Book launches SNDO mentors Joy Mariama Smith (1/6) and Ana Vujanović (16/6)
As part of the celebrations of 50 years of SNDO, we are delighted to highlight the new and upcoming publications of two of our team members: mentor of the 3rd year Joy Mariama Smith, and mentor of the 4th year Ana Vujanovic. SNDO’s core team members are all working artists and theoreticians, and their own work stands in firm relationship to their teaching and mentoring practices at SNDO.
Pre- launch of Expanded Choreographies of Consent by Joy Mariama Smith
When: Sunday June 1st, 16:00 – 18:30
Venue: KABRA, Pieter Nieuwlandstraat 95, Amsterdam
Tickets: free, but limited seats. Reserve your seat by emailing SNDO50@ahk.nl
Conversational, practical, poetic, and generous, Expanded Choreographies of Consent (forthcoming from CIRCADIAN press) is a book that gathers and refines content from the zine Extended Choreographies of Consent along with new and previously published thinking by Joy Mariama Smith; elaborating practices of consent in rehearsal rooms, classrooms, and on stages in contemporary dance and performance milieux. In this book, Smith—a multidisciplinary collaborative artist and current 3rd year’s mentor at SNDO —invites artists, directors, choreographers, students, and instructors to examine the assumptions they make about their own and others’ identities, permissions, intimacies, and access in human situations of creation. Throughout, Smith articulates a vision that supports care, dignity, and respect among those developing body-based artworks. Smith deftly challenges outmoded norms that exploit or override our embodied sensuality, intelligence, and sensitivity in the service of art; guiding readers to new levels of sanity, radicality, and invention. Edited by Asimina Chremos, Expanded Choreographies of Consent includes conversations with Grant Watson, Denise Ferreira da Silva, lists of probing questions for individual reflection, and access to original exercises for guiding group explorations and awareness development.
About the venue
KABRA builds BIPOC-centered, queer-friendly, futures—where politics and care collide into a defiant, tender alternative. https://www.instagram.com/kabra.care
Access information
The event will be in English. The venue is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. For any access-related questions, please write to SNDO50@ahk.nl.
Image by Qiao Chu Cho for the cover of 'Expanded Choreographies of Consent'
Book presentation of Toward a Transindividual Self, by Ana Vujanović and Bojana Cvejić
With guests: Sruti Bala, Marija Cetinić and Antonella Fittipaldi
When: Monday 16 June, 17.00 - 19.30
Venue: If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, WG-Plein 881, Amsterdam
More information and tickets soon at ificantdance.org
Toward a Transindividual Self; A study in social dramaturgy examines the process of performing the self, distinctive for the formation of the self in western neoliberal societies in the 21st century. It approaches the self from a transdisciplinary angle where political and cultural anthropology, performance studies, and dramaturgy intersect.
Starting from the concern with the crisis of the social, which coincides with the rise of individualism, the authors critically untangle individualist modes of performing the self, such as possessive, aesthetic, and autopoietic individualisms. However, this critique does not (directly) argue for collectivism as a socially more viable alternative to individualism. Instead, it confronts us with the more fundamental problem of ontogenesis: how is that which distinguishes me as an individual formed in the first place? This question marks a turning point in our study, where it steps back into the individuation process before and in excess of the individual.
The individuation process, however, encompasses biological, social, and technological conditions of becoming whose real potential is transindividual, or more specifically, social transformation. A ‘theater of individuation’ (Gilbert Simondon) captures the dramaturgical stroke by which we investigate social relations (like solidarity and de-alienation) in which the self actualizes its transindividual dimension. This epistemic intervention into ontogenesis allows us to expand the horizon of transindividuation in an array of tangible social, aesthetic, and political acts and practices. As with every horizon, the transindividual may not be closely at hand; however, it is certainly within reach, and the book encourages the reader to approach it.
Access information
The event will be in English. The venue is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.
Komal Purbe, "A woman flying a rocket" (2019)