Centre For Performance Philosophy

A Axolotl. Image by Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca

The Centre for Performance Philosophy (CPP) was founded at the University of Surrey in 2016: the first research centre dedicated to the field of Performance Philosophy.

CPP acts as a hub for research operating at the intersection of philosophy and performance - supporting creative thinking and experimental practice concerned to investigate how thought is performed and how performance thinks.

This includes the work of both staff and PhD students conducting innovative projects in the context of Performance Philosophy.

CPP activities include:

Researcher in Residence scheme
Conferences, Symposia & Performances
PGR-led events

Director: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca

Co-Director: Shantel Ehrenberg

Partners: Labanarium; Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts (King’s College London); Aesthetics Research Centre (University of Kent)

Core staff members: Adam Alston; Tom Armstrong; Rachel Hann; Bella Honess-Roe; Stephen Mooney; Matthew Wagner; Marion Wynne-Davies

Affiliated PhD students: Phil Cleaves; Juliet Chambers-Coe; Gemma Connell; Michelle Man; Will Osmond; Jonas Schnor; Sylvia Solakidi; Steve Tromans; Abi Weaver

Researcher in Residence

2019-20 - Dr. Karoline Gritzner (Graz, Austria) and Lindsay Gianoukas (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

2018-19 - Prof. Cosimo Zene (Emeritus, SOAS) and State of Encounter (Lima, Peru)

2017-18 - Dr. Luciana Da Costa Dias (University of Ouro Preto, Brazil)

Selected Conferences, Symposia & Performances

2018

Spirit in a Materialist World
Lead organizer: Juliet Chambers-Coe, Co-organiser: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
Download: Spirit in a Materialist World Booklet.pdf

Diaspora & Embodiment of Hope: Performances of Spirit & Sustainability
Lead organizer: Sabine Sörgel
Download: Diaspora and Embodiment of Hope Programme.pdf

Contemporary Art, Philosophy and Politics after Peter Osborne’s The Postconceptual Condition
Lead organizer: Sylvia Solakidi
Download: After the Postconceptual Condition Programme and Abstracts.pdf

Intercultural Shakespeares, 1-day symposium,
Lead organizer: Anne Sophie Refskou

2017

Beyond Application: Immanent Encounters between Philosophy & the Arts
Lead organizer: Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
Download: Beyond Application programme.pdf

Thinking Movement, Moving Thought
Collaboration with the Labanarium
Lead organizer: Juliet Chambers-Coe
Download: Thinking Movement Moving Thought Programme.pdf

Performance Philosophy & Sufism
Lead organizer: Hannah McClure
Download: PP and Sufism Programme.pdf

2016

Launch Event: Centre for Performance Philosophy
2-day international symposium.
Download: CPP Launch Event Programme.pdf

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