Slides (ascending): René Magritte, Mária Bartuszová, Pedro Almodóvar, Pamela Rosenkranz
Slides (ascending): Geiste Kincainaityte, Mary Wigman, network of Fernand Deligny, Cy Twombly
In July 2021, Geiste Kincinaityte and I created an intertextual performance-lecture on the occasion of Tactics & Praxis: Creativity, Pleasure & Ethics in Academic Work, an annual conference hosted by CRASSH, University of Cambridge. Considering the gesture citation in sympathy with polyphony, Spills is a roving, raving choral work where the voice of others is melded with our own.
The aim of the conference was to explore work that brings praxis and research into creative contact, challenging the dominant emphasis on outputs which views academic labour primarily in terms of productivity. In so doing, the conference seeks to investigate and encourage creative approaches to intellectual endeavours, not only as an antidote to the pressures of neoliberal academia, but also as offering new ways of thinking and acting, ethically, politically and intellectually.
Spills also exists in abridged, textual form thanks to Deleuzine, ‘Sprouting in all directions’, edited by Lilly Markaki and Sabeen Chaudhry. Hard copies available via select stockists, such as here. A soft copy of the Spills chapter can be found here.
