Date & time
Thursday, March 27, 2014
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Arts & culture, Conferences & lectures
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Histories of Performance Art: Fields, Sources, Repetitions
Stanford University's Peggy Phelan speaks at the CISSC Lecture Series
Cost
This event is free
Where
Samuel Bronfman Building
1590 Docteur Penfield
Room Atrium
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Peggy Phelan is the Ann O’Day Maples Professor in the Arts and a professor of drama and of English at Stanford University. Her lecture, titled “Histories of Performance Art: Fields, Sources, Repetitions,” is part of the annual lecture series of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC).
Admission is free of charge and open to the public.
When: Lecture, Thursday, March 27, 2014, at 6 p.m.
Where: Atrium of the Samuel Bronfman Building (1590 Dr. Penfield Ave.), Sir George Williams Campus
Phelan's work reflects her broad-ranging and passionate interests in contemporary theater, art, photography, literature, dance, and film. She has written in recent years about an extraordinary array of artists, writers, and cultural figures including Samuel Beckett, Andy Warhol, Ronald Reagan, the photographer Andres Serrano, visual artist Pipilotti Rist, and the avant-garde performance artist Marina Abramovic. She is best known for Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993); Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories (1997); Acting Out: Feminist Performances (1993); and The Ends of Performance (1998).
