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The Reality Shows: a conversation with Karen Finley

Robert — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:15:53 +0000

THE REALITY SHOWS

a conversation with Karen Finley

April 6, Wednesday
6:30 to 8 pm

READ THE REVIEW! Reclaiming Hysteria in The Reality Shows: A Conversation with Karen Finley and Ann Pellegrini

Karen Finley, Art and Public Policy, NYU

Ann Pellegrini, Performance Studies & Religious Studies, NYU

The Reality Shows collects a decade’s worth of performance pieces by internationally renowned artist and cultural provocateur Karen Finley. One of the hallmarks of Finley’s work—and nowhere more urgently showcased than in this new collection—is the way she uses multiple aesthetic forms in order to disturb settled emotional and political responses to both individual and collective trauma. To mark the publication of The Reality Shows, Finley sits down for a wide-ranging conversation with performance studies scholar Ann Pellegrini to discuss ongoing currents in Finley’s artistic practice and the work of performance art in an age of virtual reality.

Department of Performance Studies
721 Broadway, Room 612
between Waverly and Washington Places

Karen Finley’s raw and transgressive performances have long provoked controversy and debate. She has appeared and exhibited her visual art, performances, and plays internationally. The author of many books, including A Different Kind of Intimacy, George & Martha, and Shock Treatment, she is a professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Ann Pellegrini is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at New York University, where she also directs NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race; co-author, with Janet R. Jakobsen, of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance; co-editor, with Daniel Boyarin and Daniel Itzkovitz, of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question; and co-editor, with Jakobsen, of Secularisms.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Art and Public Policy, Department of Performance Studies and Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; and by The Feminist Press .

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

Seating is limited and on a first-come basis. No RSVPs.

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

Joseph Keckler @ NYU Performance Studies Lecture Forum

Robert — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:07:39 +0000

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

Cruising Utopia: Book Talk and Cocktail Party for José E. Muñoz

Robert — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:31:50 +0000

February 5, Friday

THIS EVENT IS AT FULL CAPACITY. NO MORE RSVPs WILL BE TAKEN. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

MC: Nao Bustamante

Panelists include:

Barbara Browning, Performance Studies, NYU

Lisa Duggan, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Gayatri Gopinath, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Ricardo L. Ortíz, American Studies, Georgetown College

Performers: Dynasty Handbag (Jibz Cameron) and Kalup Linzy

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Performance Studies and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

Wounds Unkissed: A Performance by YaliniDream @ NYU

Robert — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:34:04 +0000

November 9, Monday
7 to 9 PM

Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
Room 802

Please email crv3@nyu.edu to RSVP if you are not affiliated with NYU and/or to arrange for disability accommodations.

For more information about this event, please call the NYU Office of LGBT Student Services at 212-998-4424.

Vaginal Creme Davis: NYU PS Lecture Forum

Robert — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:35:10 +0000

November 9, Monday
7 to 8:80 PM

“I was hatched a half-breed drag baby out of the primordial ooze of L.A.”

“I was a Vagisaurus rex who popped out of a leathery egg in a welfare hovel in South Central, perfect as you now ﬁnd me, complete with high heels.”

NYU Department of Performance Studies

Tisch School of the Arts
721 Broadway, 6th Floor

FREE

No reservations required for NYU students and Faculty.

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

Downtown Now: Jibz Cameron & K8 Hardy @ NYU

Robert — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:03:25 +0000

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 7-8:30PM

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

Jibz Cameron is a musician and performance artist, known for her one-woman performance persona Dynasty Handbag. She is currently a visiting lecturer in Performance Studies.

K8 Hardy is a video and performance artist and is one of the founding editors of LTTR, a radical gender-queer, lesbian-feminist art collective and journal. She also works as a fashion stylist for clients including Fischerspooner and has made music videos for bands such as Lesbians on Ecstasy and Le Tigre.

Please join us on MONDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 7-8:30PM to see these two cutting edge downtown New York artists in conversation about gender, politics, performance persona, and whatever else you want to ask them about.

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.)