BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7abec06d3755a729e4e618160cd0d814 DTSTAMP:20260817T051556Z SUMMARY:Critical Now - Performance Symposium DESCRIPTION:Kontakt: edit.kaldor@thm.lu.se\n\nThe symposium brings together a range of artistic practices and perspectives in order to interrogate ho w live performance engages with the here and now. What happens in moments when the now exceeds a possible response\, the urgency is greater than the means\, when words lose meaning and are unable to perform? What is perfor mance transformed to then? \;During this gathering\, participating art ists and theorists will address current dilemmas through examples of pract ices and thinking collectively about what can be performed in today's poli tical\, social\, ecological and ethical breakdown. Exploring the concrete spaces that performance can create as means of survival\, mourning\, and p ersistence\, this symposium aims to contribute to navigating the present a nd afterlife of ongoing crises. In a time of fear\, violence\, and despair what are the possibilities of criticality and live performance? \;Whe n: Thursday 25 September 2025\, 9.30 – 18.00Where: \;Studio B\, Malm ö Theatre Academy\, Bergsgatan 31A\, 21422 MalmöStudio B is located on t he ground floor. Our premises are barrier-free with adapted toilets. The s ymposium will be in English.To register:This is a free event\, but please register by sending a mail to at \;stina.engquist@thm.lu.se \;and indicate whether you will attend the whole day or only part of the eventIn vited guests \;Ida Bencke\, \;Karmenlara Ely\, \;Eleonora Fabi ão\, \;Ehsan Fardjadniya\, \;Va-Bene Fiatsi\, \;Ingri Midgard Fiksdal\, \;Laura Harris\, Dharmendra Prasad \; and \;Stefano s LevidisCurated by Gigi Argyropoulou \; and Edit KaldorThis event is supported by Research at Malmö Theatre Academy and by Nordplus.Biographie s \;Ida Bencke\, MA\, is an independent curator and publisher with the self-organized platform Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology\, residing on the island of Møn. She is currently co-curating Hosting Lands\, a dece ntralized exhibition process exploring relations between land care\, commu nity care and self-organized arts initiatives. Hosting Lands is invested i n questions of hacking and redirecting artworld resources towards ecologic al regeneration\, as well as setting up infrastructures for (trans-)local solidarity and community building. She is currently working on a practice- based PhD as part of the research project Oikos - A cultural analysis of c are and Crisis in the 21st century at the University of Copenhagen. \; Karmenlara Ely \;is former Professor / Artistic Director of the BA Act ing and MA Performance programs at Østfold University College/Norwegian T heatre Academy. She collaborates internationally on theatre and performanc e works\, where sharing practices across borders is in focus. The work oft en concerns topics such as archives and spectres\, intergenerational relat ions and the boundaries or limits of performance and ethics in collective processes. \; \;Eleonora Fabião is a performance artist and theor ist. She has been performing\, participating in exhibitions\, lecturing\, teaching\, and publishing internationally. Things That Must Be Done (Perfo rma Biennial\, New York 2015) is the title of a work and\, also\, a way of referring to her artistic practice. Fabião’s performances have been en acted in several contexts – festivals\, exhibitions\, biennials\, socioc ultural projects – and\, mainly\, in the streets. Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in Brazil (CNPq)\, F abião is Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Gothenburg.Ehsan Fardj adniya is a visual and performance artist living in exile. With a backgrou nd in fine arts and a strong focus on storytelling through hybrid and docu mentary performance forms\, his work explores themes of displacement\, mem ory\, and the porous boundary between dreams and reality. He has presented his films\, performances\, and installations internationally\, and contin ues to experiment with animation\, co-creative methods\, and narrative str uctures that invite non-actors and audiences to engage as active participa nts. \;Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi \;[ aka crazinisT artisT] \; (198 1) lives in Kumasi\, Ghana and is the founder and artistic director of cra zinisT artisT studiO (TTO)\, Our Railway Cinema Gallery (ORCG) and perfocr aZe International Artists Residency (pIAR) which aimed at radicalising the arts and promoting exchange between international and local artists\, act ivists\, researchers\, curators\, and critical thinkers. As a performer an d installation artist\, crazinisT investigates gender stereotypes\, prejud ices\, queerness\, identity politics and conflicts\, sexual stigma and the ir consequences for marginalised groups or individuals. \; crazinisT h as performed and exhibited across the globeIngri Fiksdal works as a choreo grapher based in Oslo\, Norway. She holds a PhD in artistic research (2019 ) from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and was an affiliated researc her with CoFutures at the University of Oslo (2020-24). Ingri works with c horeography as a format of speculative fiction that can propose complex an d manyfold understandings of body\, gender\, species\, knowledge and histo ry. Ingri is concerned with how practice and theory are entangled in her w ork in a way where neither is perceived as anterior to the other. Ingri’ s work has in recent years