Please join Applied Intercultural Arts Research Program for our first Spring 26 AIAR Speaker Series event on Friday, February 20 from 12pm to 1:30pm at the Slonaker House Living Room. Snacks and beverages will be available.
Greg Pierotti, Associate Professor of dramaturgy and collaborative playmaking at TFTV and Dr. Cristiana Giordano, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Davis, will be presenting,
“Affect Theater, a Performative Book Talk”.
Abstract:
How does an ethnographer remain affected by worlds encountered after leaving the field of research? How does a theater maker build theatrical worlds from empirical research that convey not only story, but affective experiences?
Affect Theatre is a thinking and acting space for experimenting with these questions. In this talk, Giordano and Pierotti will describe their cross-pollination between social research and narrative practices in theater and anthropology.
Affect Theater creates a dialogue between these disciplines in a laboratory format, using theatrical techniques to engage empirical questions and material. Rather than merely enacting or performing ethnographic findings, Affect Theatre puts the elements of the stage (lights, sets, objects, sound, bodies, images, etc.) into conversation with research material. This generates surprising and often more affective analyses.
They will discuss their practice in particular and more broadly how the social sciences and the arts meet in a practice-oriented way.