Performing Failure

Theories on Perfection and the Sublime

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“I hold on to what have been characterized as childish and immature notions of possibility… By exploring and mapping, I also mean detouring and getting lost.”

Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure

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In the Fall. Leaves failing. Leaves remaining. Sublime steps to perfection.

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Final Presentations

Performing Failure – Theories on Perfection and the Sublime

An experimental performance of multi-media publishing

FINAL(?) presentation

Monday, Dec.7, 2015

12pm-3pm

Robert Gill Theatre and surroundings

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto

 Over the last term we fruitfully, sublimely and playfully grappled with cross-cultural and trans-historical concepts of failure/perfection while dealing heads-on with challenges of digital culture in academic publication and research. Students from our Centre and Visual Studies, from four different countries, banded together in groups and will do their very best to entertain you in sophisticated ways of failure while reaching for the sublime. Each group developed a Scalar project and will make sublime attempts to present these perfectly LIVE.

 This is another course inspired by the work and experimentations of the Digital Dramaturgy Lab, which invented a number of courses on the graduate and undergraduate levels. This is our latest adventure.

Let’s fail and let’s say so successfully!

ALL welcome to the fun.

 Instructor: Prof. Antje Budde

TA: Monty Martin

Students: Deniz Bašar, Emelie Chhangur, Giorelle Diokno, Tita Kyrtsakas, Fabien Maltais-Bayda, Maria Meindl, Sune Mortensen, Tony Nardi, Sonia Norris, Sanja Vodovnik, David Walker, Jessica Watkin

 Group Projects

Group 1/ The Intertextuals

Me-an-ing Mac-hi-nas

Group 2

Performing Phillipp

Group 3

After the Fall: Failing Toward the Sublime

 For more project descriptions go to the digital sublime. (See links in the header of this blog)