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Words & [ ] — a Durational Conference of Art & Thought


Date & time
Friday, May 6, 2016 –
Sunday, May 8, 2016
10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Speaker(s)

100 Interdisciplinary Art/Thought Presentations

Cost

tiered subsidized registration feeds from $10/day suggested donation to $65.

Contact

Aaron Finbloom

Where

The Darling Foundry
745 rue Ottawa
Montreal, QC, H3C 1R8

The School of Making Thinking presents “Words & [ ] — a Durational Conference of Art & Thought” a 56-hour (French/English bilingual) event to take place at The Darling Foundry May 6 - 8 2016, featuring round-the-clock live programming of 100 interdisciplinary performative presentations. We encourage both presenters and audience to play with their durational limits of thinking, making, dreaming, talking, feasting and living as we together build a philosophical community which vibrantly intermingles art and thought, and dissolves the barriers between individuals, disciplines, methods, and cultures. Our conference asks: What kinds of work might emerge when we enter creative overload together? What new pathways of care might be opened within this methodological breakdown?

Presentations cover a wide range of topics related to how words, not-words and quasi-words rub up with and against the intuitive, the sensuous and the embodied. As this theme cuts across art and thought, so too will our conference feature a diverse array of platforms that push-up against the word-centric methodologies of traditional conferences. These platforms will include: performative lectures, talks, structured conversations, short theater pieces, interactive workshops, installation pieces, durational performance art, guided walks, constructed situations, dreaming workshops, relational art, dance, and musical performances.

The following Concordia research labs are involved:


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