OUR STUDIES SHOW stages collective philosophizing. Considering our inhabitation of our own body-minds as legitimate empirical study (e.g. “instances of human being/thinking”) and our intuitions, experiences, and ideas as important philosophical contributions, we practice deep thought together through a series of in-person gatherings. We (those assembled) will dig deeply into metaphysical and conceptual problems, such as “the nature of cognition,” and what can be meant by “self-determination.”=
If you are a person for whom complex thought and discussion is a relief and requirement, if you process trauma and tragedy through philosophy and poetry, if your contribution to the revolution is on the theory side as well as the action side of praxis, then these sessions are for you.
SIGN UP HERE FOR 1 OR MORE SESSIONS:
SESSION 1: Monday, November 18, 6-9pm, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
SESSION 2: Monday, December 2, 2pm-5pm, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
SESSION 3: Monday, December 9, 6-9pm, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PAID $$$ for conceptual labor (amount based on how many people participate)
The project is a sequence of thinktank-style scenarios, set up as performance philosophy. Together, participants undertake dramaturgical processes of debating, deliberating, deciding, and sketching out “logical spaces” (such as decision-trees) for shared inquiry. OUR STUDIES SHOW is constituted by processes of collectively articulating the problems that matter to us, and experimenting with ways of performing inquiry together in temporary, specific, and “set aside” contexts that can deliberately center affect, social equity, compassionate communication, care, aesthetics, cognitive difference, and good relations. By staging practices of doing-thinking together, OUR STUDIES SHOW demands “radical” new forms of both artistic performance and philosophy, intervening in and re-making the means through which truths are determined by power.
https://socialpracticecuny.org/portfolio-item/our-studies-show/