By critically analyzing and theorizing different performance practices my research addresses how subjectivities imaginatively embody moves and resistances in response to a lack of infrastructural and economic support. More precisely, the performances studied reveal the innovativeness and critique launched by marginalized groups, whether due to class, gender, sexuality and race through their artistic practices. Thus, my notion of performancescapes, which grapples with notions and materialities of constitutive borders, transgressions, dissonances and conflicts, is about a certain fugitivity, an escape prior to or in response to processes of subjection. Furthermore, the experimental and improvisatory practices studied reveal how the performancesacapes they ephemerally produce are not merely about a fight or a simplistic exit but rather express transformative breachings of repressive structures and orders and thus are always already intersectional and political. The writing of the word \u2018performancescapes\u2019 itself attempts to perform a linguistic breaching of sorts and suggests that radical differential performance practices are always a matter of theatrical, poetic and aesthetic being. For, if as Otto Bismarck once remarked, politics is the art of the possible, this research proposal argues for the importance, during these critical and challenging times, of paying attention to actual artistic and performances practices taking place across the city that singularly and collectively articulate and imagine other possible ways of being in the world.<\/p>\n

This research project was\u00a0funded by the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH), with the support of the\u00a0John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation.
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Symposium<\/h4>\n

“(non)performance as method”<\/h4>\n

October 29, 2016
\nGreen Park, Mavromateon 22, Pedio tou Areos<\/p>\n

Organizer: Hypatia Vourloumis, Research Fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH).<\/p>\n

This symposium is part of Hypatia Vourloumis\u2019 postdoctoral research with The Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) for the year 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This one day conference will engage with the theme of \u201c(non)performance as method\u201d in order to explore the ways in which artistic and cultural practices, by way of their myriad articulations and forms offer methods and blueprints for compositions of social life. More specifically, the conference will study performance practices that work against and through sets of constraints (economic, physical, social, material etc), and is particularly interested in engaging with the entanglement of historical, contemporary (and potential) artistic, cultural processes and modes of political being and (un)becoming. Thus, in addition to an in-depth engagement with examples of certain strategies, actions and enactments, while always emphasizing practice as method and theory made material, we will also be grappling with formations of refusal and escape, which is to say, we will be thinking about the questions raised by those performances that refuse to perform in a certain way, that refuse certain calls to perform. Therefore the question of (non)performance as practice also becomes one of collaborating, improvising and living otherwise.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Program<\/h4>\n

11:00<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Welcome and Introduction by the organizer Hypatia Vourloumis<\/a><\/p>\n

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11.30<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Panel 1: Theory\/Praxis<\/span><\/p>\n

Evgenia Mylonaki<\/strong> (PhD Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh) \u201cDehumanizing Humanities\u201d<\/p>\n

Stefanos Pavlakis<\/strong> (artist, PhD, University of Dundee) \u201cExcursions to the Other Side: Field notes on the poetics of artistic research\u201d<\/p>\n

Eirini Avramopoulou<\/strong> (PhD, Anthropology, University of Cambridge) \u201cRefusing to perform the subject of crisis? Reflections on the performativity of everyday life and epistemic violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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12.45<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Round Table \u2013 Collective performance as method<\/span><\/p>\n

AMOQA – Maria Dolores<\/strong> (artist)\/Adrianni Simati (PhD candidate, Social Anthropology, Aegean University)<\/p>\n

Learning from Documenta. Elpida Rikou<\/strong> (co-founder TwixtLab, anthropologist\/artist)<\/p>\n

DIY Performance Biennale: No Future. Gigi Argyropoulou<\/strong> (PhD, Performance Studies, Roehampton University)<\/p>\n

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2.00<\/span>\u00a0 Lunch Break<\/span><\/p>\n

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3.30<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Talk \u2013 \u201cNon-Performing Debt: Speculation and Negation in Aesthetics in and of the Present\u201d Marina Vishmidt<\/strong> (Lecturer, Goldsmith University, London)<\/p>\n

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4.45<\/span>\u00a0 Coffee Break<\/p>\n

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5.15<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong> Panel 3 \u2013 (Non)performance and lecture method<\/p>\n

Panagiotis Panagiatokopoulos<\/strong> (artist, DAI, NL) \u201cIs it too Late to Speculate?\u201d<\/p>\n

Despina Sevasti<\/strong> (artist, DAI, NL) \u201cLearning from Her\u201d<\/p>\n

Astarti Athanasiadou<\/strong> (artist, DAI, NL) \u201cPerformance as Subject and Refusal as Right\/My Paradise\u201d<\/p>\n

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7.00<\/span>\u00a0 Screening of Wu Tsang\u2019s\u00a0 film work with Q & A.<\/p>\n

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8.15<\/span>\u00a0 Closing – (Non)performances<\/p>\n

Yorgia Karydi<\/strong> (sound artist) \u2013 \u201cplayoffs\u201d<\/p>\n

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9.00<\/span>\u00a0 Kostas Tsioukas<\/strong> (dancer) \u2013 \u201cImagine Peace\u201d<\/p>\n

9.45\u00a0<\/span> boychild<\/strong> (performance artist)<\/p>\n

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Hypatia Vourloumis<\/strong> received her Ph.D in performance studies at New York University. She was postdoctoral fellow at the Interweaving Performance Cultures research centre at Freie University, Berlin (2012-14) and lecturer at the International Centre for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies in Greece. She teaches critical theory at the Dutch Art Institute. Publications include essays in Theatre Journal, Performance Research<\/em>,<\/em> and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory<\/em> among others. <\/em>She is co- editor of the special issue \u2018On Institutions\u2019 for Performance Research Journal<\/em> and is completing a monograph on the politics and performance of Indonesian postcolonial paralanguage. Her teaching and research interests include anticolonial studies, performance theory, contemporary Greek and SE Asian cultural production, philosophies of language, music and poetics, and race, gender, queer theory.<\/p>\n

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Relevant Articles<\/h4>\n
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  • \u201cRepeating Brokenness: Repair as Non-Reproductive Occupation, Improvisation and Speculation.\u201d (with Gigi Argyropoulou). Special Issue: \u201cRepair Matters\u201d\u00a0Ephemera: journal of organization studies
    \n<\/em>May 2019<\/li>\n
  • \u201cProcessing Mary Zygouri: The performance of performance.\u201d\u00a0Venus of the Rags 2014 Eleusis: Mary\u00a0<\/em>Zygouri.
    \nFondazione Pistoletto, 2017<\/li>\n
  • \u201cOther Things can Happen\/Space is the Place.\u201d\u00a0DESTE Prize: An Anniversary Exhibition 1999 \u2013 2015
    \n<\/em>DESTE Foundation, 2017<\/li>\n
  • \u201cCome and see what we do: Contemporary Migrant Performances in Athens, Greece.\u201d\u00a0Theatre Journal
    \n<\/em>May 2014<\/li>\n
  • \u201cMinima Melancholia: Performances of Affective Refusals and Rem(a)inders\u201d\u00a0Live Arts Research Journal
    \n<\/em>September 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Edited Journals<\/h4>\n
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    • Special Issue: \u201cOn Institutions.\u201d (with Gigi Argyropoulou),\u00a0Performance Research Journal.
      \n<\/em>August 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultures-and-cultural-production-en","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7523,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions\/7523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}