Life and work, and their dependence upon one another, are often imagined as increasingly precarious.
At the same time, “creative capital” invests a kind of promise in precarity. The manipulation of affect
is stock in trade for art production, theatrical and performance labor, and now constitutes everyday
anxieties about work and living in the current economy. This conference reconsiders the feminist
critique of the relation of time and work, material and immaterial labor, waged and unwaged emotional labor.
Are we living in the affect factory?

1.24.2012

Final Schedule

All events take place at The Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street (between 2nd ave and 9th st. off 3rd ave)

Friday, February 10, 2012

6 - 7:30 Keynote Speaker: Emma Dowling, Queen Mary, University of London; Respondents: Patricia Clough (CUNY) and Tavia Nyong'o (NYU); Introduction: Barbara Browning (NYU/Women & Performance)

7:30 Opening Reception (Performance: Ivan A. Ramos/Rachel Epithet)

Saturday, February 11, 2012

9:30-10 Brunch and Coffee

10 - 11:45 Panel - Not Not Precarious: Speculative Spaces and Zones of Suspense – Respondent: Emanuela Bianchi
Johanna Linsley, Queen Mary, University of London & Christa Holka
Josh Lubin-Levy, NYU
Anna Fisher, Brown University
Coleman Nye, Brown University

12 - 1 Lunch

1 - 2:45 Panel - The Risk of Belonging: Strategies of Affective Resistance – Respondent: Randy Martin
Gabriella Alberti, Queen Mary, University of London
Jasmine Rault, New School
Karen Gregory, CUNY
Shaka McGlotten, SUNY-Purchase

3 - 4:20 Performances: Kathryn Garcia; Katherine Behar & Marianne M. Kim (Disorientalism) -- Q & A Moderated by Karen Shimakawa (NYU)

4:15 - 7:45 Durational Performance: Julie Tolentino

4:30 - 6:15 Panel - "Everything is Free": The Laboring Body as Promise of Production – Respondent: Gayatri Gopinath
Evan Litwack, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Benjamin Gillespie, CUNY
Alex Pittman, NYU
T. Nikki Cesare, University of Toronto

6:30 - 7:30 Roundtable on Precarity: Tavia Nyong'o (NYU), Rebecca Schneider (Brown), Nicholas Ridout (Queen Mary), Jasbir Puar (Rutgers), Patricia Clough (CUNY) and Andrea Liu.

7:30 Closing Reception (Performances: Aliza Shvarts; Edisa Weeks)

To register for “The Affect Factory,” please email us, affectfactory [at] gmail.com

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