Gatherings to Disappear Symposium
For detailed information about the presenters and our schedule, visit the symposium website.
The theme Gatherings to Disappear calls forth the dissolving power of coming together and the practices that host it. Togetherness and closeness render bodies permeable and thoughts contaminated. Voluntary or involuntary may the occasion be, gatherings are a place of unknowing, of unreliability, of possibility. Because of this, gatherings hold both persistent questions and answers precisely in their contamination and unruly multitude – and pose a very real threat to the myth of the individual, the sovereign. A less than the sum of our parts.
Likewise, with an emphasis on religious and spiritual practices, we want to highlight how, akin to artistic practice, modes of inter-subjectivity from religion and spirituality can be a critical sensitivity to reckon with, and not just the object of criticism or a mystified opposition to intellectuality.
We will become choirs singing songs unheard and unknown; extend our hands into the matrix of the dead; communally read the words of a medieval body raptured in ecstasy; feel the breath of past gatherings on the back of our necks; explore ceremonies to cleanse and infect; dance, sweat, drift, repeat.
Symposium team: Áron Birtalan, Gabriel Widing and Dafne Giannikopoulou
Thank you: Rev. Nick Howe of The Church of St. Peter and St. Sigfrid
Graphics by: Áron Birtalan and Unicode
Archival photos from: Fortepan Archives – donation of Tamás Urbán
Participants: Camille Barton, Catalina Insignares, EHS Center for Theology, Ecology and Culture, Francis Patrick Brady, FutureBrownSpace, Julian of Norwich reading night with Judith Kiros and Áron Birtalan, Mariam Elnozahy, Roberto N Peyre, Tuva Hildebrand and more to be announced.
For questions about accessibility, content and sensory environment, please consult the symposium website.
Contact: gatheringstodisappear@gmail.com
Schedule
- 28 November, 18:30–21:00 at SKH Dans
- 29 November, 13:00–18:00 at SKH Dans, 19:30–22:30 at The Church of St. Peter and St. Sigfrid
- 30 November, 10:30–18:00 at SKH Dans, 20.30–late at STUDIO NYXXX
Information
Price: Free of charge, but registration needed.
Location: SKH Dance, Brinellvägen 58, Studio 16 / The Church of St. Peter and St. Sigfrid, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14 / STUDIO NYXXX, Bagarmossen – see details under the heading "Schedule".
Other: The symposium will be held in English.
