"Special Issue" — The Double Lecture Series

A performance and lecture series with Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt, Eleonor Bauer, Mårten Spångberg and Mette Ingvartsen in Studio 1 at MDT.

Does dance and choreography have a place in the knowledge society? Are these practices that operate in parallel with so-called cognitive capitalism? Can performative practices produce specific kinds of knowledge or even disrupt established modes of knowledge production and issue alternative forms of experience?

Five evenings with related seminar program, where meetings between movement and production of knowledge will be explored in relation to representation and expression. Dance in the first place in respect of production of knowledge in front of, or in conjunction with the spectator, i.e. in and through experience.

Five internationally renowned choreographers will present their perspectives view on what has been called "performative discursive dispositives", a still weak style that emerged in tandem with phenomena such as artistic research and practice-based choreography.

The audience will meet Xavier Le Roy disguised as a butoh dancer in "Product of Other Circumstances", a work that through an open form exposes the choreographer's personal approach. Be part of Eleanor Bauer's hysterical attack on a kind of "imperialism of expression" and Mårten Spångberg’s extremely choreographed lecture format. Mette Ingvartsen use imagination and description to extract autonomous materials and Christine De Smedt will approach the heart of the matter through an (auto)-portrait derived from interviews.

For each evening, the choreographers have invited an autonomous voice that in the form of a lecture will replicate, comment, continue, listen to the performances and to speak from their own discipline. Art historian Kai van Eikels, Julian Reid, professor of political theory, Pierre Rubio philosopher active in Brussels and others are not only offered a space for reflection but are further invited to approach the lecture format as kind of choreography.

(Curated by: Mette Ingvartsen & Mårten Spångberg. Supported by: Swedish Research Council, DOCH, MDT. Informed by: Edition Special, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers.)

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Works

Wednesday Sep 28, 7pm

Xavier Le Roy "Product of Other Circumstances

Starting with a late night moment of megalomania that unfortunately somebody remembered Product of Other Circumstances is Xavier Le Roy’s latest attempt to traverse the territory of dance and choreography. This time in the form of a performance, resonating of his legendary Product of Circumstances (1999), but this time, instead of starting with his on biography, he proceeds from a position of exile. For two hours the audience follows Le Roy on a journey into Butoh, aform of dance that he approaches as an amateur yet as a professional in the field of choreography

Lecture with Kai Van Eikels "What does Xavier Le Roy make easier for me?"

What does Xavier Le Roy make easier for me? What does he make easier for you? Does any of this make revolution any easier for any of us? Or is there an easier way than revolution to change what should be changed in this world? Can we learn to change the world in our spare time? Or should we do it during working hours?



Thursday 29 sep, 7pm

Christine De Smedt "Untitled 4 – Jonathan Burrows"

Interview could be understood as a shared or a sharing of perspective. A particular mode of coming together, not in respect of two becoming one but rather as two becoming a third, an autonomous entity that belongs to no one. Christine De Smedt has in a series of works taken on this third entity in an attempt to continue its autonomy or alien-capacity as a way of uncover her own idiosyncrasies, paradoxes, expropriations as well as those of dance as such. In Untitled 4 her object ofstudy, or the object studying the choreographer is Jonathan Burrows, who, as we shall see, has a few skeletons hidden away in his closet.

Lecture with Olav Wesphalen



Friday 30 sep, 7pm

Mårten Spångberg: Spangbergianism

Lecture as a form of performance, well known. Performance utilizing the lecture form, well know. Beyond what starts dramatization, beyondessence dark-matter and then Spangbergianism. Mårten Spångberg has through an endlessly repeated oral-campaign developed a highly specificform of communication, not exactly a conventional dialogue but something that best could be described as a satanic mutation between stand-up comedy and Max von Sydow. 

Lecture with Julian Reid "Curious Orange, Paranoid"

An interdependency formulated on the basis of a binary opposition between the state and the nomad, between the army and war-machines has with contemporary liberal regimes been obliterated. The schizophrenic trick has likewise been incorporated in the expansive quest of capital. It’s time for curious orange, paranoid.



Saturday Oct 1, 7pm

Mette Ingvartsen "Thoughts For the Future"

Imagination, speculation and description, three differently politically charged modes ofaddress, are in this presentation used to develop ideas in front of an audience. The spectator is not directly participating in the performance but is never the less playing an active role in the encounter. Ideas around artificial nature, catastrophic constructions and the autonomy of object are being processed through talking, gesturing and moving. Speech and physical actions are given the same value, while being used to materialize the first ideas of a future performance.

Lecture via Skype direct from Kuala Lumpur with Resa Negarestani



Sunday Oct 2, 4pm

Eleanor Bauer "STC: Severe Tripping in Context / Space-Time Continuum"

STC consists of a series of scores, studies and practices related to Bauer’s research from but not limited to her most recent creations. It's a cabaret cooking show, magic psychic disco parliament with nonhumans. Bauer will sing an Affective Medley of Made-Up Ballads, give the a recipe for (and cook for us) a Sensation-Image Marble Cake, disappear into the Space-Time Continuum, render physical a series of Thought Forms, and serenade the inanimate in a series of Matter Monologues. STC promises some Seriously Technical Charisma. 

Lecture with Pierre Rubio "SPELLBINDINGSPELLBREAKING"

"Spellbindingspellbreaking" captures alchemical processes at work in the production of affects generated by ideas, reticulating magical key-points in particular instants and positions. Let’s move out stunning paralysis and definitively resolve the infernal alternatives of representation versus experience. Make your own truth, and as Madonna once said: "die another day".