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Incongruent Recollections – Diverging Epistemologies of „ memories are made of this… Performance Notes“ by BADco.

The Zagreb-based performing arts collective BADco. curates a shift in a follow-up to its “ memories are made of this… Performance Notes” , an experimental theatrical excursion into F.Scott Fitzgerald’ s intimate account of psychological breakdown and a performative investigation of the general human (in)capacity of memory. The performance will be followed by a discussion. However, rather than staging a general post-performance discussion, risking to reinforce a unified, homogenizing, single-discipline horizon of understanding, BADco. wishes - in a way reflective of the stage dispositions and structuring of the performance itself - to fragment the group of participants in the discussion and offer them five diverging epistemological reframings of the performance’ s topics, structure and effects by splitting them up into five separate post-performance debates. Each discussion participant would be allocated to one of the five tables and each of the tables would be chaired by an expert in a different field: neuropsychology, architecture, economy, musicology, information science. The chairs will give 15-20 minutes’ lectures-reactions-interventions on the topics, structure and effects of the performance seen that evening. Their interventions will address two aspects: - What kind of insights do the performance’ s topics - fragmentation of the capacity of recollection, active forgetting, breakdown of psyche - call forth with regard to their respective disciplines and epistemologies? - What inroads can they make to approach the operations in the structure of the performance and its experience with regard to their respective disciplines and epistemologies? This will be followed by an open discussion and the participants will be invited to make their own interventions based on their respective scholarly frameworks or practices. The purpose of the discussion is to create incongruent encounters of different lines of thought rather than an interdisciplinary congruence on the topics, bewilderment rather than agreement.

performance; memory; re-interpretation; trans-disciplinarity; post-dramatic theatre

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