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    Kick-off: Utrecht Media and Performance Seminar ‘10/’11

    We would, however, organize a preliminary meeting this Friday, on October 29, 15.00 at Muntstraat 2A (room 1.11) with the goal to sketch out the main lines of this year’s seminar.

    After having discussed the concepts of “dispositif”, “performance”, and “liveness” over the last years, the 2010-11 Utrecht Media and Performance Seminar will be dedicated to “representation”.  On the one hand, this term is rather ubiquitous in a broad range of discourses on media and it is a widely debated issue in theatre and performance studies. On the other hand, “representation” is an extraordinarily polysemic word, referring to numerous and diverse phenomena in the visual and scenic arts, in semiotics, cognitive psychology, political sciences and so forth.

    In this research seminar, we will try to map the various meanings of the term, also by pitching it against others that are somtimes treated as being synonymous, such as mimesis, figuration, simulation and ohers, as well as trying to identify the ways in which its different aspects are articulated as in the expression “re/presentation” or in the German distinction between “Darstellung” and “Vorstellung”.

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