
“Microscopic Life in 20th- and 21st-Century Performance”
La vie microscopique dans les arts vivants des XXe et XXIe siècles
PROGRAMME
Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, 54 bd Raspail – Le Comptoir (1er étage)
9.00 Welcome: Gisèle Séginger, director of the Biohumanities programme
9.15-10.15 Panel 1
– Violaine Heyraud (Sorbonne Nouvelle) : « Le microbe dans les intrigues du théâtre de Grand-Guignol (1905-1930) : agent ou instrument ? »
– Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla (University of Liverpool), “‘A Strange and Secret Thing’: Staging Heredity in the Harlem Renaissance”
10.15-10.45 Coffee Break
10.45-12.00 Panel 2
– Patrick Armstrong (Cambridge University), “Samuel Beckett’s Magnifiers”
– Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), “Medicine Show (1940) and ‘the Unseen Enemy’”
– Elisabeth Darrobers (Sorbonne Université) and Wallerand Bazin (University of Oxford), “Screening the probiotic: Jumping microbial and geomorphic scales on stage”
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Panel 3
– Martin Grünfeld (University of Copenhagen), “Notes from a museum underground: on the troubled curation of metabolic wizardry”
– Diya Mehta and Claire Nettleton (Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College), “Microculture: Microbial Performances at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College”
14.30-14.45 Short Break
14.45-16.00 Panel 4
– Marcela Moura (Sorbonne Nouvelle and UNIRIO), « Analyse systémique des interactions au sein de la performance ‘From plankton to human bodies : the dance of interacting types’ »
– Lois Oppenheim (Montclair State University), “Interoception and Reception: Performing and Viewing the Language of Gaga in ‘Naharin’s Virus’”
– Rosa Postlethwaite (Coventry University and Aarhus University), ““Solos” with Sourdough: Dramaturgy with other-than-human species”
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.45 Panel 5
– Amandine Mercier (Université d’Artois), « Mise en scène, incarnation et dramaturgie de la vie microscopique : projections des gamètes mâles sur les scènes du théâtre de Romeo Castellucci »
– Alison Humphrey (York University), “Embodying the Uncanny in Shadowpox: The Cytokine Storm”
– Tarsh Bates (Umeå University), “Microbial sense-ability: olfactory art, metabolism and queer microperformativity”
Organisers: Liliane Campos (Sorbonne Nouvelle), François-Joseph Lapointe (Université de Montréal) and Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr (Oxford University)
This events is part of the BioCriticism project (https://biocriticism.hypotheses.org/), supported by the Sorbonne Nouvelle, the Institut Universitaire de France and the FMSH “Biohumanities” programme.
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