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Michael Kliën, "Wild Thoughts and the Killing of the Octopus: Social Choreography as an Aesthetics of Governance"

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Friday, October 30, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Michael Kliën
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Talk description:

In this talk, Kliën is tracing rudimentary concepts emerging out of his artistic practice and research. He will draw from experiences of teaching at Duke, as well as his recent choreographic works at the intersection of the arts, ethics, and politics. The presentation, rooted in associative, and raw thinking, stands in direct relation to the recent founding of the Laboratory for Social Choreography at the Kenan Institute of Ethics in partnership with FHI.

"Social Choreography permeates the tightly knit fabric of socialization, for other potential realities to be sensed and experienced, and for new relational fields amongst human and non-human to be forged. The practice of Social Choreography deals with the uncovering of underlying social relations and patterns - the choreography of the social - through embodied practices, and always, engages these dynamics for new social choreographies to emerge simultaneously" - Michael Kliën

Michael Kliën is Professor of the Practice of Dance and Director of Graduate Studies of the MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis at Duke University. He also directs the Laboratory for Social Choreography at the Kenan Institute for Ethics.

Contact: Sarah Rogers