Performances no contemporâneo

Performances in the Contemporary
Philosophy and Arts

Performances in the contemporary is a research project - carried out as a laboratory and thought encounter - whose aim is to bring together a set of voices and approaches in performance and the performing arts as accomplices and bearers of a politics of the contemporary. In the expanded territory of performance and performativity, the margins, movement, mobilisation, the landscape, the archive, discourse and various strategies of command and destruction are emerging subjects for a debate on a potential body and a political body.
At the intersection of practice and theory, this project, created in 2015, aims to question the condition of the contemporary and create a corpus of events that document the work developed in a space of tensional thinking between philosophy and the arts. In the paradoxical relationship of adherence to and distancing from reality, in visibility and invisibility, in light and darkness - as Giorgio Agamben says about contemporaneity as a singular relationship with time - performances also emerge as singular projects of marginalised worlds and forms of resistance.
We are interested in a contemporary way of thinking about the voice in the first person, the speaking body of art, to use an expression by Mário Perniola. We are interested in the direct discourses of those who produce the works, as well as the discourses of those who are thinking about and interfering with art.

28 de Abril | 14h30
António Olaio
Emídio Agra
Simão do Vale Africano

22 de Maio | 14h30
Deeogo Oliveira
Hugo Reis
Susana Manso

25 Setembro | 14h30
Graça Corrêa
Rina Badash

3 de Novembro | 14h30
Jorge Palinhos
Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro
Rossana Fonseca

FLUP - Sala de Reuniões (2º Piso)
Instituto de Filosofia | Universidade do Porto