SPECIAL EVENT: Mon. Feb. 9th 4:30-6PM, Rebecca Schneider “Extending a Hand: Lithic Liveness, Neoanimisms, and Agential Theatricality

Please join the Center for Theater & Performance Studies and the Theater & Performance Studies Workshop for a guest lecture entitled “Extending a Hand: Lithic Liveness, Neoanimisms, and Agential Theatricality” given by Professor Rebecca Schneider (Brown University, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies). In this lecture, Professor Schneider will look at works of art featuring hands and arts of work (manual labor) to consider performance and duration in relationship to the new materialisms, drawing on Karen Barad’s notion of “agential realism” and other recent work invested in an ontological outside to the Anthropocene. Among questions she may ask are: “How long is the liveness of living labor in neoliberal capitalism?” And, “What becomes of/as/in the interval between the hand and the commodity or the hand and the hail?”

Professor Schneider is on the faculty of the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University where she teaches performance studies, theater history, and theories of intermedia. She is the author of  Theatre and History (Palgrave 2014), Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment (Routledge 2011) and The Explicit Body in Performance (Routledge, 1997). She has coedited the anthology Re:Direction: A Theoretical and Practical Guide to 20th-Century Directing  and a special issue of TDR: The Drama Review on Precarity and Performance (2012). She is a consortium editor for TDR, contributing editor to Women and Theatre, co-editor with David Krasner of the book series “Theatre: Theory/Text/Performance” with University of Michigan Press, and consulting editor for the series “Performance Interventions” with Palgrave McMillin. Schneider has published essays in several anthologies, including Psychoanalysis and Performance, Acting Out: Feminist Performance, Performance and Cultural Politics, Performance Cosmologies, Performance and the City , and the essay “Solo Solo Solo” in After Criticism. In addition, she has collaborated with artists at such sites as the British Museum in London and the Mobile Academy in Berlin, and delivered lectures at museums such as the Guggenheim in New York, the Gulbenkian in Lisbon, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw,  Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and the Centre de la Dance in Paris.

Location: Logan Seminar Terrace Room 801

There will be a reception following the lecture.

People with disabilities who believe they may require assistance, please contact Anne Rebull at anner@uchicago.edu or Amy Stebbins at amystebbins@uchicago.edu.