This project translates theories in The Force of Nonviolence by Judith Butler within multilingual and nonverbal contexts. This format of collective artistic practice-as-research resignifies Butler’s theory through the lens of performativity and conflict resolution. Attendees are invited to participate in the process and contribute to the research.

Zoya Sardashti is a performer and socially engaged artist. They use performative interventions to generate forms of assembly and alliance within the context of cultural exchange. https://homesoil.org

What aspect of your research is most connected to this political/cultural moment?

The framing of Black Lives Matter protests as violent by the media and opposition groups in the U.S. motivated our research group to create new approaches to forming assembly. By engaging people through collective artistic practice-as-research processes, we are rediscovering multiple ways to translate theories of nonviolence and activate them in daily life.

3 hour workshop.

Please note, limited seats. Your registration to this workshop is bounding. A unique link will be sent to you right before it takes place.

Welcome to an open Seminar around the profile area of Concept and Composition. We invite all presenters of the past two days into conversations with each other and participants. Feel free to come and go as you please between the profile areas and the 5th room in this final Seminar of the conference.

We will present our research, and how it intertwines practice, theory and reflection, together with Jennifer Torrence, in a workshop that touches on the core of the research – forgetfulness and improvisation.

Jennifer Torrence is a musician and artistic researcher from Oslo National Academy of Music and part of the reference group of the project.
For research group bio please visit https://lethe.nu

What is most urgent to you in your research right now?  

In our research we attempt to find a way to practice forgetfulness in music, by way of actually playing, individually as well as together in an ensemble. At the moment the most urgent question is to find several methods based on different definitions of forgetfulness.

3 hour workshop.

Please note, limited seats. Your registration to this workshop is bounding. A unique link will be sent to you right before it takes place.