time.transcendence.performance
Date: 1-3 October 2009
Monash University, Caulfield: Speakers, papers, panel discussions, presentations, exhibition
ACMI: Stelarc's keynote address, screenings and exhibition:
Dancehouse: Performances, workshops and practice-based research
Second Life: Online platform for debate, exchange, and mutual inspiration
Featuring Stelarc, Brian Massumi, Alphonso Lingis, Erin Manning, Anthony Steinbock, Jeff Malpas, Peter Snow, Jack Reynolds, Ian Maxwell, Martin Del Amo, Sue Healey, Monika Tichacek, Movement Research Melbourne, Nikki Heywood, Lanei Rodemeyer, Madeleine Flynn and Tum Humphrey, Peter Fraser, Danielle Wilde, and more…
For tickets to public events, please visit ACMI and Dancehouse directly.
Note: full conference registration covers all publicly ticketed events.
time.transcendence.performance brings together artists, designers and thinkers who work with time, to explore how they might inform each other. How do performers think time? How do thinkers perform time? What shared or different understandings are at work in the different practices?
Even before Aristotle wrote that time is the number of motion with respect to before and after, and Heraclitus observed that it was impossible to step into the same river twice, philosophers - Eastern and Western - have wondered about time. Is it real or just an abstraction? Is it reversible? Does it pass? Do we experience it directly? Is it relative or constant? Does it exist? So far, the consensus is that we do not have satisfactory answers to these questions.
More than an academic conference: the three-day program features public performances, exhibitions, installations, screenings and workshops.
time.transcendence.performance is presented by the Monash University School of English, Communications and Performance Studies (ECPS) in association with Dancehouse, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and RMIT Design Research Institute.