pax praxis presents a series of three online presentations
Institut für Kunstwissenschaften, -pädagogik, -vermittlung
Convened and curated by Shaheen Merali, Visiting Professor and Resident Artist 2023, University of Applied Arts Vienna.
The title pax praxis alludes to acts as a counterforce, framing and conceptualising de-globalisation and de-colonising understanding in the multiple locations in which art and education reside. Enacting on the place of continuous breakdown provokes a more comprehensive reading by artists, and scholars, enabling discussion of the processes of undoing, and re-making, defining themselves by separation from the inherited homology.
Read more about the entire pax praxis program and the event 01 parallel movement (online presentation)* on the posters below.
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Opacity as generative withholding / Dr Vânia Gala (Glasgow · Lisbon)
Dr Vânia Gala
The talk explores the potential of withdrawal and opacity* as fundamental ideas for choreographic performance in the present time. Such an approach troubles simple versions of agency that tend to go hand in hand with the visible embodiment of subjectivities which have been the privilege of the few. *opacity (Glissant 1997, 193) not only as aesthetic formations but also as political value. Dr Vânia Gala is the Interim Head of Contemporary Performance Practice BA (Hons.). Prior to joining the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, she was a lecturer in Dance and the Module Leader of Examining Practice in the MA/MFA Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.
19:30
Telepresence in the age of extreme self / Choy Ka Fai (Berlin · Singapore)
Choy Ka Fai
A research presentation on the notions of telepresence, in relation to art-making, social media, and the metaverse. Choy Ka Fai is a Berlin-based Singaporean artist whose multidisciplinary art practice situates itself at the intersection of dance, media art and performance. He graduated with an MA in Design Interaction from the Royal College of Art, London
20:30
Circuits of imaginations: #BhangraAndMe / Narendra Pachkhédé (Toronto · London
Narendra Pachkhédé
What does it mean to be us in the contemporary condition of our lives and its memory? Narendra Pachkhédé is a Commonwealth Fellow, a multidisciplinary artist, curator, programmer, critic, and writer. Discourse-oriented, through his procedures of pedagogy and exhibition, he fosters collabo- rations and interventions at a range of sites, events, and networks, with keen interests in connected histories and comparative anthropologies.