Hallucinatory Theatres Goldsmiths Art Research Symposium 12 – 14 May, 2014
Free and welcome to all. The next symposium for Goldsmiths Art Research will address questions and discourses relative to hallucination, illusion and their theatrical embodiments, in sites of art production and otherwise. This will be an opportunity to discuss the critical urgency of detangling the stigmatic tropes of hallucination / illusion, and qualifying their heterotopic, extra-aesthetic possibilities. As neurological research continues to inform the speculative hyperbole of accelerated technology and capitalism, assessing what defensive tactics exist against these affective mechanizations is crucial. The employment of the theatrical in this examination serves to both deflate the 'reality' status of hallucinatory or narrativised control mechanisms (pathology, retail entrancement, 'soft' torture, etc), as well as to invoke the revolutionary tool-box of theatre itself in discussing alternative positions. How might the fluid hyper-subjective characteristics of hallucination ooze into binding co-ordinations of the social? What role do embodiments of trance and ecstasy have to play within the aims of emancipatory projects? Further to this, how might empirical models of supra-sensorial states inform transformative tactics, counter to those implemented by (para)military, retail and entertainment agencies? Relevant to these and other questions, presentations, screenings and performances will consider various cultures and practices sympathetic to hallucination and other idiosyncratic states of perception, including ceremonial magic, psychedelic culture, liminal performance and discourses exploring synaesthesia and extra-sensory perception. Schedule: --------------------- DAY 1 Studio 5, Barriedale Building B 10.30 am Introduction - Joey Ryken 11.00 - 12.00 Mark Harris on Walter Benjamin and psychedelic consciousness 12.00 - 13.00 David Luke – Fragments of an anarchist psychology 13.00 - 14.00 Break 14.00 - 15.00 Daria Martin screening Sensorium Tests (2012), and discussing synaesthesia and establishing empathy with the arts. 15.00– 15.45 Andrea Phillips on Stengers and Federici; capitalism, feminism and witchcraft. 15.45 - 16.30 Sharlene Khan on the masquerade of blackface in contemporary South African visual arts. 16.30 – 17.30 John Cussans on Black Power and Voodoo Politics. ---------------------- DAY 2 Studio 5, Barriedale Building B 10.30 - 11.00 am Introduction 11.00 - 12.00 pm Bonnie Camplin on meta-theatrical art practice 12.00 - 13.00 pm Achim Lengerer - Layout for Hallucinatory Theatres Symposium (Working Title) 13.00 - 14.00 pm Break 14.00 - 14.30 pm Francisco Sousa Lobo on representing hallucination in graphic novels 14.30 - 15.00 pm Vanessa Desclaux (TBC) 15.00 - 16.00 pm Joey Ryken on hallucination as a tactical mode of knowledge production + Demonstration: Hallucinatron 5000 16.00 - 17.00 pm Ryan Jordan on shaman-wood and performing audio-visual catharsis --------------------- DAY 3 At Parasol Unit 11.00 - 12.30 Shezad Dawood speaks about his exhibition Towards the Possible Film, at Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Rd N1 7RW 14.00 - 16.00 Screening TBC
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