The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents a Book Talk with Michael Kliën and Cory Tamler on A Permanent Parliament: Notes on Social Choreography livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Monday 20 March 2023 at 9:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11:30 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Join us for a Zoom speak with Michael Kliën and Cory Tamler dialogue the latest Segal Center Publication: A Permanent Parliament: Notes on Social Choreography (2022).
Over the previous decade, at the least a thousand individuals (amongst them philosophers, workplace staff, skilled dancers, scientists, college students, artists, and the author-editor of this guide) have participated in Parliament classes from Athens to NYC. For all its efficiency, Parliament resists being written about, ranging from any try to explain what it’s. It resists authorship too.
Choreographer and artist Michael Kliën prefers to say he found it, or wished for it, from inside “a felt urgency that things are just not sustainable.”
Artist and author Cory Tamler holds the container, enhancing collectively her reminiscences of her personal experiences as a participant, excerpts from conversations with Kliën and from his private archive, theoretical propositions for the best way Parliament may go to work on the planet, and reflections from different members in Parliament through the years. An annotated bibliography makes seen the framework of concepts—from artwork and choreography to methods concept and political concept—inside which Parliament sits.
Michael Kliën is a choreographer and artist whose work has been located worldwide. Kliën’s inventive follow encompasses interdisciplinary considering, crucial writing, curatorial initiatives, and, centrally, choreographic works equally at house within the Performing and Fine Arts. He has been commissioned by main establishments similar to Ballett Frankfurt, Martha Graham Dance Company, New Museum, PS122, Volksoper Wien, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Hayward Gallery, and ZKM. As Artistic Director/CEO of Daghdha (2003—2011, Ireland), Kliën developed a definite motion aesthetic in correspondence with influential ideas of politically engaged choreography, efficiency, and dance. He acquired a Ph.D. from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2009. After residing and dealing in Greece, he was appointed Professor at Duke University in 2017, inaugural director of the MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis in 2018, and director of the Laboratory for Social Choreography on the Kenan Institute of Ethics in 2020.
Cory Tamler is a author, translator, and interdisciplinary artist working in Berlin, NYC, and Wabanaki/Maine. Her initiatives throughout disciplines act as containers for collective considering via embodiment, utilizing efficiency as a way, an excuse, for changing into intimate with different people and nonhumans via collaboration. Together with In Kinship Collective, she has created interdisciplinary, research-based works in dialog and relationship with Wabanaki guides and watersheds since 2015. Cory is a Ph.D. Candidate in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, CUNY and has been awarded Fulbright and DAAD fellowships to assist
her educational work.