been performed at The Bentway in Toronto\, Obsc ene Festival in Seoul\, Homo Novus in Riga\, Kunstenfestival in Brussels\, Palais de Tokyo in Paris\, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago\, Santar cangelo festival\, Beijing Contemporary Dance Festival\, Sommerszene in Sa lzburg\, Reykjavík Art Museum\, brut-Wien\, Teatro di Roma\, Harbourfront Centre Toronto\, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati\, BUDA Kortrijk\, Tan zhaus NRW in Dusseldorf and Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz\, alongsid e extensive touring in Norway. She is currently working towards an exhibit ion at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo with Helle Siljeholm\, which will open in N ovember 2025.Laura Harris \;is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies a nd Art &\; Public Policy at New York University. She is the author of E xperiments in Exile: C. L. R. James\, Hélio Oiticica and the Aesthetic S ociality of Blackness \;(2019). She has also published in Social Text\ , sx salon\, Women &\; Performance\, Criticism\, The South Atlantic Qua rterly\, and other journals. \;Dharmendra Prasad is an artist and a co mmunity organizer. He is stuck between ecological and industrial time prac tices. Born-in-between stories\, discrimination\, hierarchies\, chaos and silence\, winds and dusts and without any address\, Dharmendra practices b etween fields of Gangatic plains to the villages\, water bodies and rainfo rests of northeast India. In addition he has co-founded the Guwahati based Anga Art Collective\, Library of Illiterates and Harvest School. Harvest School is a self-organized art-pedagogical infrastructure in Buxar\, India . The initiative centers epistemic justice by implementing slowness and ag rarian imaginaries as tools to counter violent pedagogies\, and the erasur e of landscapes\, collectivity and ancestral memory.Stefanos Levidis \ ;is a spatial and visual researcher\, and is the co-founder and co-directo r of Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIA). Stefanos has been wor king with Forensic Architecture and Forensis since 2016\, overseeing the a gencies’ work on borders and migration and holds a PhD from the Centre f or Research Architecture\, Goldsmiths\, titled ‘Border Natures: The Envi ronment as Weapon at the Edges of Greece’. He is an Associate Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts and a postdoctoral fellow at the Nationa l Hellenic Research Foundation under the project ‘MUTE: Soundscapes of T rauma’.Edit Kaldor \;(H/NL/S) is a theatre maker\, writer\, and rese archer. Her performances\, which stretch considerably the boundaries of th eatrical conventions\, have toured extensively throughout Europe\, in the Americas\, Asia and North Africa. In 2023 she completed her doctoral proje ct The Many and the Form on contemporary dramaturgies of co-creation and i ntersubjectivity as a research fellow at the Norwegian Theatre Academy. Th e book A \;Theatre of Powerlessness – Acts of Knowledge and the Perf ormance of the Many \;that she co-edited with Joe Kelleher was publish ed in May 2025 by Bloomsbury publishers in the Thinking through Theatre se ries. Since 2023 she is associate professor and program director of the ne w \;MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice \; programme at the Ma lmö Theatre Academy at Lund University in Sweden. \;Gigi Argyropoulou (PhD\, MA) is a theorist\, curator\, performance maker and practitioner w orking in the fields of performance and cultural practice. Gigi co-initiat ed\, curated and organised public programmes\, interventions\, performance s\, festivals\, conferences\, actions\, occupations and exhibitions both i nside and outside institutions. She is  \;co-editor of Performance Res earch issues on Institutions(2015) and Land/scapes (2025) \;and publis hes regularly in journals\, books and magazines. \;Gigi \;is co-fo under of EIGHT Cultural Institute for arts and politics in Athens and was a member of the curatorial and editorial board of Haus der Kulturen der We lt (HKW)'s New Alphabet School (2019–2022). She is editor of \;Insti tuting: Space-making\, Refusal and Organising in Arts and Beyond \;(Ar chive books\, 2024) and completed her post-doc at Lund University. Current ly\, teaches at the MA performing arts as critical practice. \; \; Schedule9.00 \; Arrivals/Coffee \;9.30 - 10.00 Welcome note by Gig i Argyropoulou and Edit Kaldor \;10.00- 10.50 Lecture: Eleonora Fabiã oTHINGS THAT MUST BE DONE: artistic experimentation and political imaginat ion11.00 -12.30 Practice sharing and conversation: Other Publics: Vulnerab ility and Public Space- \;VaBene Fiatsi\, Eleonora Fabiao\, Karmenlara Ely12.30-13.30 Lunch \;13.30-14.50 \; Practice sharing and dialog ue Borders\, Forensics and Legislation - Ehsan Fardjadniya and Stefanos Le vidis \;15.00-15.45 Lecture: Laura Harris Negotiating the scene(s):&nb sp\;Performing in the General Vicinity of a Camera in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s16.00 - 17.30 Practice sharing and conversation: Speculati ve Ecologies and Performance Futures - Ingri Fiksdal\, Ida Bencke\, Dharme ndra Prasad17.30-18.00 Closing reflections \; \;\n\nMer informatio n om händelsen: https://www.thm.lu.se/evenemang/critical-now-performance- symposium DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20250925T073038 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20250925T160038 LOCATION:Studio B\, Teaterhögskolan\, Bergsgatan 31 Malmö END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR