Conference Presentations by Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
This text rehearses a thinking that dances the relations between performance, philosophy, animals... more This text rehearses a thinking that dances the relations between performance, philosophy, animals and equality according to the figure of the circle. To think with dance and dance with thought in relation to nonhuman animals and the question of equality – understood as an ontological, epistemological, aesthetic, political and ethical question. The paper then presents intersectional interspecies performance – particularly Criptonite’s disabled dance thinking with animals in their piece "Slow Animals" (2020) – as one site in which this practice of equality is happening. Breaking the circle; dancing thinking and thinking with dance; performing a new politics of animal and disability justice.
Papers by Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
Filosofia-Performance: uma introdução
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Aug 31, 2022
Roczniki Kulturoznawcze, Dec 31, 2022
This issue poses, once more, the centuries-old question: "What is art?" and invited respondents t... more This issue poses, once more, the centuries-old question: "What is art?" and invited respondents to answer this question either from the perspective of the "creator" or the "recipient" of art. We were invited to answer a question about "the essence of art", and to specify the position from which we write in terms of this creator-recipient duality. Conventionally and controversially for some of us, providing essential definitions of art (as well as normative evaluations and ontologies of art) has been a task that the Western philosophy of art has assumed for itself. Philosophy has conceived its task as defining the properties which can and cannot be assigned to art as a phenomenon in ways that some have critiqued as an authoritarian gesture. 1 The project of this journal issue invites other voices into this definitional practice: gathering a "variety of responses from very different people who interact with art in different ways". This is a welcome gesture towards a greater inclusivity; to perform art's philosophy otherwise. However, my starting point is to speculate towards a further extension or mutation of this gesture. My starting point is the provocation -both playful and serious -that we need to invite nonhuman animals into this questioning too. We, human animals, need to find ways to ask nonhuman animals what art is or, better, what art might become. "What happens to standard human definitions of art when nonhuman animals are the creators and recipients, artists and audiences?"
Espace : art actuel, 2019
Performance philosophy, Jul 29, 2016
We are pleased to present the second volume of Performance Philosophy-the online peerreviewed jou... more We are pleased to present the second volume of Performance Philosophy-the online peerreviewed journal for the interdisciplinary field of Performance Philosophy. Whilst the first volume was composed of invited contributions, this one is the result of an open call for submissionsand indeed, we plan to oscillate between these modes for future issues, developing collaborations with guest editors and continuing to circulate calls for articles open to all researchers. The scale of the response to this open call took us by surprise; we received an unexpectedly large number of articles and it took us longer than we had hoped to put them through the peer review process. This response has been encouraging and testifies to the strength and diversity of this field, and we would like to thank all of our authors for their patience during this period-and acknowledge our deep gratitude for the anonymous acts of care and generosity undertaken by the numerous peer-reviewers upon whom we have depended. We would also like to take this opportunity to announce that-in order to accommodate more of the high-quality research being undertaken in the field-we will now be moving to the publication of two issues of the journal per year. As such, a second issue (2.2), also made up of articles selected from last year's open call, will be published in December 2016. Volume 3.1 (April 2017) will be a guest edited issue, and Volume 3.2 (December 2017) will be special themed issueedited by Eve Katsouraki and Theron Schmidt-on the topic of 'crisis', with an open call for articles being released in October 2016.
Accademia University Press eBooks, 2022
This essay argues that one of the reasons that the unethical character of much human/dolphin cont... more This essay argues that one of the reasons that the unethical character of much human/dolphin contact is not more apparent to ethicists is that discussion of central issues has been colored with unintentional species bias. This essay will point out weaknesses in the traditional approach used in discussing topics that bear on the question of whether dolphins have moral standing. It demonstrates that discussions of the cognitive abilities of dolphins by Steven Wise and Alasdair MacIntyre are unintentionally, but fundamentally, anthropocentric-largely because the authors are not familiar with enough of the scientific literature about dolphins to draw the conclusions that they do.
Artistic Research and Performance
Rowman & Littlefield International eBooks, May 7, 2019
Este artigo fornece uma exposição de quatro conceitos que emergiriam do encontro entre o homem fi... more Este artigo fornece uma exposição de quatro conceitos que emergiriam do encontro entre o homem filosófico do teatro, Antonin Artaud, e o filósofo teatral, Gilles Deleuze: o Corpo sem Órgãos, o Teatro sem Órgãos, a Voz Desestratificada e a Presença Diferencial. O artigo propõe que a peça radiofônica de Artaud, Para Acabar com o Juízo de Deus, censurada em 1947, constitui um exemplo de um teatro sem órgãos que usa a voz desestratificada em busca de uma presença diferencial -como um encontro não representativo da diferença que força novos pensamentos sobre nós. A partir de várias obras de Deleuze, incluindo Diferença e Repetição, A Lógica do Sentido, Mil Platôs e Um Manifesto de Menos, concebo a presença diferencial como um encontro com a diferença, ou variação contínua, como aquilo que excede a consciência representacional de um sujeito, forçando o pensamento através da ruptura e não por comunicar significados através do mesmo. Contra a rejeição do projeto de Artaud como paradoxal ou impossível, o artigo sugere que seu teatro não representacional busca afirmar um novo tipo de presença como diferença, ao invés de tentar transcender a diferença para alcançar a presença autoidêntica da Metafísica Ocidental.
Since Each of Us Was Several: Collaboration in the Context of the Differential Self
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2016
This chapter draws from the work of the US performance company, Goat Island and the philosophy of... more This chapter draws from the work of the US performance company, Goat Island and the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to develop the concept of the ‘differential self’: a self preceded and ceaselessly (re-)constituted by its relations. It argues that the differential self requires us to expand the definition of collaboration – not simply as work by more than one person, but a continuum of activities by individual authors, as well as groups. The chapter proposes that Deleuze and Guattari, and Goat Island, dismantle the (real) myth of individual autonomy through collaborative activity, but that this is not tantamount to a rejection of a natural self-presence. It concludes that philosophy and performance are not the products of pre-existing subjects – however unified or dispersed – but productions of subjectivities, plural.
En ouvrant le cercle : Performance philosophy &/comme une égalité radicale d’attention
Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre eBooks, Jul 5, 2023
Performance philosophy, Dec 21, 2017
Übersetzung aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche: Mirko Wittwar Die Philosophie stellt im Grunde eine ... more Übersetzung aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche: Mirko Wittwar Die Philosophie stellt im Grunde eine Art von Theater dar, welches sich selbst als solches verleugnet, das sich nicht selber als eine endgültige Duplizität erkennen kann, als eine Tragödie und Komödie der Selbstwiederholung. Ein deus ex machina: Der Philosoph scheint in der Philosophie zu verschwinden, doch tatsächlich projiziert er lediglich in spektakulärer Weise sich selbst, wie ein neugieriger Gott, der dieses Spiel betrachtet. (Laruelle 2013a, 210) 1 Einleitung François Laruelles Non-Philosophie 2 bzw. Non-Standard-Philosophie ist ein Projekt unter anderen im Bereich des zeitgenössischen Denkens, das sich darum bemüht, die Implikationen einer ‚radikalen Immanenz' für unser Verhältnis zum Denken und Wissen zu erforschen (Laruelle 2013a, 2). Als eine uralte Idee-historisch mit der Theologie sowie der Frage nach dem Verhältnis zwischen dem Göttlichen und dem Weltlichen verbunden-hat die Immanenz erneut an Bedeutung und Wert in unserer angeblich "post-säkularen" Welt gewonnen, als ein Schlüsselkonzept im Rahmen gemeinsamer, aber diverser Bemühungen um eine Alternative zum repräsentationalistischen Performance, Philosophy, Politics (mit Will Daddario).
Anglia, Mar 8, 2018
This article draws from the contemporary French thinker François Laruelle to perform a 'non-philo... more This article draws from the contemporary French thinker François Laruelle to perform a 'non-philosophical' analysis of recent literature from the analytic or Anglo-American philosophy of theatre. Much of this literature, I argue, suffers from the problem of application, namely: non-or extra-theatrical assumptions are both brought to bear upon and remain unchallenged by the philosopher's encounter with theatreparticularly in the form of assumptions as to the nature of philosophy or the role or position of philosophy with respect to other forms of thought, such as theatre and performance. Having sought to articulate some of the problems arising from the conception of the philosophy of theatre as a definitional project, the article then considersvia Laruellewhat kind of 'stance' a philosophy of theatre might need to occupy in order not to impose its thought on theatre but to be open to theatre's thoughts.
Performance philosophy, Apr 10, 2015
Stories from the In-Between: Performing Philosophy Alongside the Unknown
This essay presents an alternative view of the relationship between writing, performance, and phi... more This essay presents an alternative view of the relationship between writing, performance, and philosophy to that offered by Martin Puchner’s contribution to this volume—introducing some important female characters to his narrative and emphasizing the notion of philosophy as a process without essence, rather than as a clearly-defined discipline. Interweaving tales involving figures from Diotima of Mantinea to Charles Reznikoff, the essay takes inspiration from Puchner’s account of the history of world literature to envisage the emerging field of Performance Philosophy as a scene of instruction where philosophy is performed as an embodied relation to movement and the unknown.
Accademia University Press eBooks, 2022
This essay argues that one of the reasons that the unethical character of much human/dolphin cont... more This essay argues that one of the reasons that the unethical character of much human/dolphin contact is not more apparent to ethicists is that discussion of central issues has been colored with unintentional species bias. This essay will point out weaknesses in the traditional approach used in discussing topics that bear on the question of whether dolphins have moral standing. It demonstrates that discussions of the cognitive abilities of dolphins by Steven Wise and Alasdair MacIntyre are unintentionally, but fundamentally, anthropocentric-largely because the authors are not familiar with enough of the scientific literature about dolphins to draw the conclusions that they do.
Roczniki Kulturoznawcze
The presented statement is part of the volume it covers a variety of responses from people who in... more The presented statement is part of the volume it covers a variety of responses from people who interact with art in different ways. The aim is to suggest to the participant of the contemporary world a new, personal perspective to rethink what is this area of our world that we label with art; thoughts with and without theoretical suggestions - reflections by the creators and reflections by the audience, teaching humility and uniqueness, perhaps - forming a fresh perspective on art.
Performance Philosophy
This is the editorial for Performance Philosophy 7(2) (2022)
On Sheep Pig Goat: An Interview With Fevered Sleep
SoundCloud, Mar 1, 2020
Performance Philosophy, Apr 10, 2015
Opening the circle, towards a radical equality
The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy, 2020
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