[csaa-forum] Symposium: Ta(l)king Pleasure in German Culture

[Michelle Langford]

Dear CSAA list members,

Symposium Announcement: Registration still open

Ta(l)king Pleasure in German Culture
  A Day in the Dialectical Playground

Saturday 20 October

School of English, Media and Performing Arts
The University of New South Wales

‘Nothing needs less justification than pleasure.’ (Bertolt Brecht, 1948)

This symposium brings together academics, artists, writers, and  
performers for a day of dialogue and an evening of performance  
focused on the many ways in which play, playfulness, pleasure, fun  
and enjoyment have circulated through German culture since the  
Enlightenment to the present day. In particular, participants will  
consider how artists and cultural critics have evoked the figure of  
the child and the metaphor of the playground in order to create new  
ways of seeing the world, and thereby set in motion a ‘play’ of ideas  
and contradictions in order to inspire cultural change. Throughout  
the day presenters will address these issues as they are played out  
in German theatre, performance, film, media, literature, poetry,  
popular culture, music, and visual art, drawing on the work of a  
range of cultural producers, including Bertolt Brecht, Walter  
Benjamin, Alexander Kluge, Pina Bausch and Christoph Schlingensief.  
The event will conclude with an evening of entertainment in the Io  
Myers Studio at the University of New South Wales where a number of  
contemporary Australian performers and artists including Martin del  
Amo, Paul Gazzola, Regina Heilmann, Heidrun Löhr and Jeff Stein will  
present a lively series of short works. Both the day and evening  
events are open to the public.

Symposium papers will be presented by:
Andreas Aurin, Joe Couch, Dominic Fitzsimmons, Hamish Ford, Tara  
Forrest, Ulrike Garde, Jen Gilmer, Su Goldfish, Katie Hepworth,  
Michelle Langford, John Milfull, Meg Mumford, Kris Plummer, Ralf  
Räuker, Gert Reifarth, Anna Teresa Scheer, Bryoni Trezise, Denise  
Varney.

For more information go to our website:

http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/dialectical_playground/ 
index.html


Dr Michelle Langford
Lecturer
School of English, Media and Performing Arts
The University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
Room: Webster 311O
Phone: + 61 2 9385 4489
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6812






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