Upcoming PPRG meeting 1-2pm Wed 26 January 2022 Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting Dear PPRGers, associates and potential new members Our speaker on 26th January will be Doctoral Researcher Rachel Gadsden Hayton:Sensation and Activism – perceptions from politicised artistic practice, UK, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong,…
Upcoming PPRG meeting Wed 16 June 1pm Microsoft Teams meeting – join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting For our next meeting, Richard suggested a short extract (2 pages) from Jacques Rancière’s Dis-Agreement to read in advance of the meeting (here is the link: Extract_Disagreement-Politics-and-Philosophy.pdf, also attached). Discussing this text…
Microsoft Teams meeting (Join on your computer or mobile app) Click here to join the meeting Dear PPRGers, associates and potential new members,At our last meeting, we agreed that we would use the next PPRG seminar as a reading group session. Antoinette suggested the following article to read in advance of the meeting (please see pdf…
Next PPRG seminar will be a reading group session. We suggest reading in advance the following article by Hito Steyerl available here :https://www.e-flux.com/journal/21/67696/politics-of-art-contemporary-art-and-the-transition-to-post-democracy/Discussing this article will pave the way for a wider discussion on politicised practices. All are welcome!Microsoft Teams meeting:Click here to join the meeting
With a nod to our Re-imagining Citizenship project, we planned to re-instigate communal Citizen lunches on campus before the world changed shape…so we are having Communal Citizen lunches online instead. Bring food/drink for eating and thinking. Next one Friday 8th May 12.30 – Chiara Dellerba ponders dealing with boredom under ‘lockdown’, she suggests The Upside…
This seminar series is a platform for our members to (formally or informally) present their work and their practice then frames a wider discussion about re-imagining citizenship (www.re-imagining.org): Wednesday 24th March at 1pm-2pm At our last meeting, we agreed that we would use the next PPRG seminar as a reading group session. We suggest the following Hito…
Join us at 2pm on Wednesday 12th February 2020 at a Re-imagining Citizenship collective group reading event in room 63.1.08 of the Edward Barnsley Building at Loughborough University – all welcome! Bring drinks and snacks! As a response to the handbook, Tom Nys and Sophia Kier-Byfield set up two reading group sessions at the Palazzo…
In response to the Re-imagining Citizenship Activity Book (see details below), which is currently part of a display at the exhibition “Personal Structures – Identities” at Palazzo Mora in Venice, we will organise two reading group sessions. The meetings will create space for a public discussion of issues relating to family, family-related values, and sexual and reproductive…
No More…Wednesday 13 November Loughborough University On Wednesday 13 November, we made a white-poppy ‘No More’ wreath, walked in procession across to the Hazlerigg Fountain and respectfully performed a series of collective actions in various locations on campus. Our T-shirts were designed and printed by Zoe Petersen (with thanks to Michael Collins and the Lambeth…
From 11 May to 24 November 2019, the Re-imagining Citizenship project will be exhibited at Palazzo Mora at the European Cultural Centre as part of the Venice Biennale. Contributors to the Re-imagining Citizenship Activity Book will run a series of related workshops throughout the exhibition period. Come and join us there! Re-imagine, participate, respond! Help us develop and…
Following collaborative activities last year, join us in a series of events in March on campus and various venues to come (including Venice Biennale from May 2019) starting with the opening of the Re-Re-imagining Citizenship exhibition including Should I Stay or Should I Go? a seriously playful opportunity to test your citizenship knowledge…plus much much more…..Wednesday 13thMarch Martin…
Join us for Citizen Lunch (critical and non-citizens welcome) every Tuesday 1pm-2pm through October in Martin Hall Exhibition Space Loughborough University – bring your own lunch! Last chance! Final Citizen Lunch (and non-citizens of course!) Tuesdays 1pm in gallery continue! Come together and talk! Final lunch – bring a European dish/food/nibbles on Tuesday 30th October at 1pm…
Politicized Practice/Anarchist/Theatre and Performance Research Group What does Citizenship mean in the 21st century? Protest, papers, politics Dr Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy University of Roehampton, London 1pm Wednesday 25 April Martin Hall MHL117a/b This talk will example the technical and activist definitions of citizenship in relation to the possibility of protest, belonging…
Engineering the imagination, creating spaces of appearance: political performativity and Welfare State International Dr. Gillian Whiteley (School of Arts, English & Drama) 12 noon Wednesday 25 October Loughborough University Edward Barnsley 63.1.07 Emerging from the radical politics of 1968, Welfare State International, a nomadic collective of individual artists, musicians, performers and engineers, pioneered the idea of temporary…
Dr. Fred Dalmasso (School of the Arts, English and Drama, Loughborough University) 2pm WEDNESDAY 15th FEBRUARY in Martin Hall Boardroom MHL 1.09 Dr Fred Dalmasso is Lecturer in Drama in the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University (UK). He has published on practice-based theatre-translation and on the interaction between performance, philosophy and…
PPRG & ARG 