Jane Taylor (UWC, Cape Town): Ne‘er So Much The Ape

Within the public lecture series Aesthetics from the Margins

The lecture seriesAesthetics from the Margins is coming to a close. You are cordially invited to the final event, which comes in the form of a puppetry performance.

The lecture series proposed historical and theoretical inquiries into questions of sensual perception and world-making. By considering different aesthetic forms, media and practices – among them photography, literature, language, and the performing arts – we explored colonial and postcolonial ways of being in and making sense of ‘world(s)’.

Our speaker, Professor Jane Taylor, is the Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance at the Center for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Taylor has a history of scholarly as well as creative work within these domains. She was a co-editor of Refiguring the Archive (2002), and curated the exhibition Holdings, which engaged with the question of value, the archive and memory. She has written several plays for puppets – among them Ubu and the Truth Commission (1997) – working with artist William Kentridge and Handspring Puppet Company, as well as a puppet play, AfterCardenio (2011) for Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt. Jane Taylor is the author of The Transplant Men (2009), a novel about the first heart transplant performed in Cape Town, and of a monograph on William Kentridge’s production of The Nose for the New York Metropolitan Opera in 2010.

The performance involves two puppeteers. They are Pere Bigas of the Companyia Marionetes Nòmades (Barcelona) and the actor Nina Iseli (Basel). 

All dates in this series:

27.09.2018 Erica Carter (King‘s College, London): White Bodies in Motion

11.10.2018 Christian Crouch (Bard College, New York): Queen Victoria‘s Captives

25.10.2018 Henri-Michel Yéré (University of Lausanne): If Language Could Speak

8.11.2018 Brian Larkin (Columbia University, New York): The Political Aesthetics of Generators

22.11.2018 Darren Newbury (University of Brighton): Visual Mobility & Cordiality in the Cold War

13.12.2018 Jane Taylor (UWC, Cape Town): Ne‘er So Much The Ape

Download:

Flyer (pdf)

Seminar:

The seminar Aesthetics from the Margins (course no. 52043-01, 3 CP, Friday 9-12h) complements the lecture series and allows for intensive exchange with the invited speakers.

Contact:

lorena.rizzo@clutterunibas.ch ; james.merron@clutterunibas.ch

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