Posthuman Social Club
Dienstag, 23. April 2024 - 19:00 Uhr
Universität für angewandte Kunst
Ort:
AIL – Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
„Klang und Performances in der Postsparkassa“
A production by andother stage in cooperation with Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) Supported by the City of Vienna Culture (MA7).
This 3rd edition of the posthuman social club is devoted to the philosopher Isabelle Stengers. We will be hosting the Austrian premiere of her biopic Isabelle Stengers – Building Hope on the Edge of the Abyss, by Fabrizzio Terranova and curating a program of performance, music and somatic lecture devoted to her extensive body of work.
Isabelle Stengers is not only known as one of the leading thinkers for ‘post-humanist’ discourses and practices, but also for her ecologically oriented philosophy in general. Her decades of work on sciences, politics and ecology has influenced many prominent scholars such as Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour.
With the event series posthuman social club we want to think outside of the box of what has been labeled ‘the human realm of reason’ and develop new regimes of perception, sensuality and physicality, that can with care and consideration, lead us on the path from our humanist-exclusivist tradition to more inclusive approaches of sharing our many worlds with other forms of existence. In the permeation of choreography and composition, with club culture, philosophy, ecology and media art, we want to explore what a post-human social – or even a post-human society – could actually mean. We cannot overcome the euro- and anthropocentric, often misogynistic and racist tendencies of the ‘Enlightenment’ tradition overnight. The 'posthuman social clubs’ are a sensual approach, cultivation, celebration, differentiation and problematization of these [post-human] desires.
Program:
— Performances and concerts by Andother Stage, Isabella Forciniti, Kilian Jörg, Michael Maierhof, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Samuel Toro Pérez, Brigitte Wilfing
— Short Introduction into Stenger’s philosophy by Kilian Jörg
— Film Screening: Isabelle Stengers – Building Hope on the Edge of the Abyss. A documentary by Fabrizio Terranova, 75' , 2023
— Kilian Jörg, Samuel Toro Pérez, Brigitte Wilfing slowing down in times of catastrophe
— Somatic and performative debriefing of the film
Isabella Forciniti – analogue synthesizers, electronics, performance
Kilian Jörg – performance, lecture
Mirjam Klebel – performance
Otto Krause – costume-contribution
Alfredo Ovalles – keyboards, electronics
David Panzl – percussion
Jorge Sánchez-Chiong – turntables, electronics
Samuel Toro Pérez – e-guitar, electronics
Brigitte Wilfing – voice, turntables, performance
andother stage – transdisciplinary assemble for choreographic composition and artistic research – is not the longing for another stage, but for slipping and wriggling between spaces and discourses, be it at the kitchen table or on a large stage. Assemble refers to music because of its proximity to the ensemble, but we also want to affirm an assemblage of people, disciplines, media, instruments, objects and discourses alongside other forms of playing together. Founded in 2019 by Brigitte Wilfing (choreographer) and Jorge Sánchez-Chiong (composer).
