WEAVING POLITICS symposium produced, and accumulated a tremendous amount of investment and content.

This investment, and content deserve to be taken advantage of, and further challenged.

WEAVING POLITICS RETAKE takes off from where we got to, retakes all the done and said, and insists on not leaving. Main purpose of the RETAKE is to allow for increased interaction, participation, responsibility and response, on & off track, inwards and outside. Crucial to the RETAKE is the merging and overlapping of lectures with discussions, and choreographic events. And the dwelling of a common/interactive preparatory time & place.

The RETAKE begins already now by a web-exchange between lecturers, audiences and any interested party.

The intention is to provide with time and space for all kinds of speeches and responses to articulate themselves in counterpoint to each other. And by that precede the actual event by the interweaving of a common content.

The RETAKE will be also processed by a series of working sessions between Cristina Caprioli/ccap and guest-collaborators. Focus will be aimed towards the terms and patterns according to which theory and practice articulate themselves by interaction; media-specifically, or by pluri-mediality and/or cross-disciplinary deviations. The work will relate to cc/ccap art production and discuss what motives counter actual impact and maneuvering space it may or may not dwell. This work will be recorded, and edited into a text- and digital publication, to be later released.

WEAVING POLITICS RETAKE is initiated and produced by Cristina Caprioli/ccap with funding from Vetenskapsrådet and  co-produced with Dansens Hus, DOCH and the community of freelance dancers in Stockholm.

More to be posted very very soon….

Please come in time and bring cash! Credit cards are not accepted.

See you this weekend!

Vocalist, composer and performer DIAMANDA GALÁS will join the symposium and hold a lecture Sunday the 16^th at 10 am.

Diamanda Galás does not care if she is despised or admired, instead she believes in empathy and its outstanding power and ability to move mountains. With a voice that spans over three and a half octave Diamanda Galás is one of the most important singers of our time. Ruthless, she uses her sharpened tool to give voice to all the victims of oppression or genocide, for all those who are in exile or in political fear; for all who are treated as outcasts.

We warmly welcome Diamanda Galás to Stockholm and all of you to her intervention.

Cristina Caprioli/ccap

Due to health reasons Prof. Slavoj Žižek is forced to cancel all of his appearances in the forthcoming five months, including WEAVING POLITICS.

We are concerned, and send him our warmest wishes for a full recovery!

Of course Prof. Žižek cannot be replaced, so now we are looking for a different, yet equally challenging intervention. But it will take a couple of days, so please be patient…

Meanwhile, do not dispair: Prof. Žižek has already promised us to join us here in Stockholm in June 2013, for a second round of Weaving Politics.

So: Welcome now and welcome again next year!!

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Abstract for her lecture, entitled A Pantheon of Disenchantment, may be found HERE.

Take a look at the programme and save the dates!

The symposium fee is 500 SEK for three full days of WEAVING POLITICS and entitles to admission to all lectures 14-16 of December.

Register here now! 

Tickets to Human Writes by The Forsythe Company are not included in the symposium fee and are sold separately through Dansens Hus ticket office: www.dansenshus.se or  +46 8 508 990 90

Peggy Phelan is Professor in Drama and English at Stanford University. She is the author of Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993), Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories (1997), among many others. She is also founder and previous president of Performance Studies international –  a professional association founded in 1997 to promote communication and exchange among artists, thinkers, activists and academics working in the field of performance.

Peggy Phelan will give a keynote lecture during WEAVING POLITICS.

André Lepecki is Associate Professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He was the curator of the festival Nomadic New York  (2007) and chief-curator of the 2008 and 2009 editions of the performing arts festival IN TRANSIT all at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.In 2010 he co-curated with Stephanie Rosenthal the Archive on Dance and Visual Arts since the 1960s for the exhibition Move: Choreographing You, for the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Center, London.He is the author of, among others,  Exhausting Dance: Performance and Politics of Movement, 2006 and edited  Of the Presence of the Body, 2004.

Both Peggy Phelan and André Lepecki were published in Koreografier (Raster) an anthology edited by Sven-Olov Wallenstein and Cristina Caprioli in 2008.

WEAVING POLITICS addresses choreography as a weaving labor of politics. And by a cobweb of specific languages and disenchanted knowledge engages in a scrutiny of the notions and practices of human rights, and violence.

The symposium invites choreography, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, law, political science and the general public to a three-days storm of lectures, discussions, and choreographic events in critical interaction.

Special guests:

Julia Kristeva,  Peggy Phelan,  William Forsythe and Diamanda Galás

Pivotal event of the symposium is the choreographic event Human Writes by William Forsythe and Kendall Thomas, performed by the Forsythe Company with guests from the Cullberg Ballet, ccap and the community of dancers in Stockholm. Additional events will be presented by Cristina Caprioli/ccap, in collaboration with co-researchers.

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