Pedersen, Michael Haldrup

Petersen, Franziska Bork

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Confronted with the ubiquitous presence of preprogramed desires we propose Performance Design as a utopian institution for the education of desire. The utopian education of desire offers a potential and systematic creation of spaces that enable us “to imagine wanting something else, something qualitatively different” (Levitas 2013: 113). PD is uniquely suited to such an educational task, because it can function as a framework for not only designing alternative ways of being through affective interventions and estrangements, but also playing them out in performance. A modus operandi rather than a discipline. Such a utopian PD would be an institution without borders. A mobilized and mobilizing institution enjoying an unruly, symbiotic or even parasitic metabolism with academic faculties (art, Geisteswissenschaft, technology, science) and sites for performance (bodies, home, workplace, city, planet). We contend that without the educational utopia of performance design; without the utopian pockets and impulses it may trace and without the utopian programs it may provide from within, both the theatre, the museum and the university would be much poorer institutions.Confronted with the ubiquitous presence of preprogramed desires we propose Performance Design as a utopian institution for the education of desire. The utopian education of desire offers a potential and systematic creation of spaces that enable us “to imagine wanting something else, something qualitatively different” (Levitas 2013: 113). PD is uniquely suited to such an educational task, because it can function as a framework for not only designing alternative ways of being through affective interventions and estrangements, but also playing them out in performance. A modus operandi rather than a discipline. Such a utopian PD would be an institution without borders. A mobilized and mobilizing institution enjoying an unruly, symbiotic or even parasitic metabolism with academic faculties (art, Geisteswissenschaft, technology, science) and sites for performance (bodies, home, workplace, city, planet). We contend that without the educational utopia of performance design; without the utopian pockets and impulses it may trace and without the utopian programs it may provide from within, both the theatre, the museum and the university would be much poorer institutions.<br/

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RoskildeUniversityPerformance Design as Education of DesirePedersen, Michael Haldrup; Petersen, Franziska BorkPublication date:2018Citation for published version (APA):Pedersen, M. H., & Petersen, F. B. (2018). Performance Design as Education of Desire. Abstract from 3rdInternational Performance Design Symposium, Fara in Sabina, Italy.General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright ownersand it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.            • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.            • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain.            • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal.Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact rucforsk@kb.dk providing details, and we will remove access to the workimmediately and investigate your claim.Download date: 10. Nov. 2022Performance	Designas	education	of	desireMichael	Haldrup	 Franziska	Bork-PetersenPerformance	DesignRoskilde	UniversityDenmarkmuseumcitytheatremusicaudiencethe	webacademiabodyactivismdesign	studioimagesoundpublicbusinessDESIREExperimentwith	ExperiencesWhile major anachronisms nostalgiate uponsome golden age and attempt to escape the present into a bright and shincity, minor anachronisms RECOMBINE machinic elements from past andpresent, using them to tune in TEST PATTERNS FROM THE FUTUREMcKenzie	2001:	250,251UTOPIACould	Performance	Design	play	a	role	in	educating	DESIRE and	what	would	that	mean?Difference IN	ITSELFDifference	FROMthe	status	quoAFFECTIVE	ESTRANGEMENTSthat	defamiliariseexperience	in	new	waysPERSPECTIVE©	Marie	Brobeck©	Kristine	Samson	THE	MACHINE©	Mads	Hobye©	Mads	HobyeViable		alternatives	to	the	status	quo?“The	Utopian	function	is	estrangement	and	defamiliarisation,	rendering	the	taken-for- granted	world	problematic,	and	calling	into	question	the	actually	existing	state	of	affairs,	not	the	imposition	of	a	plan	for	the	future	”Levitas 2000:	39Performance	DesignPockets	of	OthernessUtopian	Islands…can be experienced!

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