Full presentation Rabbya Naseer

Performative Gestures explores the ways in which ‘Performance’ becomes a tool for reconfiguring the status and function of art from passivity to active agency and direct confrontation. Naseer is an interdisciplinary artist, whose practice is informed by her immediate environment, producing a material entity only as a by-product of her lived experiences. She will be sharing examples from her artistic, curatorial and research practice to examine; if Performance Art’s resistance to definitions and the challenges of archiving the undefined experience, helps make it something more than the sum of its component parts? How rethinking spatial relations between ‘art-object’, ‘artist’ and ‘viewer/participant’ are integral to the structure of producing experiential art? How interdisciplinary practice through a conscious blurring of distinctions between ‘Art’ and ‘everyday life’, helps question clearly defined categories to broaden the concept of art and its affect? How such works examine the everyday (both private and public) as a domain in which social values are asserted and contested? How attention to ‘situations’ highlights the close relationship between ‘performance’ and processes of ‘social organization’? How this investigation and appropriation of specific lived ‘experiences’ helps with analyzing the relationship between the ‘real’ and the ‘representational’? And lastly, what is the role of the witness in order to explore the notions of truth, perception and intimacy in archiving the undefined experience.

Program What Has Love Got To Do With It

18th February 2019

10:30

Liliana Coutinho, Cláudia Madeira, Giulia Lamoni

10:45 – 11:30

The public, the private and the political in the performative works of young artists and students of fine arts: a case study

Teresa Furtado, artist, assistant professor, Department of Visual Arts and Design, School of the Arts, University of Évora, CHAIA/UÉ

chair: Bruno Marques, IHA-FCSH, UNL

11:30 – 13:00

Panel 1

Sexualities

chair: Giulia Lamoni, IHA-FCSH, UNL

Talking about Love, Publicization of intimate matters in contemporary dance plays

Claire Vionnet, anthropologist

Down and Dirty: Ecosex intimacies and the appeal of the ‘personal’

Jon Cairns, Critical Studies Leader, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins

Ropework: performing fragility

Daniel Cardoso, FCSH NOVA University

Telma João Santos, University of Évora

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 14:45

Radio Intimacy – a poadcast

Ana Pais, researcher in performative arts, FCT postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Theater Studies, FLUL, dramaturgist, curator

14:45 – 16:15

Panel 2

Resistances

chair: Margarida Brito Alves

How Intimacy Disrupts Power

Claire Schneider, independent curator in Buffalo, New York, and founder and director of C.S.1 Curatorial Projects

From private archive to public discourse: Karol Radziszewki’s Kisieland

Flóra Gadó, PhD candidate at Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, Budapest, Hungary

16:15 – 16:30

Break

16:30 – 18:00

Panel 3

Performativities

chair: Cláudia Madeira

Love + Other Pressing Issues: Barbara T. Smith’s 21st Century Odyssey, 1991-1993

Pietro Rigolo, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Proximity, emotions and technological mediation in Italian Performance Art of the origins

Francesca Gallo, Sapienza University of Rome

The Will of (Im) Possible: artistic lovers couples in the Art of Performance

Nelson Guerreiro, researcher

18:30

keynote

The Body Politic: the museum as a space of intimacy and action

Catherine Wood, senior curator of International art / Performance, TATE Modern

chair: Liliana Coutinho

19th February 2019

10:30 – 11:10

Tu & Eu | You & Me

Susana Mendes Silva, artist and assistant professor at University of Évora, DPAO, i2ADS, FBAUP

11:15 – 12:45

Panel 4

Mediations

chair: Bruno Marques

All Together - Feedback Now - Total Access Inc. (on my personal Coca Cola memories and other globalised pop affects)

Paula Caspão, writer and artist, FCT postdoctoral research fellow, lecturer at the Centre for Theatre Studies (CET/FLUL - UL), associate researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History (IHC-UNL)

Intimacy and affectivity in cyberspace

Paula Varanda, PhD, researcher

The Act of Being ‘Together Alone’:Slow Cinema and the Re-Design of One’s Intimate Interaction with the Concept of Realness

Susana Bessa, writer

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 –14:30

Reading (room 2)

Community, by Luiz Pacheco

Directed by: Ana Palma
With: Ana Palma, André Simões, Constança Carvalho Neto, Diogo Lopes and Rita Monteiro
Creation: Teatro da Garagem

14:45 – 16:15

Panel 5

Narrating

chair: Fernando Matos Oliveira

On female desire in poetic autobiographies

Ana Lúcia M. de Marsillac, psychologist and postdoctoral fellow at IC Nova - FCSH/UNL

Paulo Jesus, psychologist, assistant professor of psychology at Portucalense University, researcher at the Philosophy Centre - UL

Woman standing in front of the mirror. An intimate practice-as-research project

Sol Garre, Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid

16:15 – 16:30

Break

16:30 – 18:00

Panel 6

Care

chair: Liliana Coutinho

Agape and Anthropocene

António Contador, Institut Acte, University of Paris 1/CNRS, artist

Performing the ‘I Care’

Kathryn Lawson Hughes, Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Performative ‘Intraventions’ and Matters of Love, Care and Delay: Steps Towards Responsible ‘Worlding’

Alberto Altés Arlandis, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow / Chair of Methods and Analysis TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment - Architecture

18:30

Keynote

Performative Gestures

Rabbya Nasser, artist, curator and teacher at NCA, Lahore, Pakistan

chair: Giulia Lamoni, IHA-FCSH, UNL