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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dr. Vlad Morariu and Jaakko Karhunen 11am Wednesday 25 January in Radar Artspace A hero of the British counter-culture and protagonist of an unorthodox approach to psychiatry and of a practice that intersected art and politics, R.D. Laing’s legacy deserves revaluation. It has the potential to provide tools for working through the contemporary connections between…
