THE PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS OF TRUTH

This half-day symposium puts Foucault into contact with performance and performance theory. As Tony Fisher and Kélina Gotman observe in Foucault’s Theatres (2020), although Foucault's work has been keenly influential for many scholars of performance, direct engagement of his work that starts with performance practice and theory has been surprisingly scant. Participants in this event will take up this challenge, asking: What would it mean to take seriously the art in Foucault’s famous analysis of the “art of government”? What does an analysis of and from performance and the performative bring to our understanding of contemporary politics of truth-telling? This symposium is part of the World Congress, Foucault: 40 Years After.
This event is made possible by the sponsorship of the Department of Performance Studies and the event co-sponsors the Center for Research & Study, Tisch School of the Arts; Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and the World Congress, Foucault: 40 Years After.

The keynote and panel will be in Room 1260 and the reception will be in room 612.

Schedule:
2:00 pm EDT – Keynote lecture by Mark D. Jordan (R. R. Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity, Harvard University)
4:00 pm EDT – Panel featuring:
André Lepecki (Professor of Performance Studies, NYU; and Associate Dean, Center for Research and Study, Tisch School of the Arts)
Ann Pellegrini (Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU; Chair, Department of Performance Studies)
Karen Shimakawa (Associate Professor of Performance Studies, NYU; and Co-Associate Dean of Faculty, Tisch School of the Arts)

Reception to follow

Host or Publisher NYU’s Performance Studies Department