Are you interested in critical, theoretical and historical perspectives on dance, theatre and performance? Lectures on theatre research return to Hangö Teaterträff, this time led by dance critic and lecturer in aesthetics and performance practices, Josefine Wikström.
The lecture is part of the course Performance och form – filosofikritiska perspektiv på samtida performance, dans och teater, organised by LUST in collaboration with the University of Helsinki’s open university.
The course combines performance visits at Hangö Teaterträff with critical discussions and contextualising lectures. It provides an introduction to an art-philosophical perspective on performance, contemporary dance and theatre as an academic research field and a performing arts practice.
The course, which works with a broad understanding of theatre, dance and performance, introduces some central concepts and figures in art philosophy with a focus on performance in contemporary art. Attention is also given to art-philosophical perspectives on the autonomy of the artistic work and its interdisciplinary interaction with social forms such as contemporary capitalism, reproduction of technology, different subject and object relations as well as criticism of art and performing arts. Special emphasis is placed on the concept of ‘form’ within critical art philosophy and how a performing arts work is expressed through its material and techniques.
The lectures are open to all and require no registration in advance. Information on how to enroll in the course in full is available on the course page (in Swedish). The second lecture of the course, Teknik, material och reproduktion av performance, will take place on Saturday 7 June at 10 am.
Josefine Wikström is a lecturer in aesthetics at Södertörn university in Stockholm and lecturer in performance practices with a focus on investigative theory and practice at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. She is also a dance critic for Dagens Nyheter and one of the editors for the experimental philosophy and art platform SITE Zones. In her research, she focuses on dance and performance in contemporary art from historical materialist and art philosophical perspectives. She is the author of Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score: A Critique of Performance (2021), Objects of Feminism (2017, together with Maija Timonen), Kritik av konstens frihet (2022, together with Gustav Strandberg and Kim West), and Autonomins Sken: Om Kalliasbreven och frågan om estetikens politik hos Friedrich Schiller (2024, together with Gustav Strandberg and Kim West).
Lecturer & course leader: Josefine Wikström
Organisers: LUST – långsiktig utveckling av svenskspråkig teater, University of Helsinki