TUESDAY, MARCH 2ND

7 to 8:30 PM

NYU’s Department of Performance Studies presents the first event in this year’s Performance Studies Lecture Forum: JOSEPH KECKLER.

He will discuss and perform his work.

Joseph Keckler is a performance artist, writer, and singer. His work explores the gap between theater and life, establishing unexpected connections [...]]]>

TUESDAY, MARCH 2ND

7 to 8:30 PM

NYU’s Department of Performance Studies presents the first event in this year’s Performance Studies Lecture Forum: JOSEPH KECKLER.

He will discuss and perform his work.

Joseph Keckler is a performance artist, writer, and singer. His work explores the gap between theater and life, establishing unexpected connections between art, identity, and contemporary alienation. In his performances, he fuses story-telling with an elastic, classically trained, and chameleonic three-octave voice to create one-person fantasias which bring the banal to operatic intensity. Keckler’s pieces have been featured on NPR, The Sundance Channel, and Transform.org, and he has performed at HERE, Living Theater, Galapagos Art Space, London’s Duckie, Abron Arts Center, SF MOMA, The Player’s Club, Dixon Place, The Guggenheim, as well as other venues in New York City, nationally, and abroad.

Located in the Performance Studies Studio at Tisch School of the Arts (721 Broadway, 6th Floor)

FREE. Reception (with free food and drinks!) following talk.

No reservations required for NYU students and faculty.

Non NYU-affiliated folks please RSVP to: PSLectures@gmail.com

The Performance Studies Lecture Forum is a series of evening events featuring preeminent scholars and practitioners in the fields of art and performance. The events are presented on weekday evenings in the department’s studio space, and are designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among artists, students and scholars.

Presented with support from the Dean and the GSO of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts

March 23, Tuesday 6:30 to 8 PM

Kandice Chuh, English, University of Maryland

This talk brings together aesthetic theory and U.S. minority discourse. By doing so, Chuh illuminates the longstanding and intimate relationship between aesthetics and “difference,” and shows how the critical vantage of minority discourse revises trenchant understandings of, especially, aesthetic subjectivity. [...]]]>

March 23, Tuesday
6:30 to 8 PM

Kandice Chuh, English, University of Maryland

This talk brings together aesthetic theory and U.S. minority discourse. By doing so, Chuh illuminates the longstanding and intimate relationship between aesthetics and “difference,” and shows how the critical vantage of minority discourse revises trenchant understandings of, especially, aesthetic subjectivity. This new understanding serves as a basis for the theorization of a critical subjectivity that responds to the exigencies of both post-identity critique and the neo-liberal university.

Kandice Chuh is an associate professor of English and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Maryland, where she is affiliated with the American Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Program. She is the author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique (2003), and the co-editor, with Karen Shimakawa, of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora (2001). Chuh’s current book project investigates the possibilities of theorizing post-identity subjectivities through an engagement with aesthetic theories and philosophies.

Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor

Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; co-sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute.

This event is free and open to the public.  Venue is wheelchair accessible.  If you need sign language interpretation services or other accommodations, please let us know as soon as possible.

For more information, please call CSGS at 212-992-9540 or email csgs@nyu.edu.

image: Allan deSouza, he gazed into the liquid darkness in which desires drowned, from where the body’s delicious pains emerged, 2001, 20″ x 40,” C-print, courtesy of the artist and Talwar Gallery, NY