Study Day with Laura Cull and John Ó Maoilearca

Artistic research shares with François Laruelle's 'non-philosophy' and the emerging field of 'performance philosophy' a condition of internal conflict: On one side, artistic research breaks out of acceptable knowledge, on the other it seeks to make its outcomes accepted as knowledge; on one side, it appropriates artistic modes of inquiry and presentation for research, on the other research already pervades the very artistic practice that produced them; on one side, artistic research resists institutionalism, on the other it needs to develop and maintain research networks in and across institutions.

During the Study Day, prof. Laura Cull and prof. John Ó Maoilearca, two leading scholars in performance philosophy and non-philosophy, will share with artist-researchers of the Orpheus Institute their latest research and discuss with them problems and commonalities between these three fields of knowledge.

Guests

Laura Cull Head of the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

Laura Cull is Head of the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. Her most recent books are Theatres of Immanence: Deleuze and the Ethics of Performance (2012) and Encounters in Performance Philosophy (2014) co-edited with Alice Lagaay. Her other publications include Deleuze and Performance (2009) and Manifesto Now! Instructions for Performance, Philosophy, Politics (2013) co-edited with Will Daddario. She is core convener of Performance Philosophy and joint series editor of the Performance Philosophy book series with Palgrave

John Ó Maoilearca Professor of Film and Television Studies at Kingston University, London.

John Ó Maoilearca is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Kingston University, London. He has also taught philosophy and film theory at the University of Sunderland, England and the University of Dundee, Scotland. He has published ten books, including (as author) Bergson and Philosophy (2000), Post-Con¬tinental Philosophy: An Outline (2006), Philosophy and the Mov¬ing Image: Refractions of Reality (2010), and (as editor) Laruelle and Non-Philosophy (2012) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Continental Philosophy (2013). His latest book is entitled, All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy (forth¬coming).

Programme

DAY 1 (Friday, 29 May 2015)

15:00 - 16:00 Paulo de Assis

16:00 - 17:00 Laura Cull

17:00 - 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:30 Q&A with Laura and Paulo

19:30 – Dinner

DAY 2 (Saturday, 30 May 2015)

10:00 - 11:00 John Ó Maoilearca

11:00 - 11:30 Coffe Break

11:30 - 12:00 Q&A with John

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 16:00 General Discussion