Following the Teach-In, the second part of our Institute consists of weekly sessions, "Meditative Practices in Critical Thought," held on Thursdays, 3/28-4/25, 6-8pm (eastern). Following an opening provocation on March 28, four weekly zoom sessions will be held, each of which will be led by one of our Institute Fellows. These workshops might focus on their own work and/or a primary reading of their choosing, as well as supplementary readings. We’ll also seek to incorporate meditating and breathing into the session in order to provide a moment of bodily rest and renewal alongside intellectual exchange. To ensure accessibility and equity of participation, these sessions will be held entirely by zoom.
To facilitate deep conversation, these sessions will be limited primarily to Institute participants. We have a few open spaces for each session (except the opening provocation); if you’re interested in participating in one or more of these sessions, please fill out this short google form by Monday, March 25 at 5pm.
Readings available as PDFs are posted here. (Note that the link is not public since some fellows are sharing work in development; if you're participating in the sessions and you're not able to access this file, please contact Laura at Laura.Edmondson@dartmouth.edu.)
Thursday, 3/28, 6-8pm: An Opening Provocation
For this session, all external and internal fellows as well as our invited performers will participate with short remarks and/or poetic ruminations, followed by an open discussion about our hopes and visions for the weeks ahead. This session is limited to fellows, guest artists, and directors.
Thursday, 4/4, 6-8pm. Performing lament: grief and the work of care. Facilitated by Patrick Anderson.
Readings to be discussed:
1) Selections from The Lamentations: a requiem for queer suicide by Patrick Anderson (forthcoming from Fordham University Press)
2) "Is This Ballroom a Bathhouse? The Promise and Peril of Coming Together," by Patrick Anderson and Patricia Ybarra, Theatre Journal, vol. 74 no. 4 (2022) 419-440.
3) Patrick Anderson's "To be Undone," Performance Research 23:6 (2018): 25-34.
Thursday, 4/11, 6-8pm. Queer Love and Loss. Facilitated by Joshua Chambers-Letson.
Readings to be discussed:
1) “Preface: The Manifesto of a Communist Party” by Joshua Chambers-Letson from After the Party (NYU Press, 2018)
2) “One More Try (Teacher, There Are Things That I Don’t Want to Learn)” by Joshua Chambers-Letson from Queer Love and Loss (manuscript in development)
Thursday, 4/18, 6-8pm. Abiding in the Wrack Zone. Facilitated by Una Chaudhuri.
Readings:
1) Bloodtide: A New Holiday in Homage to Horseshoe Crabs by Eli Nixon. 2nd edition. The 3rd Thing Press, 2023. (Copies will be mailed to fellows or will be available for pick-up at the Leslie Center.)
2) 36.5: A Durational Performance with the Sea website
3) "Making New Land: An Intertidal Aesthetics" by Thomas Pausz, Performance Philosophy 6.2 (2021):174–192.
Thursday, 4/25, 6-8pm. As yet untitled: draft zero. Facilitated by Misty De Berry.
Readings TBD.