Past Initiatives
Here are some of the activities we have initiated since our official launch in 2016.
ROOTS AND ROUTES 2023
Future Advisory Board collaborations with Psi Lexicon – opportunities and events During 2022, the Future Advisory Board convened a number of remote gatherings and collaborative events taking up the question of how and where performance research happens, and the ecologies of knowledge that emerge and disappear. This year we’ve teamed up with PSi’s Lexicon to … Continue reading ROOTS AND ROUTES 2023
FAB Summer School #4.33 – call for participants
Call for Participants: PSi Summer School #4.33 23rd August – 1st October 2021 | **Extended Application Deadline to July 12th, 2021** Attentions and Attunements The Future Advisory Board welcomes applications to this year’s Summer School, taking place over six weeks around the topic of ‘Attentions and Attunements.’ Since the inaugural meeting, the Future Advisory Board … Continue reading FAB Summer School #4.33 – call for participants
Traces and Threads 2022
During this tumultuous moment in time, in the midst of a pandemic still unfolding, FAB will be working differently this year, moving our attention towards reuse, re-work, rest and reconnection. Building on the digital gatherings we facilitated over the last two years of the pandemic, we are foregrounding methods of attunements and slowness to convene … Continue reading Traces and Threads 2022
FAB Summer School #3.33: Performing Slowness
Since the inaugural meeting, the Future Advisory Board has positioned the Summer School as an ‘interval’ to PSi conference (0.5, 1.5, 2.5) to focus on the space between each annual conference, and the connections, overlaps, and dissonances between conference themes. This year, with the PSi 2020 conference postponed, the interval seems particularly apt to mark … Continue reading FAB Summer School #3.33: Performing Slowness
Summer School 2.5 at PSi #25 Calgary
In this third iteration of the PSi Summer School, the FAB welcomed participants from Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, the UK, the US, Europe, and the Philippines. The program included workshops featuring Blackfoot artist Justin Many Fingers (one of the conference’s keynote speakers), FAB member Yiota Demetriou, and local artists Mark Hopkins and Jenna Rodgers, as … Continue reading Summer School 2.5 at PSi #25 Calgary
Summer School #1.5 at PSi #24 Daegu
The PSi Future Advisory Board organised the second edition of summer school alongside the conference in Daegu, South Korea, in July 2018. We were a close-knitted group of 21 researchers and artists with a variety of research interests, backgrounds, and aspirations. We enjoyed a week of conferencing and summer school activities at the Daegu Art … Continue reading Summer School #1.5 at PSi #24 Daegu
Summer School #0.5 at PSi #23 Hamburg
The inaugural summer school by the PSi Future Advisory Board took place in Hamburg, alongside PSi #23. PSi Summer School #0.5 has brought together scholars, artists, and activists over the course of four days and in an intensive series of activities directed at thinking through, working with, and creating anew pressing issues and rising trends … Continue reading Summer School #0.5 at PSi #23 Hamburg
Installation and Workshop at PSi#22 Melbourne
“I leave to several futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths.” Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) At PSi#22 Melbourne, the Future Advisory Board created a Wunderkammer installation and hosted a Strange Gardening Workshop. Wunderkammer is thought as a temporal prism — a wormhole to see the pasts and become … Continue reading Installation and Workshop at PSi#22 Melbourne
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