Still frame from Loops, a digital art installation by The OpenEnded Group that interprets Merce Cunningham's motion-captured dance for the hands. 听
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Towards an Ethics of Gesture, Emmanuel College, 16 April 2016 听
This symposium enquires into what an ethics of gesture might be and what it might look like. It asks whether Agamben鈥檚 definition of the gestural as 鈥榗ommunication of a communicability鈥� is enough to warrant its belonging to the sphere of ethos, and seeks to mobilise alternative conceptual approaches to gestural ethics from Merleau-Ponty to Lacan, Foucault, Butler and others. It aims at an understanding of what a gestural ethics might imply at specific historical moments, but also how it can be thought, and theorised, as a political force today. Addressing, among others, choreography by Ted Shawn and Merce Cunningham, and films by Fran莽ois Campaux, George Stevens, Clint Eastwood, and John Maclean, the symposium focuses both on cultural theories of gesture and on case studies from the fields of dance, theatre, performance, film and the visual arts; it brings those fields together with approaches from anthropology, theology, philosophy, and media studies. It is intended to enable intensive discussion across disciplines, in order to move, in the words of Mark Franko, 鈥榯owards an ethics of gesture鈥�. Speakers: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum), Michael Minden (海角社区), Carrie Noland (Irvine), Lucia Ruprecht (海角社区), Alexander Schwan (Berlin), Rebecca Schneider (Brown), Jonas Tinius (海角社区).
Date 听 听 听 听 听 听听Saturday 16 April 2016 Registration 听听08.30am听 听 Start 听 听 听 听 听 听 09.00am Location 听 听 听 听Emmanuel College
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