[Reader-list] Rimini Protokoll: Lecture and Film

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

The Epistemology of Cargo

   
Lecture   
 Saturday, 28 February, 19:00   
 Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan    
 English  
   
As part of the conference,    Rethinking Labour And The Creative Economy: Global Performative Perspectives,    Professor Maaike Bleeker, President of Performance Studies International and the Chair of Theatre Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, will present a lecture    The Epistemology of Cargoabout Rimini Protokoll.    
    
 In    Rimini Protokoll’s    Cargo, the audience is placed in a container truck with a big window on one side. Where usually goods are stacked, the audience is now sitting and looking at cargo negotiating ramps, warehouses, and border checkpoints while listening to the truck driver’s stories. Labor and market economy are recurring themes in the work of the Berlin-based theatre collective, as is the presence of nonprofessional performers, or ‘experts of the daily life’, as they prefer to call them. These experts share their experiences and through them we gain unusual perspectives on aspects of reality, theirs and ours. This lecture looks at how this happens in    Cargo as well as in several other examples, with a special focus on spectatorship: spectatorship as a fundamental aspect of theatrical performance as well as of the ways in which Rimini Protokoll’s work engages with labor and engages audiences in ways of knowing labor.   
    
    Professor Maaike Bleeker is a professor of Theatre Studies, and head of the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. She graduated in Art History, Theatre Studies and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and obtained her PhD from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Since 1991, she is also active as dramaturge in theatre and dance. She is the author of    Visuality in the Theatre (Palgrave 2008). She has published extensively in international journals and edited volumes and edited several books including    Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre (AUP 2008) and    Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations (Routledge 2015). She is currently preparing a monograph titled    Corporeal Literacy and an edited volume about dance and digital technology (titled   Transmission in Motion). Bleeker is president of Performance Studies international (PSi, psi-web.org) and was the organizer of the 2011 world conference of Performance Studies international, titled    Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience.  
 
   
- Rohit     
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