Event overview
The Performance Research Forum hosts a range of events, talks and presentations by established and early-career researchers and practitioners in theatre and performance.
Dr Eirini Kartsaki: ‘The School of the Weird’
– Content warning: please note that this talk contains explicit language and sexual references –
Abstract: 'Weird Sex'
Sex has to be weird to be good. This is my premise. Weird sex is the kind of sex we have when we feel free to figure out our own erogenous zones, even in the armpits; when all house utensils are sex toys, when desire is labyrinthine, and pleasure remains convoluted; weird sex allows us to become foreign to ourselves again, longing does not have to be categorised, and pleasure does not have a particular shape. Weird sex happens when we simply ask for what we want, when we are not afraid of judgement or scared of someone micro-managing our genital expectations. Weird sex happens when we are fucking and talking about weird sex at the same time. This way, we create a technology of repetition that produces weird sex forever. This talk will discuss Mexican artist Rocio Boliver’s recent performance Frutas Maduras with Bartlomiej Gudejko and Karolina Bazydlo, which took place at the VSSL studio in London in November 2023.
Speaker Bio:
Eirini Kartsaki is a performance practitioner, writer, and Lecturer in Drama at East15 Acting School, University of Essex. She is the author of Repetition in Performance: Returns and Invisible Forces (Palgrave 2017). Her research comprises work around contemporary performance, live art, and feminist practice. Kartsaki has written extensively on repetition, desire, and pleasure in performance. She is currently working on her second monograph Theatres of the Weird (MUP). Her performance practice has been presented nationally and internationally (Sadler’s Wells, V&A, The Basement, Whitechapel Gallery, Arnolfini, Soho Theatre, Palais de Tokyo, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon). Her collaboration with alpha kartsaki as Tante&Tante has received the Audience’s Award (2016) and the Champ Libre Award (2017), BE Festival, UK.
– This is a hybrid event. Eirini Kartsaki will join us on Zoom –
Photograph by Spyros Paloukis
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Nov 2024 |
6:00pm - 8:00pm We will gather in the space from 6:00 PM. The event will begin promptly at 6:15 PM. |
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