Weirdness Salon

Alex Lyons and Camilla Canocchi are both studying their Masters at Queen Mary University. This night is devised as a part of their Independent Practical Project.

Corbett Theatre and visitors’ entrance

<h3>Weirdness Salon</h3><h3>3rd of June 12.30 - 6pm</h3><h3>East15 Acting School, Corbett Theatre, Hatfields</h3>Welcome to the Weirdness Salon. In this weirdo-solidarity everyone is welcome, everyone can be part of this weirdo-family, experience our weirdo-hospitality and indulge in this weirdo-belonging.Join us to discuss weirdness as refuge, weirdness as solidarity, weirdness as a form of life that does away with fixed categories. Weird politics moves beyond the confinements of the norm and favours solidarity with the alien and the foreign, the unfamiliar and the absurd. Weirdness activates a utopian political imagination of what lies beyond the ordinary. It offers the space to synthesise new solidarities and make kin with other weirdos. Weird politics acts as solvent to normativity, antidote to dominant categories.Keynote: Professor Dimitris Papanikolaou on Contagious Weirdness, University of OxfordAdam Alston (Goldsmiths, University of London) in conversation with Julia BardsleyPhoebe Patey-Ferguson (Rose Bruford College) in conversation with Tammy Reynolds aka Midgitte BardotTara Fatehi in conversation with Hamja Ahsan (Shy Radicals) and Greg WoheadEirini Kartsaki (East15 Acting School, University of Essex) in conversation with Malik Nashad Sharpe aka MarikiscrycrycryHosted by Eirini Kartsaki‘At the four corners of the world’, Paul Preciado writes, ‘it is possible to sense not only the exhaustion of the traditional forms of politics, but also the emergence of hundreds of thousands of practices of social, sexual, gender, political and artistic experimentation’ (2020, p. 49). The weird positions itself as a project that makes possible a site of openness and unfixity; a placeholder for articulating what does not quite fit into the categories we have access to. It points towards what is spilling out of these categories or cannot be pinned down. The spillage, or disarticulation, starts to formulate a different territory, space or fascination with and of the weird.The term ‘weird’ has been extensively used to describe science fiction both in literature and film. The term has recently resurfaced to describe the films of Greek filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster) and Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg, Chevalier), amongst others. Terms that are currently in use include ‘weird fiction’, ‘weird realism’, or ‘the new weird’. Mark Fisher, in The Weird and the Eerie, writes about the weird as ‘a particular kind of perturbation’, something that exceeds what we already know, or we are able to represent (Fisher 2017, 15). The weird is a fascination with a thing that overwhelms and cannot be contained, ‘that which does not belong’, a thing that causes a rupture into the familiar (Fisher 2017, 10).The weird, as conceptualised by this event is a space of critical potential for reading and making theatre and performance as well as a critical trope for articulating what lies beyond normative understandings of sexuality, identity, desire. -----Date: Saturday 3rd of JuneTime: 12.30pm - 6pm Location: Corbett Theatre, Hatfields, Loughton IG10 3RY, United KingdomThe nearest underground station is Debden. The nearest mainline station is Chingford. There is a bus stop within 150m (164yds) of the venue.-----Food can be purchsed from the school canteen and we will have a chance to raise a glass at the end of the day and celebrate weirdness.-----By purchasing a ticket, you acknowledge that this event will be filmed for research purposes. -----Dress Code: Come as you are, Dress to Compress, Twin Peaks, Tentacular Spectacular (or anything Oozing Gloop), Make Kin not Babies, Sartorial Mess, Alien Garden, Anything Silk, Anything Rowdy, Anything that Makes Sound, Excessively Long Shoes-----Image by Julia Bardsley, An Apian Paradox, Fierce Festival 2019, photo by Manuel Vason

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