The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds

Across four days, overlapping and interrelated individuals and assemblies share ways of knowing and critique bases for “knowledge” through a hybrid devised work/conference Audiences are invited to come and go throughout the weekend, encountering actions, social processes, score-based structures, papers, and other forms of performance.

The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds is a hybrid devised work and conference created/curated by PhD students in the Theatre and Performance program at CUNY Graduate Center. Through this project, we seek praxis, that is, thinking-actions and practice-theories that contest, challenge, dismantle, and move across divisions between institutional hegemonies and “othered” and “backgrounded” ways of knowing and seeing. Open to the public across four days, towers are torn down in pursuit of “epistemic justice” and worlds are opened through the sharing and trusting of multiplicit (un)knowings as they are expressed through individual and social bodies.

CUNY PhD Theatre and Performance department practice+research ensemble (in alphabetical order): Jess Applebaum, Stephen Cedars, Jasmeene Francois, Alyssa Hanley, Ash Marinaccio, Esther Neff, Philip Wiles.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11:

7pm: Sylvain Souklaye

7:30: Lisa Schonberg

8:00: Shawn Escarciga

8:45: Stephen Cedars and Philip Wiles

FRIDAY, AUGUST 12:

7pm-10pm Jordan Deal

10-11pm: Clean up and Community Gathering

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13:

1-2pm: Kiera Bono

2:00-4pm: PUBLIC FORUM

6pm: Darlene Litay

7pm: Rakhi Malhotra

7:45: Milton Loayza

8:45: Michael Reinsch

9:30: Cory Kram

SUNDAY, AUGUST 14:

4-6pm:

Ari Wolff installation

Noah Ortega process work

7pm: Gilian Rappaport

7:30: Rae Goodwin and Emily Bivens culmination

8:15: Noah Ortega culmination

8:45: Diane Dwyer

9:30: Future Death Toll

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