Within the framework of CARTA '22, Antwerp University’s Research Centre for Visual Poetics organizes a series of public lectures and artists talks, and closed seminars. On this evening Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca brings a performative lecture titled: "Imagination and Extinction", with a screening of the short animated film, "Done Dying". Followed by an artist talk between Laura Cull and Dora García.
This lecture is an invitation to consider ‘bewilderment’ and extends that invitation to ‘think alongside’ artworks. How do they (make us) think? This performative lecture, including the screening of a short film, proposes to create a mode of art-thought that allows to think non-standardly in relation to performance-making. Thinking alongside performances on extinction, this lecture is also a call for interspecies collaborations that qualitatively extend the human across new scales of space and time.
Dora García is a celebrated visual artist. During CARTA '22 she organizes open rehearsals for a project that will accumulate in a solo exhibition at M HKA.
Prof. Dr. Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca is Lector and Head of DAS Graduate School at Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts in the Netherlands. Her current research includes the project, Performance Philosophy & Animals: Towards a Radical Equality – which began as an AHRC Leadership Fellows award and is now expanding into a long-term project that asks how performance can contribute to more ethical ways of knowing non-human animals in the entangled contexts of climate crisis and social inequality. Her forthcoming publications include Interspecies Performance (2022) co-edited with Flo Fitzgerald-Allsopp for Performance Research books. Previous books are: Deleuze and Performance (2009); Theatres of Immanence (2012); Encounters in Performance Philosophy (2014) and The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (2020). Laura is also a core convener of the Performance Philosophy network and co-editor of its journal and book series.